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I'd let the giants spot them and go, "Praise Ymir, new slaves!". Round one, using their improved sunder, they break all the PC's weapons. Round two, they strike to subdue the wizard or rogue (they're still at +14 to hit), hoping to get lucky and cleave. Round three, the players wake up in a...

Vault of Larin Karr by Necromancer games is for levels 4 through 9. However, it's basically a mini-campaign setting and can handle lower level characters quite easily and can probably expand to cover higher levels as well. It's one of the most open modules I've ever seen and contains months of...

There are lots of ways to make a paladin which fits in smoothly: 1) code of honour similar to a jedi instead of lawful stupid 2) a martyr complex - perhaps take a vow of poverty? 3) hear her god's voice inside her head ala Joan of Arc 4) a paladin who leads by example instead of bossing others...

A greek talent is about 57 pds. In DnD terms, there are 50 coins to a pound. So 120,000 silver talents translates into: 57*50*120,000/10=34,200,000 gp. So, if we assume that Alexander the Great was a 20th level fighter, he clearly had a monty haul GM!

Tactical feats change the game Elusive target pretty much hoses all those crazy power-attacking, two-handed sword barbarians. What, they lose all the benefit of power attacking? Too bad. Wheras, two sword parries and shields never go out of style.

So far I have two flavors: rogue 2/fighter 2/wiz 3/ spellsword 1/ bladesigner 1 STR 14, Dex 16 (18), Con 14, Int 17, Wis 8, Cha 10. HP 55 BAB +6. AC: 24/25 dodging, Longsword +9/+4 (d8+3). F/R/W: 8,9,6. combat casting, combat expertise, dodge, weapon focus (long sword), scribe scroll, sneak...

Using the Complete Warrior version. 32 pt character buy, 9th level, 36000 gp in equipment. The bladesinger doesn't need to be uber, but needs to be able to survive the perils of a hardcore dungeon crawl. I've been trying to build one but I just can't make it work.

Rd 1) Full Defense, Uses Improved Feint Rd 2) Quickened True Strike, followed by Power attack for mundo damage Now if you describe it correctly, it gives you exactly what you want, without having any new rules.

About the only time I allow rolls to dictate PC character beliefs is when metagame knowledge comes into play. For example, the PC rogue does something bad and has to explain it to the paladin PC. The player of the paladin knows what is going on, because he's sitting at the table. However, he...

MM is easy to counter with shield spells though (or broaches of shielding). Every wizard in my campaign takes shield to counter the ubiquitious MM. Of course, one of my players is researching an 'improved magic missle' that can penetrate the shield spell. Details on levels and damage haven't...

Keep the paladin in reserve. Simply divide the group into two parts. A scouting party leads, some 100-200 ft ahead. The second contingent follows behind. Obviously the paladin goes in the second group, as well as at least one other, preferrably someone skilled with missle weapons (you could...

I bought it - here's why Basically, this book is all the 3.0 splatbook stuff that's about fighting. Since I never thought the 3.0 books had enough good stuff for the money, I never bought any of them. That being said, I did like some of the feats and prestige classes. This book has all of the...

Could you provide specific examples of what rules you don't like in the B5 game? I agree that Mongoose's editing has not been the greatest, but scanning over the rules I saw no major problems. (Note: I haven't actually played the game yet). I do like the D20 Modern rules (except for their...

Here's the background. In Cormyr, the PCs have tracked some raiding drow to a long lost elven portal. The drow have been recently displaced from the city of Maermydia (sp?), and as such, are low on resources and desparate. The portal leads to an abandoned wizard's tower in Cormanthor. Here the...

Quick fix STR vs DEX is usually pretty balanced among medium-sized creatures (high str orc vs high dex elf). But among creatures that are large size or bigger, the advantage goes to STR. One way to balance this would be to increase the size modifier penalites to balance STR. For example: Fine...

Special orders required Potions and scrolls are generally easy to come by. Common potions, like CLW and CSW are generally available, and most other minor potions have a 25-50% chance of being available. Otherwise, you have to comission them. Most alchemists can brew up a potion in a day or...

Of course you could always just take a 5' step first. It's very rare for my players to ever have to make a combat-casting check. Or they could just cast one of those fancy new sudden spells. No AOO there.

I want to run a dramatic chase battle in next week's game. The party (6 characters level 7-8) are escorting an important noble across the country when they are going to be ambushed in the woods. My problem is to get the party to run, and thus have an evening of dodging branches, jumping streams...

Fail a fortitude save - you die. Fail a reflex save - you get hurt Fail a will save - your fellow party members die! ('Must smash friends!') For the love of your party, every barbarian should put his best stat into Wisdom and take Iron Will. Otherwise, it's 'ok, Crom is charmed. He rages and...

Less gods, more religion In my opinion, FR has plenty of gods, plenty of god stats, and plenty of prestige classes. What it needs is a book on religions in Faerun. There's a smattering in the FRCS, but not much, and in my mind, it's pretty inconsistent. I would like to see a chapter on each...