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I'd say for that strategy to work, the PCs would have to follow it along the complex.

Which is exactly what they did, carrying the entranced wizard on a litter.

While studying Curse of Strahd I noticed a fun easter egg (fun for a film/theatre geek like me anyway), and it got me wondering how many other TSR/WoC modules had fun easter eggs in them. Not just ref ...

Sorry, my years in Everquest are showing.

I admit, I had never looked at Oerth Journal since joining this site. Perfectly content was I to muddle about IMC with just the boxed set and a few old modules.

Then I perused #27, and everything h ...

This was the first session since switching over to 5e. The mechanic of the Sleep spell is vastly different than 1e/2e.

In 5e, when a 1st lvl Sleep spell is cast, the caster rolls 5d8. The total is ...

Just an update for anyone interested.

The party is in the temple proper. They've dispatched the lower level humans, and the smaller groups of undead in the south/central part of the complex.

Th ...

<RANT> 5e Find Familiar is just ridiculous, IMHO.

My group just converted over to 5e. They are completing KotB. This session was spent mapping the entire temple complex, without stepping foot ...

Just purchased Curse of Strahd over the weekend and, while it certainly can be combat intensive if the party desires, it is set up to play more social as well, with levels granted upon reaching certai ...

The biggest challenge would be casting the Falstaff character... I would love to play him.

I declined to audition for Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 just last week when I was told that Falstaff was to ...

What are you trying to accomplish here Osmium?

Exactly what the original post stated. A mana point system in place of the Vancian system. (I was under the mistaken idea that the 5e system was s ...

One can always look to Shakespeare for courtly intrigue and machinations.
"Aye, the play is the thing!"

Most of the women, and men for that matter, are only concerned with gossip and fashion, but ...

In fantasy novels, even novice mages could summon up a usable spell in most situations.

What I've always disliked about the Vancian system is the inflexibility. Unless one is mid to high level, the ...

Hrm, not sure about the Invoked Devestation, but the Rain of Colorless Fire sounds like they opened a controlled rift near a neutron star, or one of the poles of a black hole, and the intense radiatio ...

Second, because I wanted there to be a reasonable explanation for why there were so many skeletons and zombies under his command in that cave system. And, in an earlier campaign, I used that ability ...

I'm curious where the chips ended up landing.

They realized they had alerted the enemy, so they recruited a ranger. (The wife was unhappy with her fighter, whatcha gonna do?) The ranger and the e ...

Maybe if your players are not up to strength to fight a patrol of monsters you would have them get "lost" and stumble onto the hermit.

The hermit is undiscovered as yet.

Or into the Cave of t ...

The party recently acquired, and Identified, a staff of curing. Near fully charged.

The party has two clerics of 2nd level. The 6000 XP award to the possessor will level either one, but, they are c ...

Since forever I've used a mana point system for spells IMCs.

If the rules allow a PC to cast 4 1st level spells and 1 2nd second level, they instead have a total of 6 mana points to be cast as they ...

CruelSummerLord - the aptly named.

I'll be singing the subject line in my head the rest of the day. Cruel indeed.

Bear in mind, the population of Europe dropped by almost half in the late Roman period through about 600 AD, even with the slavic migrations, to an estimated 25 - 30 million souls. 20% due to lost kno ...

An admission. I've never played in a Greyhawk campaign. FR either, for that matter. My only contact with Oerth at all came through the books, a few modules plopped into homebrew campaigns, etc.

So, ...

At any rate, welcome aboard. What current system do you prefer?

-Lanthorn

p.s. you gotta find a Colossus Avatar.

AD&D, with some 2E thrown in for good measure. Taking a hard look at 5E ...

when Rider's Hobby Shop was the only place to find D&D material. The D&D section has shrunk a bit. Warhammer 40k is the largest gaming section now, but still my first stop for dice, miniature ...

Small WoT (Wall of Text) incoming!

That's a very open-ended question that will probably receive a very open-ended response. Wink

Lovely! Open to any ideas!

It might be helpful if we knew ...

New campaign, mostly inexperienced players, Ages 14 - 19 except my wife.

Decided to let them cut their teeth on the original Keep on the Borderlands with a few ideas from Return. They cleared the k ...

True name: Patrick

Age: 51 earth years

Loc: Western Michigan, USA (until the Vogons arrive)

Summer of 1980ish, Scout Camp

Expert iirc

Colossus, of X-Men fame, is my favorite X-Man. His ...

Anna's beautiful maps is one of the first places I looked. I'll check again to see if there is a layer I missed.

Thank you SO much for that link. Wonderful resource! Happy

Never having played more than a few modules in the setting, I've decided to run a campaign for my kids and their friends, and have jumped into Greyhawk with both feet,

I like to plan out campaign ...