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80 mile x 120 mile Hexmap 141 Wilderlands-style hexmap locations Overview History & races Geographic features Settlements, strongholds & ruins Other material A weird science fantasy AD&D setting I've developed for my campaign, enjoy & let me know what you think.

PLANET ALGOL Inspired by the Wilderlands, Formalhaut, Carcosa, Lin Carter, Clark Ashton Smith, the Dying Earth, etc.

Had a rules dispute on sunday. A player was trying to place a close blast and the DM insisted that it could only be placed the same ways as in the example in the PHB graphic. Like below, with the Xs representing the blast and the 0 the caster. XXX_ XXX_ XXX_ ___0 or XXX XXX XXX _0_ All of...

Sometimes riding the DM's train is a lot of work, and the result in my case is characters that want "simple" yet adventurous lives. My 3.5 rogue: "We have to save the kingdom from the undead demon orc warlord? Undead plagues, buried demon gods, indestrutable evil artifacts? Yeesh, I'm having...

I've been going over my collection of pre-4E adventures as fodder for my campaign...and I keep hitting the "monster speedbump" And a lot of those monsters, if they weren't in the 3.5 MM, they were in Tome of Horrors. It's too bad that because of the GSL Necromancer won't be doing a 4E Tome of...

NIGHTWING This being looks much like slender, yet muscular, hairless male human with lustrous ebony skin. Great membranous wings rise behind its shoulders, and its head has smooth black horns, long pointed horns, crimson orbs for eyes, and handsome facial features that are manlike yet...

BOG ALLOSAUR This bipedal horse-sized dinosaur looks like a hybrid between an allosaur and an alligator. It has muscular forearms that end in fierce webbed talons and a thick, long armor-plated tail. Bog allosaurs are smallish carnosaurs found in tropical swamplands. They are...

Carnivorous Flying Monkey Swarm, Level 5 Elite Skirmisher Large natural beast(swarm), XP 400 Initiative +7 Senses Perception +7; low-light vision Swarm Attack aura 1; the carnivorous flying monkey swarm makes a basic attack as a free action against each enemy that begins its turn in this aura...

One of my favorite abstractions of earlier versions of D&D was the ten-minute turn. You rest and bind your wounds after a fight, so most encounters use a turn of time. It takes a turn to search a normal-sized room. You can explore x amount of the dungeon in a turn. The DM rolls for a random...

Are the staffers at WOTC unaware that Ioun is a creation of sci-fi/fantasy author Jack Vance?

That bit in the dungeoncraft article about the "the ancient empire of the tieflings" just changed my mind entirely about the inclusion of Tieflings in the PHB. I try to base my D&D campaign on classic swords & sorcery fiction tropes. RE Howard, CA Smith, Lin Carter, etc. One of the cliches is...

In my DMing I've tried to keep it "classic swords & sorcery" as well as gygaxian. I banned spiked chains, 86'd gnomes and halflings as PC races, I give XP to players for readings books from the 1st ed. DMG recommended reading list. As a result of that list, I've gotten into the "Dying Earth"...

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/drdd/20070921 Seeing the gold ole' shaggy manticore definately makes me feel good about the monster design for 4E. My DDM manticore worked as a female for a small family group, but the default manticore should have a beard by Crom!

I don't recall any mention of sorcerers in the 4E tidbits we've been fed, but the Warlock is a base class and there's seems to be lots of work going into retooling Wizards....

Although I imagine that they'll be rebranded as "Demons." Reasoning: - Asmodeus wil be a God whereas Orcus is going to be a Monster. - I believe there was a reference that alignment was going to be less a part of the game world or somesuch. - WOTC seems to have a program to rebuild their...

Just came across this: "..... The cult of ODD, a band of evil fighters lead by the Evil Lord Diaglus controls the northern shores. Diaglus is known for his adherence to the cult’s simple tenet of “ODD is the only true religion. All the other religions are only poor imitations of the real...

I first heard of this idea from Conan, and the more I think of it the more it makes sense to me. It allows players trying to make a dex-fighter/swashbuckler types to not have to spend a feat on WF. It encourages players of high dex characters to use light weapons, allowing for more weapon...