On a completely unrelated note, I find it amusing that you go through the trouble to mask the email, but use gmail.

Mira (A day without sunshine is like, well, night)

I'm more in favor of treating MR as the MR vs 1st level spells, then reducing it by 5% for each level of spell it is above first. That gives a reason to use those high level spells to get past it rather than Magic Missile.

Mira (Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?)

They were always demons and devils in our games, if we didn't like the changes 2E made, we didn't use them, simple as that

I hate the idea of Planescape too, sorry, the Outer Planes aren't there for mortals to live in.

Mira (OK, who stopped payment on my reality check?)

Having used a similar sword in the past, the way we worked it didn't have percentages, but the sword would slice the barriers. Not destroy them. So you had to cut a hole big enough for your purposes. (minimum 3 rounds to get through a barrier if you used a triangular cut) The sword we had was +5, so...

Been playtesting D&D Next, there's still a lot of areas that need work, but the basic premise is much like 1E in it's simplicity. 3E and 4E are crap as far as I'm concerned, but Next has potential. Might be TOO simple if you were heavily into 2E's options though :D They have been running this at...

You could create one in GIMP by making a very large brush spot, then using a smaller brush spot with the eraser. then erase the part you don't want.

Do this on a separate layer, the place it over the original layer.

Mira (It's all a pigment of your hallucination)

Maybe use Demi-Shadow Monsters or Shadow Monsters?

Improved Phantasmal Force doesn't have intelligible speech, but Shadow Monsters are quasi-real.

Mira (I don't have a license to kill. But I have a learner's permit)

Finally saw The Hobbit on DVD. It was entertaining, but if you expect it to be as the book you might not like it. They have taken quite a few liberties. Probably because you couldn't make it into a trilogy otherwise :D I had to laugh at one spot, the only Wilhelm Scream in the movie was from a gobli...

Way too much snow and cold here. Even when we've had warmer days, like 40F, so little snow melts off that you'd never notice it. And I HATE snow. But I married a Minnesotan. Who can never get enough of it. My cats cuddle close to me seeking warmth too. That's good at least :) Mira (Si hoc adfixum in...

Lots of free forums out there, I'm sure you can find something that will work.

Mira (I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it.)

Oh, I have the tech, I use a tablet, though it's mostly just for reading, and I use my Macbook all time, for both work and play. I just avoid all the social networking stuff. If I were involved there, I'd have to put up some facade that would be acceptable to work, which would be fake to all the peo...

I certainly don't, I avoid it like the plague it is :D The people I care to talk to have ways of reaching me. I'm a private person and prefer to remain that way. I'm certainly chatty enough around certain people, but I definitely don't want the world breathing down my neck. Mira (If you can't be a g...

I haven't seen it yet, though we plan to at some point. I just don't want to deal with the 3D version, which is what most of the theaters have. I liked The Avengers movie myself, there were some very repeatable lines in there. IMO, The Hulk had a some of the best scenes. I do have to admit that most...

I check it every once in a while, but it's almost never got anything new. It appears to have faded away unfortunately.

Mira (A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking)

I've never really worried about it, I've created many new critters, some have been named the same in other supplements as I would find out later, but I didn't care, I used them how I made them in the first place :) In my longest running game, I had drow that were very different from the books, mostl...

Of course before he unleashes her on some poor unsuspecting victims, er heroes, he will have the joy of listening to her gossip non-stop with 5 heads...

Then again, he's already been describe as mad

Mira (Schizophrenia beats being alone)

That was one thing I liked about 1E AD&D, the NWPs were NOT defined, and therefore were not a big impact on the game. I didn't hate the 2E NWPs entering in, but we never really gave them a lot of notice, they existed, but didn't define us. I don't want a lot of rules for stuff that is only flavo...

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Happy Christmas to All! And to all a good fight!

Mira (Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot)

I like it Should take the players quite some time to get through it if they manage to survive it. Mostly looks like a few spelling errors and formating issues would clean it up to a more 'professional' quality.

Mira (Things work better if you plug them in)

Character Class – Bandit/Buccaneer This class combines the fighting potential of a fighter with the stealth of a thief and the defensive capabilities of a monk. Characters of this class may use any weapon available to fighters and they attack on the fighter table. Their thieving abilities include: O...

These were all used in our longest running AD&D game. Corona's Spell Shield Level: 4 Range: 3” Duration: 2 rounds/level Components: V, S, M Casting Time: 3 segments Saving Throw: None Area of Effect: 3” x 3” wall Explanation/Description:This spell creates a magical curtain which inhibits spells ...

I was wondering if we might want to have a section for custom stuff we have all created, it's not directly part of the BIP project, but it might be fun to see what all people have created. Personally, I don't visit any other AD&D related sites, so it would be nice to see it here :) Mira (Too bus...

VERY NICE!

I've been on a few sea adventures in AD&D and it would have been fantastic to have something like that to see what was really going on

Mira (Say nothing and they think your stupid; talk and they know for sure.)

Well, I had been checking in periodically, and didn't see new posts. What I hadn't noticed was that I was not logged in any more. Finally logged in and got caught up on stuff :D I really need to get interested in AD&D again, I miss tabletop gaming. I am pretty sure I could get my husband and a f...

We recently switched from Comcast because they were proving terribly unreliable here in MN. When we used it in IL, it was generally pretty good. Now we're on Qwest DSL fiber-optic and it's WAY faster than Comcast ever was. I can't really test on Speedtest at the moment, I have some anime torrents co...