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First off, though I don't think my players frequently read EnWorld...Isra, Moroch, and Sulderis, STAY OUT! You'll like the surprise better that way . . . . . . . Here's the situation: the Neutral party cleric (rebuker) is coming up on a major holy day. He is going to walk off into the caves and...

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Though they've generally hid behind the scenes, one way or another almost every gamer hears whispers about the dreaded and beloved dice gods. They give and they take away. They may seem to abandon an unfortunate gamer to a series of untimely 1s, only to roll triple 20s against the BBEG. Or...

How do partial actions work? I've generally picked up that they work like standard actions, and that using one leaves you with a move action. However, the combat chapter in the PHB does not mention partial actions (unless I missed it). They talk about full round, standard, move, swift, free, and...

This seems to me to mean that we will no longer have something like d20srd.com to check the actual rules. In fact, it sounds like the SRD will jsut be a bunch of guidelines, like "It's usually a bad idea to force players onto a particular adventure path." Perhaps WotC doesn't like the fact that...

When looking at the skills on a character sheet, Use Magic Device always stands out to me, especially because it is on the Rogue's skill list but not the "real" magic users. Is UMD in 3E because it had a history in earlier editions? I have no idea, because I've only played 3E. Maybe UMD is...

At 0 hp, a vampire automatically assumes its gaseous form. However, does it still do so if it drops BELOW 0 hp? I ask the question because my most memorable and vile villains, a vampire cleric/lifedrinker, got into a fight with the PCs. He was dropped it EXACTLY 0 hp, so he turned gaseous and...

The Greater Medusa, from the Tome of Horrors, seems terribly underpowered. It's classed as a CR 8 creature, but it has only 52 hp and an AC of 16. Its gaze attack only works within 30 feet, but any party of 8th level can do 52 ranged damage while staying well out of Gaze range. How would you...

Which of the above are most based off of Gary Gygax? (PS: Gary, feel free to answer this poll too ;) )

How can one make a maze work in a game of DnD? Drawing the whole maze on the battlemap (or even drawing it as the PCs discover it) is painstaking, and it gets rid of the feeling of "I don't know how to get back to the entrance." In particular, I'm planning a combat in a 150 foot diameter...

As a DM, I have a lot of trouble with this concept. The PCs are surrounded in a surprise attack. They are wearing no armor, and their weapons are sheathed. Twelve crossbowmen have their deadly weapons trained on the hearts of the PCs. Things seem tense. Then, out of game, one player says...

Would you let a PC have a chance of hitting an invisible guy if the path of their ranged attack passed through his square? For example, if I=invisible monster ---=path of arrow C=character X=targeted sqaure C----I---X Would you let the attack hit? Maybe have a -2 penalty to hit for each...

One of my players is playing a monk that has taken the spring attack feat. We are having a disagreement over how Spring Attack provokes AoOs against the person being attacked. The feat text specifically says "moving in this way does not provoke an attack of opportunity from the defender you...

Does the Hold Person spell work on a Half-Celestial elf? The type CHANGES to native outsider, so I don't know that it counts.

The minotaur is supposed to have a level adjustment of +2. However, with +8 strength and full BAB from the animal levels, along with good ref and fort saves, and a special gore attack with mega damage after a charge, it ends up being FAR to powerful. The party I run for is level 7. What Level...

You've heard the stories, listened to the rumors. But it looks like Wizards is finally doing what they should have from the start: giving paladins their own alignment. Though houseruled in many games, Lawful Stupid is now entering the core books. This ought to make things simpler.

Ok, my batch of players has gotten used to the system, and they are well aware that things are now going to get much more deadly. Last Saturday two characters nearly died and were only saved by awesome rolls, for example. The players are ready for this, and I wanted to know how to hit them...

Do you allow bonuses on a magic bow (say, a +1 flaming bow) and a set of arrows (say, +1 sonic arrows) to get 1d6 fire+1d6 sonic+2?

In the next session, PCs will be faced at one point with a juvenile black dragon, CR 7. Chances are that if he is close to getting killed he will flee and plot his revenge, so I wouldn't worry too much about the items being things that shouldn't fall into the PCs hands. What items might such a...

I agree with WotC's choice to remove the gnome, largely because it didn't have any place in the fantasy world. There was nothing you could identify a gnome with, nothing that made them stand out as a new race. They felt, to a lot of people, like clumsy halflings that had useless spellike...