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I find nothing in the rules to prohibit a low level caster from copying a high level spell. After all, they are basically just 'copying' a series of notes and instructions. If they can figure out the way the universal symbols are used by the original scribe, they can replicate the spell notes...

By the way, many of the runty goblins I use are old ral partha (I think) orcs which had little clothing, sometimes a scrap of armor, and usually a weapon and round shield. Also, they were anatomically correct males. That was a very weird thing to discover as I painted that pack of beasties...

90% of mine are painted either regular dark orange or dark reddish-orange. I figure this color works well for creatures that spend part of their lifes underground where red/orange is very hard to see in the dark. Some are of a greenish gray color to represent freaks or cross-breeds. I make...

32 years old. A friend hooked me on computer games one autumn (Wing Commander), then on DnD the next spring. Who knows why it took so long. Maybe because I'd never heardo of DnD until then.

Glad to see I'm not the only one who produces lots of stuff to flesh out their world. I have three continents, but only one has more than a few pages of detaill. The One has around 100 pages of world notes, history, religion and politics covering three different eras 1,000 years apart. All of...

How can we put up a poll to see who likes an index in a book and who can live without one? Personally, I find an index to be very important. The only real option is to memorize the book. An index allows you to use the book far more easily during a game session. Anyone out there- Feel free to...

Character names are too personal to the player. I never disallow one even if it makes groan out loud AND shake my head. I had a guy who used a mini with heavy armor and a slit-visored sallet type helm. A shiny silver helm that covered half his face. He chose the name Jordi (from Star Trek...

In the game I DM I have one Player who has a rogue wizard who recently started taking Embermage levels. He has about 3-4 of them. I've told him he can use up to all 10 in the designed class, but all of us in the group have talked it over and it seems that you don't really need a 10 level PrC...

If you have two attacks in the round, and cast Spectral Hand first, then you can stay a distance and deliver the two touch attacks. This is something my group used once or twice and it worked ok, game-balance wise. We don't normally use the quickened feat however, as there are so many other...

Ok, I've used Campaign Cartographer for DOS for years, and tried CC2 which confused me so I quit. Then I used the mapper in the old Core Rules from TSR. I rather liked it but Core Rules used way too much ink, litteraly soaking the pages of paper. I'm looking for a new program that can paint...

Good morning, I'm looking to learn stuff about the new campaign mappers I might use for my DnD gaming. I need world maps and Locale maps, but not battle mats. Any advice is appreciated. If this is already out there in a thread, I apologize for the repeat. I've been using the old DOS version...

I love maps. Well, I'm still using the map of Sherwood that came in print form in Dragon mag a couple years back, but the version I have I downloaded from WOTC. It is the core area of the campaign I'm running for our group. It's nice to be able to look at it and ponder their fate.

Generally PG 13 but with forays up to R due to graphic violence inherent in chopping creatures and some people to chunks. Generally I only detail significant combat between the PC's and primary foes. If they kill a goblin, I seldom detail the blood and guts bit. All of our group is over...

I still do freehand and CC for DOS, but I use the mapper from the WOTC Core Rules for interior dungeons more often. CC for DOS I've had for years and did a super detailed 3x5 foot world map of my homebrew. Lots of work. Steep learning curve back in the mid 90's. Now it's a thing of the...

All of the above quotes are exceptional. I however rather like one that is not in the movies. In the FotR special material appendices is a bit of an interview with 'Merry' or 'Pippin' and they are talking of John Rhys Davies invitation to dine at a restaurant. Davies orders for all, and...

We've done flying many times in our games. Flying ships, Spelljammers, winged beasts, dragons and rings of flying. In battle it has never once worked out well. Spelljammers are the worst for tactical battle as absolutely no one completely understood where the enemy was or how all the movement...

Good morning, Piratecat's criticism of one of my options for evading damage is valid. I should have mentioned that when I want a Player to move a mini, I only apply that particular rule to spells with small areas of effect- no more than 20-30 feet in radius, and then not all the time. It has...

One thing I do is to require the person who makes their save to physically move their character/mini to the edge of the effect area. It is a free move and draws no attacks of opportunity since everyone thereabouts is trying to avoid the spell also. This causes some problems, sometimes. I roll...

My screen name here is taken from a literary figure in Henryk Sienkiewics' "trilogy." The fellow, Turhan Bey, was a sultan of the Ottoman empire or some such powerful war leader who was in the midst of making war on what was then called the kingdom of Poland (about half of eastern Europe)...

I just dont like the Hex grid on a map I saw the Kalamar map a year or so back, but don't recall much about it. I don't play there, so it meant little to me. I occasionally play in the FR, so I'm predisposed toward it. I just got the first Greyhawk map, and though it is pretty nice, it has...