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the face nearly took all of my humans out of the group. I'm using action points in my game and I had a player spend one to try and grapple check a pc that was falling to her doom. He rolled a natural 20. It was a fun moment in the game and now the group jokes that the halfling is the strongest member of the group

fluff?
I'm not touching that one

mmmmmm capt. crunch rrrrrrgh

bowl of cereal

I just finished running the hextor temple section of 3FoE and it was pretty difficult. 4 of 5 players went to negatives. they most likley won't survive the next section, but, they all enjoyed it, and thats all that matters.

the soup nazi

I really like the Aow stuff in Dragon. I give the issue to my players and then I have the issue of Dungeon. They like it too. Especially the maps.

My group has made it through the whispering cairn and have entered the Hextor temple. We just cliffed the game and they are camping out in area 3. The Hextor clerics await them in area 11 for the ambush. They really like it so, 1 big fight or not, so far so good.

Sayla Paylandra: a human female, exalted healer, patron to those society has shunned. Currently working as a medic to the working girls of the Midnight Salute.
Eldon, The Jade Fox: A male halfling rogue, tomb raider/antiquarian/would be merchant. Currently renovating the mine office into a shop.
Jeb: a male human Ranger, a mysterious and rough around the edges mountain man with a wicked three pronged bladed gauntlet.
Alldoun: A 13 year old human male sorcerer, on the run from his noble blooded family.

I'm preparing right now to run 3FoE in an hour. I noticed the errors with the Grimlocks and Vecna cultists, but noticed very little else. I think that there is alot of Hack n slash here and everything does seem very gereric...but I anticipate alot of player roleplay at the begining of the session that should eat up an hour or more. After all, they have just departed the Whispering Cairn, some have treasure they want to sell and my halfling player seems more interested in fixing up th mine office from last issue's Dragon.
As for the actual writting style of the module...
There were many places that the author could have and should have trimmed words. The NPC's don't seem very interesting, and some of the room discriptions were flat...though they wern't as much of a mouthful as in whispering cairn. Overall I like the adventure, and I see many places for roleplaying that isn't specified in the module. But The rules have to be looked at closer when writting an adventure. There are far too many rules lawyers out there to cut corners on module design. A player who takes up ten minutes going, "well see, the kicker is, that clerics weilding heavy flails can't carry shields..." is a huge distraction that takes up game time and wrecks the mood. Making sure that the module is balanced and correct prevents those little arguments.

So far I think the AoW is great and my players apreciate it too, though one of my more knowledgable greyhawk players caught onto the wind dukes pretty fast. As far as the download goes...hey take the time to make it good. For those who are impatient, just run your group on a couple of in town side treks...there's plenty to do in Diamond Lake, especially for CREATIVE DM's

Monkeys to poop

Are you guys going to use some Boneclaws? As Undead they are pretty nasty, and at only CR 5 a low level party could run across one. They are especially awesome at punking charge happy players. I used one last night on my group with great results! They were in disbelief over the creatures reach.

farted somthing terrible

I am eagerly awaiting the age of worms adventure path, having become a giant Greyhawk fan due to Dungeon's last six issues and the handling of the Oerth map. I never bought the magazines before, except out of the dollar bin at a convention, but since issue #116, I've bought them all.
I'm saddened that there aren't more Greyhawk novels out there. I liked the concept of writting up classic adventures as novels. Any chance of a shackled city novel? or an Age of Worms based on your current groups campaign?

mammoth cream pie.

laughing at the

over her belly

rubbed it all

I also like the Devil's Advocate and Bram Stoker's Dracula. Batman or anything else by Danny Elfman seems to do the trick.

I actually like Wil Save and it is one of the first things I flip to when I pick up Dungeon. I was curious as to why the article wasn't running in the pages of Dragon instead.
While Wil's article may not be 100% D&D content, I feel that it is entertaining, and that is reason 1 I pick up the book. To enjoy my seven bucks worth of reading. I'm glad there's something in thete that makes me laugh because of word structure not comical art and snappy captions.
The folks hating on Wil's column are most likely the same ones that wear I hate wesley shirts at conventions. SMOF!

shooting ale out

that's about the same formula I used in a similar campaign. I just gave the PC's -2 to everything but strength and constitution. that way my combat oriented characters didn't whine too much.

Where is Kyuss mentioned?

By the way, I loved the recent Fiend's Embrace adventure!