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One of my players is a half-ogre druid and they just levelled up and gained wild shape. Now wild shape is assumed to be for small or medium druids, so they can transform into small or medium animals (HD up to the druid's level). Now as a Large creature, would this druid start wild shape being able to transform into medium or large animals, but limited by his current druid level (5th). There seem to be enough medium or large animals with 5 HD or less to give him some variety.

I vaguely recall reading something about Large druids and wild shape, but I can't seem to find said information in any of the 3.5 books I have nor on any of the messageboards. If anyone know what I'm talking about and can point to a source...

Thanks,
BM

Has anyone printed out any of the AoW supplements to size for use with miniatures? For some of the larger fights, I thought it'd be nice use parts of the unmarked maps blownup to size, but I am burning through way too much paper and ink trying to get the resizing right. Has anyone tried this successfully, and if so, what percent did you use? A percent for any of the AoW online supplements would be nice, but for the Sodden Hold maps from Dungeon 127 in particular....

Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
BM

I'm looking for a Dungeon (I think) article that had tables for rolling up random characteristics for magical staves...anyone happen to know what issue that was?

Also, I know there was a similar article for potions in #125, and for scrolls in #133, but was there ever one that did the same for characteristics of wands?

Thanks,
BluMo

I don't usually have non-standard PCs in our games, but I let this one go because it gave me lots of room for interesting social encounters between adventures. I have a player who is playing a minotaur in our campaign. I'm using the Savage Species progressions to keep him balanced with the other players, but I have had some situations involving skill checks. In particular, ones like Climb, Move Silently, and Swim. I thought I'd seen something posted here before about similar issues with centaur PCs, but I'm not sure. I am making it up as I go, but any advice?

I imagine climbing would be difficult with hooves. Balance might be as well, but horses and the like don't seem to have any special penalties. Moving silently isn't an issue for me, except when the players are inside, trying to sneak around on polished stone floors. Swim seems like it probably wouldn't suffer any penalties, seeming as many hooved animals can swin enough to keep themselves afloat.

Alright, any suggestions are appreciated...

Later,
BM

I don't know if this really qualifies as General Discussion, but that seems to fit best... I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction for information about the assassination of the King of Keoland in the Living Greyhawk Campaign. I do not play the Living Greyhawk Campaign, but I try to use the ongoing events in our group's campaign. Sometimes these play a background role, other times they are directly tied into the party's adventuring. That said, several months ago there was something mentioned on the Keoland LG website about the king being killed by an assassin. But the website sadly has not updated the news dispatch section in well over 3 years...aside from that tidbit of the king being killed. Seeing as the characters all hail from Keoland, I would like to possibly include this event. So does anyone know more about this, or can point me to a place that does. I thought WotC were going to take up updating the websites and letting folks know what is going on in the LG Campaign? Maybe I heard wrong. Anyways, Thanks in advance if you can help me out.

Does anyone know where I can find information on a wizard using Craft (bookbinding) to create her spellbook? Or any suggestions on how to handle doing this? Like how long it might take or how much it might cost...? I know it's been addressed somewhere, and I have a feeling I've read something about it, but I can't seem to find where or what. Any advice appreciated...

I have noticed in some older 3.0 modules and articles from WotC that sometimes non-prestige classes druids or rangers had more than one animal companion at a time. Is this a 3.0 thing? Because I cannot find anything about it in the 3.5 core books. Did this change in 3.5 or is this something druids and rangers can still do? Or is it now something that only Beastmasters or other prestige classes can do?

I wanted to order some back issues and get them shipped to Japan, but I cannot find shipping rates anywhere on the website. With shipping, a Dragon subscription is basically double the US cost for me. Is it the same for back issues, basically double the list price to get my total with shipping...? Can anyone let me know or point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance...