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Triadspell is ban-worthy? I always found it so lame that it wasn't even worth taking. I compared it like this: If I take a 5th level Summon Monster, I can get 1d4+1 monsters from the 3rd level list. Or, I can use Triadspell to get three 3rd level Summon Monster spells, which gives me 3...

I operate from a whitelist, banning "everything else." I allow core books, complete series, PHB2, Spell Compendium. Nothing else. No Book of 9 Swords, no Frostburn, no Dungeonscape; nothing else. Of the books allowed, I only ask that Abrupt Jaunt wizards are capped to line of sight, and can...

I do not think this is in line with your intentions, OP, but here is something one of my players did last year to increase his low-level spells: take sorcerer as his 1st level, and all subsequent levels as a specialist wizard. This meant that he would get 9th level spells at level 18 instead of...

Page 175 of the PHB. There are three kinds of areas: burst, emanation, spread. A burst catches all in the area, including those you cannot see, with the exception of those with total cover from you (such as allies around a corner down a hallway). An emanation is the same except it continues...

I think I may have found a solution myself. I relied on the "Light" descriptor that many 3.5 edition spells use. This way, I don't even need to read all the books and call out individual spells. I've also expanded the ability to counteract the disease -- all 24 hours can be used to try to...

Thanks Stream. I've revised my opening post accordingly. Hopefully that will help to shoot everyone off in a good direction.

I wanted to use a Russet Mold (and the subsequent vegepygmies) in a 3.5 edition module. I noted that our own listing here in the Creature Catalog has a problem: it states that a way to kill it is to cast Continual Light on it. However, that spell doesn't exist in 3.5 edition. What light-based...

Harley, as the author of the thread you linked to, I just wanted to say that I wrote that because I use the module a lot. As in, I love it. So please don't take that thread to mean that the module sucked -- on the contrary, it was so engrossing that I was willing to put in lots of time to fix...

For those complaining about the dice, I would point out that this interest of Goodman's is not new. In Sinister Secret of Whiterock (DCC 51.5), the encounter tables used d5s and had a sidebar about Gamescience Dice which read like a small advertisement. I was turned off enough by that to...

I came here in 2006, I think to search the forum posts for local games. I didn't post much the first couple of years, but then Gary Gygax died, and Michael made this tribute for the funeral that included tons & tons of En World members. I just barely made the cut, and was deeply, deeply happy...

Androrc, welcome to the boards! Also, you're re-treading a debate we've had here since the time it happened. Nothing new. Nonetheless, I'll bite at the bait in a hopefully-friendly manner of debate. For me, I don't really view what they did as immoral, even though I hate that they did it...

I found a guy on eBay who was selling the softcover PHBs (they came with the 3.5 edition boxed set, originally). He had many and sold 'em for $20 while the hardcovers were going for $40. I bought 2, just in case. If I were you, I might try looking for "PHB softcover" or maybe "3.5 box set" or...

Hmm. Not sure this is funny, but it was enjoyable. A while back, here on EnWorld the gang was helping me to make an anti-magic anti-hero type NPC. The players of my game hated him, and ended up losing fights against him multiple times. The last time they fought, I knew it would be a TPK...

All the things others have mentioned are true: D&D 3.5 edition is not optimized for 10 players; pitting a big crowd of low-level PCs against one super-high-level enemy will probably result in the monster getting some one-hit kills in before going down; terrain & traps will help; a mass of...

Core books + complete series is what I find to be the "typical" set of books -- lots of options, not too terribly broken. The "Races of ..." series and the elements series (Frostburn, etc.) are a little more outside of my realm of knowledge. There are really a lot of official books. Maybe...

Well, I'll be damned. So you did. So for me, I actually use a system like this. And I had a problem at first as I thought it up, because I was holding myself to an ideal -- that is, whatever fear they experience, it shouldn't be more than what a spell would provide. I thought that if a...

Why not just use the built-in will saves, and come up with decent DCs?

First, you'll probably want to download MapTool, as that will help you to play online with others. Next, you should go to the forums where games are advertised. You'll want to find games that are play-by-post, play-by-email, forum-based, or MapTool-based. Here are a few: En World's forum En...

I believe you are confusing trademark law (businesses can lose their trademarks if they don't protect them) with copyright law (you can selectively enforce it with no loss of rights -- you can even sit on the copyright for 30 years until people assume you've let the information go free, then...

No worries, I'm no mod. I have no say in what you do. I just can see the whole tone of this thread might feel pretty lame for someone who didn't want to read a discussion with negative points. As for me, in my game I just houseruled the errata about Healing Hymn. That particular errata...