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Here is what I would do. The PCs burst in and are confronted with the big bad demon of evilness. Make it abundantly clear that this thing is WAY beyond their abilities. It scoops some of the cultists and eats them nonchalantly, growing larger as it does. Everyone, not just the good cleric /...

Rather than creating or crafting a contingency spell, is there someone within your assassin guild that you can give the letter to along with a large purse of coins with the instructions "Should I die, deliver this to The Grand High Inquisitor."?

I played a barbarian that had his teeth removed and replaced with adamantine teeth, giving him a bite attack. I think we treated it like a magical graft and it did not take up a body slot. I had an amulet and a face item with the teeth. Later, I enchanted the teeth so they would be magical (+1).

I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. Are you asking "How wealthy should a PC be in order to tackle Problem X?" Where Problem X is a monster, puzzle, etc.

I think DM of the Rings said it best.

To springboard off of this, in the current campaign I'm running one of my current players grilled me for a long time on why someone in the setting (a jungle frontier city known for mining) would want to be an adventurer. I gave various reasons as to why someone would want to give up the safety...

@Greenfield With acid attacks being applied normally, I always thought that meant you applied hardness without having to divide first, like with fire and cold. I had always thought force effects ignored hardness but now that I am looking for that passage I can't find it. :( Looks like it's...

A follow up question, if I crank up the HD on the Glabrezu, do the caster level of its spell like abilities and its spell resistance scale at all? How dangerous would it be to say that they do? Also, the Glabrezu is stuck on the prime material. Powerful magics pulled him and his demonic...

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So, a while ago I had my party run into a fight with a Glabrezu. The demon killed the NPC they were trying to escort, taunted them for their failing and teleported away. Now, I'm thinking that this demon is going to make a return appearance later on in the campaign. But I want him to have a...

If you dispel his weapons and armor, you only have a few rounds to shatter them. Now that you're a saint, you've got plenty of abilities to help defend yourself. Is there anyway you can just bull rush the death knight off the cliff? Summoned monster or something? Just be sure to find the...

For what it's worth, in the 3.5 Magic Item Compendium, the designers talked about how they goofed with pricing certain magic items, especially relics. They also acknowledged that in most of their playing that players would always opt for a stat boosting item over an item that had a situational...

I had a DM once that allowed us to sell magic items at book price. But the thing was, we were "selling" them to other adventurers or collectors. It almost became a barter system. "I'll give you this sword and glowing gem and you'll give me those boots. Deal?"

Spellbooks are special. One of the last PCs I played recently was a wizard. The DM did a spot check (tee hee) on our wealth to see how we were compared to the tables. If I counted my spellbook I was overwealthed. If I didn't I was underwealthed. Wizards, by design, seem to be massive time...

Hmm .. well, my first thought is that I would put Peacemaker somewhere as loot. Have you read through the AP entirely? I would put it in Oblivion. Same for the instant fortress and maybe the vestment of the archons. They look like the kind of things a certain beholder might keep. The...

By balance do you mean costs? Where to stick these items in the AP? Or just an idea on relative power?

I've always done WBL as book price. When you create a 9th level PC, you have 36,000 GP to spend on gear that your character has acquired somehow. You don't buy wands at 50% so why would you value your gear at 50%? Also, to some degree, having 36,000 GP to spend on gear means that a DM should...

Family members can be tricky. They can make excellent opportunities to roleplay for the players. But ... if every adventure turns into "Save Bob's Mother and Father ... again" then the players may begin to resent Bob. Or the Players will turn all of the future PCs into misanthropic orphans to...

It's a prereq to Craft Construct. I had a wizard that created himself an iron golem. I added a special platform onto the back so I could ride around on it. It was a compromise with the DM for letting me ride in it. ;)

Is there going to be another arcane caster in the group? If so, focus away. But if it is just you, you don't want to wind up in a situation where you really need spell X but you can't cast it. I would probably drop Necromancy. If you pick up Shadow Evocation, an illusion spell, you can...