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B4 (Lost City), N1 (Reptile God) and GDQ (Giants/Drow/Queen) are some of my favorite early modules... ...but nothing defines D&D more for me than B2 (Keep on the Borderlands). It is the classic "explore, kill and loot" module. It has a fully keyed starting "town" and approximately a dozen...

Another vote for the cult of Zargon. It's truly a cult, not a religion (unlike Vecna, Tharizdun, etc), as the venerated figure is not a deity. Even if sticking strictly with the non-deity 1e version of Vecna, he was still the "greatest of all liches". Zargon is... simply Zargon. Zargon is...

...refers to forced movement, specifically pushes, pulls and slides. Not teleportation. Unless this has been errata'ed somewhere?

Arrgh. Armor of Faith no longer works with leather armor. There are going to be a lot of avengers out there (...possibly *all* of them...) that are going to be unhappy to hear that. By the way, is anyone else having trouble opening the PDF file correctly? I keep getting a message that Adobe...

5 hour sessions x 1.5 sessions per week since 4e was released. Highest campaign to date was 19th level - a 4e version of the complete original Dragonlance saga. The party TPK'ed heroically against an Aspect of Takhisis (Tiamat) after making it all the way through 'til DL 14 - Dragons of...

Once. Original edition, some 20-25 years ago. I remember next to nothing about my character or the session, other than the ending. The party was fooling around with some kind of magi-tech in a vine-strewn ruin out in the jungle. As the newest player at the table, I was "volunteered" to test out...

The module claims "difficulty", and that such information is "often" fragmentary. It cites legend lore as an example, which is fair enough. That spell should give fragments, anyway. But it certainly doesn't say that divination won't work at all. In my players' case, they went above and beyond...

... or 3) They were playing Return to the TOH as part of a long-running campaign, explored the tomb very slowly and carefully, and did thorough research on the protagonist (including spells such as contact other place and legend lore) before taking on the demi-lich. That's what happened with my...

Each of the following is from the perspective of me being the DM... Steading of the Hill Giant Chief – Yes, the players attacked the hall o' many giants (and multiple similar situations in the Glacial Rift and the Halls of Snurre). Not a challenge, given the presence of much area-affecting...

Return to the Lost City (B4) hardback super-module. Not a strict revision of the original Basic module, but a sequel set 10-20 years after the original setting. Including a detailed map of the underground city, more info on the Old Gods, and the return of Zargon and his priests. ...heck, for...

Nicely done... :)

So far, I've been buying about the same number of books as 3e. I bought most of the initial 3e books (say, 75% of the first 20-30 WotC releases), then dropped to about 50% for the middle of 3e, then cherry-picked about 25% of the last third of the releases (e.g. the Fiendish Compendiums, Magic...

The swordmage dies. Fighter, sorcerer and ranger go all the way... although I'd personally keep the avenger over the ranger, and the wizard over the sorcerer. The avenger is awesomely fun to play; hitting on nearly every attack and scoring nearly twice as many criticals is good times. It also...

I'd play nearly all of them. I didn't mark the artificer or the warden because they don't particularly appeal to me, but I'd consider playing them in the right campaign. There's only one class I truly loathe: shaman. I dislike both the fluff and the mechanics, and it seems I'm not alone. My...

The "Robin of Sherwood" TV series; British production, mid-80's. Little heard of in the States, but surprisingly influential. Take Nasir, for example... First instance of a Saracen member of the "merry men" in any adaption (...Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves would rip off the idea some years...

Best cover art? The original Ravenloft module (I6) - Strahd standing on the balcony. That piece of art, in my opinion, was almost solely responsible for an entire campaign setting, dozens of gaming supplements, and dozens of modules. There are very few other "old school" covers which actually...

Depends on the deity. I consider the Raven Queen, Kelemvor, Osiris, Hades, etc to be the "uncaring" (unaligned) gods of the dead. They do their jobs, and they don't actively solicit new souls for their domains. Everyone's going to end up there anyway. They despise undead (who are trying to...

Depends on edition BECMI/1st/2nd/3rd edition: 7th level. That gives access to 4th level spells for casters, which includes some really interesting options. It's also in a sweet mid-zone where the PCs haven't yet become too powerful to play the mid-level modules (e.g. Slavers, Pharaoh...

Fair points, although if the challenge is to find out which creatures are "problematic", I think swinginess is more of a concern (given 4e's design) than predictably lower-or-higher damage than creatures of comparative level. Take the humble deathjump, versus (say) a specter - which is on the...

Some random thoughts... Rated as Low, but aren't actually Low: Human Bandit: 1d8+1 + 1d6 sneak is decent for a 2nd level skirmisher. They'll likely have a flanker, and have an encounter ability that dazes a target even if they're acting individually. I've seen a group of these tear up a party...