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An interesting read. I think most of the effects you're referring to require a particularly "high-magic" milieu as opposed to what would be found in "default D&D". Even so, since I'm getting back into my study of what makes up the "default" setting of 3.x, I'll be looking at the numbers of...

Excellent as always. Of course, in my settings, there are only two types of forests: Haunted forests, and haunted rain forests. :devil:

I solved this problem in my dungeons by drawing them out as flowcharts showing the paths between important rooms, and filling in the details while the PCs travel with random room encounters that occur every certain amount of feet (or time, if they are travelling at a steady pace). Each...

http://www.jox.hu/cikk/0409/0917Gordon_Freeman.jpg Gordon Freeman doesn't need credentials. He just needs a crowbar! Back to seriousness, I think in this case it's unfair to say he's a kook just because of his credentials. Sometimes it takes an outsider to look at something and see what...

Wow, that must have taken a while to calculate! Thanks! I guess computers have come a long way; I calculated the probability of each score with 4d6dl back in high school, and it took ten minutes just to figure out 1,296 possible rolls.

If Freeman is involved, it was definitely aliens. Joking aside, those guys didn't have written calendars and various electronic devices to help them track what time of year it was. I'm not surprised some of them were smart enough to move boulders around to measure the angles of the sun. Just...

Going with the cardinal elements in Elements of Magic: Revised Edition and what ability score they are associated with: Strength: Earth Dexterity: Air Constitution: Life Intelligence: Death :] Wisdom: Water Charisma: Fire

Brilliant! You, my friend, have just earned experience points! :D

The other problem with this is it forces PCs who specialize to maybe go up against challenges that they are otherwise ill equipped to handle. An elf Rogue would have to seek out tougher traps and secret doors than a human Rogue just because his race adds a bonus to the skill. If two swim...

This is why you're the programmer, and I'm a truck driver. :blush::p:hmm: Thanks so much, guys! I should be able to have some fun figuring out facts about my D&D settings now. I'm trying to get a good feel for what "default D&D" really is like according to these sorts of statistics, compared...

Mostly it's the lack of uniformity among spells. I am constantly looking up what my Druid is capable of. Does this spell allow a saving throw? What's the range again? How long is the duration? With EoMR that's all much easier to remember. Also, having to constantly explain to the DM and...

Hello everyone. I have been thinking recently about heroic characters vs. the common rabble, specifically how many people are born with "heroic" stats and how many have to aspire to that level. This is based on one of my house rules, which was written with the premise that characters with...

Saved to hard drive to go with my already quite non-linear, free-form, and map-free dungeon design method. :cool:

None of the above. Elements of Magic: Revised Edition all the way, baby! :cool: RangerWickett wrote it, so you know it's cool. Having started to play 3.x again a couple weeks back, I am starting to remember why I started using 3rd-party rules.

Gratz on the overt passive-aggressiveness and post dissection, Michael Morris; I'm just going to ignore your posts in this thread from now on. I don't have a middle mouse button. I browse the forums on a PowerBook G4, which I should also add does not have a right mouse button either, for that...

I kept trying to come up with a clever response to this, but I could feel Eric's grandma staring down at me from the Great Beyond. :angel: I think that extra time would be nice for people who don't have enough free time to go over the nitty-gritty details of 3.x characters. For me, however...

Well, I suppose the rest of the web disagrees with you about how much revenue those PDAs and small monitors are worth. Regardless, if it won't open in a new tab, I won't click it. While an advertiser's site is having traffic issues and taking twenty minutes to load, I could be using the first...

My level of laziness is on par with the average house cat. :p Anyway, it's a simple change to the html that most people nowadays use. I figured it shouldn't be too hard to do for ads. Sometimes I want to open the ad to look at later while a thread is still loading. If it's open in a new tab...

I'm with you. I spend enough already on books; I'm not going to deal with crappy circumstances when I could easily run a game online, or migrate to a different local gaming group. Or, since I'm usually the DM, kick someone out of the group and bring in another person who's been on the waiting...

Interesting. I'm not thoroughly convinced that the old Mediterranean lifestyle was quite that splendid for the average community, but in a D&D world I can certainly see that happening! I should design a big dynamic temple for the capital city of my campaign setting, since they're such a...