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Challenge Ratings and Encounter Level (originally posted at the RPG Stack Exchange ) The Challenge Rating of a monster is a very useful guide for judging the difficulty of an encounter, but it is not an exact science. Experience with your own players will tell you how tough an encounter they can handle, and what kinds of encounters they are best at. When the entire party can gang up on a single monster (even one with multiple attacks) tactics on the battlefield can be less important than when they are outnumbered. However, the more monsters you have, the less certain the estimate of Encounter Level (EL) / "CR Equivalency" becomes. You should also be careful when advancing monsters (adding extra hit dice to increase their CR), as this too can lead to some nasty surprises. I find this online calculator to be very useful for estimating EL, especially when I'm using monsters with a range of different CR's in a single encounter: http://www.penpaperpixel.org/tools/d20e...
Auldhame Gnod Yriah and his army of 1000 orcs had captured a village on the river Brallen, 70 miles downriver from Marchion. They used it as a staging point for raids on neighboring thorps and hamlets, as well as blockading the river and capturing any merchant caravans or ships that came past. Yriah, being a barbarian, is illiterate (as are most of his army). However, the adepts (orc shaman) are not. The village itself has a diameter of 1000ft, so roughly 18 acres (785,398 sq ft) A village has an adult population of 401-900, with 2 adults per acre (43,560 sq ft) of crops 450 acres of arable land (150 acres left fallow + 150 acres of winter wheat), irrigation ditches 14 acres of forest and 18 acres of meadow I created this map using Campaign Cartographer: City Designer 3 CD-ROM and exported it to PDF. I installed the printer driver for the HP DesignJet 4500 postscript plotter and defined a custom page size of 1066.80mm wide (the maximum) by 1930.40mm, equival...
Affiliation Contacts Helena d'Mezzo http://minties.deviantart.com/art/Zara-45732245 female half-drow bard 1 / cleric 9 of Oghma Affiliation Score: 28 (superstar) Init +0; Senses : Spot+4, Listen+4, Darkvision 60ft; AL: TN; Spd : 20ft (run x3) Hp : 48 (1d6+9d8+10) AC : 23 (+9 armor, +3 shield, +1 natural) Atk : ranged +7/+2 (mwk comp shortbow 1d10, 19-20/x3, range incr. 120ft) SA : 5/day - Turn Undead (Su) {turn level 7, turn damage 2d6+9} SQ : immunity to sleep, +2 save vs enchantment, Bardic Knowledge +2, Calm Emotion (Su), Healing Hymn (Sp), Inspire Courage (Su), Inspire Competence (Su) St: 13, Dx: 10, Co: 10, In: 12, Wi: 17, Ch: 14; SV : F+7 /R+6 /W+12 Skills : Bluff+8, Diplomacy+21, Disguise+13, GatherInfo+9, Perform+7, SenseMotive+10 Feats : Versatile Performer (CAdv 112), Negotiator, Wanderer's Diplomacy (PHB2 85), Landlord Languages : Common, Elven, Undercommon, Guild Sign Language (Amazing Chicanery Troupe) Domains : Trickery, Travel Cleric...
An Affiliation for Bards The rules for affiliations can be found in chapter 7 of the Player's Handbook II . Name: The Amazing Chicanery Troupe Symbol: A white snake, with red eyes and tongue Motto: Trickery is mightier than the fist Members: Lukwind, his cohort and followers Secrets: Lukwind's identity as a Changeling; Rohit's identity as a Vanara; Helena's identity as a half-Drow Type: Business Scale: 1 (neighborhood) Capital: 1 Criterion: Affiliation Score Modifier Character level: +1/2 PC’s level Charisma 13 or higher: +1 Bard: +1 Can cast 3rd-level or higher illusion spells: +1 Can cast 3rd-level or higher enchantment spells: +1 5-9 ranks in Perform, Tumble, Sleight of Hand or Gather Information: +1 per skill 10 or more ranks in Perform, Tumble, Sleight of Hand or Gather Information: +2 per skill Extraordinary performance as part of the troupe: +1 per performance Has no...
Planescape: Torment Retrospective by Kieron Gillen (Rock, Paper, Shotgun) More lengthy, academic analysis of the game: Carr, Dianne (2003) Genre and Affect in Silent Hill and Planescape Torment Game Studies 3 (1) ISSN:1604-7982 The PC game has been re-released on the occasion of its 10th anniversary. However, you'll probably need to install the fixpack to run it successfully on XP or Vista. Planescape: Torment has been released on GOG.com It is their second most-requested game title. GemRB Game Engine open source re-implementation of BioWare's Infinity engine, 1998-2002 http://sourceforge.net/projects/gemrb/files/ http://www.moddb.com/mods/gemrb-the-infinity-engine-clone http://linux.prinas.si/gemrb/doku.php http://forums.gibberlings3.net/index.php?showforum=91 Pages of Pain Troy Denning's book
D&D em português do Brasil No próximo sábado, eu vou jogar Masmorras e Dragões com meus amigos. Nós rolamos os dados e contamos histórias. Eles descem para o subsolo, mas não dragões já. Depois, nós fizemos um churrasco de canguru e bebemos cervejas. Mas talvez demais ... está tudo bem, porque eu não dirijo. Eu viajo de trem para a Costa Dourada. Where in the world is Gutboy Barrelhouse? Je ne détruis pas le bugbear