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I tried a separate XP pool for magic items in a game once (basically that's where roleplaying XP went and non-casters could pay XP costs on behalf of the caster). Bad, bad, bad idea. Because it was basically free, the cleric would just craft tons of scrolls and single-use wondrous items...

A ways back I had invented some alternate weapon styles for rangers. I remember creating one for sword and board style, polearm (spear) style, and unarmed combat. Unfortunately, those notes were on my old computer whose motherboard is now fried. IIRC correctly the sword and board involved...

Simple enough to solve start with a block of ice (either magical or mundane) cast silence on it and then use magic to melt. Add fire damage if brought to a boil (I have to imagine getting it to a boil wouldn't be hard for a caster). Because the entire object has it, it would thus transfer to...

My rogue thoroughly enjoyed his glove of storing. It was even more fun when I went klepto on a tome of intellect +3 and rolled a 20 on my sleight of hand check (evil party). The player of the wizard was pissed, but the character had no idea.

Yeah, I can see how attack roll can get out of hand especially with magic items and feats. Fortunately, my next campaign will probably be in a world where magic items generally are extremely rare. I want to make it so a rogue could tumble past a fighter of equal level on a decent roll, but...

I'm sure this has been posted and discussed time and time again on these boards, but I don't have a supporter account so I can't search. But what I'm wondering is has anyone come up with a fair solution to the tumble skill. The DC 15 check to tumble past an opponent is just too easy (Assume a...

I've DM'ed the players in the middle of a world war (premise was the super-uber evil diety was about to be released from his imprisonment. All good gods against, some evil (they didn't want to give up their power)). I ran a mass combat letting the PCs control the good army (100 units) vs 1500...

I ran a massive battle with the PCs (12th or 13th-level high-powered gestalts) along with 96 wood elves attempting to hold a river ford against a Marilith led army of darkness. Vrocks, bebiliths, frost giants, hill giants, trolls, ogres, goblins (about 1400 of those buggers), etc. Think there...

Bad, bad, bad idea. It's easy enough for a PC to hit with a ranged touch spell as it is. The last thing they need is to make those easier. Especially since so many orbs (SC) ignore spell resistance. Stupid rassum frassum annoying wizards/sorcerers. I follow a rule, I don't invent...

Yeah, he's pretty lousy with a warrior or rogue class too. Kind of amazing that someone can play the same game for over a decade and still be that bad at it. We've had to do things such as write "apply dodge bonus" on his character sheet. Every one of his warriors always has power attack, yet...

Definitely a possibility to try. I have Alchemy and Herbalists (I think that was the title at least). I'll have to go digging through there and see what I come up with.

Stream: I don't mean ancient Hebrews are in any way Hippies and yes, I am well versed in the Good Samaritan and the Sermon on the Mount (thank you 8 years of Catholic School and being a Sunday school teacher for a while). But IMO, during the Crusades, the war was really between the Muslims and...

Well, the arcane side still has some wizards left (just like their are some clerics and druids, etc), however they're exceedingly rare and like I said marked targets. They're really just not available for PCs. Also, I forgot to include swashbuckler as an allowed class in my original post...

I guess I could have handled it better or more civilly or possibly given him a spellcraft check, but I typically try to make quick adjudications to keep combats moving along. I think the problem might be more the player and his lack of maturity (he's 28). He tends to be easily annoyed and...

The rest of the group thought the ruling was quite fair and consistent with past rulings. Like I said, we're generally pretty short on patience with each other (we've all been friends with each other for over a decade and it's just part of our group dynamic). It's not my preferred style and I...

Yes, I plan on combing through UA over the development process. I've used it in the past to decent results. As for the inclusion of the weak spellcasting classes: magic (of all sources) isn't completely dead, the major 2 factions (nature-based is more fringe in my mind) both have a presence in...

Yeah, I'm debating using the non-spellcasting versions of the ranger and paladin, but then I think I'd have to nix the hexblade altogether, they're roughly equal in my mind in terms of their place in the game. Plus, I don't think they're minor spells or lay on hands will be that much of a game...

So I'm starting to think up plans for my next homebrew. 3.5 rules. I probably won't run the game for at least a year plus. I plan on keeping the world relatively low-magic. Background wise, I'm thinking of using some type of war of attrition, reciprocating assassinations (possibly still...

It would have been quite hard to miss the wall, we used bendy dungeon walls for the stone wall. They're a good inch off the battlemat and he put the wire spell template so it was resting on the wall. Kind of hard to say he didn't notice the wall. But yeah, he has chronic problems with general...

In terms of rules, we generally go one time where the DM gives you a freebie, then you're SOL. I could have been gentler, but he even insisted on breaking out my radius template to show me exactly where he planned on centering it. Didn't turn out to matter anyway, we played the next encounter...