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Chessex Mats serve a simple but useful function: providing a nice surface for your combat visualization. Description / Criteria for Review: I own the smaller of the two mats, which I bought for $12. The mat is thin laminated organic material, a pleasent beige color. On it is a clearly printed...

My play group moved on from 3.x to other systems because we grew tired of not getting the game right and combat taking too long. Every combat was a balance between fast playtime with errors, and minutes spent looking stuff up or confirming how things work. Our house rule/reminder document grew...

I thought that I had seen a mention of it somewhere, although I can't remember where. And if it's not called Revised, will future printings incorporate errata and have better editing? The reason I ask is because I've had a craving to do some D&Dish gaming again, and I want to use something much...

Bought this game on a lark, brand new for $20 US (which is what you'll find it for). It is easily the most fun, addictive, and thoroughly insane game I've played since Chu Chu Rocket for Dreamcast. And Tycho from Penny Arcade agrees in his latest news post (aside from the Chu Chu Rocket--he just...

Hey. I'm in the market for a great game screen, and the Masterscreen Quad from Citizen Games looks to be it. However, it's a large investment ($25) and I was hoping to find a user testimonial before I shelled out the bucks. Any happy (or unhappy) owners here? Thanks, -Clint

Hi. This is a call for friendly people to test and give feedback to my beta-version web-based 3.5e NPC generator. I don't know about y'all, but I loved Jamis Buck's NPCGen. I got a ton of utility out of it, and I wanted to give something back, so I wrote a 3.5e update, currently called NPyC. (I...

Need to vent. Valar sold my email today, and yours too if you had a registration with them. I gave Valar my email address to get a login which would let me preview their product, since only registered users could download their previews. I should have known better. On the registration page...

Hi. I just got the Artificer's Handbook today, and I love it. I'd like to drop it in, but was hoping that I could tap y'all for some advice on how it actually plays. The system provided, while beautiful and logical, is a bit more work. How does it actually run in game? How do you like it when...

Hey y'all. My ninth-level wizard is taking the Improved Familiar variant feat on page 200 of the 3.5 DMG. Under the section "Granted Abilities", it begins: My question is: what constitutes "their own special abilities"? The pseudodragon (listed on p201) has the special ability of blindsense...

Hi, y'all experts. Arcane prestige classes frequently give "+1 caster level in spells per day" at some point. Does this level count for item creation requirements? For example, Wiz5/PrC1 that gives +1 level in spells per day. Could this character make an item that required caster level 6...

Hi, all. I'm talking the following feat chain over with the players in my campaign. What do you y'all think? I'm aware that expertise, dodge, and mobility are all workable, too, but I wanted something more... martial. Like Gladiator in the Arena parrying. Any comments appreciated. Parry...

I'm a DM, and we just finished our weekly session. So say that you have a wizard who's forte is creating Animated Objects en masse, using a ritual of his own design. I chose Animated Objects over typical golems, thinking that they would be easier for a level five party to fight. Animated...

Hi everyone. I noticed in one of the recent chat logs that in Monte Cook's home game, he modified Spring Attack to force a 10' move both before and after the attack. Morrus concurred that he uses a similar modification. I'm running a game where one of the PCs just obtained the feat, and it...

Hi everyone. Is there an existing fighter-themed prestige class that is targetted at the fighter who wants to be good, even excellent, with any weapon? Something that, over ten levels, gives abilities like: Weapon Focus (all martial), Exotic Weapon Proficiency (all exotic), and finally, Weapon...

Hi, all. Please educate me. :) Of the four standard reach weapons: Glaive: 1d10, x3, reach 10' Guisarme: 2d4, x3, reach 10', improved trip ability Longspear: 1d8, x3, reach 10', can brace against charge Ranseur: 2d4, x3, reach 10', improved disarm ability ...why are there none that do similar...

Hi. I run a game, and one of my players is using a tactic that's perfectly legal, yet I'm finding it to be unbalancing. "Rider" is a bow-specializing fighter (a Monte Cook ranger, actually), and he likes to fight from the back of his Heavy Warhorse. When an enemy approaches to melee him, his...

Has anyone done anything like compile a complete list of "real" animals in d20 stats? I know that the Monster Manual has a bunch of stats, but they're not complete, and some of them seem off. Thanks.