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It is surprisingly hard to do. 4e was very reliant on the online character builder and the online monster compendium. It is down right painful to try and make a character with out. Making balanced encounters as a DM is also really time consuming without the right tools. Add to that the...

This has been a pretty useful thread for me, lets see if we can get it back on track. Nanny Olga's Basket The crumpets themselves detect as magical but have no effect. This picnic basket acts like a bag of holding, but only for food. Well, technically you could put anything in there, but it...

"...and without an actor they were like pigs to the slaughter!" When the warlock got the actor feat in our game, the Team America quotes never ended. Once he left the party there was a near TPK which made it even funnier. "You are sending us in there without an Actor?! That's suicide!"...

I think I might borrow this item for my own campaign, it really gives a good motivation for a bad guy. It means that bad guys have reasons to raid local towns and take the entire population captive, killing as few as possible. The 33 day limit on the souls means that they can't just run around...

35 degrees celcius is a pretty normal summer day where I am from, it gets to the low 40s. It is not great, but you get use to it. There are plenty of historical examples of people wearing armor without undue incident in weather like that. All of the conquistadors going through the jungles, the...

I would definitely go with action, but not a real combat. It is pretty unrealistic/unlikely for PCs to get attacked doing a trip that hundreds of merchants do every season. My suggestion is that they have some positive interactions with a very drunk captain of a different ship before leaving...

Dex-based Battlemaster = musketeer / privateer. Reposte, Disarm & Parry work really well for giving the feel of a fencer. Pistol and Rapier duel-wielding is really cool, as long as you have a brace of pistols. Doctor Jeckyl / Mr Hydge , A half-orc Psyciatrist. = Moon druid, all of his spells...

The other awkward thing is, what happens to the people that make their saves. Do they just shrug off the magic and are unaffected by it, their gravity is not reversed? Or are they just successfully flailing around, climbing on the floor/roof? The decision has significant impacts on how combat...

I tend to use NPCs as a tool to show the dangers of an area that I don't want PCs to fall into. So when exploring a fetid swamp or steamy jungle, I would give a powerful NPC malaria. It adds an interesting element to the interactions with the hag if they really need her herbs to cure the malaria.

Eric Anondson I have found that simply running the animals as narrated NPCs works really well. There is no way that I am dragging out the fight and delaying real players turns by either having the druid roll a million dice or doing so myself. If they summon a pack of wolves. I just take the...

I had always thought that the nature paladin was pretty much a warden. I have never really given it much thought past that though. That looks like some nice work, two things strike me though. FIrstly, I know role don't mean much anymore, but the Warden was solidly a tank. Losing all of his...

I just wanted to add one quick suggestion. If you want to paint miniatures that have been prepared like in the OP, you can do so just using washes and no real paints. Once you have that shaded look, simply splash brown wash on the leather, skin tone wash on the skin etc. It all just falls where...

Arcane Trickster really fits this already. You can have 'potions' with spell effects. Player and DM just get together and pick all the spells that make sense to be alchemical vials or potions, rather than the normal spell list. E.g. Glue = entangle, Greese = Greese shaped charge = knock...

Hehe I see Defcon1 hates acrobats as much as I do. Thanks for posting this OP, it is very helpful for my friend who is about to run a game for a bunch of kids. I am also looking at running a game for a couple of non-gamers very soon too, I will seriously consider using this. Not that I think...

I always like to base near-earth things on what people thought things were like, not what they were really like. So I would suggest the Gaigen as a race. Make them 7' tall, snow white skin and 'barbaric'. They could be the Goliath's of the setting, though culturally maybe more like viking...

Personally I think that complaints around Dex being too good tend to come from groups that let Acrobatics be used in place of Athletics after watching too many Jackie Chan movies. Athletics is probably the most used skill in my games behind Perception. It is probably the most important though...

Ayn's Bootstraps Once owned by the Lady Rand, a cleric of the Lord of Coins. Every time you pull on these bootstraps, a gold coin pops out at your feet, up to a total determined by the DM and setting. The boot straps also allow you to pull yourself up by them, a form of levitation spell (but...

I would agree that it is not found on TV or in movies, but I know a bunch of south Sudanese folks and many of them are entirely black without a hint of brown in their pigment. It is very striking and a couple of them have skin that just seems to pick up any blue in the surroundings/clothing and...

Tha'nks for clear'ing that up. It bug's me when pe'ople get that wro'ng.

Mouseferatu, why though? Isn't there an elegance to reusing the same basic rules and just changing as little as possible to get the desired effect? The spell-casting section of most caster classes is almost identical, it would seem confusing and inefficient to rewrite it per class. I'm not...