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That questions is just WAY TOO MUCH WORK. I agree with the thought and the concept. Having the time to actually do it and work things out, strive for balance, etc, is something completely different. It also turns Casters into a bunch of specialists instead of people who can pull out lots of...

As written, Mind Blank and Non-Detection protect you against divination effects. They don't protect the spells upon you from being noted by Divination effects. Thus, you can see the invisible. Them being Mind Blanked/Non-detected does not change the fact you can see the invisible now (they...

Pit Fiend -> Fit Fiend : PT Fiend's best buddy, but he prefers to run you to death, or inflict death by calisthenics. Pit Fiend -> Hit Fiend: He prefers to practice boxing, and you are the very realistic punching bag, hanging there and everything.

I think you meant => Pigasus :)

Pit Fiend -> Pot Fiend, it's a devil in the kitchen. Its soups and stews are damnably good. Pit Fiend -> Pip Fiend, a devil about grammar. Pit Fiend -> Pin Fiend, kills you in place. Likes to wrestle and preserve butterflies and humans. Pit Fiend -> Spit Fiend, has ALL the explosive goober...

Totally non-obvious. I thought he was talking about draconic kobolds, who all get wings. Feh!

And... Flesh Jelem: The Flesh Gelem's more stylish and tasteful cousin, as the slime within is always strawberry or grape-flavored, and if killed, loses its acidic properties and becomes a wonderful spread for bread. The rare raspberry variety is particularly sought after as a relief from trail...

Oh, yer gonna hate me. Flash Golem: Typically made from corpses selected for their beauty and musculature, the somehow wrongness of the... chosen attire, or lack thereof, for this Golem results in an additional -2 to hit the creature in combat as attackers avert their eyes instinctively. If...

Awwww, since you had to start that... Zombie-> Hombie: The undead remnants of your best buds and friends who you know you can still rely on, even when they are dead. Beholder-> Be Bolder: A floating one-eyed monstrosity constantly haranguing you to get up and do something with your life, and...

This article highlights one of the main weaknesses of fantasy games: the lack of broad defensive magic (stopping the fun stuff) vs offensive magic (adding the fun stuff). The key to all this is having relatively cheap and easy to get defensive magical fields. 1) Stillflight Fields. Anything...

Guys, it's right there on the cover. Be Older. Zap! You're ancient!

Wow, you are really centered on me, me, me for some reason, and still keeping up with the insults. I was not the first person to say there were problems, and instead of it being smart that I was adhering to the OP's question and not going beyond it, it became all my fault that I didn't go beyond...

And you filled in additional facts of the campaign and world that WERE NOT GIVEN US, where I did not, which promptly makes your whole assumption above invalid. Congrats for wasted typing! In other words, I stayed true to the original premise and what it portended, and looked at it through the...

There are indeed plenty of monsters who are dumb... it's right there in their stat blocks. Optional gunpowder does indeed create problems, but the whole nature of my replies is based on the OP giving gunpowder to players, not the whole world having it, which you immediately turned around as the...

So, you went with the personal insults instead of reason. Hey, great. I was looking past it. Ad hominem idiocy is ad hominem idiocy. Sure, I was referencing 3e, but the fact is that cost and production issues can be worked past with manpower, and magical tools to help crafters are ubiquitous...

1) there are some with fire res/immunity. Over the overall numbers, very few. Tons of hp = use more gunpowder or set up a collapse. 2) Who said I was saying it was common?!?! The OP said the PC's are using it, potentially a lot of it. He said nothing about EVERYONE using it? You are inserting...

Sure, but he was a researcher/chemist, not a shaman. Probably working directly for the Chinese Imperial Household.

Outright theft or Fiat Ka-boom are going to be seen as arbitrary, so many of the recommendations here aren't feasible or in any way linked to gunpowder... they are just linked to explosive weapons, which any wizard or cleric potentially qualifies as. Playing on the particular weaknesses of...

yes, the primary source of saltpeter was the crystals that accumulate under any well-aged pile of excrement. During WWI and II, one of the primary sources of nitrates to make gunpowder were the vast guano reserves under the cliffs of Chile, where billions of seabirds flock to raise their young...

More like the sapper suddenly finding out his uncivilized savages living in wooden walled settlements at best developed deep-footed stone walls overnight, are tossing alchemical fire down on him, are all resistant to fire, and suddenly his mines have a 50% misfire chance that wasn't there...