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High magic and D&D go together like flies and the Undead. You can't change this in 3.5 or any edition. You can deliberately tone it down by limiting spellcasting PC's in your campaign, but don't mess with the main system. That said, I'd love to see a low magic sourcebook or campaign setting...

I'll second that. We are about one year into a Dark Age era campaign. I designed it to be low wealth, med-low magic. The problem was that 5/6 characters were spellcasters of some ilk - wiz, ftr/wiz, clr, brd, dru and the straight fighter. The fighter was complaining for a long time how the...

I am sure that this has been asked and answered before but: Where is everyone getting the interpretation that Haste grants an extra partial action the round that it is cast? I mean, if a caster moves, then casts Haste, hasn't he used up all of his actions in the round? The six seconds is up...

Don't really care. I do either "high concept" worlds or homebrew (which tends to be high concept as well). The only one out there now that has really caught my eye is Scarred Lands. But I think that a more generic fantasy world is better for the example world in the core books. Greyhawk is...

Simple explanation: As the protests against the war are mounting, Bush had the Weather Control Division of the NSA arrange for a dumping on New York and DC, to keep as many protesters indoors as possible. The rest of the Northeast just got caught in the blast radius. Weather control is still...

If you chain a spell (Tome and Blood feat), how much of the material component do you need to use? I have recently house - ruled haste and mass haste to need some costly components, the party wizard is trying to get around the higher cost for mass haste by chaining haste. Any word from the...

We've house ruled it thusly - Gave it a costly material component - a 100gp dram of quicksilver, rare in many places (read: where I don't want the PC's casting haste too much). Interpreted the spell so that it takes effect immediately for the dodge bonus, but only confers the extra partial...

I just exercised that rule for the first time, and one of the PC's cohorts died as a result. I have never liked "save or die" kinds of situations, and would actually prefer to replace the "or die" with a drop to -1 hit points in most cases. I was thinking about using the d20 Modern massive...

Here's the sitch: 8th level wizard levels up to 9th. He gains two free spells to add to his spellbook. He is then tragically killed. The cleric raises him. He is now an 8th level wizard again. Question: What happens to his two free spells? Obviously they don't disappear from his spellbook...

Thanks! The period is Renaissance, and the Asylum is the former estate of a powerful mercantile family whose members have a reputation for innate magical power and madness. I intend to keep it relatively humane, since the inmates are generally wealthy and formerly powerful (politically)...

Full Circle players get out! My PC's have to break into a mansion that has been converted into an insane asylum for barking mad sorcerers. It is in a very Alcatraz-like environment, with fog on a rocky island in the middle of an ice cold bay with strong currents, except instead of a prison...

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I really wanted to be the kind of DM that worked with the players to build the story. I really did. But I have recently come to the conclusion, after about a year of playing in the same campaign, that I hate at least half of the PC's. I think it began when the players cut me out of the...

I think the change is fine, as long as you put the Heroic Surge feat in the game to fill the gap. For those who don't know, Heroic Surge is a feat you use to get an extra standard action from 1-5 times a day, depending on your level. At mid-level, this is the equivalent of getting a two or...

I haven't lost that many, but the most common way is for other people to walk off with them at conventions. Most of the time I believe it was intentional, thus theft. Perhaps a couple were accidents, but considering that they could have tracked me down easily enough to return them once they...

Osbourne, a human Cleric, named for Ozzy, who was at the time (81-82 or so) just starting his solo career. We were all rock and roll fans back then, so the party also included: Steen the Mage (for Bruce Springsteen) Angus the Fighter (for Angus Young of AC/DC) I don't remember the name of the...

Tiki Barber - RB for the Giants Ronde Barber - CB for Tampa Bay Identical twins who both played for Virginia. If my Giants hadn't pulled a record-breaking choke during the SF game, they would have met up in the division championship. So regardless, one of them would have to have been watching...

Pah! Shows that Shania needs electronic augmentation to sound passable. Pure cheese. Sting and No Doubt sounded like crap, but at least they were real.

Mention this change in goal over most other roleplaying genres: In Call of Cthulhu, going barking mad, or dying in a grotesque, horrific, or otherwise entertaining way is at least as respectable a conclusion as beating the bad guy and living to fight another day.

Yes, they had a little "What's New?" paragraph at the beginning of each section. In more than a few cases, the answer was "pretty much everything - read it" (paraphrased, of course). It actually wasn't that helpful. You basically have to skim the whole rule book and make notes , either...