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Make the ring able to make a sword into a flame sword. Give it a few levels and let it do a fireball or such every so often. By that time they should have other magical items to help take up the slack. The brooch could imbue the arrows with lightening like a shocking grasp type level. A few characte...

Passed away at age 88 at her home in Portland, OR Monday 1-22-18 after several months of illness.

The Wizard of Earthsea was my big push into fantasy before I started gaming (unlike the more common Conan the Barbarian crowd) right alongside Tolkein and Lewis. Another icon for the genre now gone.

Snoring Rock wrote:It has been a while. Where is the rule about the CR for turning undead? As I remember, it is determined by HD. Is it 10 + HD = CR? Where is it in the rules?

Check Page 180 of the PHB (6th printing)

Being in WotC's and Paizo's stomping grounds, most of the FLGS' here are loaded with 5E and Pathfinder. That being said, Seattle has a huge gaming community, with plenty of stores. The closest one to me is near UW csmpus, but he has a pretty diverse collection; I actually picked up some C&C and...

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Have a new FLGS, Legends of Gamers, opening up about an hour north of me. The owner ran the one shop, Ancient Wonders, that was a treasure trove of games and comics before the Hwy Dept cut his access off and his building in half killing the store a couple years back. Will have to go check it out whe...

Otherwise, there would be no point in playing a wizard since granting the illusionist physical effects and such coupled with the ability to mimic ANY wizard spell with the image spells would make the wizard the more restrictive class. Not at all! Illusionists are restricted in many ways even if the...

Liked GW though I didn't get into it until 2rd ed and it was not really GM friendly per se as opposed to other games at the time. Likewise on running it as a serious campaign though. The crowd I was around in north WA- Puget Sound region actually considered MA more gonzo than they did GW given the m...

Reading all that... have tentacle fingers rather than squid face and have it eat through its hands. The head just has no features other than glowy eyes...then it can eat twice the brains. :p

I will either have something in mind when I make the character, thus molding the character to fit the name/concept or use Gary's Book of Names to find something that picques my interest.

Have two FLGS left here. One is purely a CCG shop and the other is similar with a side of WH40k and 5e splitting a single set of shelves and that's it for the RPGs. The board games they carry is pretty much the same selection you can find at Target or Walmart.

Saw this on one of my manga sites and thought you might find it amusing Lurker. lol Puglins!

But to have the same spell cancel the same spell.. magic missile vs itself? Yup. Equal and opposite reaction/opposing like force type thing...or more like fighting fire with a back fire. I had the same reaction when first reading that way back when and agree, it really doesn't suit in more cases th...

(snicker) high level mages helicoptering in to save the day...(rofl) Oh that brings back a FUN memory from around 1986. Jerry Caldwell (RIP) was running one of his mega-dungeons called Wolf Mountain and our party was somewhere on the fifth or sixth level of the place. I forget our PC levels but it w...

Keep in mind too that for every decision you make outside of the 'norm' as it were, you are going to have to carry that forward through the rest of the campaign which can build up into a LOT of paperwork and a pain in the arse to keep track of. Tree probably has the best magic modifier rules in his ...

You are nice. Would not have allowed it as that is not how the spell works and the more appropriate spell being reverse of plant growth.

I tend to run a high magic game normally which doesn't really depend on any tweakage of the rules so much I think as it does instilling that sense of wonder via the setting itself. You mentioned flying pirate ships and floating castles. Those are good starts though they should also not be used so of...

Found it. OGL SRD Excluded monster list - Monster Manual: Beholder Beholder, gauth Carrion crawler Displacer beast Githyanki Githzerai Kuo-toa Mind flayer (Illithid) Slaad, blue Slaad, death Slaad, gray Slaad, green Slaad, red Umber hulk Yuan-ti abomination Yuan-ti halfblood Yuan-ti pureblood Expand...

Yes to all as far as I know.

That's kind of how I saw it too Lurker. Easier to work within the existing framework provided than re-inventing the wheel. Sure it isn't perfect but you can get the general flavor desired.

Another method, if you have the CKG and don't mind playing a little loose with the domains, is to use the mana point system from the CKG. Spells cast by the cleric from within their deity's spheres of influence cost fewer mana than other spells. So a cleric of a healing deity casting a cure serious ...

serleran wrote:I have to have a Penguin arch-villain now, happily concocting some gelid plot to freeze the world.

Bow before the all powerful C-el, ruler of the frozen north! (something like that?)

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Rise of the Shield Hero, vol 8

Wolf and Parchment, vol 1

12 web novels as the chapters are translated

If you were an intelligent dragon, what is the first illusionist (wizard) spell you would learn? Color change... yep, that green dragon is really blue... throw that one at them, particularly for those who prepare with protections vs breath weapon and the second spell is the breath weapon itself.. f...

Okay...that was what was throwing me off. The non-uniform progression of hp per HD per age. :) Yeah...Dragons and Giants were really disappointing to me (and still are to an extent) when seeing game stats versus the metric tons worth of myths and legends I've read over the decades. (chuckle) To me t...

Meh. Home alone and nothin' under the tree here.

Still waitin' for my fully stocked Gunstar. (grin)

I'm not following your math on that Trav. You would have to have 680/20 is 34...how does the 12 work into it?

Made me pull out my 2e MM and that has me thinking now. lol My players (if I ever get any again) are going to really hate me. (grin)

Yeah. I had the hardest time understanding how a negative energy attack that goes after life force can erase what are essentially memories, ingrained muscle memory, experience and knowledge of learned skills which are what levels represent, without actually affecting the body beyond hit point damage...

You can do a bunch of look up for 3.5 rules and such too. D&D Wiki for incorporeal critters basically has them unaffected by any physical attack and even magical only has a 50% chance of doing damage at all, including holy water and such. Unless it is a ghost touch imbued weapon or armor which a...