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Oooooooooh! I said rot grub, not ooze!

So, when exactly did you're brother come out of the closet?

I bet you would, but this event has standards. Admittedly, they're so low that a rot grub could probably get in (so everyone but d'shai is safe), but still. Standards. Anyway, after the new year we'll start trolling for GMs, so if you want to run a game, Test, post away!

Hey! Is it that time of year again already? Well yes it is! We've got the space, we've got the date, and this time we've got a sponsor! When? February 24, 2007, from about 10 AM until 11 PM. Where? Bookery Fantasy, one of the Friendliest LGSs I've ever seen, and located in Fairborn, Ohio just...

True enough. I just always pictured the hall under Grendel's mere as one built for and by giants (ones that degenerated into Grendel and his mother maybe?). That, and the poem mentions "sea beasts" that harried Beowulf as he was dragged to the bottom - that seems to indicate that the mere was...

Why not go the whole 9 yards and have the ruins of a giant's citadel, complete with armory?

I did almost exactly the same thing. I scrapped every humanoid that wasn't goblinoid, mixed the goblinoids together as different phases of the goblin physiology (and included hill giants in the mix as well), and made very alien elves my villains.

We used (use) leadership in much the same way as Crothian. It started as a way to staff a keep with loyal followers (as opposed to the kind more prone to bribery, etc.). The cohort turned out to be a dire bear (later awakened and advanced) that lived in the forest nearby. One that served as a...

Let me know if you decide to do this - I've been doing adventures like these (based on your inspiration) for my 3 year old son about once every two or three weeks in place of his bed-time stories, and could use some new material.

Some ideas: - Let the PC's do their thing, and take the journal after dealing with the relatively minor obstacles you;ve set forth. Only after they get the book back to their employer do they find out that it is either a) a fake laid there by Mr. Thief-who-got-there-before-you-did, b) useless...

This probably isn;t the best place for this suggestion (it might go better in house-rules), but would skirmish make more sense if it worked like this? - Move 10', your target is flatfooted against your attack - Sneak attack +1d6 - Move 10', your target is flatfooted against your attack, trumps...

New gamers are a constant source of joy for me. I love seeing people new to gaming have those "aha!" moments, and I think everyone likes to see the look on a person's face the first time they lay some smackdown on a baddie. But what I like most are the completely silly things first time gamers...

I like the update, overall. Seems true enough to the original while still being playable. And count me in as someone waiting to see a Gallant update, though if I don't see one by the time my group starts our next campaign I may have to set one up myself.

Are you the sort that believes Prestige Classes need to be tied to organizations> Or the type that believes the PrCs are more to model abilities and combos that aren;t done justice by the 20 level classes? Suggestions will likely differ based on that preference.

We played it over the course of a year or so, but only got through most of book 2 before we got sidetracked on something else. I remember it being fun, but more for the intra-party interaction (Illiterate Paladin to my more than somewhat greedy dwarven rogue, as said paladin pointing to a...

I'm of the mind that situations like this (non-combat TPKs) call for going the extra mile as a DM. In this case, you could always do something like this: The rogue wasn't the one who's skill defeated the PCs, it was the sword - a powerful and semi-intelligent weapon in its own right. Why is it...

The problem isn't that certain classes are fundamentally easier to surprise, its that too many classes have Spot as a class skill. Rolling Spot and Listen back to monks and rangers would model the old "less of a chance to be surprised" schtick of both of those classes in earlier editions.

I played a cleric/monk (on his way to Scared Fist) that used tattoos instead of parchment for scroll scribing. Since all of his spells were themed as body manipulation and pressure points, the tattoos simply captured the pre-set manipulations for later activation. It pulled a great deal from...

Not today. I - honest to god - pulled a muscle in my neck last night. By sneezing.

In the orginial, the efreet at the end (replaced by the djinn in the rewrite) were named Nix and Nox, but I distinctly remember the module suggesting that if the PCs had too easy a time of it to simply add another pair or so (like Box and Cox). The idea was that the final encounter was supposed...