Recent content by Marshall Gatten

An excellent point, and this would definitely be an extremely limited thing. I do like the idea, though, of the archvillain having a seemingly indestructible thing which must be destroyed by first going off and doing something else like tracking down and destroying the platonic ideal. It's...

Personally, I simply got tired of WotC releasing a new version every time they wanted to rifle through my wallet. When I heard that Paizo had committed to remaining compatible with their first version and never forcing people to replace their entire library if they wanted to remain current...

Really? No replies at all? I'm a bit biased, of course, but I kinda thought this was a pretty cool idea. Figured it would get some love. Eight months later I'll bump it and see if anybody has any ideas. (Hey, at least I'm not one of those guys that bumps every couple days.) ;)

That's not how it works. That's not how any of this works. You'd have a valid point if they started with a huge pile of monsters and picked the best to go into a book, and then pick the best of the remaining to put i a second book, and so on. But that's not the way the real world works...

I just have to say: This is the best thread ever, in the history of best threads ever.:) I'm swamped at the moment and can't possibly take the time to think about and/or rebut anything on this, but I will say your arguments sound very good to me. I think the lesson to take away is that even...

What do you suppose it would cost to hire a wizard/sage to research a way to use permanence on a zero-level spell that isn't usually compatible with permanence? I'm imagining unbreakable items that have a permanent mending cast upon them. You smash somebody over the head with a wooden chair...

derp face begin The situations where I enforce component rules have always been pretty limited. And now I will be adding a new one. Oops! That would have made a big difference last night. Okey-doke. Thanks for the reminder! And that will undoubtedly still be critical information at some...

A spell caster sneaks up on a target and casts sleep. The target successfully makes their will save and the spell fails to affect them. Was the save a passive thing that the target wouldn't even notice, in which case they still don't know there's a caster around; or do they realize they are...

So magic is the most predictable aspect of the world? That doesn't sound odd to you? Okay, to each their own. Like I said, we'll probably never agree. But that's totally cool: If all DMs were the same, the hobby would be dead.

We'll probably never agree on this one, then. The way I see it, if players wanted predictable results then they wouldn't come to the table with bags filled with hundreds of funky dice. I actually had another thought about this. I was watching a Mythbusters rerun last night where they were...

Rakusia's Schrodinger's Bag reminded me of a fun one I threw into a game once. The PCs came across a black featureless cube, two feet to a side. It functioned like a bag of holding, but only for living animals. Any animal you could fit through the top surface would disappear into an...

Regarding the question of if the bead explodes on impact, the real question is whether or not Solid Fog is solid enough for that to happen. I think the most interesting answer would be "maybe". I dropped a wine glass in my kitchen last week. It fell about four feet to a linoleum floor and...

That's an interesting flavor of synesthesia you've got there, Umbran. ;)

Heh. I saw "odor" and thought it was a very imaginative idea. Didn't even occur to me that it might have been intended as aura, though you're probably right. I thought of it as a metaphorical odor, but even thought of mentioning bacon. :)

Czar of the pinkie bracelets!