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Did that giant thing with spiked chain... only I did it wrong. I used an ogre, 1st level ranger, who could wield 2 spiked chains (at -4), a CR 3 overall. No one was able to get to him, and he killed an entire crew of 20, and the players barely escaped (3 2nd level characters). Now I'm...

Hahahahah! :) I haven't said it was useless, but I understood that people used the whip to touch, and by that I understood as to "melee touch". And I think that the rules do not mention melee touch attack being made with anything else but hands. That's why I asked the question. My question...

That's exactly what I want to do, Piratecat. And I always wanted to play a character that uses a whip. Now's my chance. But I wonder, about the whip being used as a touch attack, you can do that??? I tought melee touch attack had to be done with hands, and not weapons! Please light my way... :)

Why would I want to use a whip? It ain't for the touch ability, but the character I was talking about is a trick monkey, and the whip's role is part cool, part trip attack.

yeah, but a whip isn't a reach weapon as the other reach weapons are, and has a stated reach in its description. A medium whip has a 15' reach, about 3x the wielder's height. A huge creature can be 25' or 30' high. Trice that height would give between 75' and 90', and it's reach would still...

Half-Giants can wield weapons one size larger at no penalty. That's great, but what happens when one wields a whip? The damage increases to d4, but does the reach remains at 15', or does it double to 30'? Then, when the Halg-Giant activates his expansion power, and actually wields a...

I don't want a math class - I already did enough of these already - but my math teachers always said that they were gonna be usefull someday... Here's my question: In normal situations, when you double the size of an object, you double all of its 3 dimensions, therefore its mass increase by x8...

Maybe this one came up before - and I'm sorry if it did - but I've just returned to D&D Gaming. Can you get the Improved Toughness Feat multiple times, as the Toughness Feat? If yes, then maybe I'll try a HP Machine... Arigato!

Here are some questions I haved asked myself for some time now, while building a "True Necromancer" type of character: 1) Necromancer and the Death Domain : the True Necromancer's ability Necromancer, states that all spellcaster levels (lets assume cleric+wizard+true necromancer) stack for...

The only problem I see (exept for reach, see my other post) is for the handling of treasure. The lower damage isn't a problem, as in small greatswords kick ass. But small greatswords are so rare... pray for the return of King Kobold!

Halflings aren't midgets! Midgets have about the same hands/feets as most of us, but halfling and gnomes don't. If the illustrations aren't enough to prove this, then explain to me why they get a -2 for wielding a medium short sword (wich is like a small longsword). The only explanation I...

Int is Memory, in the PHB... why a skill? I think an Int check (bardic knowledge) is enough

I vote for the not there-no xp method. In our campaign, players who don't attend often do so because of their own choosing (not jobs) so they choose not to get XP. There is some whining, but their PC is often out of of danger in such games.

Re: Cloak of Shadows That's exactly what we'll do: Cloak of Shadows is a new spell, and Darkness is as in 3.0 PHB. I agree that the spell description is incomplete, and it doesn't say if it looks natural, say, when casted at night. Complete darkness was a part of D&D in 2e, and I guess 1e...

I don't think so, I just ask : DO SMALL CHARACTERS GET REACH WITH REACH WEAPONS, AND IF SO, WHY? I don't want to get into the "because it's written in the PHB", or what page is rule XX, or explain rule XX, but why should halfling wield 10' long pole, and humans cannot wield 20' long ones? It's...