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Thanks very much! "Player's Guide to Faerun" would not sound official to my player but Complete Arcane will be authoritative, and it was published in 2004. I'll use that. (I still think there should be a page detailing "superseding" changes from 3.0 to 3.5 -- maybe I'll find it in the...

So I should look in a changelist from 3.0 to 3.5? I haven't found one of those yet -- closest I've come is this explaining stuff like how Ogres take 4 squares instead of 1 and what happened to Animal Empathy. Or are you saying Persistent Spell was never reprinted in 3.5 so it basically doesn't...

Just about every Google result has Persistent Spell as a +6 level metamagic, but my friend has it as printed in Tome & Blood as a +4 level. The D&D Errata Page doesn't have anything for Tome & Blood, and I understand the original reprinting at +6 was in a Fallen Realms sourcebook. So is there...

I have this idea that Dave Noonan was the big advocate of the Delve format (see: Shattered Gates of Slaughtergarde) and him getting fired and there being no Dungeon Delve II book and this are all of a piece, a decision somewhere at WotC not to go that way.

Is there any way I can still get these counters? I loved their free Castle Shadow pack and I use their counters all the time. I would love to see every adventure come with a .doc file where you could print out monster tokens for the entire adventure. But there are so many different approaches...

Your post doesn't explain: * Why you are doing this * Why all the extra complication is worth it * Whether powering up all the healing spells hurts the balance of the game so it essentially seems like you are changing numbers at random.

I think I learn more about project management and do more being a DM than for almost any of my classes, so I think that would be a really positive step.

OK, my keyboard is back and I've got a lot to reply to! OK, that's the minimum time. Thanks for pulling together the rules on miracle and strongholds. Putting a gp cost on it is a useful way of thinking. At 18th level 1,000,000 gp is about 1/2 of the party's total expected wealth, so that...

In http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/271259-how-fast-could-you-build-cathedral-18th-level.html someone suggested moment of prescience. That would really mess with the math.

My keyboard is out so I'm typing w/ mouse but thanks and I'll reply later!

I'm hoping the answer is "more than one day" and I hope it's not something like "in six seconds using Time Stop" or some other 9th level spell I'm not aware of. This specific question is just one instance of me trying to get a feel for what poses a good challenge for high level adventure...

Those don't seem truly problematic -- those are actually the kinds of awesome things you would expect 18th-level characters to be capable of and have to do to get successes in an 18th-level skill challenge. But you still require the Arcana roll to get the "success" for that strategy. Just like...

Like I said, you guys are amazing. Thanks for all the tips. That might be an easier sell for my players especially since they are playing old characters from another campaign who have their 3.5 skill points figured out already. Another reason not to give a bonus is that fighters can't get...

Yeah, it's a lot to ask for. I love skill challenges in 4E. They encourage imagination, they let me DM noncombat encounters with crunch instead of fluff, and I've got this new Survivor Skill Challenge idea to try out. I'm going to be ditching the 3.5 skill system entirely and giving all...

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The benefit of this question is that your players can say "Remember that time we fought the dretches" without breaking character. It's better to tell them the name than have them talking about "those oozy demon things" or "the booger monsters" all adventure. I tell players the name and...

That makes very good sense in the game. The elf is right there! Knowing stuff! It also makes sense from a design perspective. Now the elf isn't bored for the rest of the challenge if he failed in round 1. And when the ranger passes a check, he helps the team get more rolls in the next round...

Rob Donoghue offered an interesting alternative to skill challenges in a recent footnote: All I want to add to this idea is this: What about a three-stage table check, where only those who succeed get to advance to the next round, and the mix of successes and failures determines the next...

This being the final battle of the adventure I think it's OK. Designing the map around the fight let me build in actual choices -- go the dangerous, quick way under the dragon's nose, or the safe, long way? It ended up with the dwarf going through the bite radius and almost dying, the rogue...

Ha, in my newbness I misread "close burst 5" as "close burst diameter 5", plus I didn't think about including the dragon's space in the burst. I will have plenty of tar pits about to keep running and charging under control, plus the bad guy will be elevated up a ramp on the other side of the...