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I recommend that you read the Urban Adventures section in the 3.5 Dungeon Master's Guide, pg. 98. It has some good insight and game elements for running adventures in an urban setting. It also has a "wandering encounter" table, each entry being an example of an above-ground scenario or adventure...

Have you considered what kind of city you would like to use? There are several detailed urban environments for you to use. For example: The Dungeon Master's Guide II details Saltmarsh, a coastal town of 3,850. It has a town map (no street names), and details 65 locations & basic information of...

Just think about it this way. When it turns out that a building is a hive of villany, that building works out to be like an aboveground dungeon. With traps and surprises on every floor. But unlike a normal dungeon, the clever adventurer can climb the wall and work through it top-down. So be...

No, but if I were to make one I would balance it with the shatter invocation. (baleful utterance?)

Yeah. He can buy you a copy of the book if he wants you to use the rules from them. :)

Okay, I'm revising my philisophy to assigning a big attack penalty AND half damage instead of saying Unusable.

I'm of the philosophy of: don't say Unusable; assign a penalty score instead. Even if it's -20 or -40. Choices over restrictions. I have extrapolated up from this chart and gave the greatsword wielder a -4 penalty when fighthing in a 5'x5' tunnel. Basically the penalty that I would have given...

I give half orcs the Toughness feat and +2 to Intimidate checks.

Jumping while charging is validated by the D&D 3.5 FAQ. If you can make your Jump checks to jump over obstacles, then those obstacles won't break your charge. I like it because it makes Jump worthwhile as a skill.

The SRD says "You can move through a square occupied by a helpless opponent without penalty. (Some creatures, particularly very large ones, may present an obstacle even when helpless. In such cases, each square you move through counts as 2 squares.)" From that I only have Huge or greater sized...

When a new PC joined our party, he had an animated teddy bear. Kids loved to play with it. It was very cute when it followed the PC's commands. The thing is that he was a necromancer and the teddy bear had an animated skeleton of a monkey inside. This was back in 2nd ed. when the complete book...

This WotC article on the kobold determines that kobolds are LA -1 and proposes some extra racial ability to bring them up to LA +0.

Death Throes countermeasure I came up with this one when fighting homebrewed monsters that blow up when killed. When attacking a balor, at least one PC should be doing nonlethal damage to it. This will increase the window between unconsiousness and death, greatly if the nonleathal damage is...

Fighters have their HP, spellcasters have buffs, rogues have evasion. Why the big hate? Sure they rule when facing fireballs from a wand wielder, but there are so many other situations where they can feel pretty useless, such as when facing un-sneak-attackable opponents. Let them shine when they...

If you are aware of an error in the Spell Conpendium, now is the time to send WotC eratta feedback so that they can add it to any upcoming eratta sheet.

Two spiked gauntlets, each with spell storing and scorching ray cast by an 11th level wizard in each one. Good for those times when you need to take something down right now. There's also a weapon enhancement somewhere that gives bonuses when grappled. There's also the "slick" armor enhancements.

Back in 3.0, I would use polymorph any object to reshape magic weapons and armor to a more preferred form.

What do I do about it? I buy every non-epic magic item that I can use before I even consider an epic item. Before I consider buying a +8 WIS amulet for 640,000 gp, I would have bought five wishes for 132,650 gp to increase my WIS by five points. And that is after buying a +6 WIS amulet for...

I doesn't. Make a House Clarafication for your game on how you will rule this situation.

Here's a feat that I have crafted for an intimidating fighter in my game.