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For those without a 1st Ed. PH, _affect normal fires_ allows you to alter the light output of a normal flame or fire, from "matchlike" to "as bright as a _light_ spell". Given its short duration (1 round/level), limited usefulness (heat and/or damage are unaffected), and the fact that _light_...

Fly + Improved Invisibility. Each round, take your movement after you cast your spell. Opponents have to pick, not just the correct square on the ground, but the correct *cube* in a 3-d hemisphere in order to hit you, unless they ready an action to fire when you cast (and even then you can...

I tend to prefer hexes all around. Ya, sure it's harder to draw perfect-90-degree grids of streets/buildings/rooms, but if you look at real-world examples grid layouts for cities are a recent thing. Mathematical layouts for the interior of big buildings (especially temples/cathedrals) goes...

My take is no, it can't. A familiar is intimately connected to its master's soul: it never gains additional skills/feats/xp/levels of its own but rather increases in power in step with the power of its master, the master has the same "connection" to a place as the familiar does for purposes of...

30 goblins alone are about a CR 4 encounter. Add 4 or 5 hobgoblins and it's at least CR 5. This is assuming none of the goblins or hobgoblins have added character levels. For a standard four-person party this would be a tough encounter, and your group numbers only three. And that's not...

536. http://home.ica.net/~runesmith/gallery/gallery.html Leatherworker's site: lots of pics of pouches, sword sheaths, leather armor, even a bladed gauntlet.

Well, based on my experiences with getting my heinie kicked by the bullies at school, yes, once you're on the ground it is EXTREMELY hard to just stand up again if they are standing over you and hitting/kicking you. There's a good reason why Pentjak Silat and other "street-fighting" martial...

Our paladin centauress had a similar problem. I believe we ended up giving her a unicorn companion (though the discussion of what constituted a "mount" did occasionally veer in a direction more suited to the Book of Erotic Fantasy). Given the example of the Holy Liberator and similar "prestige...

Medieval buildings may be shorter, but the streets are also narrower - especially in alleys where you're not expected to be able to drive an oxcart through it. Plus it was common practice to make the upper stories overhang, to get more living space - so the upper stories above that back alley...

Green Ronin's _Shamans_ book has a lot of excellent material on these topics. Get books on shamanism from the library. A surprising number of concepts we Westerners usually think of in connection with other mythologies (the World tree, chakras, ki/chi powers) are a part of shamanism too. Other...

There's a Maori legend about a village which was being terrorozed and devoured by a pair of flying-head monsters (similar to vargouilles or penanggalan) who were magically invulnerable to the men's weapons. Then a canoe appears from the southwest, filled with "strong women". Their leader...

Yep, initial C is usually a hard K sound in Greek. "Centaur", for example, really ought to be pronounced "KEN-tar", but most Americans say "SEN-tar", taking their cue from words like "century". Has anyone ever used this sort of pronunciation drift in a game? Have your PCs ever spent months...

OK, I must have missed this one. Can anyone give me a logical explanation WHY it can't be used with Shot on the Run? I can use it either before or after my move, but not during? Doesn't seem to make sense. And why only arrows? I could redily see this being used with, oh, shuriken for example...

Remember the old archaeology saying, "Primitive does not equal stupid." Just because it's Ice Age doesn't mean you can't have masterwork items - they'll just be masterwork bone or stone items rather than steel. I've seen stone spear- and arrow-heads that were works of art, and bone needles as...

And some gods have more trouble with this than others. Met any Fharlanghnites or Corellon-Larethianans lately? (Try saying that three times fast.) While it may be simplest to derive a religion-name from a god-name, it doesn't always work that way. Christians, for example, are technically...

Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind. I mean, c'mon, it's got giant insects, poison fungi forests, ceramic swords, wood-and-fabric aircraft, lost technology of the ancients, psionics, and lots and lots of Men With Really Big Mustaches. What more do you want?

An issue of Willingham's _Elementals_ had a battle between a flying ship crewed by green minotaurs and jet-powered flying sharks, which I lifted pretty much entire for one encounter. Stan Sakai's _Usagi Yojimbo_. Ignore for the moment the fact that the characters are all funny animals. The...

Cooper is an absolute necessity on any ship expected to spend a week or more at sea: barrels will crack/leak over time if not constantly maintained. On small ships the cooper and carpenter are probably the same person; on large ships keeping up with all the barrels is a full-time job and so the...

I've always treated leaping/swinging/droppingoutoftrees attacks as charges, with the higher-ground bonus if leaping/dropping down onto the opponent from above. For a more cinematic game you could add a +2 damage bonus, but I would then assess an additional -2 AC penalty as well (for a total of...

I believe you could, and that's certainly a creative use of the spell. However, note that PWT has a range of Touch, and unless you're facing only a single trog, your sorceror probably has better things to do than run around the battlefield touching each troglodyte. Furthermore, anyone who...