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What are the best supplements for pure crunch (which I can steal from most easily)? Are the campaign "era" supplements crunchy? Or are they all story and fluff?

As a newbie outsider, that was my impression too. This thread has been valuable to me and I hope that there is still more to be said by others. At this point, I'm strongly leaning towards picking up the non-adventure books for the setting.

In my game, a little weak is far better than the alternative.

I really want to be able to use more of DotU in my present game, and so I pose a question to all of you: What origin stories have you used for "dark elves" in your game? I'm content with my zillion sub-races for elves in my game as just being that - sub-races of "elf" - but it seems that the CE...

Thanks for the replies and I am eager to hear more. I also have a related question. In my kitchen-sink homebrew, I have imposed the single limit of only using WotC material (but using all of it). As such, I've found it easy to import FR and Ebb crunch. Other than this, I don't use 3rd party...

The discussion on Spelljammer has led me to wonder. I recently started reading the 3e DL campaign setting. While I've been playing D&D since 1e, I never read -anything- from this setting. I knew of it and chose to ignore it. Anyway, I decided to read the setting now as a source to pilfer...

I think I'm going to pick this up just to read it - I love fiendish stuff in general. However, I can't get a read from previous posters about its Planescape-y-ness. There are mixed opinion on the answer to the question: Does it have a genuine "Planescape" feel or not? Personally, I think PS...

Do spells with multiple attacks (e.g., Magic Missile, Scorching Ray) need to penetrate SR once or once for each attack? I.e., do 5 magic missiles count as an all-or-nothing attack or are there 5 chances to get through for 1d4+1? Also, while I'm asking, when a spell attack has half damage as a...

So some of my PCs might get swallowed whole tonight. :) If a character dies from this, what ruling would you offer for their gear (I'm unaware of an official rule here)? My players are not exactly ghouls, but one of the characters carries BOTH of the party's bags of holding - I suspect they'd...

Some other broad ways he plays the character: he actively tries to do the "right" thing, he opposes evil strongly (though usually violently), he respects authority but doesn't feel beholden to it, he gives of his treasure generously to charitable causes (e.g., a town that had been afflicted by...

I have a situation of sorts that I'd like some insights on. From the outset, it should be noted that, as a DM, I really like the alignment system and I use it heavily in my game. However, I also hate to be an "alignment cop" in game, and I'm strongly averse to "forcing" a player changing their...

Except that the D&D RAW also make a distinction between sentient and nonsentient life (based on INT). A 50 INT's thoughts may be far beyond the capacity of a 10 INT to understand, but that doesn't make the 10 INT nonsentient or irrational or the 50 INT "beyond reason" or "superrational."

TS, I basically feel the same way, as I have had brief discussions here before about the alignment of the Far Realm. The D&D alignment RAW have an objective moral universe as their foundation. To say that there is another "objective" reality beyond this one is a logical fallacy. IMO, if the...

This is my thought as well. I was thinking of d20M possibly, as, unlike "standard" horror (and what a can of worms I might have opened with that phrase), the heroes ARE supposed to fight and kill the monsters. Normally, IMO, d20 is a little too mechanic-heavy for a horror game in which the...

I do think this is an excellent point. Thanks for the insights everyone. These are the kinds of reflections I was looking for. Should the occasion arise (as I suspect it will in their present battle in RHoD), I will probably give them XP twice. If anyone else wants to chime in, I'd be happy...

IME, XP is pretty easy to come by. My players tend to level up slightly faster than most pregen adventures seem to suspect, even when I don't modify them at all, and often have XP divided by more characters than the adventure suggests. Giving XP twice, while "fair" in one sense, seems to be an...

Forgive me if this topic has been done already and feel free to send me off to pre-existing old threads. What system(s) respectively would you choose to base a campaign using a similar model to the TV shows Supernatural and Heroes?

In the RAW, XP is awarded when the party "defeats" an opponent. Oftentimes, that means killing it. However, most DMs I suspect would agree that driving an opponent away or routing it would also constitute defeat. That's all fine and good. But what about the case where they drive an opponent...