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Hmmm.... remember the movie 'Legend'? The 'swamp witch' is also a nice picture for a troll like being. There is another one the cover of a dragon mag, somewhere in the 130's, where a green/scaled monster attacks a barbarian with a spear in a small boat. If you want to divert away from...

On another note regarding resurrectional magics and trying to make it more special in use is the following... On some level, there is a spirit / essence, whatever is the mechanic on your respective world, that needs to be coaxed / forced back into the body of the dead person. There may be Gods...

Raising, Resurrection and Reincarnation can pose problems for a campaign on several levels... One problem is the whole issue, especially when combined with longevity magics, of rulership and inheritance. What is to stop a powerful person from ensuring eternal life? Thus, powerful nobles and...

More on 'Monsters' One sort of campaign which I feel can be very satisfying, is one where there are no monsters of any kind as found in the various MM's (except for an undead or construct every once in awhile), but the main antagonists are all 'humans' (and all the various 'sentien races', from...

On Monsters and changing them. One of the problem veteran players pose to DM's is that they have a 'seen it, been there, done that' attitude towards many monsters. Besides being a drag in and of itself on the energy level / excitement of the group itself, it also poses a problem in terms of...

Well, the 'des' is French, not latin. Latin uses conjugation of the words to indicate the possessive (i.e. 'of the'), so book of the dead would be: Liber (Book) Mortum (of the dead) (That is to say, IIRC)

Hmm.... Tinner, I like your thoughts, but one step eludes me. Gods do not have any portable / stealable wealth per se (naturally depends a bit on the game world specifics), so the buck would stop at nations as far as I am concerned... Another aspect you failed to address is the risk/reward...

Very nice collection. Always like the older stuff. My 'home-office' (where my books, desk and PC etc. are) is stuffed, as well as my attic. When I first step into it, you smell the books... I think I have about 10 shelves (of 1.20 meter per shelf wide) full is f I do not 'compress' my boxed...

Definately the 1st Ed DMG is a good one... Dungeoncraft by FFG has some tables in it, though not an entire 'automated' system, still offers enuff hold to whip up something random in short time... the Wilderlands of High Fantasy boxed set has a nice random 'relics and ruins' page that provides...

The goblins could all have died for many reasons... maybe some psionic force killed them all in their sleep with some horrid nightmare... all the goblins lie in their 'beds' with an expression of utter terror on their faces, but there are no marks on the bodies... Maybe some sort of ghost like...

Well, since the effect is limited to the national borders of Cyre, to me the most logical type of event is a defensive 'shield' effect created by mages and artificers gone terribly wrong. Why it went wrong is still up in the air, but the blood of vol or worshipers of the dragon below are pretty...

I used a custom made ruleset for this along the following lines: Armor has HP (adjusted for material) on a basis of 10HP per armor class point protection offered. Everythime someone is hit based on flat footed AC (i.e. the blow is caught by the armor), the armor receives damage. Once 0 HP is...

Well.... life for PC's get pretty uncomfy very quickly... they gotta sleep somewhere, sometime... theft becomes a large problem, and if the haughty PC's also walked all over the local government, they are not about to make great effort to catch the thieves... PC's have tons of loot, yest, but...

Yeah, well, the book knows about your 'hat of d02' which knows no limits.... the book is just scared and fell apart at your diametrically opposed touch....

Well, in the end everyone should be having fun, but similar to trickle down economics, if the DM aint' having fun, chances are slim the players will have fun in the long run, but with players having fun but the DM not, the campaign is quickly busted.... so I voted DM.

Well... DL IS post-apocalypse (remember the Cataclysm???), and dragons were absent from the world, and elves had retreated into their own realms in such a way as to be absent from the world in any real terms... Depends upon how/when you play in DL I suppose, but if you played in the time...

IT depends. Often mapping was a necessity, as it is one of the ways to find 'empty spaces' on the map, where secret rooms etc. might be located. As a DM I was always very fond of using secret, hidden parts in dungeon design, so my players were very much into detail. I must admit that when the...

Hmmm... keep it simple in the beginning.... Have a professor sponsor the PC's for some searches for schema's in Xendrik. The professor himself is fully legit, and of good intent. He has a silent partner though. He has a girlfriend who has whispered things into his ears, and based on this info...

Hmm... I haven't followed the thread entire, but as to the issue of why more powerful divine beings do not destroy lesser divine beings, I like the way this is treated in the Sea of Death (or however it is called) trilogy by EGG. There, a fight of such proportions sends echoes through the...

Well.... I for one would most definately go for a Races of Savagery (or somesuch) detailing the goblinoid races (goblins, orcs etc.), and a Races of Mass (or whatever) detailing giantkin (ogres, trolls, giants etc.). Is also fine, if they were detailed more in the manner of the Draconomicon...