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3rd Edition Main FAQ, p. 27:

Actually, in "Call of Cthulhu" itself they did successfully ram the big C to pieces with a ship, and in "Dunwich Horror" the protagonists blasted the evil creature with an incantation, destroying it. First two that come to mind.

math + play-acting = freakin' crack, man.

Yep, definitely interested in whether "priests" (in a civic church/temple situation) are ever given specific effect in an original Lovecraft story. I have a lot of the literature, could do pretty well at finding stuff here with citation. Again, arcane "followers", "witches", etc. I'd be quick...

This is sort of an academic/literary question, in the planning stages for a Lovecraft-heavy D&D campaign. In Lovecraft's stories, particularly those set in the Dreamlands, he identifies certain people as "priests" or "high priests" in certain temples dedicated to his fantasy gods. (For example...

Another thing about Lovecraftian magic is that I almost want to say that divine magic doesn't exist. Standard practiced religion doesn't seem to have any place in the Lovecraft worldview. The people with power are combing through old texts (aka wizards), or making personal deals with powerful...

SRD, "Abilities and Conditions: Ability Score Loss": Here they mean "maximum hit point score".

Mine are 3.0 only: http://home.earthlink.net/~danielrcollins1/dnd3.html

No. One of the major changes in 3.5 was to delete that hierarchy that existed from 1st-3rd Edition. The rationale was sort-of along the lines of "when fighting lycanthropes we want you to really need silver". Others can probably give more insight to the theory behind it.

Yes and Yes. Note that 8th-caster level wands of fireball and lightning bolt are actually listed as standard treasure in the "Table: Wands" of the DMG. I presume you know they cost 18,000 gp, while a 5th-caster level one costs 11,250 gp.

Here are my thumbnail calculations: - Light cavalry: Rider 175 lb., leather armor 15 lb., riding saddle 25 lb., shortbow & arrows 5 lb., longsword 4 lb = total 224 lb. - Heavy cavalry: Rider 200 lb., half-plate armor 50 lb., large steel shield 15 lb., chainmail barding 80 lb., military saddle 30...

Deset Glad, that's really interesting and I'm glad you posted it. I am kind of interested in these issues and how they should be properly modelled for standard D&D cavalry, in particular. I see that light warhorses are specially-bred "quarter horses and Arabians" 15-16 hands tall, while heavy...

List for "Equipment: Goods and Services" says:

Consider Unearthed Arcana's variant "Taint" rules?

You should also consider picking up Cthulhu d20 for stats of official Lovecraft monsters & gods.

I agree that the rules have been read correctly. Hey, this guy has a 180 IQ and apparently did some serious focused studying in detection & spotting (and nothing else). Seems plausible to me he'd get pretty good pretty fast.

If the Hulk can rip most of his clothes off, and characters like Chewbacca and the Cave Troll from Lord of the Rings can walk around naked, then so can my players. :)

Plane Sailing, thanks so much for that! I was really hoping that a list like that existed somewhere. In a lot of these discussions I read people saying something like "I agree with most of the changes... haste, harm, and heal really needed fixing" -- and I wonder if they really realize "most"...

I do. My assumption with invisibility is that it allows you to get right in someone's face and attack with impunity (hence the attack bonus). Hiding's not the same -- I would really need a specific rule that explicitly says "hiding = invisibility", and there's never been one, not in RAW...

Here's a related question. There seem to be two somewhat different definitions of "slope", one for the Climb skill, and another under the Hills & Mountain Terrain section. For Climb Skill: "A slope is considered to be any incline at an angle measuring less than 60 degrees; a wall is any incline...