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once when rolling intiative in a magic game, me and my friends all rolled natural '20'

like 4 20's at the exact same time!

they said i can't do that anymore :(

conan used many different weapons. and he could kill you in one blow with any of them. the atlantean sword had runes inscribed on the hilt but anyone could wield it. i would give it a +1 or +2.
the power of that sword (and indeed all of conans weapons) came from conan.

you could make a module in an "anti-magic" zone. where the magic-users can only cast at the end of the module for some reason, or twist it into the plot so that magic-users need to mask their nature (like, magic is outlawed by this kingdom)

(you could also force players to choose preset characters)

this thread prompted me to create my first module in neverwinter nights 2, "demon battle".
in the map there is a balor a pit fiend and the player (who spawns behind a tree).
the two big badies fight to the death.
pit fiend wins every time. (three sims)

margret weis and tracy hickman do not reference the d&d rules system anywhere in their works. if a book was written like a d&d tabletop session, then yes, it would be boring. but these authors don't do that. a good author can write a book in any setting and hold the readeres attention. to say that reading a book set in a d&d universe is not good, you are showing how closed minded you are, and that you haven't read any.

as for those who say you can't put lotr into d&d, read this:

http://www.merp.com/downloads/Ea-d20/

a book is a form of storytelling. storytelling has been around longer than books. storytellers don't tell their story to one person at a time4, they like to gather a group and tell it. same in d&d and novels, they are meant to be shared by many that's why their isn't just one copy of lotr. margret weis and tracy hickman are just two authors who have written novels based in a game world, and they are well written. the fact that they are in a gamew setting does not detract from their enjoyability in the least.

thanks for your input guys this has been fun... now i'm gonna make your head spin :)

the valar were cylons! (as in the new battle star galactica)

galactica finaly found a world to settle on (middle earth)
the cylons debated amongst themselves and decided to lrt humankind live, but thought it would be a good idea to genetically mutate some of them (hence the halflngs gnomes elves dwarves and such) so they wouldn't band together against the cylons.
-after gandalf fights the balrog he is resurrected on a resurrection ship.

-it has been so long since humans colonized middle earth they have forgotten their technology and view the cyclon technology as "magic"
lol... i know this is a wild assumption, but it explains many things in lotr if u look at it this way.

lotr has been compared to D&D since it's inception, this article is from 1977, only a few years after D&D came out.
i don't think ppl will ever stop comparing the two.
im not in total agreement with this article but all reference's come from the books as the movies weren't ouut then. but... it does have some merit.
i think (like you) that he may have been holding back, but in support of the article he did utilize artifacts quite a bit, and he may have survived the fight with balrog thru the ring of power he possessed. (the ring was fire based as was the balrog)

the article is 30 years old. what are the time restraints on copyright? i am not making a profit off of, or taking away from dragon magazine in any way.

could u be more specific?
can u remember any words from the title?

more like "apple to basket of fruit"

the basket being d&d (because it is the definitive fantasy role playing system)
the fruit being:
middle earth
dragon lance
forgotten realms
greyhawk
and thousands of other fantasy settings that could be governed by the rules set forth by d&d

(anyone who creates a fantasy setting before or after d&d is subject to have their work translated into d&d system by fantasy geeks worldwide)

will o wisp stats:
http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/willOWisp.htm

they are invisible when they attack but their attack isn't, it's lightening. you can see lightening.
their ability to turn invisible may be able to be dispelled because it says as invisible spell in the description (some may argue natural abilities can't be dispelled)