Search results

How to survive the Tomb of Horrors doesn't require a chapter in a book. All the useful advice can be contained on a Post-It note. It runs: "Don't Go". The Rules Compendium looks interesting. I hope it'll include a detailed, in-depth explanation of the grapple mechanic. The designer commentary...

Well, there's always the Thornwaste random encounter table on page 68. It's got chimeras, hieracosphinxes, and spider eaters, among other things.

Our group played the second part yesterday. It got messy. They went into Rhest, engaged the ogres on the town hall boardwalk, and managed to get the alarm raised, triggering a total of nine combat encounters (all from the town hall, plus the bell tower guards who jumped into boats and rowed...

Note that my sentence continued "and four battlemaps". The battlemaps set certain demands on the content of those 16 pages, which translates into a lot of combat encounters (because when you have a beautiful, lavishly illustrated battlemap, you're not going to waste time with Diplomacy or any of...

I think the Howler is very spiffy. Looks very fiendish indeed. The Aspect of Tiamat is another... and then there is the Gnome Trickster, with his itty bitty completely unusable gnome hooked hammer.

The maps are pretty, and very useful if one happens to play DDM. The adventures themselves are about as deep and engrossing as you can imagine when the content is 16 pages of text and four battlemaps, but they're good fun if one is into the tactical combat aspect of the game. I'm not too sure...

Well... if your car does three rolls and all that gets destroyed are it and three fantasy novels I do not rate very highly, you are pretty lucky. Okay, sucks about the car, but at least you're alive, and a good thing that is, too.

It's gotta be Fiendish Codex II: Tyrants of the Nine Hells, for the prestige class names, for having no Ancient Baatorians, and generally for not being as good as the first one.

Wrackspawn. When it originally came out in the D&D Miniatures line - Angelfire set, I believe - it was the ugliest mini of the set, possibly of the entire game line, and had crappy combat stats to boot. It looked like this: It looks worse in real life, believe me. Then, out came Monster...

Yeah. It actually originates from one of our Triad members, who once joked that the cleric should get atonement and convert to Wee Jas. The Boccobite also has a story associated with his faith, one that I'll probably never get tired of repeating... It was my first Living Greyhawk adventure...

Well, among my Living Greyhawk characters, there's a wizard 6/divine oracle of Boccob 3, and a scout 3/ranger 1 who follows Wee Jas... The scout is fun to roleplay. Apart from being a fervent believer in a goddess of death, magic, law, and love, he is also a Suel racial supremacist and a former...

In my opinion... The Best of 2006: 1. Player's Handbook II. The best general utility player accessory book WotC has released. The content is both balanced and innovative, and I am sorry to see that other books haven't picked up on the new spell styles presented here. The book also contains...

Isn't that a bit unhygienic?

I went to see Eragon the other day. I started giggling around the time of the opening narrative and did that all the way to the end, stopping every time the script tried to be funny. Eragon places pretty firmly in my personal top ten of worst films of all time, alongside such classics as...

Major in the scale of the war? Doubt it. However, a clash spilling over to conveniently demolish an inconvenient gate town or occupation of a Prime world for use as a staging ground are small things in the scale of the war. It's all in the perspective...

Indeed, it is a classic. In my home game, I am running The Great Modron March, converted to 3.5. I'm converting it a chapter at a time as we play. The next chapter is the fifth one and will involve a bit more work, since I'm statting up the modron grafts in 3.5. For Living Greyhawk, I am...

Some 70-80 people. Not sure of the exact numbers, but I could reliably remember around 71 different players and DMs. I've been very active with the RPGA these past three years, and I've now been in at least one home campaign at all times since 1999. If you counted online games, the number would...

I ran it in Living Greyhawk. First part took us two sessions, total of about 12 hours. The group is a tough one, mostly consisting of fighter types, with no ranged support and only a single real cleric. The lowest Str score in the party is 14, and the highest Cha is 12... Average AC is 19. They...

After every Living Greyhawk adventure, you are given an Adventure Record, a sheet of paper marking down the experience points and gold you gained during the adventure, how many Time Units it cost you (a character has 52 Time Units per year), the treasure you found, plus... other effects. These...

I voted for Atonement, All Roads Lead to Rauxes, and Time's Tide on Bright Sands. Let's try to keep this spoilerless... I thought Atonement was an excellent investigative module. It presented a well-crafted scenario that required us to use our brains and skills instead of raw power. The plot...