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To gain xp/gp for item creation ("dark craft points"), the evil cleric must choose a DC, then make a Knowledge(sacrifice) roll. If he beats the DC he gets DCx3 dark craft xp or DCx5 dark craft gp. (Book of Vile Darkness page 27) Let's give him every benefit of the doubt. We'll say he...

Useful if you have a cohort named Wimpy. Along that line of thought... Eyeburster's Healthful Herbs: This metal cylinder is engraved with unreadable runes. When squeezed in the hand, it plays a brief snatch of a jaunty sailor's hornpipe, then the top pops off and a stream of spinach shoots...

Stormrunner She Who Loves To Gallop Through The Wind And Rain (short form "Stormrunner" or "Stormy") female centaur height: 5'10" at withers, 10'2" forehooves to top of head weight: about 1600-1700 lbs Stormrunner is of the Hardsruthor, or "Northern Centaurs", a larger and heavier sub-race...

The destrachan in the Dungeon #86 adventure Rana Mor is described as targeting the PC's weapons and armor. So it seems that this is a special case (like rusting grasp or the rukanyll's rending plates) where the armor/weapon is being targeted directly rather than as a side effect.

I don't know of any RAW, but I would adjucate on a case-by-case basis depending on how "Earthlike" the plane is. The Beastlands? Sure, no penalty - I might even allow a slight bonus, since the place is essentially "nature to the max". Arcadia or the Seven Heavens? With a penalty - such...

Nah, Wounding is a +2-equivalent, so you could only have +1 Wounding(x4) non-epic weapons. While 4 Con per hit, no save is nasty, at 162,000gp the BBEG would have to be 19th level, minimum, to afford one - and if you're facing a 19th-lvl BBEG, the Wounding sword is probably the least of your...

Many Bothans died to bring us this information... Primarily it makes sense for first-level characters, and only until they go up a level or two. After all, what do your higher-level characters do with all those 1st-level followers? The level gap is so high that they aren't even useful as...

Lois McMaster Bujold. I know you said "no military", but her Miles Vorkosigan books are "military" the way MASH or JAG are "military" rather than the way "Platoon" is military - that is, they're character-driven plots in a military background rather than a series of battles. Also check out...

A few months ago I had to move some big cement slabs around as part of a landscaping project. They were way too heavy to move by hand, so we got a winch and a couple of 2000-pound-test Buckets-o-Chain from the hardware store. Those buckets were HEAVY - 50 feet of chain per bucket = somewhere...

Well, the Huge uncommons from Giants of Legend are generally available on the Web for about 6-8 US$ each, and they include a bulette, a cloud giant, a fomorian giant, and a treant. That's WAY cheaper than the equivalent-sized metal minis. Bullyland makes a number of mythical critters as...

Not just the customers... I've had some "fun" management experiences too... I never eat at KFC anymore after having worked there. The sterilizing solution says in big red letters "Do not get in eyes or on skin". Of course, no gloves are provided for the dish-"washers" ("Washing" consisting of...

Do the Tim Burton thing and combine them! Then one smoky Halloween The Night Hag came to say, Rudah with your mane so bright, Won't you be my steed tonight? Then all the nightmares were jealous, And they shouted out with glee, Rudah the bright-maned nightmare, You'll get yours, just wait and see!

I just picked this up the other day. One big book o'templates, some look useful, some maybe not, depending on the campaign. LOTS of "dread" undead, but each has a sidebar on how to make a "non-dread" version, a nice feature. Some look potentially unbalanced, but I haven't had a chance to...

Oooh! You could combine this with the Kukri Parody Gnome - the cat is the actual character and the gnome is her animal comp - err, cohort. Except that might actually be useful. Darn.

Yeah, unless you "just happen to mention" squirrels all the time, they'll be on it like white on rice. After the party has met their first "Mr Natural" druid, throw in a rabid, or confused, or for that matter just trained, squirrel and watch the entire party leap on it and pound it to mush...

Overpowered? No. Unrealistic? Definitely. I took a bow and some arrows and did a little real-world testing :eek: . Admittedly I am not a good archer, however I found it very difficult to get all the arrows in the target (not the bullseye, just in the target somewhere!), unless I was quite...

While gems may be "hard", in the sense that they can scratch or abrade most other materials, they are also quite brittle. How does a gemcutter create the facets of a diamond? By tapping it just right with a little hammer and chisel. Whack a diamond with a sledgehammer and you get diamond dust...

But a tomato has a partially-liquid center. If you drop a steak on the ground it doesn't splatter. I guess it depends on what counts as "flesh". If you turn it into a 12-foot eyeball it might go splat; a 12-foot pot roast wouldn't.

96) A hygiene inspection of a (magically-chilled) butcher's meat locker reveals a serious health infraction - dangling among the slaughtered cows, sheep, and pigs is the naked corpse of a female centaur, hung by her heels and gutted like a deer. The butcher loudly insists he knew nothing of...

Me! Me! (raises hand and jumps up and down) page 22-24 (23 is the famous "A Paladin in Hell" full-page illo):