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While I'm going for a swashbuckling style of combat, the game isn't actually nautical. And the cave is hundreds of miles from the sea. :) I like the planking and Ice demons, though. And (if I understand your question correctly) the PCs are 11th level, but they are seriously un-optimized...

Thanks, Whizbang. That's the kind of stuff I'm looking for. This particular cave wouldn't generally have lots of "stuff" in it (it's inaccessible to most people because the entrance is 100 feet up in a rock face) but the levels, ropes and pulleys would give the kind of movement opportunities...

So the PCs in my group will probably confront the BBEG in our next game session (tomorrow night). The confrontation will take place inside a cave, but the layout/details of the cave are completely unknown. I'd like to lay it out in such a way as to encourage lots of swashbuckly goodness (I...

Ooh. I like Shayuri's pawn idea. I was thinking something similar. If you could find a good low-level spell that ramps up in power with caster level, you could use that, and the caster level is equal to the number of pawns you have X2 or something.

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Crazy Muffin's suggestions are good. I offer this as an alternative: The knights (both black and white) let you cast Phantom Steed. One knight gets you the spell at caster level 8, both give you caster level 12 (Air Walk ability)

Your example of the smart rogue is actually my main concern with this. It makes Charisma a dump stat for yet more characters. I'd bump the penalty up to -2 and make it apply to the skill checks as well, I think.

Small rolling luggage (the equivalent of an overnight bag or so) can be had fairly cheap. I bought two for my kids when we went on a trip for about $10.00 each at Target. Even when I bought them I thought "This would hold my gaming stuff really well..." :)

Freudian slip? I know I use Google to identify everything. :D

I actually allow this in my game with a Sense Motive roll. So the NPC might figure out what you've readied, but at least I'm not cheating to do it. :) Plus the PCs can do the same thing, of course.

I like the animated opening in tiddlywiki, but you can turn it off. I think you can also make it automatically close whatever you had open before. These two combined get you a more "traditional" navigation, but I do like the way Tiddlywiki works by default. Do keep in mind, though, that you...

Jane appears to be a bored (and, to be honest, somewhat boring) adjunct professor of sociology at Wycham University. Her research into fringe and student subcultures has given her a remarkable ability to adapt to new social situations. The reserved and wry academic's transformation into...

So is Jane Emory in, then? :) The write-up I did included a bit about her already being a time lord's companion, but we can easily drop that and have her start "pre-weirdness."

Der Kluge: I was hoping for a finalized manuscript to put into my wikified format, as we discussed. Would it be OK for me to have such a thing? I can always wait for the PDF and do the old cut-and-paste shuffle, but now that there's a publisher involved I'm leery of stepping on anybody's toes.

Toss up between Dodge and Counterspell for me (for pretty much the reasons given above). I went with dodge, though, simply because the Dodge feat is a requirement for so many things that the stupid rule comes up all the time. (For the record, I use the "+1 Dodge bonus to AC against everybody"...

I was hoping Sir Brennan would chime in. He's done it right. :)

I really like TiddlyWiki. It's different from most wikis in that you can't edit it online. It's more of a linked notepad thingy. But it's extremely powerful and easy to use. http://www.tiddlywiki.com My lame website using tiddlywiki: http://home.comcast.net/~jim.ade/ilium/HeirsOfEmpire.html

Ah, I AM interested. I am also utterly swamped by my pesky real life. Things have been rather TOO interesting lately...

I like some of the earlier stuff. Clyde Caldwell and Jeff Easley in particular did a lot of work I liked. That samurai picture is, I think, quite good. I liked Jeff Dee's stuff, too, though it's a very different style. But there's no question that the average quality of art in WotC...

Ok. Core rules only changes things pretty drastically. :) Darklone: D'oh! Of course you're better off going straight warlock in this case. I'm being dumb. A wizard with scrolls is certainly a viable option. As Daedrova says, scorching ray has lots of bang for the buck. A wand of magic...