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I know Lolth used to be called the Demon Queen of Spiders. I can believe 1E Deities & Demigods would say the archfiends are equivalent in power to lesser gods because, back in 1E, the power level of gods (in terms of game stats) was on par with the fiends from memory. I think it was only in 3E...

Ah, yes, I thought 3E did something like this. Worshippers draw on the divine power of the lower planes through the fiend as if the demon/devil/daemon lord were a kind of magic focus.

This makes me wonder, do gods even grant divine spells to their worshippers? Or do their worshippers just worship ideals related to them? I'm pretty sure in older editions of the game (1E and 2E anyway), gods directly granted divine spells. Could divine magic exist in a universe without gods...

Do Demon Lords and the Dukes of Hell grant spells to worshippers in the same way gods do? And if so, why aren't they divine? I understand that in default D&D you can just worship "Goodness" or "Evil". Would worshipping a Demon Lord/Duke of Hell be a similar thing - with the demon/devil being a...

Is there a basic outline map of the entire globe of Golarion in the campaign setting? (Like in the Greyhawk Gazetteer where there is a fold-out map of the Flanaess then down in the bottom corner there is a small outline of the entire globe of Oerth.)

Thanks for that! I found it on the Candlekeep site and downloaded it :)

I'm looking for a map of Neverwinter - a Forgotten Realm's city on the Sword Coast. Is there any FR book that has a map of the city? Thank you

Very interesting. So it is as I thought, Orcus's death takes place on the side lines. I really wonder what the design goal to kill him and replace him with Kiaransalee was? It's interesting to hear the H-series is so bad. Is it just H4 that is bad or are all of them terrible? I understand the...

All I know about Orcus's death is that he was slain by Kiaransalee, the drow goddess of undead. But in which D&D product is this event first outlined? Was there a novel line that told this story or series of modules detailing the event? I know the Planescape adventure Dead Gods involves the...

I'm still playing 3E and I was thinking of running the free downloadable Dungeon adventure "Touch of Madness" on WotC's website. This is part 1 in the Tear of Ioun trilogy. Unfortunately, the follow-up adventures, "Depths of Madness" (part 2) and "Brink of Madness" (part 3) were only released as...

I'd allow a character to do this but it would mean Wizards and such who probably don't have high Gather Info ranks (being a cross-class skill) would be less capable library researchers than, say, a street-smart rogue with lots of ranks in Gather Info.

This sounds like a good idea. So it will pretty much be like an Intelligence check to the untrained but those who do have skill in the field will have better chance as they will know which texts to seek out.

Just wondering which skill to have my players use when they research a topic at the city library. I understand d20 Modern has the Research skill and the Eberron Campaign Setting has the Research Feat (which allows you to use your Knowledge skills to research information). Having a feat to do...

Thanks everyone for the responses! Yes, I think I'll go for the 1E version as I can get it cheap on pdf. The 2E version I'd have to buy in print but some people are asking USD $100+ for it! There's a fan-based Gamma World adventure out there (GW11 Omega Project) that includes a Warden. Not...

OK. Thanks folks for the help. I thought you couldn't do it. It's kind of a nice touch, though, for a wizard to use in absolute desparation :)

One of my players was fresh out of useful spells - both memorised and on scrolls - and really wanted to cast a spell in a climatic battle. They asked if they could cast it from their spellbook. Can this be done? Effectively the spellbook would be like a bound collection of scrolls. If a spell...

Thanks for the feedback! With that evidence, I'd agree that they bleed the blood of the creature they are impersonating. Does change shape also include clothes/items of the creature to be impersonated or is it only the bodily form? For example, the doppelganger in his true form is wearing a...

If taking 20 means both failure and success over the course of 2 mins, and if you had the house rule that a roll of '1' meant breaking your lock picks, it would mean the PC would have to keep several backup sets of lockpicks if they intended to take 20 often :)

This came up in the game the other night too. The PCs wounded a disguised doppelganger (using its changeshape ability) and asked me what colour the blood was as they were suspicious. The doppelganger was disguised as a human. I said the blood was human blood. Let's pretend doppelganger blood...

Thanks for the feedback. This is what I thought. So for hold person to work or for the PC to directly target the enemy with fireball, he'd have to smash the glass then cast. With lightning bolt, it would be fine to fire the bolt outside so it passes *through* the glass (provided the damage is...