Recent content by Quidam

It's this introduction of the retroactive that bothers me- that the second action you take determines the nature of the first one you took. The other option is forcing someone to declare a double move at the beginning of the first move action, but what you discover from turning that corner...

For what it's worth, I'm Mistwell's DM in this game, so I'll be making the final call unless we get something firm from WotC. Looking at what's been presented so far, I'm inclined to rule that a double move only exists as such after the second move action is declared. If you end your first...

I would say yes, because you never got to your second move action. According to the PHB you don't take a double move until you've taken two move actions and you've only taken one so far.

What's your opinion on a double move run? 8 squares or 6?

If two PCs ready actions that trigger at the same time, how do you determine which action goes first?

Many consider multiclassing (particularly paragon multiclassing) to be a rather weak choice. I'm considering suggesting the following house rules for multiclassing & paragon multiclassing. I'm curious if anyone has tried anything similar. Any comments about balance in general are also...

I'd advise looking into the Chameleon PrC from Races of Destiny. Most Warlock builds that involve it dip for two levels in order to get a floating feat that you can swap around daily. Why settle for just one item creation feat when you can have whichever you need on a given day, having Extra...

Do you, as DMs, allow used wands to be purchased in your games? They're found as treasure often enough, but how do you handle the used wand market?

You wouldn't be able to dual wand wield by 6th, but if you were to go warlock instead of wizard, you'd be able to use any wand in the book.

Be sure to check out Dungeonscape. In the tools section there is a wand bracer that holds five wands. There's also a weapon/shield property that allows you to attach a wand to said weapon or shield, and that wand is considered readied as long as the weapon or shield is. My warlock is going to...

We were fighting a large skeleton last night and at one point one of the players had got his rope & grappling hook to effect an escape. His turn came up again and, rather than setting the line for climbing, he decided he wanted to throw it at the skeleton and try to pull him down. Our...

Thanks for the response. The sunrods idea was thrown in there for flavor, and I doubt the effect is worth 15kgp. Since the idea is to get this into the hands of lower level characters, let's just drop that. The tricky bit is something I see I neglected to mention. I want to lower the...

I've an item in mind that I'd like opinions on when it comes to market value. 1) +1 longspear 2) tip can shed light as the spell on command 3) tip can fire magically conjured sunrods 3/day which last 1 round per caster level of the user 4) if someone has the apropriate feat, the spear can...

Unless the UMDer has a caster level, which a warlock does. I like your idea of keeping the 'same caster level' requirement and adding the 'at least three spells' bit. Each spell in a staff, while increasing versatility, also increases the per-charge cost. I'll point this thread out to my DM...

According to the staff creation rules, "The caster level of all spells in a staff must be the same, and no staff can have a caster level of less than 8th, even if all the spells in the staff are low-level spells." My DM has already agreed to allow custom staffs in the game. I'm asking my DM if...