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Without boring you with a ton of detail, I've been giving some thought to a session that will occur in my campaign in the future. Basically, a princess in a far away kingdom is being manipulated by a succubus. The same succubus has already assumed the form of the Queen and killed the King. Now...

I don't recall writing this post.... Oh, 2005. Wow. OK. :)

I'm just going to add here that OD&D had no components for spells. Not just (M) - no components at all. That's right, those old grognards playing OD&D raised the dead and resurrected people with complete impunity and it cost them absolutely nothing. My book gives suggestions for how to replace...

At least the humor in it isn't lost on folks. :)

Clearly the people in this thread still discussing this topic haven't gone and downloaded my book on the topic. You can download it free, folks, I don't even care. That's your homework assignment here. Go download it (the link is back a page), read it, and come back when you're ready to...

I'm trying to work out a sort of history to a campaign I'm working on, and the campaign as I have it written involves a somewhat convoluted plot involving someone using an Orb of Dragonkind to attack a nearby kingdom. The essence of that plot isn't entirely relevant to this discussion. However...

Just popping in to plug my book. I wrote almost 50 pages on this topic. Immaterial Components - Clever Games | DriveThruRPG.com It's pay-what-you-want. If you want to pay $0 for it, feel free. Plenty of other people do. Basically, it includes variations on every spell that requires a...

Sorry for the necromancy. But I thought this was hilarious. I googled this topic. I was curious how big the thieves' guild should be in a town I'm currently working on. And there I am, right above me, giving sage advice on this topic nearly 14 years ago. lol

Someone said they were level 7-8. OK - that makes more sense then. I was expecting them to be 1st level, and I just kept thinking to myself, "What kind of naughty word GM pits a party of 1st level characters against an ancient blue dragon and a vampire?"

Not really sure how this 16+ year old thread eluded me all this time, but I can add my campaigns to the list. Order vs. Chaos 500 years ago, the last king of the land decided that he'd had enough with demihumans - orcs, goblins, kobolds, et al. With fervent public support, he raised a vast army...

Looking at an Aasimar Paladin, with maybe Divine Crusader PrC. That seemed pretty interesting, though I'm not terribly into Tyr/Torm. Was trying to find a deity that's a little more off the beaten path. Tymora or Sune, perhaps. Alternatively, was considering some sort of Paladin/Ranger (yea, I...

I'm joining a 3.5 campaign. The party has: a Wizard, a favored soul, a dwarven cleric, and some sort of paladin/rogue. The GM said the group needs a front-line tank/fighter type. I'm OK with fighters, but not a big fan of barbarians or rangers, and I've never played a monk. He's suggesting...

My current campaign is centered around the Rod of Seven Parts, but I don't use the stupid "rod is just a bunch of air powers" aspect that the boxed set had. Instead, it is actually a Rod of Pure Law - and once the wielder acquires 4 pieces, they have the ability to summon a modron - which, based...

The only main house rule I have is around "taking 20" which is a 3.x holdover, and mostly applies to picking locks. -- You can "take 20" while picking a lock, but doing so automatically breaks a lockpick. Thieves' tools come with 5 lock picks. Once all picks are broken, a new one has to be...

Ok, I got Monte Cook to respond over on Twitter, since he was the one who ran it (or so I was remembering anyway). He responded that it was something he created called Dungeon Delve, and as far as he knows, it was never released. :(

Gen Con, circa .... I don't know, probably early 2000s? The WoTC designers ran a tournament-style game. Essentially, the game consisted of a dungeon, and parties would enter said dungeon. If any party members survived the dungeon, the players could write notes and leave them on a billboard...

Thing is, Gygax himself would have thought this was hilarious.

I'm looking for resources, ideas, inspiration around making D&D really dark. And if you read that and immediately a half a dozen rules supplement came to mind, I'm gonna stop you right there. I don't want rules. A lot of these are half-assed attempts at really limiting magic, resources, items...

I backed it the moment I saw it. Hell, I might not ever even use it, but it's still cool!

FYI, I've created a group on Facebook as a home for discussing all things WoHF. Wilderlands of High Fantasy Seems the Judge's Guilds forums on Facebook are no longer available, so there's really no place for fans of this amazing setting to congregate. I intend to scour the internet, inviting...