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Why do you think that? The world of computer games is filled with public Betas, and no one bats an eye. If anything, you get players/users who are excited to be part of the development process, and to offer suggestions for improvements. Honestly, for any multiplayer endeavor (which the CB...

While I have an instinctive sympathy toward WotC (and software developers in particular), I cannot get behind the OP. The biggest issue with the new CB is that it's unstable. I'm not going to comment on its feature set, or about the decision to stop work on the old CB. I'm just talking about...

First: thanks, Piratecat, both for the kind words about the campaign, and for being such an integral part of it for so many years. I started playing in Piratecat's Defenders of Daybreak 2E campaign back in 1993. After a couple of years, I though it might be fun to try it myself, but holy...

Whatever helps you sleep at night, you sick bastard.

This write-up will summarize and discuss runs #45 and #46, which mostly consisted of combats. Piraetcat has already provided the plot content of the first of these runs – us entirely failing to bluff Lord Tomberlin during dinner, and him poisoning us and tilting us into a deathtrap, after first...

Steeldragons, those pictures are great! I look forward to seeing more of them. Also, here, have an update. :) Sagiro’s Story Hour, Part 318 Bad Place, Good Place Flicker draws his sword out of the crumpled body of Glemiyal, and immediately spots a heretofore hidden goblin darting at him...

Sorry... no Story Hour post today. But I did want to mention that in tonight's game, some 27-odd runs ahead of the story posted here, I threw the first largely-unchanged monster from the Epic Handbook at the party. They wiped the floor with it. Going in to the battle, I was wondering if...

Yeah, Flicker's Will save is pretty much beyond fixing at this point. He has a 7 Wisdom, and will is a "weak" save for his class. Some quick Save stats for the party, at 20th level. (In the Story Hour, they're currently 18th, I think.) Best Saves: Ernie's Will: +27 Dranko's Reflex: +25...

The wheel of the Story Hour turns slowly, but it does still turn. Though, first: One Certain Step, like most men of Djaw, had a deeply tanned face, with mildly-slanted eyes and a straight nose. I never thought much about the style of his armor, but something with a far-eastern flavor wouldn't...

Run #44 featured only a tiny combat, but was filled with plot-tastic goodness. As such, it’s more suited to an actual Story Hour-type post (which Piratecat will doubtless get around to someday ;)) than this sort of tactical analysis. Still, here’s a summary. Actually, before we get to the run...

Run #43 was a couple of nights ago. It featured more traps, some unexpected diplomacy, and an enormous can of whup-ass opened up on a solo monster. As usual, this will be more of an executive summary than a true narrative. Due to personal time constraints, it will be shorter than other...

Run #42 was tonight. It was one of the best of the campaign; possibly the very best. Pure harrowing fun. We were standing in a hall that empties into a huge room, 60 feet across and 80 feet long. Opposite our hallway, 80’ away, were the exit doors. We had just diffused a trap in this...

Run #41 is in the books. It was a good one! Brief synopsis: we had left off puzzling how to cause sunlight to reach a subterranean grating, where the direct line between the sun and the target was impeded by a tube of magically-suspended dirty water. Clearwater solution might have worked if...

It's a short update, but after this long I wanted to post something... Sagiro’s Story Hour, Part 316 Undermining The immediate problem, then, is that they must get past the closest goblin sentry without doing anything the other sentries will notice. Worse, the ridge grows narrower at the spot...

I appreciate the clarification; thanks! The heart of my question remains the same, though. If I'm making a game with fantasy-themed monsters, how do I find out what monster names are owned by WotC? Thanks, -Sagiro

Hey there, Is there a complete list anywhere of all the monsters that are the intellectual property of WotC? I've found an older list that includes the following: beholder, gauth, carrion crawler, tanar’ri, baatezu, displacer beast, githyanki, githzerai, mind flayer, illithid, umber hulk...

Hey there! Thanks so much for your post; we really are a lucky bunch, to have had such low turnover over so many years. And for me, having wonderful players who stay invested in the game is a large part of what keeps me going. Speaking of which... I apologize to all of you for the drop-off...

Last night was the 39th run of the campaign, and it featured a pair of exciting combats that could well have been one brutal one. Note that we had a guest player – the son of Logan's player – who played an infernal warlock. We were on the road again after leaving behind the creepy ghoulish...

Run #38 was last night. Most of it was occupied with the ghoulish Battle Royale mentioned in my previous post. Some notes on the battle: Unlike the previous battles, this one took place in a fairly open underground “chapel” that was about 15 squares long and 10 squares wide. Theoretically...

In looking at the Abyssal Ghouls in the Adventurer Tools, one sees that only the ones level 16 and lower have Vulnerable 5 radiant. All of the higher level ones don't. That seems like a conscious design decision, as opposed to a bug in the monster builder. Also, the Abyssal Ghoul Horde in the...