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I heartily recommend Mongoose's Stonebridge: City of Illusion , a city inhabited by gnomes and copper dragons, with a strongly Italian-renaissance feel. Basically the dragons fill the niche of the powerful noble patron-families like the Medici.

Mounted a Bag of Devouring on a 10-foot pole and used it as a Butterfly Net of Devouring. Worked too well, so the DM started giving it a steadily-increasing chance of "indigestion" (burping back up previously-swallowed monsters). Way back in 1rstEd days.

"Kobolds" are a Germanic mischief-fairy which taunts miners, making mysterious noises, erasing chalk marks or otherwise confusing/hiding the way out, and replacing good silver ore with a metal that in ore form looks identical to silver ore, but is worthless (or rather was worthless back then -...

So, if I shoot my crossbow at the werewolf, that's a weapon attack and DR applies. But if I then take the same crossbow, and set it up to fire on a tripwire, now it's a trap and DR doesn't apply?

Both have extremely variable prices. Prostitutes - you could go down to the skanky part of town and pay 5gp to get your ashes hauled. Of course, you're quite likely to come away with an interesting new disease (or a lump on the head and an empty coin pouch). Or you could go to the Temple of...

"Always" because getting infected forces an alignment change. Of course, for "natural" weres this justification goes right out the window... I've never been real happy with the listed alignments for weres. Wolves are more "lawful" than rats, IMO, yet werewolves are CE and wererats LE...

We've generally run it as Moonlight = concealment (20% miss chance) Starlight = improved concealment (40% miss chance) and under the trees the light level goes down one step - if it's full moonlight out in the clearing, it's starlight under the trees. As to "how far" - outdoors, basically as far...

ROTFL! OK, that's definitely getting yoinked. Expect lemon juicers in the next giant encounter. ;)

I grew up reading, and very much enjoying, Andre Norton's books. I still have a lot of them on my shelf. Looking back on them with the benefit of age and experience, they aren't as mesmerizing, but still fun enough to kill a few hours with. That said, Quag Keep was horrible. I saw it, said...

Ah, yes. An old favorite. I'm not so sure about replacing the Banda with drow. Drow are too civilized to have the proper primitive feel. Make them lizardfolk, throwing in some of the new blackscale and poison dusk lizardfolk (blowgun darts galore!), and make the high priest and priestess...

Hmm, of course the same could be said of bolas, or a whip, or a net. None of which give easy Reflex saves. The whip and bolas allow ranged Trip attacks (touch attack followed by opposed STR check), but do not "entangle". The net automatically entangles with a touch attack (no save) but does...

My centaurs use lassos a lot. We treat it like the Net, but with a 15' range. (I like the idea of using the Use Rope roll as the escape DC, I may use that.) With their high STR, they usually succeed on the Trip attempt, and then drag the fallen foe away from his friends, while another centaur...

Our houserule is: Darkness lowers the existing light by one level - bright becomes shadowy, shadowy becomes dark. (And no, it doesn't make already-dark areas shadowy - that's just stupid.) Darkvision becomes "shadowy". Deeper Darkness produces total blackness, in which darkvision doesn't work...

Summoned outsiders will always vanish when killed. Called or gated ones do not. AFAIK there is no official ruling that explicitly says "Yes, you can animate outsider corpses" - but the Rules As Written don't forbid it, and several articles and adventures in Dungeon and Dragon have had...

You're thinking too small... According to the photos found in the links, 30' per square looks about right - judging by the people standing next to them, the columns in area 1 are 5' thick and about 25-30' apart, 80' tall. At 10' per square, areas 2,3,6, & 7 would have a column about every 2...

re: the cult. Presumably they have a symbol of some sort. Eyes are always fun. Say one of the elves the PCs slay has a ring set with an eye-like stone: notable because it's the ONLY item the elf is wearing that isn't of elven make. Give it a minor magical ability, such as scare 1/day or ray...

GURPS and D&D3.x are different enough that there's going to have to be a lot of "from scratch" anyway - especially at high levels, which this guy is. Taking it from the top: 700 points - yowza! That puts him up into the superhero/epic range in GURPS terms. However, looking at his actual...

Well, the RAW don't specify how the "repeating" function works. Art has varied from the historical Chinese lever-action bow, to one that has a crank, to one with a stack of five bows. Realistically, the historic weapon has a large lever which moves the entire "magazine" section forward and...

I got started on D&D around, oh, 10 or 11 I guess - 1977 or thereabouts. Ever since I was 4 or 5 I'd been making up stories and drawings of talking dinosaurs and otter-people (Disney's Dinosaur was kind of a nostalgia trip for me). We were camping in the Rockies with my Aunt Jeanie and Uncle...

The to-hit penalty is due to the fact that D&D rolls both the chance to strike and the chance to penetrate into a single "to-hit" chance. It's the same reason why heavy armor = higher AC = less chance "to hit", while in RL heavy armor means you get whacked more (harder to dodge), but fewer of...