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Again, this ties back into the question asked way back when about what makes rings so special. It's not that they're circular; you can make an amulet composed of hundreds of interlocking rings. Most people don't consider their fingers core chakra points; having a magical item on your finger...

How difficult can it be? You just don't Limit Break; let limit accrue indefinitely without penalty.

For one, laws against eighth and ninth level spells strike me as putting up a "T-51B Shiva Main Battle Tanks Not Permitted In Store" sign; if someone capable of disobeying the law/sign shows up, then whether or not the law/sign is obeyed has jack-all to do with the law. That being said, I also...

How about 'mechanically interesting options, none of which are universally optimal, with meaningful in-world consequences, not restrictions'? For instance, in 2e, if you're a non-elven arcanist, you can't wear armor. In 3E, you can wear armor and suffer extreme mechanical penalty, or keep Mage...

There are many universes that do involve epic, obscenely powerful mostly-self-willed magical rings. There are also many settings in which there are entire arrays of magical items, from hats to boots to goggles, of which rings are simply another type of magic item. Stories that include few...

Rarity isn't good enough. Imagine one party of moderately-leveled adventurers, acting in adventurer-meiter. Party: (approaches small village on outskirts of fort) Fighter: "Greetings, good folk! We seek refreshment for-" Villager: "A woman! You've got a woman with you, in man's attire!"...

This, I think, is an excellent summary of the position of the anti-Blood-War side's premises. Us pro-Blood-War people, I believe, are starting from the premise that exemplar outsiders simply do not have recognizable human motivations. It's not that demons want to destroy things, and this makes...

One other point that bears consideration: Are your demons servitors of infernal powers, or of Evil itself? Let's say that a fiend tempting a lord to Pride hears the lord's loyal fool castigate the lord openly in front of his court, and, horror of horrors, the lord admits fault for his recent...

Great Wyrm dragons, renowned for their arcane prowess, cap out as 19th level casters. Humans that choose the path of sorceror cap out at 20th level. I think the fact that the peasants from unnamed village #832 can eventually warp reality with a word, sneak up on a beholder and stab it in the...

One approach is to template Ghouls a bit. Ghouls are fast, smart, infectious, and getting into a position where multiple ghouls is making a full attack on you is basically death for a character without an absurd Fort save.

The PCs were defending an elven city against an army of orcs and tanar'ruks, led by a fey'ri half-fiend. As the last line of magical defenses fell, and the fey'ri was swooping in, one of the PCs who was down to his last handful of hit points (and also had flight capacity) flew up and initiated...

Except...here's the thing; Elder Evils leave signs of their existence. A character that can pull a DC 45 Knowledge check knows "Oh, look. Something's coming to eat the world." The kinds of characters that can make these checks are also the characters that can knock moons out of the sky with...

As an idea mine for general villains and monsters, I like the looks of Elder Evils. But playing it straight? L20-Ranger: "Look! Something in the sky is different!" L20-Cleric: "Uh, can you be more specific, big R? Some of us don't have Spot checks in the high forties." L20-Ranger: "There's a...

So, one of my players ends up sending his sorceror solo-adventuring in a city well known for being adventurer-capable. However, the adventurer-capability of the city tops out around levels 6-8. The character is level 16. He investigates a bit, gets lost, and runs into a pretty if slightly...

This makes sense, yes, but it's flatly contradicted by the rules, which state that raw iron is a trade good akin to gold or silver, and can be exchanged as easily as other precious metals. Given that the economy of D&D is defined, and not emergent, it does make more sense from a fix-the-problem...

Point the first; each hit during the action provokes its own Concentration save; the thugs will need to be doing 8-13 damage to provoke such high checks. This is a bit questionable; what kind of thugs were you envisioning? A squad of Rog1/Ftr1s that rush, grapple, and commence with the beating...

The problem with this theory is that Wall of Iron and Fabricate are both core, trivially-available spells. Anyone can purchase a scroll of them in a sufficiently-sized community, or any caster who levels up can take them. *whackwhackwhack* Wizard: Congratulations! You have finally just about...

In D&D, you pray for GM fiat. There is no simple way to stop the wild-shaped druid from flying into your town and Earthquaking it, and that's just a quick and simple method of destruction. The numbers can be run; when a 30th level party goes up against a nation that tops out around 10th level...

Yo! Yes, that's me. And it's not the only sane form, especially if you lack certain essential kinds of superbeings. It is not the case in D&D, for instance; you don't have a class of beings that default to super-powerful, super-knowledgeable, and super-benevolent. However, you do have...

The party is level 10/11, in a setting in which architecture is a significant aspect of defense (an E6 world, basically). They can set social mores about the treatment of lords, if they choose. Two points, here. One: Regardless of her social status, this is a 9th-level priestess. That Hallow...