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  1. Warren Okuma

    Smoke and Strong Whiskey: Some Thoughts On Dwarves

    The defense? Build reinforced masonry or reinforced stone earthquake shelters or brace the cavern. They can eat one earthquake spell, maybe two, three, no. They eat the damage, some dwarves die, and alert their scry and fry team and go on surface raids. Defense sucks, and that's why they are...
  2. Warren Okuma

    Need help devising threats for my homebrew

    Actually an insane death slaad doesn't need to understand why he's harassing the PC's. Need a Path of Life and Death. Need a Path of Money. I mean who does merchants, and cobblers and the like worship? City of Mages would be a nice addition. And you need a psycho druid woods.
  3. Warren Okuma

    Do you use D&D XP system as written?

    Street legal. Rules as written. However I just tell the PC's how many monsters and what CR and let them figure it out. It's not my XP after all.
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    Suggestions wanted: Lvl 15+ _non-dungeon_ scenario?

    The Druids of the Woods of the Infinite is encroaching on farmlands. Go deal with them.
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    Would you use the same setting for your next campaign?

    Sort of. Usually 100-2000 years in the future. I did this twice.
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    30 Years of Weird - Strangest Campaigns Ever

    Hatchling Dragon. Ah, pity on that. ____ So this was my latest campaign pitches. The Irregulars System: Champions Genre: Super Heroic comedy 150 point minor super heroes strive forth to do battle with equally inept villains. Orion Sargasso System: Big Eye Small Mouth Genre: Cinematic SF...
  7. Warren Okuma

    30 Years of Weird - Local Color

    Dwarven Holy water is actually blessed sand, sacred earth, or blessed silver filings (or sometimes blessed human style beer, reluctantly brewed by dwarves... which Dwarves regard as water, depending on sect and campaign). It works the same as holy water.
  8. Warren Okuma

    alignment question using the proverbian paladin (again)

    Non-lethal damage cannot kill as been said before. So if the Paladin does kill, yeah I'd remove his Paladinhood. Can't have Pals attempting to knock our good people by stabbing them until they stop moving with as sword and giving the lame excuse as trying to knock them out. Nope.
  9. Warren Okuma

    Creative Use of Low-level Magic.

    Prestidigitation. Make iron rations taste good, heat leftovers, clean yourself, theme music, levitate small objects to you, make your hands or eyes glow, draw glowing runes in the air. Also I used unseen servant to open that chest without a monster. It was trapped. I used knock on some...
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    Need Help on Epic character concept, please [merged]

    Of course. I agree. However this is advice from experience. Never had a epic spell thief/shadow dancer in my campaign, so I won't comment on that. I had a rogue in my epic campaign and I would advise against a rogue, unless it was a political/social campaign. Might I add that the pure...
  11. Warren Okuma

    Need Help on Epic character concept, please [merged]

    Square off against a Titan (pull out that Monster Manual) and now try the build I suggested. Now give each set 10 levels... Now square off with two Titans.
  12. Warren Okuma

    Long-term planning for D&D characters

    You should show more tolerance to different styles of play. Jürgen lighten up dude. If people have fun this way who cares and why should you care, I mean it annoys you okay, but let other people have fun their own way. Live and let live. Yeah, me giving a tolerance speech. Go You should...
  13. Warren Okuma

    Do You Have An Ioun Stone?

    Yeah, I love the dull grey ones... then I cast continual flame on it and cast continual flame on my gloves as well. Neat stuff.
  14. Warren Okuma

    30 Years of Weird - Strangest Campaigns Ever

    Sounds like an awesome campaign.
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    Need Help on Epic character concept, please [merged]

    I've ran an epic campaign before and the most effective character classes was a pure Wizard, Cleric, or Druid. (Make sure you take the epic feat that lowers metamagic costs and get empower). You are going to need spell penetration and improved spell penetration or you will have nerfed...
  16. Warren Okuma

    The problem of keeping magic items scarce...

    Bah. Just use tactics. Giants + Sunder.
  17. Warren Okuma

    My World's Dwarves

    The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has this to say about the Acronym FIFY: 1) Full Industrial Fabrication Year: i.e. the maximum theoretical productive output of one factory for one year. 2) Fabulously Insane Fearsome Yeti! It is a creature so vain that it competes in combat fashion show...
  18. Warren Okuma

    Being forced to quit

    Wait. She gets to go out and play but you cannot? Do I have that right?
  19. Warren Okuma

    Giants in the Earth style thread - nominations for subjects

    Bah! Nuff talk, let's stat! Albert Einstein 20th Commoner Str: 8 Dex: 10 Con: 6 IQ: 18 + 5 (level) = 23 Wis: 12 Cha: 16 Skill levels: Profession: Physicist 23 Profession: Mathematician 23 Profession: Engineering 18 Profession: Teaching 10 Profession: Writing 10 Profession...
  20. Warren Okuma

    Why Do Clerics Have More Spells Per Day Than Wizards?

    I sometimes concentrate my firepower on one character (if they have a decent int or wis) forcing the cleric to heal that character. Heal that character of he/she will die. I.e. keep that person on their feet. In a coupla rounds that character will die, depending on the foe. Clerics in my...
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