I always knew this day would come. I just had no idea it would come this soon. Godspeed Gary. You will be missed, and thank you for your gift to gamers and the world.

Someone still owns the domain.

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I'll never really understand the 3rd ed monster hp system. Sure the special hd for various beings is easy (i.e. d12 for undead, etc); but the massive numbers (i.e. 27d8+357+6 (560)). Why so many damn bonuses. The hd listed in that example is a sampling from their epic level handbook but in general ...

They sell off what they don't want, but NPCs tend to be quite pessimistic on whether the item is actually magical, so they often require a demonstration of its power before they buy it, if they're even interested in the magic item in the first place. Most magic items they can't find a buyer for they...

Lower Resistance should be (it better be!) in the mage spell compendiums.

Yep. I just looked. It's in the 2nd mage compendium page 526 or in the Tome of Magic.

I'm okay with invisibility the way it works. It has all the other senses working against it, and even vision if you the shimmer is detected.

I have actually seen rolls that good before, rolled up in front of the group. I've also been challenged in the past for having decent rolls and been able to reproduce them. So I wouldn't assume cheating based on the stats. I've never had a problem with a player that gets phenomenally lucky at the t...

No way in hell. The Virgin Mary herself could tell me she rolled that sort of character and I'd not believe it. The highest overall scores I've ever seen legitimately rolled before my eyes in my entire gaming life (about 30 years now) is the druid in our decade-long game: STR 16 DEX 17 CON 16 INT 1...

Let's start a discussion on the Oh Joy! feeling of having a powergamer in your game. I'll start. We just added a new player to our group, an acquaintence of a good friend that shares the same church. Anyway, the friend asked if he could come play, and I thought, sure! I got the room to add one more ...

I guess I'm just not seeing how it's bad or unbalanced, especially when opponents can just a easily use those spells against the PCs. :twisted: I don't think he's referring to the spells themselves, Halaster, more to the incapacitation and vulnerability of characters or creatures caught by such spe...

I think you did send me the maps if I can remember where I put them. Heh.

Send me what you have when you get them done, and I'll see what I can do.

We'll still need a mapper to convert my hand drawn maps for Level 8 into print format, so if anyone is familiar with Campaign Cartographer, LMK. I have some limited experience with CC3. I've watched the tutorials, and am starting to get a better grasp on sheets and layers and how they work in CC3. ...

I already answered this one: Mystara.

Another game world I want to eventually run a campaign or 5 through is Mystara. 15 gazateers can't be all that bad, and it looks intriguing enough to me to want to give it a try. I also like the idea of orcs having their own homeland (Orcs of Thar). I imagine that'd be quite a culture shock to stere...

But what will the druid do? Why would s/he go with the party? Sure, you could come up with one-shot's that might motivate the druid, but eventually you'll be grasping at straws. It will take a lot of gymnastic storytelling contortions to continually leaves hooks out there for a guy who's job is to ...

I think Mira may have had an epiphany of genius on that one! :D The more I think about it, the more I like it, though I do think it needs to be changed from deducting 5% per level above 1st. Just like how wizards were based on 11th level and subtracted/added depending on whether they were above or ...

The Realms for me, of course. Greyhawk captured my interest early on in the 1e days, but there was always something missing about it I could never put my finger on. I wanted to like Greyhawk, and tried setting things up in it, but I think it was its lack of detailing that put me off. Then the Realms...

Most of the changes I liked/disliked between 1e and 2e have already been addressed. 2e Plusses: no more THAC0 charts, a better ranger, the priest class and deities so much better redefined (in the Realms anyway), and even though it was truly horrible in places in its own right, 2e psionics is miles ...

Mira, I never thought of it that way, but it makes sense. More powerful (ie higher level) spells should be (in theory at least) more powerful than low level spells. I've always been coming from the theory that high level wizards are more adept at using magic and hence have more power, since a highe...

Halaster Blackcloak wrote:I thik Varl was having an issue with that as well, if I recall correctly. Varl?

To be honest, I haven't fired up Core Rules in a while, but from what I remember, I think McDeath is right on the saving format issue. I'll check when I get home tonight.

Sounds good Halaster. Question: do you take in side projects by outside sources? If so, where do you post rules and game supplement alternatives?

I'm with Mira on the deity triad of books for the FR. Outstanding resources those, and to a slightly lesser degree, the Deities and Demigods book too. They're definitely core rulebooks to me, as they help me define my priesthoods.

Now this certainly rarely if ever happens. How many people have legitimately gotten a character to 25th or 30th level? :? Not I, nor anyone I know. 15th is as high a character has attained in my games, and that was an NPC rogue with the group. I've never liked divine ascension and the idea of morta...

I don't. ADDC has been down for so long, I removed it from my tabs. I hope Z's okay. It's odd for someone to just drop off the face of the internet like that without at least letting someone know.