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I haven't looked at the spell lately, but I believe Planar Bubble, like most spells, has a finite duration. I know it's not common for many DMs now, but I'd suggest keeping careful track of time.
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A 5th level Teleport spell can potentially ki a caster, all from the result of a crappy die roll (teleporting him/her into the ground), so a 4th level Dimensional Folding aging a caster a couple of ye ...

I mean the physical health of the familiar is proportional to its relative age.

I think I like this. It fits the idea that the familiar and wizard bond, in my opinion.

P.S.-->. Forgive me, O' Uncaring One! I knew not of the implications of my writings!!! very happy

It's cool. He don't care. Wink

Definitely calls for a Bigby's Thumbs Up. :D

(Excerpted from one of my From Kuroth's Quill columns, in Knockspell #4).

So, where can we find these? If nothing else, I'd like to know/

I got the file before the recently updated one (May 10th) and just downloaded the one posted on the 12th. I noticed a fair bit of proofreading could have helped, but the large majority of things I saw ...

What would happen if you shoved a major artifact into the Sphere of annihilation?

I'm not sure if the rules on this have changed with the editions, but 1st and 2nd editions had it that an artifact ...

(The bulk of this is clipped for efficiency, and can be found in the original post - BW)

One can also use the analogy of the boiling frog-if you turn the temperature up too high too fast the frog ...

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And apparently this wa ...

The 1st edition DMG seems to be the only source you mentioned that says "humans only". The 2nd edition MM entry looks to me like it just defaulted to "humans", but then later in the description switch ...

Perfect job Rasgon ol buddy! That's exactly how I imagined it and opens the Baklunish lands up to the rest of the world.

Oh yes. This is so much like how I imagined it too. In the late 1980s I di ...

For my purposes Tharizdun is of its own kind, and desires to destroy every aspect of the game environment.

So, are you saying Tharizdun is Lorraine Williams? ;)

"My Paladin played second fiddle to a group of rangers "
I could see this paladin having some antipathy towards rangers because of this. I like the irony, since it's usually the paladins who are see ...

I never noticed it before, but there should also be a conduit from the outer planes, to the alternate prime.

So, what are people's opinions regarding magic resistance in this situation? After all, elves do have the innate resistance to charm type spells.

My thought on this is, the resistance would still ...

"Useful in combat" is too broad a criteria. "Useful in Kord's brand of combat" is a better criteria.

I fully agree. Kord is called "the Brawler" for a reason. He is not the deity of generals an ...

There is also the option of allowing a priest access to a few spells from a sphere, without actually giving them total access to the sphere. Greyhawk Adventures did it with some of the priests of deit ...

Weather can influence a battle, so MAYBE that could work for Kord priests.

Divination..perhaps in the realm of intel about the enemy. That's what I come up with on that. Knowing the enemy's capabi ...

My biggest issue with Greyhawk, and what caused me to all but ignore the setting until I just recently joined this forum, is what I perceived as a prevalence of over-the-top silliness. When I read ab ...

They do say that Saltmarsh should be like a fishing village in southern England.

I always found that interesting, since the climate of southern England would be quite different from southern Keola ...

I don't see it taking Mordenkainen 22 years to go from 12th level to 20th. Thoughts?

It depends on how active he was in adventuring at the time. If he was out there every day, either on a quest or ...

Check out the description of spells in the PHB, page 129, under Duration:

"Spells of a permanent duration last until the effects are negated by some means, usually by a Dispel Magic."

This means ...

I it seems silly IMO for Dispel Magic to work on a Wall of Stone that was conjured 1000 years ago).

Jeff

Player: "I cast Dispel Magic."

DM: (rolls dice multiple times, checking for each ma ...

Proclamation stamped with the official seal of the city posted in several market square:
"Whereby the legally recognized temple, consecrated to the alleged divinity Trithereon, has, in direct vio ...

I am pretty sure Kord priests would be free to marry (or not) and beget kids.

Yeah, old Kord gets around. I'm sure his priests would try to emulate their deity, as most priests try to do (or claim ...

Slipping on ice involves movement: falling to the ground. A person who slips is in no way impeded from moving after that, other than any injuries from the fall itself.
Would a ring or spell of Free ...

I'm not sure if any of them would actually remove scars, by that, I mean any scars existing before the casting of the spell, on wounds already healed or mostly healed,
However, healing magic could p ...

Which Han are we discussing? The "young" Han? Or the "mature" Han?

I'd say the Han Solo as the beginning of the original trilogy, the Han that shot first, was almost certainly CN. I called this t ...

I think the first thing to do is break away from the idea that there is one and only one interpretation of any alignment.

CN can be, as Mystic Scholar described it, "against the status quo, whatev ...

I think the Priest's Handbook says that priests of death and disease/plague have to remain celibate so you could argue that priests of Nerull and Incabulous should as well.

Well, I can't help but t ...

Let me play devil's advocate here... Evil Grin

Not just devils. You seemed to do a fine job advocating for all lower plane creatures.

There's not much I can add to what Cebrion said. Mos ...

Personally, this is one (of a few) ways that I actually prefer 1st edition over 2nd.

-Lanthorn

Yes. I've seen this as a flaw in 2nd edition for a long time now. Something seems not quite righ ...

I like Cebrion's magic ring ideas, and Lanthorn's metamagic thoughts as well. After all, Tome of Magic already has spells like Squaring the Circle, which modify the area of effect of a spell, so why n ...

Good topic guys.

The only thing more daunting than taking out Iuz is filling that power vacuum. There are plenty of Boneheart NPCs would could rise to be BBEGs in their own right, so I'd save a few ...

Well thank you for posting the list Grodog.
Apparently I was mistaken thinking ogres were in the list of "persons". I thought they were the top of the size spectrum.
I see that ogrillons are in th ...

I seem to recall a Dragon magazine article that gave a list of creatures that qualified as a "person" for purposes of the spell. If mymemory serves, ogres were in that list.
I'm fairly sure it was i ...

In a campaign I was running a few years ago, I was working on a map before the game petered out. I combined two area maps from a Dungeon Magazine and the outdoor map from Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth.
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Wow. I mean, I've played in a few games I'd have to say weren't the most pleasant, but nothing close to some of the stories I saw in those links. I guess I was lucky.

Might not Baldram prefer to show the supremacy of swordsmanship over other melee weapons?

Perhaps during a "service" the parishioner/contestants would use only swords. However, it may be possible f ...

Also wondering if the doppleganger's ESP ability can be detected magically...

Thoughts on that?

-Lanthorn

I do think an ability like ESP probably should be detectable. However, a simple D ...

I agree with the others about it being natural, like the aforementioned chameleon's ability to change color, which the doppleganger must have as part of the shapeshifting I imagine.

Now, the ESP a ...

I FINALLY have the party make up

An Urban Druid (race unknown)
A Human (Oerdian) Alchemist
A Kitsune Rogue (She's a foundling from Kara-Tur)
A Half-Elf Bard
a Human (Suel) Ninja (I decided th ...

I guess I am merely wondering just what "Recovery from the use of a Dimension Door spell requires one round" entails. I will agree with Cebrion that the spell-caster isn't knocked unconscious, but ...

However, Captian Stillguar, or the Dwarvish guard at the Greyhawk ruins, wears full plate (+1 magic full plate + shield = AC 0; Greyhawk Ruins, p. 10).

Full Plate has a Base AC of 1. With shield it ...

FWIW, my take on that alignment map is that the Scarlet Brotherhood is publicly Lawful Neutral. The monks don't reveal their full evilness until the Wars.

Or perhaps, the PEOPLE are largely LN. It' ...

An elf need not be Drow to do bad things.

So says the plaque hanging on Markessa's bedroom wall. ;)

But then, maybe a deity would do that. "Alive", as doctors define it, is "heart pumps blood, lungs take in air"; nothing about the QUALITY of said "life".
EVIL guys...are forcing a good priest...to ...

There is no reason why the deity could not also pour a little extra magic into the raise dead, if they do allow it to work. A nice little side dish of slow onset bestow curse, bestow disease, bestow ...

I initially pronounced it 'Eye' - 'uhz', but learned (can't remember where) that 'Eye - ooze' is how EGG intended for it to be pronounced, so I forced myself to change. Smile

SirXaris

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I think the ship idea might be the best. Since you need to get them from the Yeomanry up to Tenh, and have them 4th level at most, aboard a ship, the encounters are fewer and further between. (How are ...

Well, LE characters in this example of holding hostages to get a priest of Pelor to raise their ally, should keep their end of the agreement. Unless, of course, they can find a loophole. After all, th ...

You see, there's something called 'sexual dimorphism' in the animal kingdom in which males and females are (sometimes vastly) different in structure, shape, color, and/or size.

Yes, I am well aware ...

Markessa was quite memorable IMC. Evil, no doubt. Unique with the whole weird surgery thing. I beefed her up with specialist abilities and such, and she was a bit of a boogyman for a while.

Lar ...

Interesting rendition, and definitely more demonic in aspect than the original, but not sure I really see the fungal context. In fact, I think the overall idea of a fungoid demon is really silly comp ...

OK, next query:

Can the shifting/polymorphing character change his/her sex when assuming animal or creature form?

-Lanthorn

Well, it may be possible to assume the form, but not the functi ...

It's an interesting idea. However, what about the other end of the stat spectrum? What about the wizard with low physical stats? Will he/she then get hosed on the polymorphed form's stats as well? Lik ...

Kinda figured I'd be the only one standing on this perspective.

As for a charmed enemy, I wouldn't say they were "done" since the spell does not allow for complete domination of said victim. The ...

I was reading Dragonlance through high school and, though I really enjoyed the character interaction in the story, I always thought the enormous number of dragons was too much for my own suspension of ...

They'll probably make a movie in which a group of teenagers gets transported into "the D&D world", because that is always awesome.

"In a world of magic and dragons, the hopes of a kingdom rely ...

Why is it that all female players tend to like elven rangers as their first character?

A girl I gamed with in the 90s ran half elven rangers exclusively. At the time, there were four or five of u ...

...As for James calling Theg weak...

-Actually, that was Ragnar responding to my post...

OK, my error. Looking back to my post, I see where I make the mistake. I've gone back and fixed t ...

A possible way to justify "oriental" ogre magi being in the "occidental" Flanaess:

The old Suel Empire was separated from the Celestial Empire by a range of mountains. Other than that, they were e ...

Turrosh Mak actually being Theg Narlot, the overthrown Slavelord. I actually went through a lot IMCs to make Turrosh Mak something more... Come on, everyone knows it was Markessa who was the cool ...

Slavers presented the Earth Dragon as more of an elemental being or nature spirit, but I think a Tiamat cult is more interesting.

I see the Earth Dragon as something the Flan of old may have, if no ...

And using the same encounters for different scenarios, decades apart, is cheesy.

"Those who ignore the lessons of history, are doomed to repeat it." ? ;)
(By this, I mean the giants, not learn ...

I guess it boils down to what is considered what the DMG says as "Overcoming a problem." The "defeating an enemy" is pretty straightforward, and that doesn't necessarily mean "killing" said enemy ( ...

By the way, how the heck do you pronounce qinggong? I haven't a freaking clue, here.
Master Arminas

Chinese, when using Roman letters to spell out their words, use the Q in place of 'ch'. So, q ...

As Cebrion said: "A charm will still remain, but as the caster is dead no directive can be given."

Quoting the Charm Person spell description: "If the spell recipient fails his saving throw, he re ...

I seem to recall from the Ranger's Handbook, something about plausible reasons for a ranger to choose something as a favored enemy. Like, if the ranger's family had been killed by goblins, that would ...

I would suggest when someone logs in to give them a shout out and make them feel welcome, if you happen to be on chat.

I'm not active in Thursday chats now, but I remember that pretty much alw ...

I like these. That Grand Mirage, at first could seem like just a thing for kindly DMs to hand the players when their characters are in it deep and need a place to rest and heal up, but I think somethi ...

Apparently gold is worth a lot less in D&D though, which I guess is why adventurers throughout the lands are finding it by the truckloads just lying around in caverns, dungeons, the wilderness, ...