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Big Dissappointment: Wheel of Time d20 I'd use 'em if I could: Savage Species, Manual of the Planes, CoC d20. Though to be technical, all of my books are collecting dust right now; it hasn't been practical to try to get together with a gaming group lately.

Lightning Bolt? A Lich considered a bunch of kids to actually be a threat? Yeah, I guess I've had a hand in a "failed experiment" campaign. Or maybe I had tried to taken the reigns of a continuing failed experiment. We started it the winter of the year that 3E had come out. It was...

Geez, only took 5 minutes for the Edit option to actually work.

The easiest way to solve this problem for dragon characters is to just toss away the LA. The dragon's "level" is its starting hit dice. Everything else it can do as a dragon (and the benefits of having the superior dragon hit dice) can be counted as its class abilities. The level adjustment...

I can think of two paladins that were rather bad at being paladins, but their players (they were actually both in the same campaign) were just dumb, and thus their behavior was excused on that grounds. They were pretty much just fighters with cool powers. My group is actually pretty lax about...

It's only a juvenile? It wouldn't be that hard for an elven city to kill the thing if it got out of line. At the moment, anyways. Evil forest fay and renegade elves could be interesting minions. The elves are going to notice if the creature starts gathering an army of monsters, but if it...

If the necromancer can use anything, and has time to prepare... Greater Planar Binding to bring in a Balor or Pit Fiend might be good; I'd prefer the Balor, since they can drop Blasphemy at will. I don't know if the Balor could actually banish the Solar through a Blasphemy, but it's worth a...

Doh. We need to come with a non-evil way for it to work? The ritual needs to replace the character's positive life energy with negative energy -- in essence, to successfully commit suicide without actually dying. Perhaps you need to distill the energy from captured/destroyed undead creatures...

Iconic of D&D? Only the Beholder seems to actually be unique. Everything else from D&D -- including mind flayers and dragons being split into 10 to 20+ breeds -- has made its way into other games. The orcs are weird because a 3E Orc has very, very little in common with a 1E Orc. They used to...

It depends on the circumstance. For skill checks and attack rolls, I tell the players to give me their result, and I'll tell them if they suceeded. I tend to give out save DCs, though. It's also pretty habitual in my group to give some indication if an enemy is being worn down (at half HP or...

That certainly helps put things into perspective. I've sometimes simply told the players things along the lines of "picture King Kong; this thing is a little bigger." It's funnier when you give the really big creatures Tumble, though.

This is a week old, and it's only hit page 2? Less MT readers here than I thought there'd be. I'm more curious as to how Erika would be statted. This is nifty.

If he actually wanted to do so, it'd probably be for a mission, so why not? I don't think there's anything in the spell description that says that he can't.

2nd Edition Planescape Boxed Set CoC, both d20 and Chaosism Delta Green (it comes complete with undead cannibal nazi cultists! what more could you ask for?)

What's odd about the CoC setting is that it isn't completely hopeless. Sure, one day in the distant future, the Great Old Ones will return to claim that which is theirs. But even Lovecraft's stories contradict the notion of complete human helplessness. Randolph Carter reaches Unknown Kadath...

Since that's basically electrical immunity with a small bonus, I think it'd rate a +1, assuming the other aspects of the race are balanced.

My paladin usually goes Crusader against Evil while out in the lawless wilds, and normally operates as a Defender of the Weak when in the areas ruled by law. To kill the petty evils of the civilized areas is a gross abuse of power, but they shouldn't be left unopposed. Individual paladins have...

It's probably a bit imbalanced, but if the PCs want to work together like that, then why not? I've played characters who could make their magic items; the XP loss actually didn't faze me, since the penalty for getting killed is so much worse. It's not having money to acquire items that your...

It's written by Seanbaby. It's intended to be a joke. That said, only 2/10. I'm apparently less of a geek than I thought. Edit: Is it just me, or is there a lot less traffic here than there was 3 or so months ago?

A straightforward answer to what laws a paladin follows is that he or she follows the laws of where he or she comes from. The extend the Thayan example, the Paladin in question probably follows the laws of Cormyr, Sembia, Aglarond, or the Dalelands. An act that's considering a crime in Thay or...