Recent content by komi

That site is perfect! Thanks, I didn't know about it. I'll ask over there.

Does anyone here know where to find poster maps for the old D&D Miniatures skirmish game? Here's an example: http://dmdavid.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Fantastic_Locations-Dragondown_Grotto21.jpg That's an official one that has start areas and victory areas for each team. But any combat...

Ah. Thanks!

From the PHB Update: "[While prone] you can teleport, crawl, or be forced to move by a pull, a push, or a slide." You could assume that, but why would you? Where's the rules justification for this? Would you assume that if someone missed on an attack, they miss all other attacks that round?

But what makes that space illegal? It's legal to push a prone creature over an edge, correct?

Say I push someone over the edge, he saves and ends up prone in the square. If I have more push movement left, can I push him again? From what I've seen, people seem to assume that once the target makes their save, the forced movement is done. This seems to assume that I have my final...

How about this: I can push someone three squares. I pick a guy next to an edge and push him over. He gets a save and succeeds. Can I push him again with him getting another save? And again? Basically when he saves is my forced movement on him done, or do we resolve it one square at a time?

If you replace: with: It would work the way you suggest.

Thanks for the support. I love D&D math problems because they're very straight forward (though not always easy). All the randomness comes from dice, which are pretty simple statistically. I can't help myself when I hear someone say "What are the odds for...".

This was first done graphically by someone else. I don't want to take credit for it. This is set up as a 1-on-1 contest where each curve shows improvement (in terms of additional percentage chance of success) over not having any feats. The x-axis is your init bonus minus your opponent's...

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I removed the statistics column to remove scrolling in the Code box. # | B | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | Avg ---+---+ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ +----- 1 | 7 | 31.8% 15.1% 13.0% 12.4% 11.6% 9.3% 5.3% 1.5% | 3.14 2 | 6 |...

WARNING: I'm just geeking out with math here. It won't really help you build a better character or win more fights. But if this sort of thing interests you, keep reading. I wrote a program that calculates the statistics for rolling initiative at the start of combat. It started over at...

This only works for allies (thought that's probably sufficient). PHB p.283 "Ending Movement: You can end your movement in an ally’s square only if the ally is prone." PHB p.292 "Occupied Space: If your space is occupied by another creature, you can shift 1 square, as part of this move action...

If one of your allies falls prone, you can help him out by moving to stand in his square. Then when he stands up, he can shift into any square he wants. At first I thought this was an abuse of an attempt to make falling prone easier to deal with, but then I imagined it as helping him to his...