Recent content by Andor

Sure. How many of those require the PC to increment/decrement them by the round or action?

In every edition of D&D a rogue can jump off of a tower of (HD-1)10' tall with a pretty good chance of walking away to heal his bruises. 20th level Rogue jumping off a 100' tower? No trouble at all. Is that less realistic than the fact that you can stab someone with a spork hard enough to do as...

So they've decided to go with "Book keeping nightmare: The RPG"?

I fully endorse your plan to use this logic to demand a seat at the Draconic council. Also can you hold this bag of unpopped corn when you do so?

The country East of China is Japan. Or, from the Chinese perspective "The land of the rising sun." Which the Japanese thought was cool enough that they still call themselves that, as well as it being the origin of their flag.

"Kind" is a good one. Humankind, elvenkind, dwarfkind. It strikes the ear properly, and doesn't have any baggage tied to it that I can think of (although I'm probably wrong.) In D&D a social construct is a warforged bard.

IIRC about 3 or 4 people in this thread have self-identified as people of colour. I have no idea, of course, how many have not.

No. There is no rule in D&D that mandates what races call each other. Elves and Dwarves can go right on calling each other stench-beards and daisy-fondlers, while Dragons don't care what you call them as long as they are properly seasoned. We are discussing the terminology used in a rule book...

In Tolkien orcs are corrupted elves. Morgoth had the power to corrupt, but not create. (Don't ask me what he bred Trolls and Dragons from though.) It's also worth noting that all the half-orcs we see in the books are the work of (and servants of) Saruman, so magic may well be involved in their...

Wow. This slid downhill, although I suppose it was doomed to. Here is my 2¢. Race is a lousy term. There is no better term. Race in D&D sometimes means ethnicity, sometimes it means species, sometimes it means culture, sometimes it refers to supernatural qualities. It doesn't always mean...

Well, I think that's the disconnect. A spelljamming helm is basically a minor artifact. A spelljamming ship is a complex, expensive system somewhere between a caravel and a battleship wrapped around that artifact, and filled with dozens of crewmen including spell casters (or possibly Beholders.)...

I disagree. You want mechanics and story to support each other. If you want free wheeling, swashbuckling action then the baseline 3e system which demands fighters must turtle or lose most of their damage is a lousy system. If you grim 'n gritty low fantasy adventures then pretty much any leveled...

All of the in-world issues can be easily addressed by making all Spelljammers enter or leave through a single point, fluffed however you wish. While in the atmosphere there is no need for them to be any faster than other readily available means of flight making everything a wash. As others...

Well there are several approaches to take, and they are not mutually exclusive. 1st. Can they exercise any control over the dream space? Perhaps some will/concentration rolls to represent deep prayer will allow them to locally alter the dream to dream of Dawn and recover their spells. Perhaps...

An inverse Dalek rule? Are you saying Daleks are ninjas?