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well, i'm not sure what the furor against teleport is about. until you hit teleport without error or teleport circle, there is always a chance that you mis-jump... it's in the tables. plus, it takes a minimum of an hour to achieve the relative safety of the studied carefully result. a lot can...

excellent. thank you very much for your comments. it is so very easy to misunderstand things when just reading the parts that people manage to type. i apologize for my portion of the contributions to the mix which may have been unhelpful. if i were the dm in a situation where one or more...

heheheh. my original software and hardware was flesh and blood and a stick of wood with some graphite in it. i can type faster than i can write, so i tend to use computer based methods these days.

it is a puzzlement that you cannot find the rule 0 statements that i've been reading (and playing) in d&d source materials for over 25 years. that aside, i would like to thank you for recapping one of my points. due to your comment quoted below, i feel disinclined to clarify the portions that...

you only track plot events and information important to you as dm. they have to track everything important to them however they want to. it just serves as a baseline for you to go by, and to veer away from as necessary. but if you have the basic timeline, then it is easier to veer away down a...

timeline software. one that tracks multiple timelines. it is your friend. and helps remind you to advance the other timelines along with the plot.

well, in actual d&d, artificers not only cannot cast spells, they are specifically not spellcasters. they only have access to infusions, and even if an infusion duplicates the effect of a spell, it is not considered a spell, nor can it be used on non-objects / non-constructs. now, you don't...

well. i will go ahead after all and throw in my 2 cents. d&d is based on rule 0. the DM is in charge. the DM says what is right, the DM decides what happens, the DM is the entire universe other than the PCs, and a specific monster does not have to oblige the PCs in any way, unless it makes...

i have one pbp rpg where each player is in their own thread and all running simultaneously. no one has actually ran into each other yet.

what are you focusing on? heading towards a wand master? crafter? or something else? if wand master, then you will want dual wand wielder and enhance item and wand surge or some similar load out. if crafter then you want legendary and extraordinary crafter, a dedicated wright homunculus, and...

so.... back to the op: i love being surprised by my players. that is how i, as the dm, get to "play" the game. i get to be creative, to explore new directions, and to figure out clever new ways to challenge the pcs. furthermore, i like the pcs to know that they have made an impact on the...

the answer for d&d viruses and diseases?

you are most welcome. we had a lot of fun and laughter over the inventive ways they came up with that. just imagine the intimi... ah "diplomacy" checks used to get information out of guys or else the dreaded consequence of getting sat upon by a huge hairy stinky bear, or even worse, the...

i suggest that if you get a large group of caster capable together, and then let them breed, the local demographic will get skewed in favor of casters. especially if they keep bringing in fresh blood. and in fact, that has actually happened at least five times in greyhawk (d&d default setting)...

no. see above. also consider that shrink item cannot affect magic items and similar. this happens with someone turned to stone or crystal. so long as they remain such, they have a faint magical transmutation aura, and count as a magic item. oddly enough, if the size/weight is small enough a...

a magi-tech society is completely doable even if you limit it to 1st and 2nd level casters. genetic selection will take care of the rest. with the xp transfer rules and just one mid level caster, it can be jump-started. solving social difficulties, puzzles, training, heck - even just surviving a...

not sure where you are seeing incompatibility between epic and deity rules. to really understand the epic (and deity) rules, one needs to look at what they were basing it off of. d&d has long enshrined the idea of potential ascension. now, i admit i would have done it a bit differently myself...

i recall one particular player of mine he was playing a gnome barbarian bear warrior and a half-orc monk. tall and short. quite a comic duo. my personal favorite of their antics was the nod to colossus and wolverine... the cannon-bear. ^^ he'd chuck the gnome at some bad guys, the gnome would...

should be especially fun if i limit the raging to after the character has hefted a few. maybe if i swing frenzy on top of that. "guess he had a few too many..."

i went with a thri-kreen dervish wielding scimitars. weapons count as light due to dervish special ability, nice crit range, too.