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The Great Pyramid When I was still on Active Duty in the United States Navy our ship got permission for a rare Port Visit to the Egyptian Naval Base in Alexandria. We were there for almost a week, and during that time things were considerably less tense than they are now. Several of us...

It doesn't hurt anymore Harn thought to himself. He knew this was both good, and bad. A Mul of the Ard-Thras, one of the major Gladius Houses of Raam - he was one of the best trained fighters of Gathric's Ludus, but he was no match for the Nameless One, the massive Half Giant from distant...

And it begins again. Once a year I Let then Get Their Evil On - they know what the goal is before we even start. We pick a standard DnD game world - their goal, take it over. the whole thing. So far Grayhawk and Faerun have withstood their dismal attempts. This year? ATHAS...

FooD Oms Oms Oms Whatever happened to Iron Rations? Hell, whatever happenned to keeping track of eating/drinking in campaigns? I am certain that some groups/DMs still keep track of such things, but for the most part - many of the players I have played with over the course of the last few...

An interesting aside We're deep into a 3.5 campaign, one where we allow any and all 3.0/3.5/Pathfinder/D20 Books, Tomes, Errrata, Modules, and even most fan developed monsters, races and classes. It's a hot mess of a game, and a hot mess of a group of characters: 1. A few relatively straight...

I had to do this very thing. We were rambling through a 3.5 Dungeon, and the party came across a red skinned woman (no not a racial slur, a woman, with crimson red skin). They realized it was the main antagonist; a Red Dragon, who'd shape changed into humanoid form. Two of them engaged her...

Turn it into your plan. How can you easily modify what you've created thus far - for our earnest adventurers to actually NEED this extra firepower? Change some, if not all of the encounters to be cold/ice based creatures. And make some of them stupid dangerous. Force it to charge through...

He kept the ring ... after everyone laid into the poor soul, I pulled him aside and we tweaked the ring. It only functions for a short duration per day (1 hour) and the hour had to be used all at one time. Also while flying he could "Carry himself and up to a light load" and fly at his...

Recently we had a new player join our group, and we helped him create a 7th level character (DnD 3.5 hybrid). We gamed for a few setting, and about halfway through the 4th they encountered a chasm with a rickety bridge across it. As I prepaired for a fun harrowing crossing which would have...

My preference.... A long time ago, and far, far away... When I was first introduced to Dungeons and Dragons, I worked at The Sunset Drive-In theater in Bellevue Washington, and was going to school part time at Bellevue Community College. There were a group of students in one of the lounged...

Our list of House Rules evolves as we play, and the interesting thing about them, is they continue to evolve bfore our eyes. Especially since I am the onyl one of my current group with any sizable amount of 2.0 experience (the only other in my group leanred from me a couple eyars back). I...

That whole list of stuff in the original post.... the same guy does/did ALL of that? Assuming he did, you'll likely have to make him siginificantly more powerful than you may have originally intended. Vlad the Impaler only got away with his atrosities as he had one bad ass army to back him...

I have a similar dilemma in our ongoing campaign. I have one player who is solely, only about the build. Nothing else matters. It's all about the right feats/skills/classes taken in the correct order to maximize offense and defense. Each of his characters from game to game, campaign to...

what we do... For years our 3 Headed Monster of a DM (there are three of us, who each run separate campaigns, we take turns, so everyone gets to play) - anyway, we award spontaneous XP rewards (generally nothing Oh My God) - for partiularly unique, heroic or hilarious actions, feats or deeds...

Brahma I created the City of Brahma at the edge of the vast Sind Desert well over 20 years ago. It's STILL being detailed out. My advice to you is look at a few of the old 1st and 2nd edition rules maps of cities and towns - you'll find that most of the detail is glossed over, and they give...

Pick 3, have everyone vote, and GIVE your vote then and there - your vote counting as two. Not quite picking for them, but too many options on the table, they'll NEVER decide.

So, I must have spent the better part of a month detailing out a DnD version of Hogwarts on a lonely island in the middle of this vast lake, that not only taught wizardry, but archery and even thief-craft. I fleshed it out with detail; NPCs, History, Maps, Dungeons below it (and the lake), and...

We threw 5D6, re-rolled the bottom 2, took the best three.

It's been a long time since the old Tomes on the bottom shelf have been opened. The Dragonskins binding them threatening to crack as I poured over the familiar text. Soon familiar became intimate once more. Talon had returned. Our gaming group for the last several years has been playing 3.5...

Dragons are nasty In reading your original post - at least on my gaming world this Dragon would have to be an adolescent or younger. Anything older or bigger would just be to much (even alone) for a party 1-8 to handle. Anything older or bigger also wouldn't be a loner, he would have...