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you've got one elven archmage and one great wyrm gold against the zulkirs of thay, in a city that has a dozen or so bigger rivals in Thay. Io'Iokar might actually be analogous to a single decent faerunian city with a magical prescence... and certainly would dominate anything of similar size in...

ravenloft is actually in the demiplane of dread, not the prime. Athas did indeed have a different planar connections, esp with the gods, but there was still a way to the outer planes, probably through the elemental, as I mentioned the Athasian elf who worked as a courier in the upper planes. And...

Apologies, but you're mistaking the power of high level wizards. Eberron has NOTHING that the wizards of Oerth and especially FR can't duplicate, since the number of high level Mages vastly, vastly, VASTLY outnumbers that of Eberron. Every major city has a mage of 15+ toodling around, all the...

Then you are pretty much on your own. Really, I think you should just be an Int-based spellcaster, with Archivist being the first choice. With that Dex for your AC, and Int, you will have tons of spells and high Save DC's. Making a melee character with high Dex and INt is kind of self-defeating...

Dark Knowledge Feat, lets you make knowledge checks to add Insight bonuses TH and Damage to your attacks, and those of your allies. It requires a lot of Skill Ranks and is an Intelligence Skill. Other then that, well, you've got a pretty crazy build. There's a Monk Feat that lets you add Int to...

The majority of those are 'official pantheons' of the game, esp the monster ones (all of which exist on Oerth, their original home of mention). I was just mentioning some of those that were on Earth. I did miss the Inca/Aztec, but the others are just renamings of Earth Pantheons. Also note that...

It is noteworthy that Spelljammer existed in Planescape (there's a module where they mention buying a squidship) as it Athas (there's an Athasian elf who runs between the upper planes as a merchant/courier). Be that as it may, each world can be a part of the core rules or not. However, they did...

Greyhawk has general magic, it's overdeity of magic is Boccob. You are thinking of the Dragonlance world of Krynn. FR has a mostly singular pantheon, unlike Greyhawk, which has 3 active competing ones (more like Earth) That is correct, but they must have SUFFICIENT numbers to do so, if they are...

You are probably going about it backwards. What I would do is keep the big bad exactly the same, but change the players to people who don't use magic, i.e. fighters, thieves... and people who use technology and/or psionics. They go out adventuring to rid the world of all these magical threats...

Mmmm. Good, informative article. I'm afraid I didn't take out of it the same geist that 'scribing spells should be cheap and easy'. I got more out of it that "Wizards get an easy way to make the acquisition of items used in their class abilities get an 84% price discount." Also, while the...

The summoning problem is the result of 1) Using Called creatures that can summon. they aren't under summoning restrictions. Planar Binding and Planar Ally, as well as Gate, fall under this category. 2) Summoning creatures with caster levels. They can still use their cast spells to summon...

Bracers of Armor are thus no worse then Armor...and arguably better, because they do protect against incorps. They also have no armor check penalty and weigh a lot less. Belts of MOnk Strength fit easily...Gauntlets of Ogre Power and Dex can certainly be stacked. I'd stack amulet of Wisdom...

This is Ravenloft? Azalin was the only character in Ravenloft who could make a level 9 scroll. Where exactly is the character getting his scroll from? And if he's planning on doing this, he must be evil as heck already. Why isn't he a Domain Lord and the point moot? ==Aelryinth

Don't forget the no-armor route also opens up the can of worms of Int to AC, Wisdom to AC, and Charisma to AC. A Monk's Belt tacks on +5 AC if you have a Wis+6 device, and Int and Cha on top of this can make the advantage significant. Lastly, unarmored AC is TOUCH AC...and Touch AC can be...

Yeah, don't forget 1E fighters had the best saves, and most hit points, and no one got close on combat ability...clerics had 2/3 THACO advancement, not the 3/4 that is there now. And we didn't know what a full attack action was...we just took all our swings at highest skill level! O yeah...

Correct. Blastificer builds actually build upon Blaster Mage builds who use Rods of Quickening, Empowerment, and feats like Sudden Maximize, etc. BUT...they need time to prepare, and they can only do this so many times a day. An Empowered Wand of Scorching Ray is a nice base. She's being...

There's no 'good old days is better.' There's ignoring the reality of the situation you are in. ''obviously everything needs to be translated into 3E terms..." Well, no. Obviously, everything needs to be translated into 1E terms. There, didn't that settle everything. No? For some reason I...

Halvyr. Means alternately, 'Children of Unity' or 'Children of Beauty', depending on your accent. ==Aelryinth

An 18th level Fighter from 1E would kick the arse of a 3.5E. 1) With a +5 ring of protection, the f/18 needs a 2 to save against any and all spell effects. They have the best saves. 2) There is no gold limit on gear. The f/1 can have unlimited amounts of stuff. The key thing is the 3e...

Mr Gygax, a little history help if you will... The rakshasa in the original Monster Manual can be killed instantly by a shot from a blessed crossbow bolt. Assuming this is based on historical Indian mythology, where did you find this weakness? It seems the original Ramayana story line has...