Recent content by Noumenon

Also, Cook just got divorced/separated and moved, both of which put your stress level through the roof and make it harder to stay in control.

I agree that it's no big deal. People are allowed to express their opinions freely at Reddit and it doesn't hurt anything. Although a forum with threaded comments and upvotes doesn't have to worry about negativity derailing a whole thread.

Are you referring to the one where he put "different ability scores by gender" in the poll and Mike Mearls posted a retraction for it?

I like the idea of getting rid of the spiked chain (which isn't a real weapon) and replacing it with the kusari-gama, just because I'm all for making monk weapons a bit better.

It is worth noting that Pathfinder changed this rule so you do need to actively maintain the grapple. And grapple does require you to sacrifice a lot of other actions (AoOs, weapon attacks, your move, your ability to attack other targets). I feel pretty good about requiring some focus on the net...

Hee hee, baby cloakers. Or cacodemons wearing capes. I've got a Word document setup for printing custom counters, I enjoy Googling for art to use. Here's a screenshot of the ones I used for the cloakers. I print them out, fold them till they stand up and paperclip them to the monster's index...

I don't feel bad for not figuring that out -- it's all-but-invisible among the other tiny identical links and everyone knows web surfers don't look at menus. Even once I hit the page I clicked the wrong button because it's just small images and you have to guess at the title. I would supply a...

I've searched this topic before, that's the best answer I've ever seen.

I don't see any way to buy on that page (or even preorder, or a release date). Did you guys just get it early because you playtested it?

Yeah, my post was about how to automate that so you can type "en search terms" in the address bar instead of having to type out the "site:enworld.org" stuff. I'm addicted to short searches, I have "gi" to search Google Images, "pf" for the pathfinder SRD, "bg" for Bible verses, "w" for...

I didn't mean that it was pointless because it duplicated the concealment from shadows but that I wouldn't want to spend a standard action for such a short-term benefit. I guess you might as well try it though since it's at-will.

That's a change too! Before, Shadow Shift was "effective only in shadowy areas". It also wasn't a free action, so the 1d4-round blur effect was very pointless.

I thought that since the monster text didn't change, it would be relevant to the Pathfinder forum. Whoops. Although I guess it's relevant to know that engulf is even less useful now than it was before.

The +4 bonus text is still there in Pathfinder. I think you're right, though, googling "bonus on the attack roll". So it would work out to a +8 to hit, right? -4 for a natural weapon in grapple, +4 special bonus, +8 regular BAB + Str + size bonus. I don't think maintaining a grapple takes an...

From the PF SRD, The 3.5 Tactics section said Engulf is usually used versus a lone opponent, but it seems like the main danger of it comes only when you have other party members hitting the cloaker. The bite deals 1d4+2 damage, and is far from an auto-hit. (I believe the "+4 bonus on its...