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So, what's the complaint? Sometimes they're the bog-standard skeletons that cause peasants and ignorant barbarians to quake in fear (you, of course, have a cleric handy who can tell you about them in detail, and a wizard who can make some if he so chose). Sometimes they're skeletons that the...

"I Suggest you give me all of your loot. While considering the reasonablness of this suggestion, I recommend you consider my spell list, your Will save, and my lack of objections to hollowing you out and steering you around like a meat-puppet." "Uh..." "I Modify Memory you into remembering...

Sam: "I'm so sorry, Mr. Baggins!" *dropkick* Everyone knows he was the real hero of the story, anyways.

Was also very much not a fan of the "Izrador is undefeatable." That being said, I brainstormed a few ways of handling him. The first, and most obvious way, is to remember that the real problem isn't Izrador, it's the world. The world is Izrador's prison, but it also stops the gods from...

Ah, but they get V's soul, not his body. Specifically, they get to have V's soul in each of their presences for an equivalent amount of time that the Splice was maintained. Besides, I really don't think that the Trio care about V's family. I think that if they do manage to wrest control...

The fiend's backup plan involved a lot of failure points; that the imp would sacrifice itself delivering V's head instead of pointing out that oral agreements were not considered binding by the 9 hells, that Durkon had Raise Dead prepared and the diamond handy, that the spell would be promptly...

"Yeah, we heard how the persnickety guy has gone missing. Possibly he encountered a hazard while cataloging damage done to traps and caught a +3 Soul-Eater greataxe to the face, then ended up falling down a bottomless pit." "...That sounds like an awfully specific happenstance." "Yeah, well...

It made more sense in 3.0. Also, it seems to me that it's essentially four casters in one body; every round, one of the four can cast from their own list. The Necromancer can throw out a Greater Spell Focus'd Heightened Finger of Death, the sorceror can cast sorcerously, and so forth.

How many people has the draconic family wronged in the acquisition of their horde? Might the original adventuring party want a set of sleeping armor to go with their draconic full plate? Given as the Seven Mounting Heavens are explicitly knows about the threat the Snarl poses and the limited...

You know, if the dragon had pulled hit-and-runs on the hulls of the Azure City Fleet, then the end result would be the same, only with V and those of his companions he couldn't Overland Flight or Water Walk in time alive. Cast AMF, dive-bomb the survivors into the ocean, swim down until they...

So, question for the morally-absolute folks. What's stopping you from playing a morally-absolute character? Just declare you're right, and revel in it? The guiding hand of your deity encouraging you to spare/slay the orc babies? Wrong. The devils popping up to tell you "Rock on, buddy!"...

Well, yes. But is the old man in the bathrobe with the crooked stick shouting faux-Latin at you a threat, or merely an oddity? One of the neat thing about 4E's mythos is that it gives you explicit liscense to have an acrobatic rogue pull off things as unexpected and unrealistic as...

Hmm. Just a thought: If V gets damned, or if his family are destroyed, then he has excellent motivations to free their souls, and his own. Were I in V's situation, I'd totally turn my massive divination research to finding the other gates, kicking them open, and then watching the universe...

Anyone can roll a 1 at any time, after all, and that's pretty much exactly what's required for an elf with a BAB of 6 or more to miss a Huge creature with a touch attack. That being said, V has spent an arbitrary amount of time trying to find a way to magically locate and contact people. If...

Or, alternately, the dragon would have sunk the fleet and hung around to sneer at the floundering ape-things. Plus, none of the back-up melee brigade has the damage out or range to stop the dragon from diving into the middle of them, munching on V, and flying away. I mean, this is a CR 19...

"What? You two? You already have holy powers! Whatever your problem is, deal with it! Do you know how many of my faithful I need to personally keep from dying in the next six seconds because they aren't big impressive heroes like you two? A lot! So about going out and saving some of my faithful...

My characters (both the characters I tend to GM and the ones I play) would totally haul this guy out of the dungeon and sell him to a sage. He'd be a wonderful faux-sphere of annihilation; you could destroy evil artifacts and the like by putting them inside him. If this plan was unfeasable...

Given that most dungeons are finite and closed, wandering monsters are a huge argument against trying to rush a dungeon. I mean, it's not like the monsters are appearing out of the aether, is it? Presumably, the orc patrol that stumbled across your resting place would have been attached to...

You're going to want divide and conquer. Against the lich, you'll want an extended ambush, with waves, reinforcements, and multiple methods to prevent him from fleeing. The idea isn't to destroy him, but to force him to use his spells, then bind him hand and jaw (hope he took Still and Silent...

You know, I've always had better results with carrots than sticks vis a vis preventing PCs from looting shopkeeps. A dealer in magic items who suffers a break-in and then hires the PCs to recover his loot (thereby getting the PCs to become known and honorable quantities in that area) works...