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    locking garrote for rogues

    The rules state that you get sneak attack damage when your opponent is denied their dex bonus. A locking garrote grapples, which does that. So, yes. The real question is whether sneak attack damage is added to the garrotes attack roll on successive rounds.
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    Adventuring Tactics Masterclass: Giants.

    The good thing about giants is their one-dimensionality. They are just stregnth, reach, and hitpoints. So if your tactics are sound, it becomes much less of a challenge. The most important tactic is controlling the battlefield with your mage, as described by Ridley's Cohort above. When it's...
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    My first TPK (Beyond the Veil spoilers)

    So I take it that the cleric didn't prepare magic circle agianst evil? It looks like there really wasn't any time for a turning attempt either. When the vampire was grappling, he loses his dexterity bonus to AC. It also gives the arcane archer an equal chance of hitting his grappled ally...
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    Great white wyrm - DEAD

    Enervation!!! Enervation, Enervation, Enervation. Get about a dozen scrolls of it, and have your hasted mages fire two of them a round. Then you can have fun with disintegrates and flesh to stones. Just make sure you cast a few greater dispellings on the dragon first to ensure that he...
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    How difficult would it be to hit a wand?

    Base AC for an object is 5. Add +2 for size. Total AC=7. Objects don't have dexterity modifiers.
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    Faerie Fire vs. Darkness

    Yes. That's drow combat tactic #1.
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    Prone & Kneeling

    DOWN UP! DOWN UP! I personally think that WOTC did prone rules and modifiers correctly. Of course, they could always clarify what denotes a "prone" position. I consider any condition in which you are stationary and not supported solely by your legs "prone" with respect to combat modifiers...
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    (OT) EN Board, form of...Home Theater advisors!

    Sounds like a good, well-ballanced system. Watch how well it fits into my formula: Total Budget: $1527 (not including the s-video cable) Television: $799 52% Speakers, reciever, speaker wires: $549 36% DVD and interconnects: $179 12% The s-video cable is for a secondary playback...
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    +1 Per Three Caster Levels?

    Multiples of three (3, 6, 9, 12, 15).
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    (OT) EN Board, form of...Home Theater advisors!

    Home Theater Economics Here is a good method to determine how much to spend on each component of your home theater. Spend half of your money on your video display and the other half on audio. Spend half of your audio budget on speakers. Spend one quarter of your audio budget on...
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    Polymorphself questions

    No. But you can do this with the second level spell "alter self".
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    Tumbling for Wizards

    If I allowed these in my campaign, they would be called "balerina slippers of twinkle toes".
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    The Adventures of the Knights of Spellforge Keep

    You forgot to add that the red dragon was wearing pajamas.
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    Alignment - just how evil is hiring an assassin?

    I've come to the conclusion that the great majority of gamers are moral relatavists. But these same people seem to believe that when someone does something that they consider "wrong", it makes that person irredeemably evil. It's pretty simple: Assassination is murder. Murder is evil. Hiring...
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    How many light spells cancel overlapping darkness spells?

    It depends on how you cast the light spell. If you cast it specifically to counter a darkness spell, then both are gone. However, it would be difficult to target the spell directly since you likely won't be able to see the object that upon which it is cast. So generally the light spell will...
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    How "out" are you?

    What hobby? I keep all of my "offensive materials" in a backpack and a foot locker. My roommates (hopefully) have no idea that I game. I have a few standard excuses for why I always seem to be gone on the same night of the week, but a lot of them are come up with on the spot. None of my...
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    [OT] What would YOUR last meal be?

    Two comments. I'm guessing that the double meat cheeseburger was the favorite on the death row regular menu. It is surprising that so many condemned men want Dr. Pepper to be the last thing they drink. Or is that just a Texas thing?
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    How would you play a Samurai with these Stats?

    Those are very poor stats for a samurai. The only way a person with such average mental stats would become a samurai is through nepotism. Intelligence, wisdom, and charisma are more important for a samurai than stregnth, dexterity, and constitution. So your character probably would have been...
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    [meta] What part of the world do you live in?

    Rats! I messed up Clinton Township and Chesterfield Township. Also unfortunate is that there is a Clinton, MI, in southern central Michigan. It could be worse, you could be from Harrison Township, even people from Mt. Clemens forget about those people.
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    The heavy burden of money

    50 coins per pound has been the standard since 1st edition. (About 111 coins per kg if my math is right this time.)
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