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On offense there's a long running debate: Save or you're hurt v Save or you're screwed. With damage spells you're trying to match the fighter at what the fighter does best. Yeah AOE spells are great for wowing the multitudes, but even then battlefield control spells are far more effective in...

Hi. I'm an armorer of sorts. That is, I teach classes in how to make chain armor, usually at Renaissance Faires. Padded armor wasn't meant to be "armor" in any real sense. It represented the padding normally worn under the more substantial armors. Chain's main purpose is to turn a cutting...

You know what's funny? I've been fighting what I call "cyclic depression" since childhood, and I'm in my 60's. I know, that isn't even slightly funny. What is though(or at least ironic) was that back in the 80s there was a huge thing going around that D&D was somehow causing kids to commit...

This is a shared world. All of the cities/states etc exist on the same map, and all the adventures are supposed to be tied in to the common long term goal. On your Gith' idea, the Githyanki are notorious for hating everyone. But let's take a look at another approach. Do you ever read the...

The Dream idea is kind of similar to the campaign we're just finishing, where the Big Bad was the "Nightmare King". Good thoughts though. On the Werewolf tale, here's an interesting twist: In 3.5 Lycanthrope is a template and it comes in two flavors. Some are born as Lycanthropes, and can be...

I've probably mentioned this before (a few dozen times), but my campaign uses a "Round Robin" system for DMing. We pick a campaign theme, the grand goal of the adventure, and then each player comes up with both a character and the city/state/region/country where that character hails from. As...

I used to record our campaigns in story all the time. The dramatic elements and scene setting, shared with the group, helped keep the story line, I don't know, colorful. I think it inspired the other people at the table to keep "It makes good story" in mind as they played. At some point I...

A few final, technical notes. Ignus had three rings of Forbidance set within his manor house. No teleport, plane shift, D-Door etc, unless someone spoke the password. And anyone who wasn't Lawful Evil who entered would take damage. Fireheart, from across the field, cast Silence into that...

Continuing the story/commentary epilogue... <Story>Siri staggered as her bloodied knee almost buckled beneath her, amazed at her opponent's speed. What surprised her most was that she could be surprised that way at all. She hadn't seen that coming, and she knew that she should have. Knife...

I've had players I call "Nerve Ends". A Nerve End tends to be ab action/adrenaline junkie, and they always want it to be their turn. We have to keep reminding him/her (usually a Him) about Initiative rules. I also have the side-chatter types (I'm guilty too) who forget to act when it's their...

I thought you all deserved to know what happened, so here's the epilogue, in pseudo story form. <Story> The sky was a twisted collage of smoke and fire, and the ground shifted underfoot as Sir Pax Manus, temple knight of Corellan called for his horse. Across the field his opponent was already...

We've always played that the "piece" had to have been part of you when you died. Consider though: Does Disintegrate take your gear as well? This has varied through editions and I honestly can't recall that detail from 5th. If there's stuff remaining, look through the clothing for a...

I'd like to thank all of you who responded. This was troubling me and you helped me talk and think it out. Still not sure of the final resolution, but I've got a better grip on it now. Want to know the funny part? The "Big Bad" of the scene, the Efreet? By the book they're CR 6, and the...

The guards were hired in case Fireheart disregards the Sultan's orders and attacks.

I have to admit this is the worst brain fortification I've ever seen at my table. Maybe they're just assuming that I'll make it a cake walk, that I'll pull the punch. The adversary is Lawful Evil, and has no reason to let these adventurers walk away. Not when he has such an advantage.

Absolutely correct. He asked them if Fireheart had sent them and they assured him that he hadn't. Except that he made it abundantly clear that he wasn't offering them any reward or repayment. A few favors are owed to him, and he went out of his way to state that he couldn't pay anyone, offer...

We rotate the DM duties. The previous DM had a deity step onto the field. She killed our heavy hitter and blasted the party with a Disjunction. Somehow we escaped. He declared that we wouldn't lose all of our gear, but instead had us roll a D6 to see how many items we lost. In short, he...

Depends on the system I suppose. In 1st and 2nd ed, You cold have a character at 9th level when I start mine at 1st. By the time you hit 10th level, I'll be 9th. Sounds weird, but that's the way the EXP per level worked. In that situation losing a session's worth of EXP means almost nothing...

The campaign I'm playing in is a 3.5 game, but the question is far broader than that. When is it okay to TPK the group? My group made some serious tactical errors in the face of a serious enemy, are split up and will most certainly die. We've carried this campaign on for 18 levels and I hate...

Wow. Not to get personal, but are you having a bad day? That was a nit-pick like I've seldom seen in these forums. To clarify though: Your post, or at least the section I quoted, seemed to say that "if we can't have realism in this then we might as well give up on everything." My response...