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So I have a basic adventure idea bouncing around my head, but I could use some help from the abstract thinkers on these boards with ways a Lich might hide his phylactery. I need utterly devious solutions designed to kill off any type of intruder. The Players are very resourceful and know the...

Ah, you are right, I just looked it up in the SRD. When I typed up my post I was thinking it switched between Blue/Green and Violet/orange. Guess I should hold my tongue next time. :-P

No matter how hard I try, in just about every game that I run the elves turn into fascists bent on destroying the inferior races. 1 -- Elves are superior to other races in just about every way. (See Above Posts) 2 -- Proficiency in longsword and Longbow. (Easily trained troops with good...

This is probably the best example. Has this ever, EVER made a difference in the game? Who cares what color a fire shield is in a game that is 97.5% imagination (2.5% Polysorbate 60)! However, since this thread is rapidly degenerating into a rules that are just annoying, I feel compelled to...

Here is a great mid-high level trick for druids: Transmute Metal to Wood+Repel Wood Magic items get SR, mundane items don't. Once someone's armor is converted to wood, use repel wood to push the poor SOB right off a cliff, into a prismatic wall, etc. I did it to my PCs on the edge of a lagoon...

I love having the XDS inside XDS creating a rift scenario. There are numerous advantages. It helps keep mid to high level players from all packing several bags of holding on their person and carrying more loot and equipment than is feasible. IMHO anything that helps keep level 12+ PCs from...

I usually treat each tentacle as a separate creature that all move on the same initiative. Divide the Kraken's total hitpoints by the number of tentacles. Thats the HP of one tentacle.

I am skeptical to say the least, I knew it would come sooner rather than later. WotC needs to turn a profit after all. I bought just about every 3.0 book that came out. Then 3.5 rolled around, yes it fixed a lot of rules, but it also "broke" a lot of my older books. For a while, all WotC came...

I took a look at them, and nothing struck me as outwardly "wrong" with the spells. However, I would never take the Polymorph spell out of any game I run and replaced it with the new polymorth spells in PHB2. I like polymorph because it is so versatile, the new spells have the combat uses of...

Quoted again to emphasize the importance of this! I'm a pure wing-it DM. I almost never fully stat out creatures/characters/encounters. Instead I decide what encounters will "probably" happen, and put post it notes on the edges of the books I would be using. For any NPCs that the party might...

I print and bind all of the PDFs I really care about. Just put the PDF on a disk or USB drive, go over to Staples, Office Max, or kinkos, and give them the file. I get the front cover printed in color, all pages printed double sided, and plastic end sheets to form a "cover". Total cost: $10. +...

The main problem I see with having Hide/Move Silently on separate skills is that it is far too common to have someone roll a very low for one skill, and very high for the other. So a rogue trying to do stealth is hampered by the fact that they need two decent rolls to be sufficiently stealthy...

Overall, I like the changes, but (as many people here seem to think likewise) 1 Min/ Level spell durations are far too short. 1 Min/Level spells are apropriate for a dungeon crawl, or other obviously multi-combat intensive session, but when you are in an adventure that centers on a few very...

In a campaign I ran a little while back, this exact scenario occured. Party takes over a keep in the middle of the desert, puts in a decanter of enless water, and watched as an entire city grew around the tower. We advanced the timeline many years to where the "City of Endless Water" had become...

Nothing in the rules that prevents clothing to be treated at +0 armor. Most of the time you are better off with a wonderous item however.

I fail to see the problem with this use of TWF. Every week there is a topic about how TWF is worse than using two hands on a weapon. Someone has found a great loophole that makes TWF characters get a little extra damage for the first round of combat. If I were to ever use this tactic, I would...

Check the PHB under the slight of hand skill. Pg. 81 to 82.

What I don't like about most of the anti-teleport spells is that they force the party to stick to where they cast the spell. Its fine for resting for the night, but there is more to a campaign than sticking to one place. Once we had a campaign turn into D&D Trench warfare, with both sides...

Some sort of high level officer addresses the PC's: "You knuckleheads are the worst team I have ever seen! It's like you have never worked together before!..." The NPC then tells the tale of how the party's last job was a total disaster, with many humorous details of their own incompetence. The...

There are two I am really die hard about: Imp. Crit and Keen Edge stacking and upping most of the 1 min/level spells to 10 min/level. I also use 3.0 sheild instead of 3.5, I liked the battlefield positioning tactics it creates