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I will begin by saying this is a great thread with a lot of really good ideas and insight. Firstly, I think that a 'sandbox'-style campaign would be a good approach for a questing knight campaign. That way, there would be several quests worthy of knights laying in wait for the PCs to happen...

I played my first game of D&D back in 1982, at my family Christmas gathering at my Grandparents' home. I received the Frank Mentzer Basic Set as a gift from my Grandfather, and my Father and I, after perusing the instructions and coloring the dice (yeah, the dice that came with the set didn't...

My advice is simple... LOAD UP on Philosophy courses. I'm serious, brother. Philosophy will not teach you how to write or how to design games. It will teach you how to THINK, linearly and non-linearly, and will aquaint you with constructive methodologies of creation and critical evaluation. In...

I'm pretty certain that this is not the map you are refering to, but it may do the trick. Here's the link: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dumm/20071031&pf=true

The Curse of Xanathon (OD&D module X3) This one has a great plot... the Duke that rules the city of Rhoona has been stricken with madness, and issues a series of really insane edicts, including a ban on dwarves that riles the neighboring dwarf nation of Rockhome to war. The PCs poke around...

I highly recommend both the Morningstar Campaign Setting from Goodman Games, and the Scarred Lands Campaign Setting from S&S/Necromancer. Both are wonderfully executed settings in the tradition of Greyhawk, the Realms, and Tolkien's Middle Earth. While both are fairly traditional vanilla...

My lucky day, indeed. This is swote! Thanks, buddy.

Good Question. The answer: iron is considerably more scarce on this planet than on historical earth, and very few people know how to do anything with it... iron-working is a carefully guarded secret among the priests of the dwarven forge-god, and among a certain cabal of magicians paticularly...

I have a homebrew campaign setting currently in the works, and I intend to monkey around with the tech level a bit, as well as with the availability of certain resources. Specifically, I intend to populate the world with Bronze Age and New Stone Age civilizations. A few civilizations will have...

I guess it's cool with me, dude.

Many folks have fond memories of the Caves of Chaos from the Keep on the Borderlands adventure module. However, we don't seem to hear much about the Caves of the Unknown, which were mentioned in the same module. It is likely that most people that have been through the Caves of Chaos never went...

I'm for self-determination. Let the halflings decide for themselves.

Congratulations, Voadam; it's a rare mind that can render OBVIOUS what was once non-existent... I like this idea so much that I'm considering using it... pending a review of the RAW, of course.

I change XP and Treasure conventions; I award 1/3 XP and about 2/5 treasure, and fewer magic items... I simply have way too many objections to how quickly PCs advance in 3.5E, and I prefer gritty, low-magic play. That's the only major change to the rules that I make, but I do make several...

The table originally appeared in Appendix D of the 1st ed. DMG (p. 194). It appeared again in the 2nd Ed. Monstrous Compendium, either in the Outer Planes MC Appendix or the Fiend Folio MC Appendix (I don't remember which), under the "Hordling" entry. I don't know anything about the table that...

That's why I voted for "Cross City Race"... I figure the adventure itself will either be gold or it'll be very, very lame; it's a crap-shoot, really. Either way, it will probably at least have some yoink-worthy non-combat encounters appropriate for an urban crawl, and that's just gravy.

At my table, it's Standard Operating Procedure for the players to create 2-3 PCs each... it's an aforegone conclusion that the first one probably isn't going to make it...

Thank you for your kind words. A dragon-quest is often really just a dragon horde-quest with a dragon in the way. I simply pondered what might occur if a dragon was already killed somehow, but its treasure yet unclaimed... brain-poop, really. One of it's most beautiful features is that it can be...

You might check out the Book of Magecraft from AD&D 2E's Birthright campaign setting... it had its own system of ley-lines and magical power sources and nodes and such that may or may not resemble what your DM is doing.

I am also working on an adventure designed to introduce new players to 3.5E... and I am using The Keep on the Borderlands as a template around which to design this adventure. I shared some of your sentiments regarding the map, so I have made a new map. The KotB's original site was a canyon with...