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141. The smell of alcohol hangs heavy in the air around this corpse. The body is of a human male, somewhere between forty and fifty years in age, though highly bloated and decomposed. Nearby is a freshly opened barrel of rum.

Easy answer? Will saves. ZoT is a low-level clerical spell, and has a low saving throw to overcome. (10 + 2 (spell level) + x (Clerics Wisdom modifier)) if your typical NPC cleric casts it, with the elete array, then the saving throw is 14, even a 1st level commoner with a +0 save and wisdom...

All I know is, the Soulknife and shadowcaster are early favorites.

well... Frankly, I just use one of these... (exact dragon not pictured) it's about a foot tall, I put it on a circle of paper that represents it's "size" EDIT: Ahh! I found something you might be interested in! a review from the Kevin-smith inspired "movie poop shoot dot com"

I got your superior dice... right here. Little place called "Advancing Hordes" They specialize in novelty dice.

and... if you feel like being a bit cyberpunk/retro, Etherscope takes the Steampunk genre and advances the time line from the victorian era up to 2000. Where there's a Ether-net that mimics cyberpunks internet-reality settings.

Okay... You've just hired adventurers to travel 1,400 miles, that's New York City to Houston, Texas. Furthermore, they will be traveling by boat... you're looking at just over a month of sailing, there and back. I guess you'd better either get a really good narrative for them, or else plan a...

Okay, one, there is nothing wrong with not liking high magic. I never plan campaigns to run past 10th level, does that mean I dislike 6th level spells? No! It means that I want to be able to finish the gosh-darn story before real life interferes and players start vanishing! If they actually...

He forgot to detect evil. If he had detected evil, and attacked the false-innocent, and she died, he would be at fault, but redeemable. He didn't detect evil, but saw the enemy and attacked him, accidentally killing the innocent treacherously placed in his way, He can still be redeemed, he...

"The Man who wasn't there." I remember as a child hearing a silly bit of Shel Silverstein poetry... Yesterday Upon the stair I saw a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today I wish I wish he'd go away On this poem, I based The Man Who Wasn't There. BBEG, scared my party witless. He...

Man, that is one cruel GM. The first time Roy asked "where is Xykon?" and the GM's oracle said "in his throne room". Unnecessarily cruel, but funny and I can understand it. It prompted Roy to dangle a kobold out the window by his ankle (nearly violating his LG alignment), which i can also...

That's an interesting approach to take ST01. in my take, there are magic supply stores, but they are very much like any specialty item store. small, cool, and able to get you a piece of the moon if you have enough money. I also stated that sufficiently technical items are more difficult to...

Wait... you run dragonstar? I'm running dragonstar! (i thought I was the only person!) Hum... slavers you say? Okay... they follow a hot tip, which leads them to a real dive of a tavern (name like "Dead Freddie's" or something). Once inside, they ask the bartender about Bad NPC X, who hears...

I've worked out how to break players out of power gaming. Start at first level In the duration of that first level, challenge them with several puzzles and fights that take advantage of skills they are lacking in (the fighter with no ranks in climb on a steep slope, the rogue with no ranks in...

Funny thing, someone around here made a thread not too long ago about what the bare, minimum "hamlet" village probably has. With a population of 100 or lower, a hamlet has: 1 - 9th level NPC class (Most likely a multi class warrior / commoner or commoner / expert) 1 - 5th level PC class...

Yeah, why is it that good gods have 1-2 kids that go on to become great heroes, but evil deities just squirt out spawn like... well, like this woman?

people might kvetch about "survivability" but only for one reason: CR 1 fights are DULL! (interestingly, Kvetch is in Fire fox 2.0's spell check feature) Four PC's vs. ... a camel. Four PC's vs. ... two human-sized zombies. In the end, most encounters against ECL 1 parties are CR 2, or...

Heh. What about that place of all childhood maturing, School? Get your hands on some of that old writing paper (with the two-inch-wide lines) and pass it out to each player and tell them to write a "what I want to be when I grow up" in their best childhood scrawl. Give them crayons to make it...

great! go get a copy of the MGP, it has the full text of the High draconic feat in it. You can use it! I would recommend it, but as of yet, my player who wants it does not qualify for it, so he has not brought it to me for approval.

Actually, you CAN attack a flat footed opponent, a prone opponent, a flanked opponent, or a unarmed opponent. The penalty? 1 use of your "Knight's challenge" ability per violation, and you regain all your challenges each time you rest, so no real problem there. Furthermore, there's nothing...