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I can think of a couple of ways to house rule this. The nice way: Allow barbarians a small bonus to Dodge Defence and Parry Defence when wearing no body armour. The nasty way: Apply the Max Dex Bonus from armour to Parry Defence as well as to Dodge Defence (effectively a Max Str Bonus to PD)...

Surely. The battleground that was going to be present in Schism was that of the original rebellion of Lucifer, which would have been a LOT harder to realise. RPGs tend to focus on Stuff and The Environment, and at the dawn of creation, there isn't a whole lot of Stuff, nor is there much of an...

Are you trying to KILL ME?!

Are you volunteering me, sir? :) The trouble with Heaven from a game book perspective is that it is, at least in Western cosmology, really rather featureless. It contains light, angels, God, and not much in the way of varied landscape, because it's pure sublimity and joy. (This is why John...

You do it by writing the campaign in such a way that certain outcomes don't need to happen. Railroading is really just presenting false choices, and making players feel like their actions don't matter, because the outcome is predestined. In the Drow War, the Players always know where they are...

Sure. First, here's a huge *** SPOILER WARNING *** The entirety of the Drow War saga has the following premise: the Players are all Starborn, even if they don't know it at first. These are avatars of the stars upon earth. If you're familiar with fantasy ideas like Moorcock's Eternal...

Good call. There are all sorts of reasons why the drow and duergar would take twice as long as the Players, or longer, to cover the same territory. The main reasons are: they are all on foot, the terrain is unfamiliar, they have huge numbers to co-ordinate, they can only move as fast as the...

Exactly. I didn't provide stats for them for the same reason that there are no stats for the deities in the PHB. :) There was another reason - the mechanics for deity-level stats are not something everyone has access to. Although they've now been added to the SRD, I try to focus on material...

Heya. I'm going to check my OGL Ancients design notes and see if I can find the original - if not, I'll recreate it from memory as best I can. :)

So would I!

That makes me extremely happy. :) How's it working out for you in practice? Players enjoying it well enough?

From British & Irish folklore: Jenny Greenteeth Fachan (found in Slaine adventure The Invulnerable King) Nuckleavee (also found in same adventure) Barghest (a sort of demonic dog... I seem to recall that this exists somewhere in d20) Shellycoat (also in The Invunerable King IIRC) Pooka Boggart...

I'm a he-Mongoose - Adrian Bott. I wrote Sovereign Magic, Book of Hell, Strongholds and Dynasties, Quint Human etc. etc. Ironically enough, this is my last night as a full-time Mongoose! I'm off to do other writing projects that have nothing to do with gaming. (I'll probably be back later in...

No, because a 5 foot step can't be performed as such if you've taken any other movement that round. Thinking about it some more, the trick is really to define 'combined' in this context, rather than to allow a 5 foot step as a move action. For now, I would define 'combined' quite simply as...

Please note: the following is just my opinion, not official Mongoose ruling... Only when the 5 foot step is *combined with* another action. That is, if you took a 5-foot step as part of a full attack action, for example, you would provoke an AoO, since the step is combined with it. When you...