The Gaming Den

Relax, Kaelik. He probably hails from the bestial coldlands. There is no room for j on the tundra.

I always thought Sigil was the kind of place you could get away with murder, as long as it didn't ignite a war. If a Balor's just visiting (and not ingrained in the city's politics), I don't see a reason a party couldn't just smoke him in public without the Lady of Pain interfering (barring extreme ...

I loathe critical hit tables. My old DM for the Star Wars RPG (the one pre-saga) would make us roll on his incredibly deadly d100 critical fumble every timed we rolled a one. Note each frickin number had a different shitty effect. By level 11, when most soldiers and jedis were were getting 5-7 attac...

If anyone here is familiar with Pathfinder, I need some help with building a first level mage for what my DM tells me is a pretty hardcore dungeon crawl. Anything in Core Pathfinder plus the Advanced Player's guide is allowed. The party is six strong, all first level, and so far includes a barbarian...

I'd love to see Mike Mignola (of Hellboy fame) contribute a few monsters to the Monster Manual. What about you guys?

The word "geneseed" makes me giggle.

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I think a full 20 level non-spellcasting shapeshifter class is very doable... plenty of neat extraordinary and supernatural abilities to mine from.

Has anybody used or been inspired by the sample dungeons from the Dungeonomicon? Are they based on adventures actually played by real humans?

How bout these additional options: A a wand can act as the focus for your spells. A wand gives you some bonus to Concentration checks, or allows one Skill Mastery with Concentration, or merely negates certain Concentration penalties/checks imposed by the environment. A wand acts as an amplifier of m...

Here's a good one:

Using a wand allows a wizard to automatically apply Still Spell to all his spells.

By sifting through Caldazar's posts for all the aforementioned Easter eggs, I've discovered a clue as to his identity. He is a Mormon.

What class (base or Prc) would you like to see written up? I'd love to see a magic-user that sends up the D&D version of chaos, slaads and all.

A wand could help a mage in a variety of ways... Have the wand come with a selection of spells . The mage can use spell slots to cast one of these spells. Increased versatility, batman! Wands could add neat l'il rider effects to spells, forcing an additional save vs some additional effect when the t...

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I read somewhere that each completed mosque can produce an oil spill 5-15 years down the line.

What do we want typical combat against a group of equal level foes to look like? Do we want the party to split up initially and attempt to fight four one-on-one battles? If you want to encourage this, perhaps you can rule that if you're not attacked on your round, you get some kind of pretty good bo...

This Caldazar guy seems kind of stupid.

How many turns do you like a combat to last when facing typical opposition (of course, ambushes and mook fights are quicker)? Would you prefer this to change as you level up? I suppose a lot depends on the speed of a player's turn resolution, which can drag at higher levels. In a party of four, I my...

Should these things even exist? They seem to just make it harder to balance "variable effects". Can't we just make stronger higher level spells?

Why is Regenerate a 7th level spell? It seems to me its not two levels more impressive than raising the dead or shifting to another plane of existence. Did DMs of old enjoy chopping off a character's limbs and then flip their players the bird? What other spells do you feel are placed at the wrong sp...

I was thinking about letting Will Save Bonuses work off Charisma. If this was the case, what would you let the Wisdom score dictate instead? Maybe you can add 1d6 to a d20 roll a number of times per day equal to your Wisdom bonus? I would justify it by saying that it represents a keenness of focus o...

A group of 2nd level adventurers are about to bust into a witch's hut and feel up a bunch of items that have been magically trapped with interesting (but not necessarily deadly) curses. Any ideas? I took a look at Koumei's Bestow Curse I-IX, there were some good ones. Also, does anyone have any idea...

Lago, who cares if they're boring outside of combat? You're not the one playing the class. If you find the class boring, you won't play it. People who find the class interesting, will play it. And if they turn down having an army, a magical mount, and a Batcave of magic items AND THEN complain about...