Recent content by Doc Ezra

As long as you've got a drop-down for selecting classes, why not have it automatically check the appropriate cross-class boxes, and start calculating BAB and saves? The BAB and saves might be more trouble than it's worth, but checking all those little cross-class skill boxes would be groovy, as...

Your players are asking for a death sentence. Even if it's only on criticals, the party will suffer from this rule many many times more than it will ever effect their foes, who are for the most part going to end up dead in a matter of rounds anyway. Of course the combat and damage is...

At least you come by your intellectual snobbery honestly. :P But honestly, for someone very adamant about how everyone has missed the point, why is it that you want to attribute more stridency to the "we'd like to have some common interests" position than the original authors? I mean, what...

Arravis wins... FATALITY.

You do realize there's a time limit on such actions, yes? Since SVGames had no intention of shipping my product for at least 30 days, they have gone beyond my credit card agreement's allowed cancellation period. I'm sure I could probably raise a big enough stink to get the matter fixed, but...

Incompetence is apparently insufficient cause to be irritated, from what others seem to be saying. As long as SVGames doesn't show up at my house and kick a puppy, I'm supposed to take crappy treatment and LIKE IT dagnabit, and I shouldn't DARE expect a company to deliver on its own promises or...

Don't be a moron. This isn't about some X-files conspiracy. This is about a company that takes people's money, and then fails to deliver promised goods in the timeframe that they themselves established, while simultaneously being unresponsive to inquiries regarding this obvious disconnect...

Because prepainted plastic minis are cheaper and easier for those of us that don't have money for $4 figs and hours and hours of painting?

As soon as somebody figures out what was in Greek fire, I imagine we'll have an answer (it's really all that alchemist's fire is, only without the real-world historical name). Current theory is that it was a mixture of petroleum, naptha, and quicklime, with another "secret ingredient" that...

Not so much as a "touch attack" as "an attack that ignores AC bonuses provided by physical barriers." Makes the most sense to me.

Perhaps badly phrased. What I meant was "mage armor can keep a spectre from touching me, but can't keep Joe the Barkeep from touching me." But the thread you linked handles the issue nicely.

I got that. My problem is this: Mage Armor can keep a supernatural incorporeal entity from touching me, but not Joe the Barkeep? Seems odd to me, but maybe it's just me.

Thank you. That was the step I was looking for to clarify the issue in my head. There is however, one other question. Touch attacks ignore a Mage Armor? Strictly speaking, they should, but I'm not sure how it can stop incorporeals but not touch attacks.

Was really just an example (and perhaps too easily dealt with). Gaiden's got a much better list of trickier examples above.

Why on earth would you think that it doesn't? There's no place that it says "well, enhancement bonus really means armor bonus." They gave the bonuses names for very particular reasons, and I assume when they tell me that bonus types x, y, and z don't apply, then those are the only ones they...