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Well, your question could equally be applied to, say, a weapon! (Say the party needs to use the silver dagger against a were rat but only have the one dagger between them). If you wanted to apply the rules at the expense of common sense, I suppose you could use the wand or attack (standard...

Have you read Elaine Cunningham's "Elfshadow?" As well as being a good read (IMHO), I seem to remember Arilyn (the heroine) sneaking into Darkhold so there might be a couple of ideas there for you. I think your idea for an underground approach is best, as it would be reasonable to assume...

Have you seen the "Alert System" from Fiery Dragon? It might work well to give you a simple yet effective way to monitor the level of response the PCs are provoking. If they don't watch it they will eventually be bringing that platoon of hill giants and assembled magical support down on their...

I have to agree that medium level (5th-8th or so) seems to give the best experience for me when DM'ing. However, I would say that was also true for 1st and 2nd Edition! Things that add complications in 3.5 seem to be the phenomenal amounts of damage that can be knocked out in one round and...

Exactly what I use for my campaigns. These guys are exceptional, after all!

Just to remind us all what the PHB says about alignments:- "ALIGNMENT A creature’s general moral and personal attitudes are represented by its alignment: lawful good, neutral good, chaotic good, lawful neutral, neutral, chaotic neutral, lawful evil, neutral evil, or chaotic evil. Alignment is a...

Good points all. I suppose we all think of "good" as the ideal to aspire to, so it is harder to maintain, but as you say, the same standards in reverse should apply to evil, and probably some sort of equally demanding neutral requirements. Your mention of Law vs Chaos also gets me thinking-...

I am ashamed to confess to never watching The Doctor in my youth, so I am a newbie. After the first episode (which I thought was pretty poor- I mean, a big plastic pile of goo as the bad guy and a really unconvincing fight scene!) I only kept watching due to its time slot making it easy...

Exactly! I can definitely see both sides of the moral argument. On the one hand, in the spider haunt woods situation, what they did (or maybe had to do) was not very heroic/good, but does being "good" mean you have to be suicidal and put everyone at risk in order to give scum another chance? Its...

Heh heh- be grateful I didn't visit the other thread and suggest that the enslaved soul of a Paladin would be a fitting present for the Queen to cheer herself up with after such unpleasantness! Seriously, though, sounds like you all have some heroics to relate. I know its early days but are you...

Well, you could sell all their gear to pay for the raisings and then explain about the Queen demanding her "share" of the spoils :]

I don't like to say "I told you so," but..... Seriously, sounds like a good hard fought combat, where you really overcame a challenge. Just hope the Gith queen is (at least somewhat) grateful for you revealing the Slaad King's perfidy over the phylactery. One question- do you have access to...

Actually they move 5 feet if crawling and they do indeed provoke AoO's. (p 142 PHB). Whilst prone they are -4 to hit and -4 to AC in melee as well, of course.

Most important rule in the DMG Rule 1: the DM is always right Rule 2: refer to rule 1 If a game mechanic strikes you as wrong for the situation, then it probably is-at least for your style of game. As DM you decide when combat starts and when they are surprised or flat footed. Yes, you have...

Umm, all these combat tactics sound good except that the enemy has now been proved to outclass you totally. I really think there must be some plotting/infighting going down with the 2 factions of bad guys and that you MUST MUST MUST exploit this (or at least try). You did say that the King...

If it becomes available on Amazon UK or in "leisure Games" mail order over here I will definitely have to buy it, even though I own all the mags. Having it collated with a separate map book will be great, and if nothing else, we need to encourage this sort of effort by making it a success for Paizo!

The fencing angle As an experienced fencer (but sadly less fit than when I was younger and had more time to train before starting our family), I can chime in with some observations. In fencing, muscular strength IS important, but not in the way you are thinking of. It is more to do with...

Despite the endless political arguments we get over here in the UK, these examples of bad service from insurance companies (when you're ill and can't deal with them as effectively as you might otherwise, after all) make me appreciate our National Health Service more....

Yes, I would be interested in people's experiences of any of the alternate wound systems in Unearthed Arcana. I haven't had the chance to try them. The star wars one sounds interesting, and characters get penalties for "proper" wounds. What about the Mutants & Masterminds system?

I agree that healing capability is extremely powerful- but so is magic of any kind, applied appropriately. (A good offensive spell barrage might render the healing spells moot, if everyone is dead!) In a world where magic is commonplace, healing magic would be an extremely valuable resource and...