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That's really about the same. I doubt I can get this group to fall back like that. That gives a slight edge to the Savage Tide AP, since it's early encounters, while hard, do not contain a bunch of situations that require a bunch of understanding about how the game works, and more just general...

The question I have is, does your group do a lot of typical experienced adventurer maximizations-- like lots of alchemical items at low levels and typical cautious adventurer mode irregardless of characters? Not knocking that play style (it gets results) but I don't expect to see that out of...

Thanks for all the feedback. As to the suggestions for the other adventure paths (Pathfinder/Burning Sky) those are both out because they aren't complete. I want the whole thing in front of me to be sure that I'm cool with where it is going before I start. Savage Tide, for instance, is certainly...

I've been platooned into running a second D&D game in the near future by my hobby club. Given that, I wanted a mostly self-contained set of adventures to run this group on, but I also wanted something easy to run, meaning minimal stating-prep for me if time constraints tighten a bit. So I'm...

While I understand the hatred for the DMPC, (they usually end up suffering from really bad/creepy/annoying cases of wish fulfillment) I'm a bit confused about this whole "break the rules" thing. If you're bringing this up from the angle of quality between NPCs and PCs, it's never existed. There...

I thought about that, but it fails in three ways: 1. It hurts with one of D&D's nest features: going from zero to hero. Especially considering the usual rural settings for most low level adventures, this can make for a pretty good "coming of age" theme that I wanted to latch on to for this...

I was looking at them. But I have no idea which ones are good, and which ones are going to be plot-filled messes, or just poorly thought out. Any suggestions as to which ones to go with? If you think any really have a good hook to work them into the whole Elemental Evil plot, so much the better...

Okay, looks like I'm starting up a new campaign for a bunch of the old crew I used to play with (DM flaked on us ~a year ago) and everyone apparently wants to play a big dungeon crawl. Out of what I have available, Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil is certainly the biggest and best dungeon...

IMO the game changed a bunch, but alot of it is stuff you'd only notice if you were a regular player. Almost all the 6th ed books are still good, and you can use even the ones that have been overruled with minimal problems. I wouldn't use anything from any of the earlier editions, though...

I've gotten a couple of really good deals over the years. Almost all of them have been at the flea markets at HMGS cons. Since it's primarily a historical thing, RPG and alt stuff goes cheap. Examples: * Dark Sun boxed sets and thin supplements still in the shrinkwrap for $2 each. Got 70% of...

Phalanx fighting is in Complete Warrior, but has basically nothing to do with an actual Phalanx (Pike + Smaller Shield) I think someone just used the word without knowing the basis for it. I think Nfft's suggestion of just treating a spear as one handed as a martial weapon seems to be the best...

I'm going to be running a game in the next few weeks that's centered around a Greek style setting. In putting together some NPCs, I noticed that there's very little in the game to support a hoplite fighting style (Large Shield + Spear) I came up with this feat to do so. Does it seems too strong...

DM #176 from my FLGS. Haven't opened it yet, so no idea about my ticket. Raymond

Double Post. :confused:

Just got the Book of Nine Sowrds last night for the hobby shop. While I haven't been able to look it over completely, I have given it a good skim, and found some stuff that was a bit odd: * Adaptive Style feat - It doesn't list if the abilities you choose with it start out usbale/active or not...

#1. There is a minimum amount. That amount is everything derivative of other OGC you used, which may be a bit more than some of you seem to be letting on. Don't assume I made a mistake when I didn't. You are correct there is minimum by % for d20, but that's a seperate issue. I didn't mention d20...

Honestly, does this thing come back to the whole social contract thing? It seems to me a lot of developers are not really aware of what they are doing when they make things OGC or not. Basically, if you use the OGL, you've taken from the common pot. At the very least, this is the relevent...

Thanks. Is the PHB a good bit more readable than the SRD in this regard? All I have at work is the SRD, which states He took it to mean that the act of avoiding the AoO fails, and you also lose the spell (very harsh!) I took it as just losing the spell. Not to sound indignant, but how do you...

Quick, simple question here, which came up from one of my players w/r/t the new campaign that I am setting up: If you are casting defensively, and you botch your check, I know you lose your spell. Do you also provoke an AoO? I thought no, but my player is sure you do. Which of us is right...

That may be a very interesting way to turn things. My original plan was based more out of BCG 2040, where Boomerism was sort of a disease for the robot servents brought on by an old experimental Boomer model. Having the 'forged be sort of victims in the schemes of some outside force feeds into a...