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Aberzombie wrote:

Callous Jack wrote:

Squirrels can't get enough of those smurfy nuts.

That's pretty smurfed up.

Oh smurf me.

JoelF847 wrote:

This could be cool, but I'd want the first one to come out after the PRPG in 2009, and all the monsters prior to that be updated for the new ruleset.

That makes perfect sense! They can release their own monster manuals. Monster Manual 1: The SRD stuff. Monster Manual 2: The Pathfinder stuff - updated and all.

A game, in and of itself, cannot be overpowered. Power is relative. When something in a game is "overpowered," it's more powerful than everything else in the game. Thus, the entire game can't be overpowered; that would mean that every class in it is more powerful than the average class in it.

In Pathfinder, everything is more powerful than in 3.5, but they're all intended to be equally powerful. Therefore, Pathfinder caters to powergaming less than 3.5, because there's more power consistency.

In 3.5, on the other hand, everything is less powerful than in Pathfinder. Yet there's a less equal distribution of power, so some classes are overpowered in relation to the others.

And what I wouldn't give for a Spawn of Kyuss.

I like the idea of the current system, but it gives out new skills too often. Perhaps every third or fourth level would be better.

I haven't either, but it says it shipped on 2/20... what happened?

- Greyhawk : 11
- Forgotten realms : 4
- Eberron : 5
- Dark sun : 3
- Spelljammer :
- Ravenloft :
- Dragonlance : 1
- Al-Qadim :
- Maztica :
- Kara-Tur :
- Oriental adventures / settings : 1
- Mystara :
- Midnight :
- Ptolus : 2
- Iron kingdoms :
- Scarred lands :
- Homebrew : 4
- Wilderlands of High Fantasy/City State of the Invincible Overlord: 1
- Bithright :
- The Styes: 1
- Council of Wyrms (v.3.5): 1

added one vote ofre greyhawk.

Any word on this? Did you ever meet again, or are you all still too busy?

Executioner's mace costs 75 GP and weighs 12 pounds. Small damage is 1d10.

Me too. Fifty people within 100 feet, and Every mosquito lands on me.

It was definitely better thin its predecessors, but I do have one minor nitpick. In the information on tharizdun, he seems to have two different holy symbols. One (the spiral) is listed as the symbol of the Elder Elemental Eye, and the other one is described in his stats. Can one god have two holy symbols? If not, which one is right? I'm leaning toward the spiral because a) It's actually depicted, and b) it's the one used in The Styles.

I hate excessively negative people!

...Sorry, I couldn't resist. :)

Hi guys -- long time lurker, first time poster.
Just chiming in to say that I was surprised to see the new issue on the shelves of my local gaming shoppe. I usually get it in the mail before I see it there.
Anyhoo, if I recall, it had a reddish cover with an attractive woman surrounded by webs. I think it was supposed to be an aranea in its humanoid form.

I just downloaded the Ghostwalk enhancement, and I think I would rather just leave out the dominate ability and keep the original idea. It's a great idea

I would probably drive my players crazy by occasionally just asking them to make a spot check just to make them nervous.

Thanks, Everyone! Oh, and Doc Outlands, your link is for the 3.0/3.5 conversions.

Spectres: They are in the monster manual, I just never noticed them. My mistake!

Daemons: No, they're just listed as "Lesser Daemons" or "Greater Daemons"

Total Party Levels:Thanks for the advice.

NPC Levels: Again, thanks.

The adventures included in the set are the big problem. Many monsters haven't been updated. What's the difference between a ghost and a spectre? What do greater and lesser daemons become? What's the "Total party levels" entry at the beginning mean? And on the subject of levels, do I have to change levels for NPCs to keep them equally powerful?

It has a list of the terms used in stat blocks, so I could more or less figure that out. Needless to say, I was a bit underwhelmed by ACs until I noticed that.

I've only been playing since 3.5, and I just got a City of Greyhawk box set. Ability scores seem to be the same, and many of the monsters have been updated, but otherwise, how should I go about converting it to 3.5?

I've only been playing since 3.5, but out of the current campaign settings, definitely Greyhawk.

I just got #144 on monday, and Mad God's Key is great. I'd really like to see Key to the Grave published in dungeon.

Averil wrote:

Should I remove them, and if so, how should I go about it?

Well, first off: are you sure that this is flash (the term for excess pewter/plastic hanging off of a part)? It could be meant to be a worm. I don't have my stranglers on-hand right now, so I can't look for myself.

As to removal, if necessary, an exact-o knife should do the trick if you are careful. Just take your time doing it. Wire or gate clippers might also work, if you can get them to the target area easily.

Hope this helps,

TK

Hello? Anyone there?

I didn't really know where to put this, and this seemed like as good a place as any.

I just got a set of Writhing Stranglers. Whenever I get new Pewter Minis, I always remove any bits of excess pewter. Then I got to 2 thick ones in exactly the same spots on every miniature. They're between the hands and the legs. They're about as thick as the legs, so I'm worried that I might break the legs off if I remove them.

So, finally, my question: Should I remove them, and if so, how should I go about it?

If you haven't read it already, check out a book called "The Amulet of Samarkand" by Jonathan Stroud. It marketed as juvenile literature and part of a trilogy called "The Bartimaeus Trilogy." In this world, magic is done by imps and little genies that wizards bind to their will. The narration flips back and forth between a yound wizard and the imp he has bound. Good book, quick read, funny and you can see how a bunch of imps really could rule the world. A few pretty bas ass imps too.

The "Lashonna tries to become the next wormgod" idea could lead to an adventure set here.

At the end of Dawn of a New Age, a new dungeon called the Pit of Worms is created. Will this ever be mapped out?

I'm toying with the idea of running Shackled City afterwards, as a prequel.

If not as a download, I hope they'll be in the hardcover (if they do make it).

A variant on Kyuss worms for ebberon

http://paizo.com/dungeon/messageboards/ageOfWorms/archives/warforgedInAoW

Thanks. I definitely need to get my hands on that.

If the PCs fail to kill Dragotha, according to the prophecies in Spire of Long Shadows, the age of worms should never happen. the next last prophecy being "a tripartite spirit again becomes one, and at its advice are the mighty undone," the tripartite spirit being Balakarde, and "the mighty" being (I assume) Dragotha. Thus the age of worms cannot begin until Dragotha's destruction, and even then only if Balakarde helps. Right?

You could always use the Scion of Kyuss template from Dragon #307 for more powerful versions (9HD and up) of the spawn.

I had Balakarde,s prediction come true: every guardian of the Tabernacle was in the Writhing Sanctum. That's an encounter level of I think about 32. Anyway, by some dang well thought out tactics, timely uses of the "delay death" spell, and a few lucky rolls, they've got Dragotha on his own. Still, a TPK is always a possibility nonetheless. ;')

This has been buging me for a while, and I just think Spawn of Kyuss would make more sense as a template. As is, a first level character who turns into a spawnof Kyuss is just as powerful as a 20th level character.

the only problem is that they'll miss getting elemental standards, as the Roc king won't die, and therfore Sayren-lei won't challenge them. this isn't all that important, but they're neat magic items.

Thanks, that helps a lot!

The DMG only gives a little table shich seems to assume that only encounters with 1 type of monster, or 2 monsters with different CRs, are allowed. Beyond this, how exactly is EL computed?

How is a sorceror Allustan's pupil?

Well, it's the cosmetic that really nags at me. Why would an FR Ebon Aspect be missing hands?

I don't think Eberron will become the core setting, because while it's really interesting, It's doesn't really match the flavor of D&D very well. Warforged are a bit annoying, as heal checks won't work on them, and shifters and changelings just seem like attempts to make lycanthropes and doppelgangers player races. Also, while I like the basic idea of lightning rails and warforged, they just look a bit too much like real technology.

for warforged, look at the Warforged in AOW thread. it has a new monster called a Wormforged. Also, try changing a few villains to warforged. This can also be done with the minor NPCs to artificers.

If AOW was written for Eberron,thenit would probably be even harder to convert to Greyhawk or Forgotten Realms.

On tuesday, the Tome of Magic arrices in stores. I'm particularly interested in truename magic. In the "Ecology of the Spell Weaver" article in Dragon #338, it's revealed that the Spell Weaver Empire fell due to a mass apotheosis attempt using truename magic, which, due to the wrath of the existing deities failed, and ended up destroying the entire empire. I wonder if players will attempt this kind of thing? If so, what will happen to them?