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I think your player's interpretation (CL 9th for Water-based spells) is right. Consider this, from the FAQ: Does the bonus to caster level from the Practiced Spellcaster feat (from CAr and CD) apply before or after other caster level bonuses (such as those from the Good or Healing domains)...

Trust your instinct. Go with Moldvay and something like Silver Princess. You'll get onto the DMing relatively quickly and couldn't ask for a ruleset that's easier and as complete. I hope you enjoy yourself and get the DMing bug.

Out of habit, I refer to the edition I prefer to play as 3.5, because I did take on board a fair amount from 3.5 that actually made sense to me (and I tried other elements that didn't appear as wonky at first as they eventually did). Certainly, I wasn't happy that when I heard WotC was going to...

I've enjoyed playing every character I've ever played, regardless of race/class combination. But I do enjoy going back to my roots and playing a human (generalist) wizard lore junkie. Nerd not show-off.

I would like replacements for my 3.0 core books. But I'm not holding my breath. Still, this is great and I hope fans of other editions soon see the PDFs they want, too.

It's 'pedantry'. ;)

If you build an app for iOS there's a limited number of resolutions to consider but you still have to accommodate (or limit) landscape and portrait layouts, not to mention four or five different resolutions. Add in the much larger range of possible specifications on Android devices and there's a...

The part of DMG you quote is one of those all-too-frequent cases of a writer using a word (in this case, 'dodge') in its normal English sense when the same word can also have a rule case sense. Thus, confusion arises. But, as ardoughter says, melee attacks do not grant the defender a saving...

I'm not running 3.5 right now but I'm designing new campaign material with it and hope to be running a new game soon, probably online. I never switched to PF; I didn't see the point. "If you like 3.5, play this instead," doesn't really compute for me, although I've read a lot of PF and think it...

I'm not running 3.5 right now but I'm designing new campaign material with it and hope to be running a new game soon, probably online. I never switched to PF; I didn't see the point. "If you like 3.5, play this instead," doesn't really compute for me, although I've read a lot of PF and think it...

Firstly, I think this strategy is commendable. Well done, WotC. Please keep it up. The download link on the website's Elemental Evil page is for the printer friendly version of this supplement. If you remove "_PrinterFriendly" from the URL you get the printer unfriendly version. The only...

I just wanted to drop by to say, "Great thread." Thanks, all.

What an interesting idea and blog. If by "unpublished settings" you mean unpublished as a D&D setting, then my favourite would have to be the Dying Earth. Pelgrane Press publishes a Dying Earth RPG (which I love and think is the best-written RPG I have ever read*) but it has not, to my...

No. Not ever. This attitude has resulted in some TPKs that were not the fault of the players, that's true. I try to learn from these events.

Bingo. Except, not quite in my world. You don't get to attempt to scribe the spell unless you shelled out the gp last time you where anywhere that had the required materials available and you made a point of doing it. Magic is powerful. I think this is a reasonable constraint. I dislike...

A post quote, because you can't click 'laugh' and 'xp' on the same post.

Surely it's a rogue's gallery of DMs. Or a TPK of DMs. Or a random encounter of DMs. (While we're on the subject of collective nouns, one of my favourites is 'an observance of hermits'.) Or a table of DMs, a house rule of DMs, a campaign of DMs, a prestige class of DMs. All right, maybe not...

None of the above. Or perhaps all of them. Honestly, though I've played and run all manner of adventures, certainly covering all the types you list, my favourite kind can incorporate any of the themes you've defined but it will also have the word 'dungeon' in it. Yes, it's a cliché but I strive...

I believe not. The CL of the SLAs are determined by the creature's racial hit dice. Once the creature takes a class, it is no longer advancing by type. CL checks are d20 + CL in the relevant class (and a creature's racial HD count as a [favoured] class; MM p309). The creature's racial HD...

All I have, in terms of stuff I'm not restricted from redistributing (again, I've checked) are some freebies from Necromancer Games that relate to their third edition version of The Wilderlands of High Fantasy setting. These are Ancient Tomes and Books of Magic, Lesser Races of the Wilderlands...