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Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil can be fairly unforgiving: I was in a campaign where we completed a couple of sections (Nulb, the Moathouse) before hitting the first dungeon and only just escaping with our asses intact. Indeed, two of the party were captured and sacrificed to the Elder...

I ran the AH/ GW version of RQ back in the early 90's. It went quite well, it was grim'n'gritty and one player had three characters perish to sucking chest wounds (ironically, in sessions he wasn't playing in). I ended it after accidentally allowing the PC's to become warrior-priests of an...

Thank you - that wasn't clear on the page.

I use HeroForge, available from this site. It doesn't do random NPC's, but I find that I can knock up a bad guy or three in no time at all. And you can print out full character sheets, or just copy some of the text boxes to create a stat block. Spell lists are on a different spreadsheet, but...

I'd like to nominate Necromancer Games - while they haven't put out much product of late, what they have produced (Rappan Athuk: Reloaded, Shades of Grey and most ingeniously The Mother of All Treasure Tables) has been top notch. Indeed, Shades of Grey is criminally underlooked as a "campaign in...

The only thing my nearly-3-year-old seems to like painting is himself :\ I don't use minis anyway, so I can't get him hooked that way. Ah well!

According to the 3.5e DMG, award XP based on the CR of each opponent defeated. So beating the Aspect (whilst running from the other BBEG's) gains an award equal to the CR of the Aspect. Doling out an award based on the EL of a group of nasties was 3.0e. It's still viable in 3.5e (I do it...

There's some great work going on in the generator, keep it up! However, I just noticed that when you use the MIC method, there are no gold piece values given for magic items. That might be something you're addressing. I also found an instance where there are GP values for goods which aren't...

I have a job, a long commute, two kids under three and a weekly(ish) game to prep and DM. My tips: Use a pre-written module - an Adventure Path is a great choice, as is 'Lost City of Barakus' from Necromancer/ TLG, which has a massive Dungeon Crawl, urban investigation, politicking and...

There's also good oportunities for role-playing with the Rhenee during the voyage. I had a high-level group take passage with the Rhenee recently, during the voyage I had them take tea with the boat's 'mother' who read their fortunes in the tea leaves. Gives you a chance to create disquiet...

A big hand for Scott for his courteous reply - there'll be an even bigger cheer if the Web Guys at WotC manage to make the Map readable.

Treebore and I have a lot of similar tastes in modules (except he has more of them than I do). The Grey Citadel is a great module - it has a wonderful dungeon crawl and the city is well-executed. Doubt it will be a 'classic' though, but only time will tell. Lost City of Barakus really should...

Yes, of course. PDF's are all well and good for prepping, but if you want to throw something at your players on the fly, nothing beats a hardcopy, hardback book. ToH is the only 3.0 product I still bring to the gamimg table. It's useful because one of my players has the entire MM memorised...

Yup, been there, played Cadillacs & Dinosaurs, been in a game where it was melded with Twilight 2000 (it used the same base ruleset). Also played Dream Park, the RPG of the book, where you play a player playing an RPG. Yup.

First comment would be, can you add in a 50% Standard Treasure line, for those miserly DM's out there (who's pointing at me?) who don't like to shower their players with goodies. :] Is it also possible to add a line which calculates the total value of the trasure generated easily? I'd...

There are three great locations used in my games (from the few issues of Dungeon I've had): Thunderdelve (Issue 62) - great detail on the dwarves living there and their history Khazefryn (Issue 81) - an abandoned mind flayer monastery over a number of islands ruled by two black dragons...

Not bothered!!

If the 'Expedition to...' mega-adventure sells (and I'm sure it will), the next best move for WotC would be a re-issue of the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer. It would be an as-is (perhaps with any 3.5isms needed, but that could be covered in an on-line conversion if required) which would help pick up...

Only five? Hmm, lets see: The Dragonbone Chair (first in the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn sequence, a great re-imagining of the fantasy genre, influenced by Tolkien's sources without a complete rip-off of the style) Perdido Street Station (another fantasy which strikes out on its own course)...

If I could map like that, I wouldn't be using a tool like AutoREALM. Sheesh!