Recent content by Malhost Zormaeril

Hello, folks; I have a copy of Wizards' SWSE Core Rulebook, and I was thinking of using it to initiate my nephews to the hobby. To that end, I was writing up a couple of prepared characters, since we all know that modern character creation overwhelms a neophyte pretty quickly... One of the...

If this means what I think this means, the party will indeed most likely be weaponless, too. Now, this means that the Fighter, the Rogue and the Paladin won't be able to use any powers with the weapon keyword. This is something like 80% of the Paladin's powers, and 90-100% of the Rogue's and the...

Strictly, one could reason that monsters associate the marked condition to "if I don't attack the defender, I'm going to get clobbered". How much damage is another matter altogether... but the damage is a given. So technically, the issue in the OP should be resolved. Dance of Death or the...

I've played systems which had armour as ablative hp; it was a nice idea, but frankly, the execution is very hard to pull off. The point is, adventurers are damaged quite often, and as armour hp are usually the first to go, we get to the situation where our characters' armour has a very low life...

18 hours? How do you figure that? According to the Overland movement section in the SRD, a character walks in an hour roughly one mile for every 10' of movement she has. According to the feat description in the OP, a character with Soul of Pheidippides can: That means that a character with...

The problem with the Epic Level handbook was exactly that it was tacked onto the end of the regular rules. If this analysis is correct, the obvious solution is to design the Epic levels in the core rules, rather than letting them be an add-on... That being said, I enjoyed at least the Epic...

That's because there is a difference between monster roles and PC roles; they're two disjoint sets. The point is, these roles are all defined within the context of the adventuring party; the PCs aren't concerned whether the monsters have a balanced group which can function agilely; their...

I beg to differ on the fun of claw/claw/bite/gore/tail/horn, but you're in luck, I guess -- the stats for the Spined Devil/Spinagon clearly show two claw attacks (at -2 each, just like for a character using two weapons).

Male domination arises from the fact that, in a world where infant mortality (as well as adult mortality) is pretty high, most women are tapped out being pregnant all the time. Gotta replenish that population! That means the guys are a bit overtaxed, working the fields and manning the levies...

I realise this might be threadcrapping, but damn. 74-point buy; you can get a 18/18/18/16/15/15 array with that... I'd easily play a character with feat-progression every 5th level for those kinds of scores... Of course, if I still want feats, I can still make do with playing a Fighter. So I...

Well, this may be a minor quibble, but for a human character with the standard array, she may get Distance Runner at 1st level if she puts her 15 in CON; she'll have to wait until 16th level to gain Soul of Pheidippides, however, unless she finds a Manual of Bodily Health somewhere -- I doubt...

Actually, the Latin word imperator means leader, commander; it was later used of the Roman emperors. In fact, it derives straight from imperium, an order or command or the right to issue one -- authority. By metonimy, it came to mean the whole Roman political unit. Right, because obviously...

I fail to see why a 4-ton Gargantuan creature should be a slow, lumbering beast. It probably has biceps larger than the PCs, so it should be able to move about pretty quickly. I think it's a deleterious preconception that big = slow (and frequently dumb)... Anyway, about HP variability, my...

Morale, I guess. And nosy Gnomes.

Conversely, you don't need the splatbooks to play the game, but aren't you getting just a fraction of the game if you limit yourself to Core? Granted, it's difficult to play with just the DMG, but the idea is that some form of D&D can be played with just the first generation (PHB1, DMG1, MM1)...