D&D Help Area - Q&A and otherwise

[Iomma Sensei]

[DWSage007]

Well, in keeping with the spirit of this guild, and the fact that D&D is used here...I bring to you prestige classes from the Giants in the Playground message boards.

The Dipsomancer. (Three versions, I recommend the last one)

The Threepenny Fencer

Drunken Berserker

I'm sure that if anyone will get any use out of these, you folks will.  

[Iomma Sensei]

[Velris the Blade]

Hehehe, I like the Drunken Berserker.  

[DarkHayama]

I'm going to start up my first D&D campaign as a DM, and I want it to go well, so, since experiance is a far better judge than info from a book, I'll ask my questions here. The first one I have so far is this:

I'm going to have a group of 4 level 2 players. Don't know their classes yet. Do you think 10 normal, "human" zombies will be an okay encounter? I'm not looking for it to be really challanging or anything. They will have just finished a different battle. I really just want to make sure it won't be too hard.  

[SAR101]

It realy wouldn't be to hard of a battle, Dark. I think 4 lv. 2 players should be able to hold there own against a set of zombies, maybe not 10 right after another encounter. It would be even easier to do if you had a cleric. I'll volunteer for the campaign as well.  

[DarkHayama]

It's with IRL people. It's not an online campaign heh. It's not something they'll necessarily even encounter. They're going to be slaves in an arena (yeah, it should sound familiar, I've been in at least two campaigns online that started like that), but a necromancer liche is going to invade, looking to create an army, and doing some..."recruiting' heh. A spell going wild is going to blow a huge hole in the arena, giving them a way to escape (and killing many spectators). If they wait around too long, those dead spectators are going to be "recruited" heh. I dunno, last night I couldn't sleep because I was getting ideas. Now I'm trying to iron them out into an actual adventure.  

[SAR101]

Oh okay then, good luck with the campaign.  

[DarkHayama]

Yeah. I need to come up with some nightmares. I'm going to give them a list of fears, and have them pick a fear that their character has...to be more specific, it's their greatest fear. And I'm going to create a nightmare for each fear. After they escape the massacre at the slave arena, they're going to be plagued with a recurring nightmare every night revolving around their greatest fear.  

[SAR101]

Well that does sound interesting.  

[DarkHayama]

Yeah, the lich is going to follow them from town to town, destroying towns and making his army larger. That's his current goal, making a very large army. Then he's going to get a tower or something, and plot like...world domination or something, ya know how liches are heh. I don't have all the details worked out, I don't need to yet. I've just got the basics right now. I only need enough for their first adventure for now, so I'm focusing on that. The long term I can figure out as I go.  

[Iomma Sensei]

You don't know lich until you meet T'Sul Malempt, the sadistic b*****d...<.<  

[DarkHayama]

Well, on the upside, the lich was enough to keep them from running into the battle. "s**t, that's a lich...I think we should get as far away as we can!"  

[Iomma Sensei]

Liches, gotta love 'em...


"Are you a good lich, or a bad lich..."  

[MT the Clown]

I've been rather curious though it's a stupid question, is a breathe weapon considered a range attack or melee?