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Freeman's Tower, Demi Plane of Oruk the Horned. Now I've mentioned that my players are VERY 3.Xed and take full benefit and full advantage of every loophole imaginable, which I have been fine with. I am fine with it because I have confidence in the COB to create challenges and find ways to...

Battling the High Priest of Set So the PCs take a breather, heal up, use potions do what they have to do, and charge back up the stairs, to the chamber where the statue of Set did them solid damage, and land smack face to face with the priests and black jackals of Set that they had already...

Zach started about midway to the end of the saga when the book was finally in layout and try as we might we didn't get him in to playtesters on time :( This always happens and someone invariably gets missed, be it a contributor you forgot, or a playtester. As you can imagine layout on a...

Thanks Zack... yeah sadly Zach went uncredited as a playtester, but more on him and his character later... For now we resume at the foot of the Pyramid of Set. Another player showed up, a friend of mine who decided he wanted to play a hobgoblin Psion... Don't ask. The players start at the...

Sorry I couldn't resist. Pardon the thread jack. Case

Back to the City Just a bit shell-shocked but eager to get back to the City our heroes return, drop off Jhedophar's cash to the tax collectors who mention that the Lich mentioned that they would be dropping off his overdue payment and should expect the PCs along any time... The PCs head off to...

I played Castles & Crusades with Gary and Rob Kuntz, along with Mike Stewart, Casey Canfield, Peter Bradley, and a few other guys at Gamefest in Milwaukee. Great time! Stupid tactics by our party led to our ultimate demise. We were thwarted by grey dwarves using simple illusion spells to appear...

Part 3: The Tax Man Cometh SO the intrepid adventurers make it into the City of Brass, the Fire Giant Guards let them right in and they take a moment to bathe in the spectacle of the upper city with its minarets, ziggurat, towers, palaces, and spires. Ok... actually they don't. They goof on me...

Somewhere in the 1000-1500 range there Tree... OK, Thanks TarionzCousin and Kiznit, soldiering on! So the following week, the PCs, having rested pass through the portal, as Sam Quinton I assures them that the foes who had wrought ruin on the city of Dawaad have passed this way. The selections...

Warning, Spoilers Ahead Further Warning: GM's eyes only... this means YOU! >> >> >>>' >>> >>> >>> In other words seriously, if you don't want the fun of COB ruined by listening to prattle about the adventures of the playtest group for COB skip this thread. Don't read it, and if...

Low Life is very cool, you will be pleased with your purchase. Looks to be just the thing for some fun one off type games, for evenings when the rest of the crew fails to show up. Case

Burning dervish is a new race of genie that is a more fire based jann. Basically a tribe of Jann who have sold their soul to the Sultan of Efreet in exchange for more fire based abilities. They serve as spies and secret police for religious law in the City of Brass, where of course the religion...

Also... saves were more functionally different in AD&D than they are in 3.x edition where they are retained to the 3 focus stats of wisdom, dex, and con. At first I felt the narrow spread of more stat focused saves was a real advancement to the game, but looking at how poorly the saves...

True, and that is a very lame narrow sited attitude on the part of people who try to go on in that fashion. You want to know what's worse than save or die? Orcs that crit on an 18-20 for 4d4+8 or 3d12+18 points damage vs low level characters. That is all 3ed baby. So is reach, where ogres and...

I mentioned a similar perception/attitude that I noticed on a different thread where 2-3 of the posters were most vehement in their disdain for so called "old school gaming". All I could think was that these folks had never played an old-school game... or they had a REALLY crappy and vindictive...

More PCs land in the upper gut. Confronted by Silaal and Burning Dervish Guards. Multiple castings of blade barrier made this a pretty tough encounter. Note the imprisoned efreeti in the ruggae lined cells. A top down view of the upper gut giving a better view of the lovely scenery...

As Promised Here are some terrain pics of the Minaret of Screams. I built this stuff with pink owens corning foam, a hot knife, some plaster, some gorilla glue, some elmers glue paste and some art gesso. A top view of the PCs entering the Gullet. A slightly higher than PC eye view of the...

Fair enough. One of the problems is distribution contracts and keeping positive relations with the few brick and mortar stores that still carry 3rd party product. You have a much tougher time and get distributors pretty angry with you when you go PDF+Product=same price or undercut the price of...

No secret there. We were inspired by that sentence. We put the book of infinite planes in the box along with all the other toys in our homage to the classic feel of wonder. One of the things we thought about when designing various parts of the book was "What did we think was cool when we...

Portions of the city sit within the plane of fire, portions in the plane of molten skies. The text of the book refers to the plane of molten skies as being more or less the sultan's personal playground a demi plane whereby he gains greater access to conquered or soon to be conquered material...