Posts Tagged by 3.5
| July 26, 2011 | Posted by Troy E. Taylor |
I admit it. I’ve resisted using a mounted whiteboard for my game for a long time. It’s not that I have anything against dry-erase markers. On the contrary, a dry-erase initiative tracker and a basic Flip-Mat brand 5-foot base map are both fine GMing tools that have a place at my table. (And yes, I realize, they are just smaller versions of the same thing.) My resistance to the mounted whiteboard was my fear of falling into the trap of becoming what I can only…
| April 21, 2011 | Posted by Troy E. Taylor |
Back in December, I promised to deliver my rant on prestige classes. Instead, I ended up designing one. (Nothing in life goes in a straight line, it seems. Just curves, twists and unexpected opportunities.) Using the 3.5 variant Pathfinder rules, I submitted and had published the Dawa Defender, which is available as a free download, Wayfinder 4, over at paizo.com. Thanks to some development from editors Liz Courts, Adam Daigle and Ashavan Doyon, and company, and a particularly kicking illustration from Eureka contributor Hugo Solis,…
| January 18, 2011 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
Last year, my group had two simultaneous D&D 4e games going, one set in the Forgotten Realms and one in Eberron. They both ended, and I don’t see myself ever playing a long-term 4e game again — and I just realized that this isn’t the first time this has happened. A quick aside: I could care less what anyone else plays — as long as you’re having fun, you’re doing it right and more power to you. If you want to have D&D’s babies, rock…
| September 16, 2010 | Posted by Troy E. Taylor |
Ever get the urge to search through your bookshelf and look for something that might jazz up your home game? I was doing that recently — specifically as a means to give spellcasters in my hombrew Steffenhold game a little extra flavor and mechanical kick. One magic subsystem that’s worth a second look is Spell Templates. The version I have is from Monte Cook’s Arcana Evolved from 2005. As written, the Spell Templates subsystem is tied into the Diamond Throne setting’s emphasis on rituals, specifically…
| September 22, 2009 | Posted by Troy E. Taylor |
Ryan and Jay, those d20-rolling enthusiasts over at 3.5 Private Sanctuary, devoted Episode 87 of their podcast to the subject of divinity and the role of gods in a campaign world. And at one point, Ryan and Jay make a solid case for always using default pantheon — the Greyhawk-lite list of gods and goddesses from the Player’s Handbook — for every campaign. Basically, their argument boils back to the very purpose Pelor, Kord and Wee Jas and their deific fellows were provided in the…
| September 1, 2009 | Posted by Walt Ciechanowski |
This past GenCon, Paizo Publishing released the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Now if you’ve been a GM (or DM, I’ll use the generic here since it’s what the Open Game Content and Pathfinder uses) for more than a couple of weeks then you probably know that Pathfinder is a refinement of the previous (D&D3.5) version of Dungeons & Dragons. Today’s article takes a look at Pathfinder from a prospective GM’s standpoint: what will Pathfinder bring to my gaming table? I love D&D3.5 and I have a…
| May 19, 2009 | Posted by Troy E. Taylor |
Gnome Stew reader Noumenon requested the following article in our Suggestion Pot: I just want to know how you deal with spells like Hypnotism, Charm Person, and Suggestion. Monsters you know the PCs are going to try to kill, but how do you plan for them to start controlling your NPCs? Martin’s note: I want to personally apologize to Noumenon, who emailed me about this article just over one year ago. I forwarded that email to the Gnome Stew author mailing list…and then we forgot…
