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I have a few ideas I have successfully used when running zombie horror. 1. Give zombies DR 10/critical (or 8/critical or 5/critical, depending on the toughness you;re looking for). What this means is they have DR 10 against any attack except one that would normally be a critical hit. The...

It's also just barely possible that this isn't an OGL product, but a game written under the assumption that you can't copyright rules, so a compatible product doesn't -need- the OGL or d20 license. In other words, a throwback to the days of Mayfair and Judge's Guild. Now I doubt that, and I...

A group that is seriously below the level noted in the DMG are underpowered. it does make it difficult for them to face some things of their CR. For example, when groups get magic weapon, when they can afford ghost touch of holy magic weapons, and when they can afford adamantine weapons has a...

Assume some wizard somewhere researched a higher level version of baleful polymorph that turns creatures into magical beasts rather than animals. He once managed to nail a young dragon with it, turning it into a 1 HD stirge. The thing losts its mind, and went through stirge life... but when it...

I'd allow someone to ready against a foe castign a fireball, but I'd also require a Spellcraft check to see if the readying character realized that's what was being cast. Play well! Owen K.C. Stephens

There's nothing in the rules that says a prestige class -must- be 5 levels, and I can see why people would want to be able to stay in a class for longer. Of course, in D&D most prestige classes should have more than 10 levels by that logic. In fact, in my own games I've added a few 15-level...

Although they are not sure to work some weapons (alchemist's fire, net, flaming oil) certainly encourage a target to take time to do something other than attack you, and bolas can be even better for this. Play well! Owen K.C. Stephens

This is pretty much exactly how I would run it. If I thought the LA was based heavily on things the new character doesn't get (cultural bonuses, for example) I would consider adjusting the LA, but I don't think that's the case for any option on the existing reincarnation chart. If the character...

I think trading starting feats is reasonable... among feats of equal value for that character. A character who isn't going to use a shield doesn't get as much out of shield proficiency as they do out of TWF, so that's not a fair trade. Two-for- one may be reasonable (shield proficiency is...

Cheating is a serious problem with some groups. My baseline is always to assume a group opposes cheating, but to also give everyone the benefit of the doubt. One of the reasons its a problem is "spotlight" time. everyone has good days and bad days with die luck. On your good days, you get to...

I had a great deal of fun with a halfling ranger/paladin (god's own special forces). That was a sub-optimal combo for a lot of reasons, not the least of which was I took a 20% exp penalty at several levels (I had to build up paladin as far as I wanted before ever switching to ranger). In the...

You might consider having a creature with music-based magical ability or natural bardic talent be attracted to PC after a particularly good perfromance, and offer to teach some muscial lore. A lillend is an obvious choice for this role, as is a satyr. A harpy could even do it, especially a harpy...

Having written for most of the books in the EQ line, I get a fair amount of e-mail from people who buy the them. I’d say about 2/3 are EQ players online, or were at one time, who want to expand their EQ experience through tabletop play. Most of those have played D&D before, but not all. I do...

That was DragonRaid, a copy of which is still sitting, dusty, on my gaming shelf. It's worth noting that the creators didn't see it as a "game," but as a biblical study tool. I don't know if it works well as a study tool. It certainly doesn't work well as a game.

I game with four different groups that have some overlap (ranging in size from three people to seven), and try to balance am weekend game, a weeknight game, and a once-a-month game and a twice-a-month-if-we-have-time game. As a result, we have multiple GMs, often running multiple games on...

[/B] Generally, I find racial hit dice both confuse players (the players I mostly deal with, anyway), -and- weaken character races. Keep in mind that adding a racial hit die does increase a race's effective level (look at the rules in Savage Species). So, if my ECL of +7 for a fire jovian is...

Re: Wrapping One's Mind Around Halfbreeds I did use several arcane and divine magics for various breeds. Blinklings, a halfling/blink dog crossbreed, were the result of a druid's prayer for help. Lurkers (gnome/cloaker crossbreeds) are the result of shadow magic gone awry. Mind rippers (half...

First, let me say that while I appreciate everyone being polite and professional, feel free to call me "Owen." If you're writing directly to me in a forum, or sending me an e-mail, or even run into me at GenCon, I'm much more comfortable with Owen than “Mr. Stephens,” which always makes me think...

Hi folks. ECLs are among the trickiest things to figure out. Mrs. Dungeon aster is quite right that the 1/2 ogre in B&B is about the same as the one in Savage Species, but has a higher ECL. In fact, since the SS half-ogre has 2 more points of natural armor and is size large, it's better than...

Although I feel your pain (I haven't seen the book yet, and I really want to see what Rodney has done in it), the reason WotC has release months is that release dates didn't work. Either someone didn't get the book from their distributor in time, or some store would put it out as soon as they...