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Nope. The earth-shaking event was the release of 3e, which brought me back into playing RPGs in general and D&D in particular. That said, a long time ago, when Palladium upgraded/revised Heroes Unlimited, we actually did do an earth-shaking event to explain the changes. It started when my...

Utilize the mystic wheelbarrow. It's an invisible, silent incorporeal wheelbarrow with a permanent stasis field that follows the party around. When a player isn't htere, their character gets tossed into the wheelbarrow. When the player comes back, someone drags them out of the wheelbarrow...

I use alternate turning rules IMC, which seem to work pretty well. I ran the numbers QUITE extensively, and by baseline, they work out pretty evenly with WOTC's standard. However, they are more flexible. Here's how it works: Cleric rolls a turning check, which is 1d20 + CHA + cleric level +...

A point - the historical code of chivalry which largely influences ideas about paladin codes of honor is basically derived from our "real" world, which seems to be largely lacking in fireball-at-will casting, magic-intelligent-sword weilding supernaturally-evil undead. Thankfully. Point...

D'oh!

Unfortunately, I'm not playing it at the moment, though I would love to run a game of Modern. Mainly, my gaming group only meets occasionally, and we have a really good and in-depth D&D campaign going. I am not willing to set it aside for the few sessions we manage. maybe later, I will, and...

well, yeah, but 4d6-L results in a much wider spread of possible characters. I recently rolled up a character with that method, that was equivilant to a 52 point character. And that counts the 4 I rolled in one stat. I really like the point buy, especially if you have players not afraid to go...

Salem, a Lich spawn - basically a low-level lich - plauged my characters through most of their first six levels. He returned several times, each time with a more heineous plot to harass the heroes and tarnish their good names. They destroyed his physical form several times, but finally found...

Two. 3.0 MM and Necromatic Lore. Oh, and a printout of all the undead from the 3.5 SRD, if that counts.

Hospitalar, in the literal meaning of the word. Basically, nurse in a plauge ward. Either that, or "designated diversion".

I don't agree with that. In my campaign, the (cloistered) cleric has a paladin cohort, who is basically his bodyguard. The backstory there is that he has always wanted to be an adventurer, but his mother is against it. So he joined the paladin order, but was starting to let wanderlust and...

My campaign is set in a mono-theistic theocracy... one church, which rules the lands. So, the background of the church is the background of the world, and the history of the church is the history of the world - everything I write is tied into the religion somehow. jtb

As a consumer, I have no problem with ads in the back of a PDF as long as: a) They aren't counted in the page count (in my opinion, a product billed as a "32 page PDF" should have at least 30 pages of content, a 'cover' page, and the OGL or license information. An ad should be additional to...

I think you would be able to whistle, but only one note - the pitch is controled by the size of the chamber your mouth creates, and the tounge is used to modulate that size. That said, I think it would make an interesting bard character... jtb

I do this for all my characters. They are heroes. They are supposed to live up to a higher ideal. They are sometimes forced to make difficult choices about how to behave and what is right. And they are really into their characters as a result - the process of making those choices seems to...

I think that being struck blind and mute de facto kills most of a paladin's abilities, anyway. Spellcasting - gone. Fighting ability - pretty well shot. leadership and CHA skills - operating at seriously reduced efficiency. Detect evil - arguably gone. That leaves lay on hands, a mount, and a...

Make killing them a mixed blessing - in PCat's story hour, his players recently encountered a zombie that exploded when it was killed. So, they explode in flames, or even yuckier, they explode in a big messy spray of zombie gobbets across a 10' radius. And the gobbets carry the earlier...

I live for the moment when the players are so absorbed in the game and the plot that they stop meta-analyzing whether or not some action is risky, and just go for it because it's the right thing to do. Having them that absorbed in my plot is amazing. I had a second or third level monk early in...

Not to be a nay-sayer, but that sounds really depressing. I finished a campaign not too long ago where the orcs invaded the civilized lands, backed by the mind flayers, and the DM pretty much made it clear that we had no hope of overthrowing their reign. It was a real downer of an end to the...

Not in my campaign, it doesn't. A character like that would probably be Neutral. No, it says Javert. *ahem* In my view, it says LAWFUL good And the good is only because we are assuming he is a paladin, and therefore still righteous in the eyes of his deity. IMO, someone, even a...