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Depending on your fantasy ecology, there will be limitations on decomposition due to the sheer size of the creature. Unless you want your civilisation to contend with similarly scaled insect and vertebrate necrophage, the main factors will be autolysis (chemical degredation of remains), putreficatio...

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Satan is a Jewish idea.

The anthromorphic personification of Satan, as a malevolent Dionysus/Pagan Horned God expy, is definately Christian, but the Hebrews still get to call ownership on their word for adversary.

It refers to the constellation Scorpio. Which is a scorpion, but not an arachnid. It has 'pincers', but grasps with the unseen.

The star Antares is in the middle of the constellation and referred to as "the heart of the scorpion." It is a red giant.

-Random encounters are on an a4 cardstock, I dont know what to say. As for the contents, like random adventuring parties, they make sense in the context of an Undermountain campaign. Adventurers go into Undermountain. They can encounter each other. -Wizshades can fly. In Skullport. A city packed int...

-I have an a4 sized card in the boxed set. It has a d100 chart that references other things like random traps and gate charts. Also the NPC party generation in the MC. That is the encounter table I am talking about. -Wizshades take normal damage from magical weapons. The Creature vs. Creature rules ...

Right, I pulled out my 2e stuff. What I was calling Clockwork Automata, then Clockwork Horrors are just Automata. Automata are in MC2, along with the updated Ring of Trobriand stats. Automata include a number of bug-like contstructs of various HD, including Scaladar, all controllable by the Rings of...

He is an Ed Greenwood dick extension character. The second or third most powerful wizard in the Realms.

When Elminster was captured by Asmodeus, Mystra recruited Halaster to rescue him. Even the Prince of Hell balks at how batshit insane Halaster is.

Halaster is on the wandering monster chart. He is just as likely to follow adventurers home and rub his dick on their windows as he is to give them a sack full of magic beans. As he is a level "fuck you" wizard, Chaotic Evil and described as a collossal douche, an encounter with him is not...

Undermountain was not an adventure module . Like the Ruins of Myth Drannor, it was a campaign setting designed to host several adventures. A significant portion of the big poster maps were left for the DM to fill in and the various defined encounters were supposed to be replaced once cleared, or mod...

One thing I have been aching to try is Hell Power through a communion, with a group of Astral mages spamming Horror Mark. Give some of the slaves Shields of the Accursed if you can afford it, the master a squad of bodyguards. Have the majority of slaves attack, so that when horrors appear, they will...

It's easy to test, though complicated to set up. You can do it with a Revenant leading Liches (Matrix items), or something like a Magus or Alchemist leading Troll Kings (matrices on the Trolls). The fatigue the slaves take from the communion, when the master casts Earth or Death spells, is dispropor...

Yeah, that tactic really can't support more Sabbath Masters. Currently I have only noticed fatigue on the Sorceress slaves go over 60 when they are chasing down routing units while the Witch King spams Raise Skeletons or Drain Life. Due to the Soul Vortex the Sabbath has running, fatigue on the slav...

Communions are not a strict division. At least, not on the slave side. The master will take a percentage of the normal fatigue based off improved path levels and number of slaves. The slaves will each take the same fatigue as the master, roughly multiplied by the difference in magic path levels betw...

Currently taking advantage of some Warrior Sorceress (N1B1) Sabbaths in an MP game. Not as an independant squad, more to suppliment an army. They are mounted and armoured, which means they generate a lot of fatigue from casting, but minimal fatigue from combat (armour does not effect combat fatigue ...

If you're going with dwarf, make your charachter as short as possible. You want to be Small and ride medium mounts in a dungeon if you can't get a flying mount. I would avoid the Cavalier kit. Complete Dwarf has the Rapic Response Rider kit, which can start with a Griffon mount (DM fiat, so not gonn...

Technically, all advanced character options in Runners Companion suffer from the Distinctive Style quality, though they do not gain points from it. I guess that applies to metavariants. There is a sidebar on page 104 of Runners Companion; Lots of weasel words about cultural definitions of 'distincti...

You could circumvent exceptional strength entirely by playing a monstrous race like Firbolg, Minotaur or Alaghi (bigfoot). Nailing people to walls as a dart-wielding Minotaur Wizard with a 20 strength, would be obscene and hillarious. You could do the same, or similar, as a Firbolg Shaman or Alaghi ...

A Dwarf Fighter/Thief. Ghetto Fighter Kit (complete dwarf). Gets a bonus to hit and damage with daggers, vastly reduced penalties for 2 weapon fighting with daggers. Your backstab will be overkill for any Orc or Goblin. Even more if you hit them twice. You may as well have extra daggers for throwing...

Level 5 Transgender Changeling Rogue 3/Fighter 1/Celebrant of Sharess 1 Chaotic Good Race: Changeling +2 saves s.sleep and charm +2 racial bonus to bluff intimidate and sense motive natural linguist: speak language is a class skill for all classes. minor change shape(su): as disguise self spell, but...

See, crop plants used to be a monoculture... See, this sentence tells me you're talking out your arse. http://www.sdnotill.com/images/corn%20field.jpg The thing is, informed people don't worry too much about the genetic modification of plant strains. People have been using selective cultivation tec...

From what I understand, GM crops and neonicotinoid treatments entered the market at the same time. The combination of systemic herbicides and insecticides, along with various fungicides, has a nasty effect on the ecosystem. This is by design. After all, the only thing you want growing in a corn fiel...

Celebrant of Sharess can be entered at 5th level. From PGtF, pretty much an exalted pimp/madam. It need a couple of exalted feats and ranks in Diplomacy and Perform for entry. Mechanically...it has some good abilities, like Pounce, Rage, Minor Spellcasting and some spell-like abilities worth getting...

I don't ascribe game mechanics to real people.

Slade wrote: Simple, requires a Good DM (alignment wise) for it to work though.

What the fuck?

Get your fucking head examined. Seriously. Categorising real people according to ham-fisted game morality is not healthy.