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And that's why I booted the massive damage rule even before I began DMing 3e and never regretted it. Once you hit about 15+ in levels, you'll be rolling massive damage saves every fight and sometimes multiple times a round. In a heavy dungeon crawling game like Shackled City, that means natural...

Personally, I wouldn't presume that a flaming weapon exactly duplicates the effects of any spells which are required to make it.

I've been discussing this with AviLazar via email too, and apparently his previous DMs universally handwaved away protective spells from having an effect on allies. Seems weird to me, but then lots of things people do seems weird to me. Interestingly, this campaign has been going on for 3 years...

Okay. Not in my games. It hasn't come up in this one, mainly since our mage doesn't do illusion spells, but when it has come up I would absolutely apply miss chances from mirror images and invisibility if someone was trying to target a PC with beneficial spells. Invisibility would...

I hadn't planned to go that far, but since you want to propose that rule ... :] As noted by wolff96, in this situation the target dodging or not isn't the factor. The target not being where the caster thinks he is, however, is a factor. They don't. The caster decides. If you use a haste...

Considering that a flaming weapon would have the same effects underwater, I'd say that it doesn't consume oxygen. But that only becomes a factor if oxygen exists in your game. Physics is a house rule.

I wouldn't know. And didn't your mama ever tell you that licking it will make you go blind?

D&D is what I tell it to be. No, I'm not being facetious. As Simon Marks noted above, defining D&D is a very personal thing. I run a 3.5e game now which throws out a large number of the mechanical and flavor elements of 3e/3.5e as written, and if you compared it to 2e and 1e would be even more...

Run a killer dungeon where PCs are attacked by a gelatinous cube with a Bohemian Earspoon inside it?

Thanks for the feedback. It was a quick off-the-cuff ruling, but (as KarinsDad put it) the item/spell not distinguishing between friend and foe was the basis for it. Since the PC's not dodging his ally he can be touched without requiring an attack, but he can't change the fact that he's not...

Sure. I think the cleric, druid, sorcerer, and wizard can all be completely viable in the majority of campaigns while running strictly core, simply because of the spells. I think it's the other classes which really need non-core material to stay in the running as one goes up in levels, since...

I had a situation come up in my game recently when the PCs were in the middle of a fight and someone tried to cast a Heal spell on the paladin. He was wearing a Cloak of Minor Displacement and I had the caster roll against the 20% miss chance. Which he failed, much to the amusement of everyone...

I doubt it, or at least she'd rock it a whole lot less. Look at the things Burningspear listed above, all of which are non-core. Take them out and she becomes a lot less scary. Of course, the above are purely academic comments. I don't think there's anything intrinsically better about an...

The original post was made on 3/2/08. That's two days ago. If necromancy, this is very weak. The thread didn't even need Gentle Repose!

This is something that would be completely and utterly up to DM adjudication, because the weapon description doesn't say. Does it produce heat? If the DM says so. Does it consume oxygen? If the DM says so.

Did I mention that they're 9th level? If they can walk into that room through a door, I'm betting they can take that door down in short order and walk out. Or just Teleport, Dimension Door and all the other options PCs of that level have. And that's assuming that they didn't just keep from all...

Easy. Run a campaign for them with just the core books and nothing else. I'd bet you a lot their heads explode before the first session is over :]

With this being a group of eight 9th level PCs, who would presumably be fully equipped when they ended up in the situation you described, I'd presume they would be out in less than a minute.

Excellent! Often after a really good climax the rest can come across as just an afterthought, but certainly not here.

A lot of good advice has already been given, so rather than just repeating it, I'll ask a question, since my curiosity was piqued by your opening comment: Why? Knowing why you think they need to end up in prison would help a lot. Capturing them is not really a problem. I generally figure that...