Recent content by JayOmega

OK, I need to quit reading so fast. I mentally left out a word, and read that as "an emergency, something like a wedding," and thought "man, that's some fast-paced crowd you hang out with." Djeta, I'm getting married at 8:00! Hurry over! :D Anyway, I'm an arch-geek. 29-year-old single...

I've got the same garden. A dozen tomatoes sitting on my kitchen counter as I type. I usually just eat them plain; slice them, add salt & pepper, eat. Grill the animal of your choice to eat with them. Uses 1 large tomato per meal. Second method: BLT sandwiches. Toast your favorite 54-grain...

Wow, I'm not the only one? The "core characters" (read: the ones who show up all the time) in my game are 3 rogues. They've got a cleric follower/love-interest, and temporary cleric & fighter NPCs as guides through a dwarven mine. The occasional characters, in order of how-often-they-show-up...

I voted "Druid," because, like several others have mentioned, the correct answer is "another cleric." In general, I like parties built this way: Healer, Warrior, Arcanist, Skill-user, Healer, Warrior, Warrior, Arcanist, Skill-user, H, W, A, S, H, W, A, H, W, A, H, W, A, etc. So a six-person...

Sounds cool. Couple questions: What is the good/evil split amongst the gods going to be like? The "default" pantheons seem to assume a Good creator, and an Evil destroyer. Will you have two such kingdoms, or will all gods answer to the Good creator, or will the Creator be True Neutral? Or...

You're correct that you're better off without metamagic feats as a Theurge. The only worthwhile one might be Still Spell, so you can wear Clericy armor and still cast wizard spells, if you're leaning towards the clerical/front-line side. If you go this way, take Combat Casting, Craft Wand, and...

Wow. Excellent ideas. My thoughts: tie the language bonuses to Bard abilities. Since there are strong game-mechanical effects here, possibly require a Feat to use them. "Linguistic Mastery [general]" or some such. Draconic: This is the language of magic. Countersongs in Draconic grant a...

Well, if it's just your game, you can veto any abusive combinations. :D Seriously, I haven't seen such a rule anywhere. If you want to come up with a general rule, I'd consider these limits: Multiple activations of [spell] should not be cheaper than an activation of [mass spell]. As the...

I agree with Bel about the crit and elemental protections... why would such an item be created? A party of six is not going to give up all their bracer (etc) slots to get the effect of half a magic item, except possibly at low levels. And, I would assume that the "magic" going in to linking...

It's not a formula, but rec.games.frp.dnd had a post long ago that detailed all the possibilities for 3d6 drop 0 to 9d6 drop 6. Nd6 probabilities Faster than doing all those summations, unless you need a 3d6+2d8 result or some such.

Answered on the scanned-in pages on the gamingreport site. It takes twice as much "movement" to travel through a small area. So a 10' creature in a 5' hall uses 10' of "movement" for every 5' square he moves (but the 5-foot-step rules work normally). I haven't seen any rule changes relating...

Hardness comes into play in more than just chopping up your yet-to-be-gained treasure. You can cut through doors or other barriers, disable vehicles or siege engines, cut some ledges into a rock wall for easier climbing, deal more damage to animated objects, sunder a giant's weapon... Given...

I've met the guys in Dream Theater, but that's easy since I DJ on ytseradio. I've met Kirby Puckett and John Randle at local restaurants, but that's also easy since I live in the Twin Cities. And I'm first-cousin-twice-removed to romance novelist LaVyrle Spencer. None of these are as cool as...

Except that even "tofu pad thai" isn't usually veggie. Pad thai, like 99% of all Thai dishes, contains fish sauce, which is pretty much liquified fish.

Man, that'd be a gas in 3rd edition. "I refocus." Sit on the lap of whoever's in the first chair. "I delay my action." Start circling the table like a game of duck-duck-grey-duck (or duck-duck-goose, depending on where you're from.) Helpful if you delay to the end of the round, and get to...