Recent content by Pembinasa

I personally like the ic-ooc line kept separate, though there are cases where the line gets pretty finicky. What about some sort of Int or Wis check to pick up the slack, though- at least in cases where useful information might be inferred?

Silently, to the book: If I might catch them alight, so much the better- but you might want to try avoiding what comes next, "Shandi." ...As THEY might, what with that dratted teleportation trick! Blast and disintegrate it all, I don't even have spells suitable for magic-ignoring...

Going to teach the controversy, eh Unsung? :D Still, I very much like your solution as far as I understand it. I'll have to look up variable resistance, and it sounds intriguing! As to save DCs, you really don't have much available to improve them short of homebrew; that's something that...

Granted, but at how high a check? Last I saw you needed to hit numbers that were implausibly high for managing when you need it, if you want any useful stat information, as opposed to just lore.

Thanks Quickleaf, for articulating my thoughts in ways that didn't sound like grumpy old grognard-speak. I'm glad to know I'm not alone in this, and quite interested in hearing about your alternatives! Shayuri, while it may be comparatively uncommon in the Monster Manual, the fact that it...

That honestly is the whole kicker, to me. "It does stuff a real web isn't capable of doing"- if that was true, I wouldn't be disputing this. The difference between a Web spell and an equivalent amount of actual spiderwebs is that one can show up by wiggling your fingers, and that's it- even if...

While I disagree that the product of a spell has to be inherently magical, as if a castle made by ritual-casting permanent Wall of Stone would be vulnerable to a Dispel Magic forever after, I do get the idea- that we're free to decide for ourselves what the adjudication of...

If they had explained it and its limitations, I wouldn't be nearly so concerned with this rule; as is, "all magic except the type that shoots at you' doesn't seem very well-considered to me. As to the spells like Web and Grease, I really would disagree that the results of these spells would...

And honestly, while those do sound like very interesting ways to describe the fluff, it also makes spells less and less relevant in the process- because it's coming of more as negating their existence than just being better at shrugging them off. If we do go ahead with this, I suppose making...

Except it has no magical properties, it's just cobwebs. Not magic cobwebs that animate and drag you inside them, in which case I would agree. Similarly, based on these rules you could create a Wall of Stone and drop it on someone, and they'd get to resist rocks- but you conjure up a crossbow...

...That does seem REALLY weird, and both counterintuitive and inexplicable. Graydon had picked that spell explicitly because conjuring up a stack of entangling webs shouldn't be affected by 'magic resistance', though that can be forgiven by him coming from an earlier edition. Admittedly, in my...

I'd been MEANING to ask you about that. Hey, Readied Action ahoy! Graydon stared in disbelief at Shard's apparently impulsive action, before shaking out of it to catch Shandrizar's expository infodump. Ducking through the doorway, the young wizard's fingers wove intricate tracing through the...

Graydon nodded, whispering back. "I'll try to lay down something useful as we go, to distract and inconvenience them. On your mark!" The wizard held a spell at the ready, to be discharged as soon as the door opened and he had an acceptable cluster of targets...

"...And do they look the same as the one we just dealt with?" Graydon whispered back, trying to formulate a proper plan for getting the creatures away. The old 'screams of horror from the other way to give them something to find' might work, but they needed other options! Absently noting his...

Silently, to Shandrizar: And here I thought you didn't want your name getting out like this, o Master of Awkward Pauses. I was planning to start calling you Shandi! That said, for all that these 'eye tyrants' sound like a terrifying group, this one doesn't seem threatening in the slightest-...