Recent content by Panask

WotC's recent article on animal companions said this about sharing spells: *** To share a spell, your animal companion must be within 5 feet of you and there must be an unbroken line of effect between you and the companion. If the shared spell has a duration other than instantaneous, your...

Monks in my campaign have more of a Western medieval flavor (an Oriental flavor just doesn't fit well), and we think of them as being in hooded "monk's habits," and generally carrying a staff, although this is not required. Each monk must have a patron deity, and the chief change is that we...

IMC all clerics must worship a deity (or small group of related deities), but I'm quite willing to let the player invent a "little-known" god. The player gets the domains he wants, I get a new deity for my campaign (some of which have gone on to be of no small importance), and the player can...

According to the MM: "Creatures hitting a fire elemental with natural weapons or unarmed attacks take fire damage as though hit by the elemental’s attack, and also catch on fire unless they succeed on a Reflex save." Do you actually have to hit (get past its AC and do some damage) the fire...

I grant 6 + Int mod free Skill Points to be spent on Craft, Profession, and Language skills. (I use a language system in my campaign where you need about 3 Skill Points, or a feat, to speak a language fluently.) One of the other DMs in my campaign world uses roleplaying opportunities to allow...

If for some reason you have a penalty to your damage rolls, and you score a critical hit, do you roll your full damage (including original hit and critical) first and then subtract the penalty, or does the penalty apply both to the original hit damage and the crticial damage separately? This...

I'm a little unsure about how Tumble works when you try to tumble past an enemy (or through the enemy's space) - in particular, exactly waht the "one-half speed" refers to. Is it only for the distance you're tumbling, or does it apply to your entire move? That is: suppose your base move speed...

I'm am looking for spells related to memory, from either standard or non-standard sources. Does anybody have any? Thanks for your help. Panask Servitar to Baldur

My campaign has always had a mix of fantasy-sounding names and real-world names. As several posters said, you can have connotations to a real-world name that is difficult to achieve with a made-up one. It's also interesting to set patterns. For a long time most of my dwarf NPCs had names that...

All my players are adults. Sexuality is rarely overt in the game, but characters (PCs and NPCs) sometimes flirt with each other, arrange assignations, or have dates. (Sometimes these activities tie into "exchange of infomration" roleplaying, with lots of Gather Information, Sense Motive, and...

********************************************************************* To change from a single handed attack to a double handed attack or vice versa requires a free action (e.g. just like dropping an item, going from two handed to one handed is "dropping the sword" with one hand). You cannot do...

One of my house rules for bards: Starting at 2nd level, a bard has "virtual" ranks in every Perform skill equal to half her level. These act just like actual ranks, but they do not stack with actual ranks. Panask Servitar to Baldur

One problem is that the book, not being magical, isn't used up when you're done. The first character might have to pay 50 or 100 gp for it, but then he could pass it around to all his friends. This is difficult to balance. Maybe there should be some penalty for failed checks... the character...

Suppose I attack with a quartestaff, using it as a double weapon, with all appropriate penalites for two-weapon fighting. Then, before my next turn, I get an Attack of Opportunity on an opponent. Can I attack using the quarterstaff as a two-handed weapon for the AoO? And do the TWF penalties...

Thanks. Panask Servitar of Baldur