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My Vampire/Bard/Soreceress with a medalion that let her wander around in broad daylight- woohoohoo, good times! (me being the Dm, the party not being able to figure out she was a vamp, because she was AWEFULLY persuasive and CHARMING and wandering around in the daylight anyhow)

If your DM doesn't mind having fights with lots of cannon fodder in front of the BBEG, Great Cleave is very rewarding (and see the pc game Temple of Elemental Evil for this being 'great')

The first time I saw the world 'powergaming', I believe, was in the first Champions* RPG supplement. There was a whole article on how to do it. For example, some very important calculations were based on dividing your ability score by 5, and the game rounded UP, a 13 was just as good as a 15...

If the warriors are all camped near one another and wear medium or heavy armor, a night attack starting with a couple of fireballs would really work wonders. Any of the low levels surviving the first couple of runds would then have the unenviable task of putting on their armor (taking up...

Ah! With an NPC it is easy to say, "that's the way it is!" You don't have to justify these things to the PCs unless they have some way of knowing the answer. If they had some way to find out, I'd tell 'em that the NPC's great-great grandfather was a god and granted jr. immortality for a...

I taught my nephew and his girlfriend to play this summer and they were awesome. There was a part where they had to determine if the NPCs were lying or not, we roll-played the entire conversations and rolled SM versus Bluff, the PCs rolled low and roll-played using their good-alignments and...

How about "Jack of all trades" = "Skillful" instead? What would you do if a player wanted something exactly like this class, but really didn't want a musician/performer- what would you let them trade for the bardic music abilities? I came up with trading out all the bardic music stuff for...

When I have a large number of low hp baddies, I use a six-sided die showing the number 1 for each. If one gets hit, I flip it to 6 if the damage isn't enough to take it out. I have enough d20s to roll for lots of creatures at once.

Thanks all! Especially aboyd, that looks like the info I was hoping for. And Jhaelen, you are precisely correct- I want to use the Bard base WITHOUT the Bard!

Is there a variant Bard that gives up the music aspect for something else? I'm looking for a jack-of-all trades class (skills, magic, ok fighting) but without the inspire courage (et al) songs.

I mean in a particular argument, it is worth stating somewhere near the start what your position is on the various WotC online "help". ..."and I don't buy any of that hooey they are dishing up at Sage Advice" or whatever. It's possible I've seen you say that in a bazillion other threads, but I...

Aha!!! Now THAT is information which would have been worth mentioning before, methinks.

I'm sure we can find a feat to share Cha mod, or maybe it is a level dependent thing. I'm liking this pixie-ridden combo more and more. Shall we make it a prestige class? BTW, good on ya mvincent.

Or vice versa, what? Can't give a definite answer either way at this point. What with all the various books from this and that publisher, am surprised there isn't some handbook on mounts and mounted combat that spells it all out.

Considering I posted a WotC link at the very start of this thread saying they don't stack, one would hope that one should be able to find it. Though I still find the ongoing debate to be enlightening on various ways to interpret the rules.