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Well.. one of the most obvious ones seems missing, the priest of the god(dess) of nature... Also, you can go a more 'Wicca' like road, and cast the druid as a type of wizard / sorceror who takes his/her power from the earth and nature spirits. Another way is to use the five elements from the...

You come into an open green. In the center of the grean rests a Gazebo... what do you do?

The idea sounds fine, but I would scatter multiple hooks / reasons to stay in the city. Maybe there are also a few NPC caravan guards, and maybe one gets killed during the attack with the bandits. The guard asks te PC's to convey some last message to his wife / child who lives at freeport. Once...

Use the 10 foot pole you are carrying (ODD right?) and shove it such that it will dislodge the rope, preferably starting with freeing the first set of adventurers found... See if they 'wake up' on their own once the connection with the gem is broken. Consider throwing a pole against the...

In the middle of a forest, far away from significant water, you see a shipwreck along the side of the road... Peering into the forest on the side, you see a light. It is an obelisk made of crystal. Trying to harm it does not have any effect...

We lob burning flasks of oil into the stairway as a precaution, then proceed to block it off with the 10 foot poles we are all carrying as part of our Standard Issue Fieldgear... Then we post our henchmen as guards on the blocked stairs and proceed to sweep the first floor...

Well... depends upon how they do things. If they clean things up (errata and spelling where needed), put everything in a (sleeve)box or big RC and make it in the form of a luxury printing (leatherbound etc.), then yes, definately interested. If it is just a reprint of the stuff I already have...

Hmmm.... some random thoughts on the matter.... the tablet is a description of the philosopher's stone. This stone is 'the sun the father, the moon the mother' an asteroid that struck the earth 'converted into earth', maybe a mistranslation that is was 'onto' the earth (i.e. it fell from the...

I admit I have not read ALL the replies in this thread, but this is essentially the 'problem' Why can Monopoly or Settlers make decent money? There is no continuous cost of development and massive staff. It is designed once, and pretty much all future sales are pure profit (minus production...

Interesting ideas on the motivation, virtue and vice. Can you give an example?

Okay, maybe a bit out on a limb here, but consider this... The prophets, their army and a bunch of their disciples when to the grey peaks to finally destory the Darkness. The final battle took place inside. Only the prophets and their 'henchmen' / disciples went inside. They did not win. They...

If you want to make the world come alive more on paper (i.e. not just how you DM it during play), then adding information on less dry subjects then history and lists of gods is essential: - how is society organised, not only on a 'nation state' level, but also family relations etc. - stuff on...

Very true advice. The CR system is a nice try to give a starting DM some feeling of the power of the encounter, but at least half of the equation depends upon the specific makeup and resourcefulness of the characters and the players themselves. So. It begins with knowing your players. Fudging a...

If you want to add some 'supers' type stuff into the mix, the arctic is also the dumping ground of toxic waste, the place where nuclear experiments take place etc. So... mutants abound... to add a touch of Cthulhu, these beings are imprisoned and go mad, listening to their own minds (or...

Sounds like a cool world! Did you already think of a history / why this world is as it is? It sounds as though either the gates to the lower realms were set open, or that this world has actually been 'grabbed' and drawn into the underworld or somehow melded with the lower realms. This could be...

Who worship her? Why, adventurers! They love digging into secrets don't they? Furthermore, mages and sages, especially those interested in the darker side of things... Maybe people who harbor great (personal) secrets turn to her (secret) worship in hopes that their secrets are never revealed...

To a large extend I agree with your analisys. In my mind, the whole alignment system is a guideline for roleplaying. When players transgress, I believe it is always fair of the DM to remind the player that what s/he is about to do is contrary to alignment, and so allow the player to retract the...

There is a nice basis for a POL setting... Some things to think about: - travel through the wasteland is dangerous: either you need to be able to move fast and hidden, or travel is in large groups / convoys where either the strenght of numbers allows fighting back the horrors or simply...

Definately cartoons are up there as well, together with movies. The various Tolkien books as well (including Silmarillion), and more recently my campaign worlds suffer from hefty influence from the various Black Company books (Glen Cook), the (already older and out of print) 'Liavek' tales...

Some 'mundane' things I also generally add to my campaign worlds as 'fluff': - famous battles that everyone knows, often the showcase of some specific strategy - famous generals - famous bards / travellers who documented large parts of the world - special greeting customs for certain area's...