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Some of my older large-scale campaign setting poster maps are getting rather old and faded. I've been considering using the Wal-Mart Online site to get them reprinted from hi-resolution full-size scans. Before I venture to spend the money has anyone here used their services for large-image...

SHARK'S approach is the one I tend to favor in those cases, especially when it comes to obscure but very good splatbook items like the Healing Belt. A character should get level appropriate gear that fits with the character concept and the setting if you're starting them after 1st. But what...

There are many ways to interpret hitpoints. The main divide is the abstract vs simulationist issue caused by concerns of realism. I say 'screw realism this is D&D it should be EPIC!.' I want you to envision the unholy love-child of BASTARD!, 300, the Illiad, every power metal album ever made...

I think they cut the weight difference of up to 100lb when they went from 3 to 3.5 but I'm not sure. May have been during one of the 3.0 reprints, but I distinctly remember it being called out at some point.

Yup, high level characters have moved past the gold economy. They still participate because it's useful to them but at those levels anything important can't be bought with mere gold. Let's say a pair of near-epic wizards are conducting business: One has say a special magic item of very high...

Honestly I would say forget trying for "realism" and try for verisimilitude, because the latter tends to end far better than trying for 'realism.' Remember this is D&D not HARN. To assist you I will attach a segment from a much longer document on another forum several years ago. It's honestly...

The most important thing to remember is that in D&D there are really three economies. One is the subsistence economy that most of the no-name commoner NPCs and such are part of. A step up there is the gold economy where low to mid-level characters are part of, then there's the Wish economy...

Absolutely, the biggest issue is trying to preserve the overall feel of the source material without turning it into a mechanical nightmare. The problem is really one of how to place Potterverse wizards on the power scale, and there are some fundamental differences of setting assumption. In a...

Actually that's the opposite of what I'm going for, it goes against theme, the HP setting has magic on tap and they don't ever seem to run out. That's why I was looking at Recharge Magic. ....:hmm::erm::cool:Brilliant! Why didn't I think of that! I even have that book I just totally forgot...

I was using apparition(D&D Teleport) as a baseline since basically everyone graduates able to do it. How would you work the level progression and why? I basically stuck this up for constructive criticism so I'm glad to see alternate ideas.

That's been a given from the start. Those rules are, really not very well done nor do they fit the HP themes. Mind you I was looking at variations of the UA Incantation rules for learning spells, but these are not suited for actually designing the spells themselves. I already have Elements of...

After one of my cousin's children wanted a "campaign" in the HP setting I've been thinking about ways to try to fit that setting into d20 with minimum necessary modifications to fit the feel. It seems workable but I'd like some input on ideas. 1) Because of the shift in media from book to...

I just lost a 2 page response I was posting and it's getting late. I'll pick back up tomorrow. But let me say based on your responses in the thread you seem actively unwilling to allow yourself to understand anything contrary to your viewpoint.

Did you hear me say anything about their online presence? I wasn't referring to any single product or service at all. I was referring to WoTC as a company and the sum of their RPG products. The overhead per product goes down due to economy of scale. But the overhead of the company as a whole...

I'm seeing a mixture of Tenochtitlan and the Indus valley. Huge sprawling stone temple cities built of cyclopean stones and so old they seem more a part of the landscape than a built thing. Huge temples to their somnolescent gods constructed by laborers over a hundred thousand years. A city...

It's not about evil, or some misguided notion that small businesses don't want to make money. This is about issues of scale, corporate inertia, and depletion of market resources. The bigger a business grows the more its overhead rises and organizational inertia sets in. Plus once you get to...

Absolutely, it doesn't matter whether they can control it, the state itself is worthy of hate. If they are not capable of breaking up and reorganizing into more effective units then the group collectively and leadership individually are responsible for this inability and may be hated for such...

*Delurks* Yay the Hydra question regenerates it's many head yet again. Short answer is that it could be interpreted either way. In fact there have been enormous dozen page threads on both this and WoTC forums as well as Sage answers on it, and they're contradictory. So just make whatever...

Not really, the old WoD system does not mesh easily with d20. I barely managed to get a working ruleset when I converted the Exalted initiative/combat tracking system to d20 and that took a lot of work. I'd advise trying to capture the feel of the old feats rather than a direct mechanical...

Also check out Shemeska's story hours. They've been slow for about the last year or so cause of RL, but they're well worth it. The Lothy 'Loth has been peddling his SH crack widely.