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I always wondered how D&D keeps a stable gold-based monetary system with high-level Wizards around. It should be fairly trivial to make huge amounts of gold by magic and drown the economy in inflation. Paper money with hard to copy arcane sigils would be much more "realistic", at least for...

Doesn't work, Ambrosia is food, not a liquid :P Or, it would just create a drink that is very tasty. It also stops ageing - very powerful, but few heroes die from old age anyway. It would make the item highly sought after, though. What I'd try myself: Heal Antidotei Life Resurrect Dragon...

Creates an "anti-potion" that empties whatever it is poured in. Good as constipation medicine. Don't use on treasure chests. And don't pour it on the floor... @Mark CMG: Ineffable - beauty potion @Ed_Laprade: "Die" - each drop turns into a little plastic cube with numbers on it *eg* "Death" -...

Effervescent: Bubble bath shampoo! Helical: Twists whatever it is poured on into helix shape (don't use it on that sword, and better not drink it) Deific: Turns you into a god for one turn (maybe the god of hangovers?)

You get fish sauce (as in Thai cooking)

You poison the drink / food / weapon. It's not too strong though, i.e. you can't poison more than 1 person. Pouring it into a well will dilute the liquid to have no effect. There is a time limit until the effect wears off (I'd roll a die and then decide whether it's seconds, minutes, hours...

Rather the opposite. 4E had too little in the way of rituals and utilities that are useful for exploration and social interaction. Yes. Depends. If you have a large party (6 or more) or well-optimized, experienced, team-playing and damage-focused PCs it works. But if I would write 5E, I would...

4E is more accessible for beginners, which is a very GOOD thing and needs to be kept in 5E, and even improved. Bringing in new players is the only way for pen & paper gaming to survive. However, if you think that 4E is not as complex as other editions and variants, you're wrong. The complexity...

Ok, so here is an item that I thought about dropping in a campaign. It's called the "Flask of Words". After some experimentation, the PCs find out that it works by filling it with water and writing a word on it. For example, write "love" on it to create a love potion. If your PC had this...

So? Do I get arrested by the Core Enforcement Squad if less than 50% of my PCs have classes not published in whatever book came out first in any given edition? Because that's what you're implying. Besides, Swordmages not being in the PHB is one of the greatest injustices ever. (Joking, I don't...

A picture of castle Stormoak... The river is frozen right now, and there is snow on the roofs. The trees have no leaves. In other words, winter.

How can you make such a poll without including Swordmages :( Sad. (*) Well, Swordmage / Hexblade / Duskblade / Magus / Bladesinger...

In-character thread is up! http://www.enworld.org/forum/playing-game/319500-floating-city-character-part-1-a.html#post5845389

Winter has fallen. Even here, in the South of the Jade Empire, the lands are covered in snow. Liandurel, Obsidian, you are still at castle Stormoak. The land has been eerily quiet in the last weeks. The Orcs have retreated South after their retreat, but reports are that there is a new army...

I'd say yes, "X treats square as difficult terrain" = "square is difficult terrain for X" Otherwise you walk down a dark path where the workings of the game aren't decided by the "Rule of Cool", the "Rule of Keep it Simple", and the "Rule of Get on with it", but the "Rule of really caring about...

A great idea, but probably too expensive. I have no idea what the sales figures and marketing budget for D&D are, or what a national TV advertising campaign costs, but I can guess. Let's say a new D&D edition PHB is expected to sell 100.000 books. WotC's portion of revenues after printing...

craig, Jo: Thanks! Good work. I'll put the starting post up tomorrow, expect a new thread in the in-character section (I'll link it here and on facebook). Below some more info on the current situation. The bard recounts... Half a year has passed since our heroes last took the scene. Winter...

Because that's D20 system/3E/4E. Because obfuscating simple equations by elementary school arithmetics is old school. (*) (*) While this is not representative for players who just like older editions, I've seriously seen someone claim that THAC0 was a watershed between people smart enough to...

Sounds nice in theory, but in practice this is the 3E Fighter. That didn't turn out so well. :-S

ANYTHING that requires me as DM to tell the player the monster's AC (as opposed to "you hit / miss") is a design fail. Keep AC on the DM's side of the equation.