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More lay-offs at WOTC! Maybe someone has already posted this and I missed it, but several sources, including www.gamingreport.com are reporting that WOTC has layed-off up to 100 individuals, and some of them are rather important to the d20 world. Among the layed-off, according to...

Every time I try to vote, it gives me the following message: "The action you have attempted could not be performed as your session appears to be invalid. Click the below link to attempt this action again with a new session." I am logged in correctly when I try to vote. Since I am having...

I would prefer if the CR for creatures was determined by comparing them with characters who are severely tweaked out and min/maxxed. Lets be honest, a majority of people who play this game (including me) tweak their characters as much as they can. Using standard characters to create reasonable...

Two more points to add to this discussion: 1. When all things are equal, the person who goes first wins. Initiative really is the most important factor in almost any combat. I think that is my biggest complaint about 3rd edition D&D, but that is also an extremely complicated discussion, and...

Let me preface my remarks by saying that I absolutely love high level D&D, and especially epic level D&D! I have been playing D&D for roughly 15 years with the same group of friends, but we couldnt play our post 20th level characters until the 3rd edition epic book was released. Now that it is...

Holy cow! When I started this message thread, I expected to get violently flamed for speaking out against SKR, so I avoided reading the thread for most of the day. I am glad to see that it has grown into a serious discussion of the validity of high level monsters and high level play. I will...

On the front page of this website is posted a link to an article Sean K Reynolds wrote about how certain high level encounters can be problematic for D&D. There might be problems with certain high level encounters, but the example Sean posted is not one of them. Here is why: 1. The Effigy...

The greatest villain to ever appear in my gaming group's campaign is Orcus. In fact one of our players still has his wand. We cant wait until his 3rd edition stats to appear in the Book of Vile Darkness! My brother and I are in the process of writing up stats for Shan Nikkoleth, the infamous...

My gaming group had 2nd edition characters above 20th level. We waited for the ELH to come out before we converted them to 3rd edition. Now that the ELH is out, we are playing these characters. I would be happy to playtest your adventure, but it must be Forgotten Realms based. We only play...

Three words: "Wand of Orcus" :)

Are we trying to decide which d20 modules will be classics, or which 3rd edition D&D modules will be classics? If it wasnt made by WOTC, then it cannot be a classic 3rd edition D&D module, since they are the only ones who can make "D&D modules." Anything made with the OGL is not D&D, its d20.

There are no classic 3E modules yet. I suspect The Heart of Nightfang Spire, and Iron Fortress will be considered classic eventually. As for the Freeport modules, and other OGL modules, they will never be considered classics because they were not made my WOTC. They dont really count IMHO.

I dont consider Aragorn the quinessential roleplaying ranger. I consider the Gary Gygax's 1st edition version of the ranger as the quinessential ranger. Aragorn became a king, which most rangers would not want to do, so I dont think of Aragorn as a serious ranger. A warrior who is adept in...

A monk is a warrior, just like a fighter. Hell, they have their own special book, Swords and Fist, and are included with fighters in that book.

If you are trying to apply realism to a fantasy roleplaying game, then you are wasting your time. You would get a save from an Arcane archer's fireball because of game balance. It would be too powerful otherwise.

My gaming group has had high level monks, low level monks, demi-human monks, and even tatooed monks and shintao monks, and the one common problem for all of them has been their to hit rolls. Monks have a poor to hit bonus; they cannot hit anyone! Otherwise, monks kick butt. They SR, evasion...

The PHB ranger is slightly under-powered. The Monte Cook ranger is slightly over-powered. The Wheel of Time Woodsman is blasphemey as far as I am concerned. A ranger should have some kind of limited spell capacity. I would play the Monte Cook ranger, but my gaming group only allows official...

Death knights, by far. They should have been in MM1. I hope more creatures than just the dragons are higher than CR 20 in MM2. My gaming group needs more CR 20+ creatures. The epic book doesnt have enough for our tastes.

Greatest D&D villain of all time: Orcus (Vecna and Raistlin come in a close second.) Greatest Fictional Villain of all time: Darth Vader Greatest Real-life Villain of all time: Adolf Hitler

Exact 3rd edition stats for Larloch the Shadow-King can be found in a Forgotten Realms accessory released a few months ago, Lords of Darkness. You can find him on page 161. He is perhaps the most powerful NPC to appear in the Forgotten Realms so far. If you didnt see him in Lords of Darkness...