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  1. BigRedRod

    Speak with dead

    Has anybody got a more in depth explanation of when this spells fails to provide any useful information? I'm curious as in one of the games I run the cleric has just cast this upon the remains of a former friend in order to get them to explain their actions. However, he killed the friend with a...
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    UA : Individual summoning lists

    UA lists a numbers of variants which can be applied to the summoning spells. One of these that caught my fancy was giving each caster an individual list. For each summoning spell he leans he gains a single type of creature he can summon with that spell, then for each spellcaster level he gains...
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    Guards popping out for a sly [blank]?

    I was busily slapping some notes on paper for a location which I expect my group will be heading for in the next few sessions and I hit a stumbling block. Nothing major, but just one of those little details that gets bigger the more you think about it and don't find an answer. The plan was to...
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    Knowledge[Local] : How Local?

    This skill is causing me a few headaches. Clearly it should only give knowledge on a single "locality", and yet I've never seen anyone specify where the knowledge is based. Am I missing something? Is this knowedge really supposed to be usuable to give local knowledge in any part of the world...
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    Bolts, Open Lock and Thief Tools

    Several times during the course of my DMing I've included doors which were bolted from the inside, and in each case my players have usually fallen in to a well of despair at the sight of them and set about forcing their way through the portal. I use interior bolts on doors where it makes...
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    Weaving the plot around the characters

    It seems to me that the best type of gaming is that which revolves around the players, and yet it seems the rarest. Published modules don't take this in to account for the most part (usually just giving a little "perhaps a player recieves a message from his uncle about blah blah" in one of the...
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    Power Components

    A brief flick through my Eberron CS reminded me of these wonderful little things. Optional (and expensive) components that give a spell the possiblity of a little extra boost. Small details like this are things which I really do love. So, I was wondering wether anyone had crafted a large list...
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