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"What does a kraken look like?" "What?" "What region are you from?" "What? What? Wh-" "What ain't no region I ever heard of! They speak Common in What?" "What?" "COMMON, BASE KNAVE! DOST THOU SPEAK IT?" "Yes! Yes!" "Then you know what I'm saying?" "Yes!" "Describe what a kraken looks...

They both apply as long as they are from different sources. At the end of your turn, you save versus all effects that you can save against. In the case of ongoing damage, only the greatest amount of any one specific type is actually taken, however. Sir Firebelly, Dragonborn Paladin is...

Threatening reach sucks for the player, not the monster. :) An opportunity attack is incurred when leaving a threatened square - whether or not that square is adjacent to the creature/player making the OA. Most creatures/players only threaten adjacent squares, so any creature/player leaving...

The 6-man party I'm currently DMing for is known in town as "The Shipbreakers", due to their reputation for destroying nearly any boat they set foot on. Given that they're based out of a coastal merchant port, you can imagine what this says about their local reputation. (Granted, in the last...

On that note, is there anything in RAW that says a push/pull/slide must be horizontal movement? The intent, obviously, is not to allow a power to knock a target 10-20 feet into the air - otherwise the possibility of Controllers turning into air-juggle combo masters would be insane. But is it...

IMC, tracking is done as a Skill Challenge, where Perception is always useful (you might not know exactly what you're looking for, but you'll know it when you see it), and either Nature/Dungeoneering/Streetwise can also be usable (to know specifically what you're looking for) and in some very...

There is a player in my current campaign who is playing a warlord, but styling him as a bard - logical, since the role is basically to inspire and provide buffs to the party, only it's done here through combat maneuvers rather than song. To keep with the flavor, he requested to use the...

For the same reason any fey pact patron chooses to give their boon to a warlock - because it amuses them to do so. As for why a tiefling would, however... a) Parents were a tiefling anthropologist and a human sociologist who continually argued the nature v. nurture debate. Trying to prove her...

A) They pick up their ranged weapon and resort to ranged basic attacks. B) They pick up a rock and make ranged improvised weapon attacks. C) They hang back and support the wizard/warlock/ranger/cleric who has a ranged attack that can make the flier go boom.

Only the guy doing the attacking - he is making the attack, his weapon, his bonuses, etc. The reason he gets the Warlord's INT bonus is because the warlord is guiding his attack.

What you're looking for are the typefaces. Font = typeface + size. Times New Roman 10 is a different font from Times New Roman 16, for instance. But as pointed out earlier, I believe that they are in-house fonts. Normally I am not a fan of serifed typefaces in manuals (sans serif typefaces tend...

To preface: I have never played OD&D/1st Ed. I played AD&D a few times, and it quickly became a game of "Who's got the best 'kit' book?" If you were playing a character straight out of the core rules, but someone had The Complete _____? It was almost like they were an order of magnitude more...

Erudite answer: That is correct. D&D is a fantasy roleplaying game, and an intellectual property currently owned by Wizards of the Coast. Therefore, they decide what it is, we accept it, end of transaction. Anything else is solipsism. Gamer answer: D&D is awesome.

I dig about half of them. The one I have the most problem with is the halfling. So far I cannot find one single positive aspect to being of Small size. It absolutely destroys any role for the halfling except caster or dagger-wielding rogue.

Argh. I get what you're saying, but this is one of those things that I tend to think of as "blindingly obvious". 13 STR to wear plate armor is a function of the Armor Proficiency: Plate feat. Wearing plate armor does not require 13 STR. This much, we can assume, is a given. The paladin can...