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How about Tomb of Horrors? I know it's intended for 10th-level PCs, but c'mon, it's not as if low-level ones could be any less likely to survive...

In most worlds I would agree with you, but those three ascensions were part of the FR Time of Troubles-- an innocuous name for a world-shaking cataclysm. All the greater and lesser deities were kicked out of heaven and had to walk around in mortal form; before it was over almost a dozen of them...

If that were a problem, it would be impossible to cast self-centered emanations like antimagic field or globe of invulnerability. The spell would be centered on one of the four intersections contacting the character's square. Range and radius are both calculated from that spot.

No, it just means that you're centering it on yourself.

A human sorcerer with high Intelligence? ;)

Sounds like hide from undead swapped for a different creature type. It needs a slight modification, though. The original spell doesn't allow a save from mindless undead, and duplicating that seems overpowered because all vermin are mindless. So allow a Will save in all cases; it will still...

Some of my gameworld organizations, such as the clerics of certain evil deities, do use the word "evil" to refer to themselves. They just don't consider it a value judgement. Instead, it's only a marker of which team they're on. They're exactly as comfortable being called "the forces of Evil" as...

Yes on all three counts. I should explain my reasoning better. First off, all proposals are untested when they are first invented. If all of us stuck to only what other people invented, we'd never discover anything new, which would be boring. Besides, what works well for my group may not work...

We're already using the -Con rule. It's better than RAW, but in most cases it's only a tiny difference, and it only helps characters who already have the hp bonus from high Con. The elf sorcerer doesn't get any benefit from it at all, and she's the most likely one to end up in negative hp in the...

Yep! Our first-ever 3E characters made it all the way through, despite having very suboptimal builds and a weird party makeup-- paladin, sorcerer, and bard. They started out as a trio at level one, and finished in a party of 6 with just enough XP to go epic (if we hadn't been bored with them by...

What are some options for expanding the "dying" zone, between -1 and -10 hp? That's an extremely narrow window, and most characters will go straight from "alive and fighting" straight to "dead" without a stop in between. I want to make random combat death a bit less likely in ordinary...

No. Dispel magic says, "You may choose to automatically succeed on dispel checks against any spell that you have cast." If the caster doesn't want to automatically succeed, he can roll the dice instead, and hope for a failure.

So the heart of the question is, if you have a running spell with Duration: Concentration and you become Dazed, does the spell end immediately or keep going until your next turn? IMO the spell ends immediately. The duration rules say in part, "Anything that could break your concentration when...

Inward-facing magic circle against evil would be my choice. As written it only affects creatures called or summoned into it, but you could house rule that it can also be cast to surround any helpless outsider. Prospective demon hunters would equip themselves with a big enclosed wagon that has...

The most obvious way this will go wrong is for the PCs to admit weakness. If they ever flee combat, it'll be pretty obvious that whatever's chasing them is stronger than they are. The party may dash in panic out of the BBEG's lair only to do a head count and find that Throk remained behind and...

Well, that depends on which race you're talking about, and exactly how you define "race." I imagine there would be many different types such creatures, and there's no reason to think they would all consider themselves the same race. For instance, humanoid robots designed as butlers might have...

I think you're on the wrong track there; the big secret was that she was in love with Elan. She revealed it to him in strip 394, which is why she can speak again.

Nope, Vaarsuvius is tapped out as of seventeen strips ago. No potions or scrolls left, and invisibility was the very last spell in the hopper.

That bit makes sense to me. It's clarifying that you can see as well in darkness as you can in the light, but no better. That is, the spell doesn't let you automatically succeed on Spot checks, or even give a bonus to them; all it does is remove the darkness penalties. I do agree that the...

Disintegrate works. Any creature reduced to 0 or fewer hit points by the spell is destroyed, even if it would normally survive at negative hit points. But again that's a big gun to use against a CR 7.