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The price of renting the use of a permanent circle is totally up in the air. Yes, teleportation circles do have a hefty fixed cost to establish, but once established, there's basically no inherent variable cost of use. Thus, rental prices could be anywhere from very high to very low, depending...

Personally, in the olden days, if somebody had proposed an idea like that, I would have gone into one of my many closets full of stuff, found two longbows, and given them to the player, and said simply, "Show me." If the player was then completely unable to come up with any way to even LOOK...

Of course, you do realize that many D&D weight figures are, in fact, completely arbitrary? That the designers kinda pulled these figures out of their asses, and as such, they have only the crudest possible approximations to reality, and that most people don't really have a very solid mental...

At what point do you simply throw up your hands and go, "This is silly!"? When you read into the rules at the lawyerish level, clearly, it becomes obvious that the rules become self-contradictory or lead to incredibly silly and unrealistic conclusions. At what point do you declare that this is...

It was magical. He knew it was magical. He used that to fetch a hefty price for it, since as far as he could tell, it wasn't useful. So he sold it to some elves, who will pay a fair sum of cash for useless magical trinkets. This was before the invention of True Resurrection, in the good/bad old...

yay for archaeology.

The more interesting aspects of a permanent teleportation circle are its military applications: If it becomes a military application, this neatly changes the entire concept of "guarding" it: If you're using it as a military tool, the guards are inherent in the fact that you're shuffling your...

I've hidden phylacteries in the most amusing places before. I've hidden them in plain sight, so the players had no clue they were looking at it. They looted the place, took it, and sold it off as a shiny gem without ever realizing what they had found. I've even hidden it INSIDE OF A PC, who was...

It's more than that: The +19 version is STILL less than the original version under the same conditions, because the original 95% version didn't have an opposed detection mechanism. +19, therefore, retains its effect only against Joe Average, the L1 commoner of flat average 10 stats and and 0...

Another helpful trick is "fun with portable holes and bags of holding". If the PCs do NOT have a bag of holding....the kobolds should give them one! Let them encounter a hapless, weak kobold, who pleads for his miserable life and offers them his piece of treasure, a bag of holding. Then arrange...

Many people have commented on the Darkness angle. Darkness is good. Combine this with traps that are aimed, not at killing players, but at extinguishing all their light sources. Now it's very dark....and they're likely to be eaten by a grue!

I've had a string of ordinary-looking characters myself. They tend to, as a consequence, be devoid of any descriptive value that *I* can remember. The fact of the matter is that by simply attaching a description to your character, you've drawn attention to various features. How do you describe...

When that happens, nothing happens. Just keep asking every so often. Have nothing happen. Instead, emphasize the instrusion upon the player character's privacy. When the aforementioned PLAYERS goes to the bathroom, follow him there and stand guard. Watch as he shoos you away. The next time this...

The number one survival tip for surviving at ANY level, not just mid-level, is to avoid unnecessary fights. If you figure that a character has an X% chance of surviving any fight, where X varies depending on the general lethality of the campaign, but is not 100%, and has an obviously 100% chance...

The cost of printing can be significantly reduced if you avoid several "schmuck" behaviors that can become very expensive over the long run. First, many people replace the entire toner cartridge. These things cost over $50, and all you REALLY need is an toner refill. Secondly, most people buy...

The other annoyance of this very rigid "grid" system is that there's absolutely nothing between a 10' reach and a 5' reach, and a 5' reach and a 0' reach. The result being the details between weapons tend to be lost: A greatsword has the same reach as a dagger, a spear has the same reach as a...

The irony of drunkenness is that the other people you know best are the people you should least be drinking around. It is *FAR* safer to drink around total strangers than it is around your "friends". In any case, when I plan on drinking heavily, I lock myself in and bar the doors.

The irony of drunkenness is that the other people you know best are the people you should least be drinking around. It is *FAR* safer to drink around total strangers than it is around your "friends". In any case, when I plan on drinking heavily, I lock myself in and bar the doors.

Eh. Being drunk is overrated. Just ask any glass of water. Girls are overrated also. Word of advice: Never drink with friends. You're going to regret it. It's a lot safer to drink with total strangers, or, best of all, alone. And the best place to put your spellbook is to to tattoo it into...

Eh. Being drunk is overrated. Just ask any glass of water. Girls are overrated also. Word of advice: Never drink with friends. You're going to regret it. It's a lot safer to drink with total strangers, or, best of all, alone. And the best place to put your spellbook is to to tattoo it into...