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Looking through that link to the CharOp board someone posted upthread, I've gotta say I am sure wizards wasted their time writing that article. I'm not a subscriber, so I haven't read it, but I remember some articles like this coming out towards the end of 3.5. Articles that were supposed to...

I can think of two good 3e adventures that fit that level. Forge of Fury is a solid dungeon crawl, it's design is pretty much 100% tried and true d&d cliches. An orc base, some standard dungeon crawling against troglodytes, duegar base, cleverly placed traps, and then the dragon at the end. The...

The adventurer's kit item in the PHB. Convenient way to bundle everything mundane I'd normally buy. The book covers now have actual artwork on them, rather than those stupid 3e tome looks. Multiple role versions of monsters. Artillery goblins, skirmisher goblins, controller goblins, etc...

The modules typically do have some big boss to kill because he holds the largest treasure. The modules are usually vague about the reasons a party would go to a dungeon. The implicit reasoning is treasure, remember 1gp = 1xp and you'll get more xp from that than from kills. Of course they're...

Thats more like it. Using wishes seems within reason to get the scraps you've mentioned. No. The "correct" outcome of the fight at the end is to take the treasure and leave the demilich alone. Most 1E modules assume you're there for the treasure not to destroy some final boss who will...

Going by the original module's text, divining shouldn't work. The first sentence in the original module is The same text should mostly apply to the return to module. The exceptions would be the original party's log and the one armed guy that joins you. I can't remember how much the log warns...

I ran this one with a party of 3. The module gives rules about which classes the skull will kill first. One PC touches the skull, skull kills another PC. Now there are two PCs left. The same PC touches the skull again, and it kills the other PC. The guy who touched the skull was then the only...

Know what all your spells/items/abilities do. I've been through TPKs where I later realized I had the item that would have won. You should be able to know what they all do when you look at them on your character sheet. Ideally, you'd have them all in your head and not need to start looking at...

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I've done this stuff a few times, couple of my findings. A ton of damage can come from power/leap attacking to the max, and finding some way to get around the penalty. True Strike and Deep Impact (XPH) are my favorites here. If you go the Shock Trooper route, try and get some concealment when...

Blasphemy and it's law/chaos/good cousins now allow a save for the effects. And yes blasphemy was a huge danger in 3.5. It is one of the reasons I always have death ward active when I do any high level adventuring. If a creature has more than 10HD than you and uses it, whole party dies no save...

Well I think I'd still prefer Power Word, Kill to Finger of Death for the no save. If you prefer the 10 damage / level with save, you can take wail of the banshee.

Pathfinder's silence spell has a casting time of one round, where as in 3.5 it was a standard action. This means you can no longer ready it to auto interrupt the caster. Also, your spell won't go off until the start of your next turn when you cast it. As for spells that should have been...

I made a quick rules-lite system based on the Resident Evil game series. It fits in a 3 page word document. I only got to play it once. It is played with a battle mat and the key to winning combats is to keep the zombies and monsters away from you. At character creation you choose one of three...

I like alignment. Sure if you try and take it too far you can have problems, but I've never gamed with anyone who tried to do that.

I'm not too familiar with the AP, but I really like the first two adventures. I'm pretty picky about my adventures and I usually don't like Paizo's work, but the first two are winners. I haven't read the rest of the path, but I've heard The Spire of Long Shadows adventure is bad. Complaints...

I don't like it. The idea of super fire, just brings up the next question, who has super fire immunity? I like the energy substitution solution as it makes the most thematic sense to me and is easily to implement.

Mustrum Ridcully, I think thats a pretty cool idea. I like how the resource management is primarily in battle for martial characters, and primarily out of battle for arcane characters. I don't know how much the players of martial characters are going to like choosing between a martial power and...

On alignment, I think they wanted to simplify it since a lot of people didn't really get it. But they also wanted to satisfy people who like alignment (people like me). They tried to play it somewhere in the middle. I don't like what they did with it and think they would have been wiser to ditch...

You know, this discussion is going nowhere. Hussar is claiming that in 3e your out of combat abilities are somewhat tied to your abilities and that is limiting. I'm arguing that it's not as as limiting as he says it is, but I do believe it's still there. Can we change the discussion back to...