Someone notified me that Planet ADnD is down also (might be back up like that site is a big deal anymore). :roll: BTW, have any of you used any 3rd ed stuff and converted it backwards (monsters, spells, items, adventures, etc.). There's a lot of crap but I find myself picking through a handful of t...

Have you looked at OpenRPG and what it can do? I know it can do the 'fog of war' stuff, and you can decide how much to reveal on any map. (I worked with the developer on the OSX side of that, it worked under Windows, now it also works on OSX) It's free, so it doesn't hurt to try it out :) I'll chec...

I noticed it was dead too yesterday. No clue as to why.

I don't know what it is, but I absolutely love the idea of using one of those until I see the pictures, and then I get the feeling that it's taking something away from the game. Maybe I'm just too gun-shy after seeing the effects of video games on the hobby, and afraid it would give the game a vide...

Nothing in d20. They're introducing "Tieflings" in 4.x. I believe they were a playable race in planescape, some sort of human "touched" with demonic blood or traits. One might have horns, another a forked tongue or tail, and I'm assuming, because it's >=3e, some sweet powerz. So...

Varl, maybe you've posted it before, but can you remind us what you're using for projector mapping? Software/hardware/cost/any caveats you can think of would be really helpful. I'd love to give it a go if I ever had the time to make up some nice maps. Here's an example of a similar setup to what I ...

RE: laptops - agreed, they can be a great DM tool. But you should have seen this table with 5 of them sitting there. I don't know how you'd even reach the chips around them without knocking over your drink. Yeah, that'd be a bit much. RE: hellboy - I'm too lazy to post a picture, but google image s...

Good job on those minis, Zherbus! The Wyvern looks incredible!

These are the same people that went nuts over the splat books in 2e, then switched to 3<=X<4 e and really started the ball rolling on this silly power escalation and kewl-powerz trend and now they're surprised that it's gotten out of control. Serves them right. Those were the same assholes that chi...

I don't have a great answer here. The points about too many undeveloped rooms are quite valid. What if my party turns right at that fork, into the massive grey eastern area of the dungeon. Either I need to get creative real fast, or find some way to railroad them back into the developed section of ...

Nice work, Doirche! That's a spicy meatball! /The Mask

I played in a brief Traveller game back in the 90s with some friends, and while the game itself was interesting, let's just say the GM had a thing for Kafers. We were charged with a recovery mission to retrieve a lost jumpship from some planet, and my character's speciality was jumpship flight exper...

I hear you on the card stock problem. Those Deviantart pics ar great. That'd be all you'd need to make serviceable cards.

I use the Battlegrounds program from the Battlegrounds website. While it's a great program for what it does (visual internet AD&D sessions for remote gamers), and thanks to Heruca over there, I have managed to modify it enough for my local gaming sessions. Still, I wouldn't mind seeing someone t...

When it comes to room configuration inside dungeons, if you really want to convey a certain type of feel towards each level, you have to consider both the dungeon's history and its current inhabitants. I feel the history of a dungeon explains a lot when it comes to determining its shape and room str...

Which sources were you using as I'm curious? I've been contemplating on doing this for my own writing uses as well. The Blacksway website, Wizards has its own monster forum, the myriad of user websites linked from many locations that have created new creatures, and just plain ole Google searches ma...

It's funny. I've been working on gathering as many original, new 3e creatures as I can find for the past, what, 8 years or so, in an effort to take those truly unique creature concepts and convert them for AD&D use. I don't know how ethical or legal it might be to do this publicly in a forum lik...

Sunny!!! Man, I'm from the Midwest, I'm not used to all this rain, LMAO, really though, it's not that bad, Heh. I'm serious. You've never heard that Sequim is really the sunniest spot in western washington? I know that means only inches of rain a year, compared to feet, but it's something. :wink: I...

So, the moral of the story Halaster just wrote must be: even if you're playing a lich, don't let your desire for power supercede your judgment...or your friends. That's where the lich made its fatal mistake. It trusted Halaster the character to give him power as one of his apprentices, but why would...

radwizard wrote:I'm actually across the bay from Varl right now, and for 5 more weeks, lol, that is if he is in Mt. Vernon, I'm in Sequim

The sunniest place in western Washington. You going to the naval base at Bangor?

That's great news Halaster! I know how you feel, seeing I've just restarted my game and we've had 3 sessions so far. March must be the restart-your-game month. And no, I won't be driving out to Chicago to play any time soon.

I think the variety of having poison types of varying strengths and effects is one of the things that makes AD&D great. Wouldn't it suck to know Manticore poison, scorpion poison, pixie sleep poison, manmade poisons, and medusa poison all had the same efficacy and effect?

My own thoughts on illusions. Illusion magic has always been an odd duck in AD&D. It's whole focus centers on disbelief by the target in whatever the illusion happens to be. That's pretty much where the power of illusions comes from; whether or not it can fool a target. The illusionist should be...

Specialty priests are all I use now too. Welcome to BIP too Minstrel!

Also, while it may not live up to your expectations or desires Halaster, I wouldn't mind an Undermountain expansion that had no art other than the map. Art is only useful to me anyway when important props or areas can be shown to the players instead of having to describe them, but hey, we're DMs. We...