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  1. Cyclone Duke

    WotBS [WotBS] Site Resources/Fantasy Grounds

    Kinds regards to all, Have loved WotBS so much so far. My group played for about 2 years in person then took about a year's break and we're now trying to get it resumed via Fantasy Grounds on steam. I DM, so after hearing about how great FG was for rules integration and general ease of use and...
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    WotBS [Spoilers included] Half WotBS diary, half GM asking questions

    Bear in mind that a dominated victim acts strangly, and their fellows can recognise that strange behaviour with a dc25 sense motive check. Depending on how much of a personality you've given torrent or how talkative she is, it might be easy for the group to notice (if you want them to have the...
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    WotBS Trial of Echoed Souls: Unclear motivation of antagonists (Spoilers!)

    The motivations of coaltounge's assassins are a bit vague - the introduction actually mentions this: Who Hired the Assassins? There is no clear answer to who recruited the assassins to kill Drakus Coaltongue, or if they did it of their own free will. You can generally assume Leska, the new...
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    WotBS Missing stats in Trials of Echoed Souls

    The folks here made the book years and years ago and don't tend to have missing material such as stats (for mobs, or items such as the weakened torch, or earring of whispering winds) when asked. I recommend just whipping up a polar bear and then granting the benefits of a X-level druid. Give...
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    WotBS [Spoilers included] Half WotBS diary, half GM asking questions

    Thom, it's okay to let Deception/Vuhl detect as minor magic (as mentioned on page 59 of the complete edition) for his illusion to appear as a fey. Having a magic aura detected on you is not incriminating, it just means you're using some kind of magic. Even if specified as transmutation, Vuhl can...
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    WotBS Integrating "A Harvest of Hope Forlorn" and "The Mad King's Banquet"?

    I have personally not had much luck in getting players to play alternative characters for the bonus adventures. I loved the content (particularly Dreamcatcher's Traveller) but my players would have no interest spending our gaming time doing tasks that does not reward or relate to their main...
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    WotBS WotBS - Character Wealth Values?

    Yes I've taken to cutting out MM and appendix stats and using them with a clipboard, a bit necessary simply due to the format as you said!
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    WotBS WotBS - Character Wealth Values?

    Check dungeon master's guide page 135 - character wealth by level.
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    WotBS WotBS - Character Wealth Values?

    Was the plan - just wanted to doublecheck before bumping up my guys wealth that it wasn't intended to be strictly as-is! Thanks for the insight
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    D&D 5E Are DMs getting lazy?

    As a DM most of my focus/efforts for making the game fun for my group is in the delivery of characters and situations and making them impressive. I do get flashes of inspiration about how to weave my own story into campaigns, my own encounters and NPCs, but beyond this I don't have the interest...
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    WotBS Maps for adventurer three?

    Most of the activity in Seaquen is not terribly map-dependant. The players will probably spend their time between the north and south harbour, and the refugee camps. The many troubles seaquen needs help with, are more flavorful than tactical challanges - you can make tactical maps on the fly as...
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    WotBS WotBS - Character Wealth Values?

    Hello! I got the 3.5 WotBS all-in-one book some months ago. Loving it, it's the best campaign I've DMed (the one gripe I have that all the NPC stats are waaaay at the back of that gigantic book and I gotta flip over 700 pages back and forth!:P) My group love it also. Very much looking forwards...
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    Are Knights and Cavaliers the same thing?

    3.5 had both the Knight (basic class, PHB2) and Cavelier (P. Class, Complete Warrior). Knight was a super-tank with heavy armor + tower shields like fighter, but with the rare huge d12 hit die, and "taunt"/you have to fight me mechanics. Heavy on honour, moreso than the paladin but less about...
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    D&D 3E/3.5 (3.5) Monks and Wisdom

    I guess the fact that "how to make a good monk" began with "take 3 levels of ranger" put me off. It's not as bad as it looked at a glance, thanks again for the input. One thing about doing nothing the barb isn't doing already, the barb doesn't get to move 50ft and have free trip/grapple...
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    D&D 3E/3.5 (3.5) Monks and Wisdom

    Thanks for all the input. Psi anything isn't happening as we're not doing any of the psionic stuff. Yeah part of the reason I buffed STR is that as monk there's not enough feats to go around to take weapon finesse and the wisdom=damage thing, which is a good find, thanks much. STR is good for...
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    D&D 3E/3.5 (3.5) Monks and Wisdom

    Thanks for taking the time and effort to post that, but that's not a monk, that's a cluster:):):):) of min-maxing. I don't let my players do that kind of thing as they just get too powerful. If the case here is just that WIS is needed purely because the basic monk class can't survive without a...
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    D&D 3E/3.5 (3.5) Monks and Wisdom

    Neither is a brawler/athlete. I like monk as they're whole package is pretty cool. The fast movement, feats to grapple enemies, fighting barehanded, that's why I'm rolling a monk and not a druid. On what basis are you saying druids or sword sages are better choice for a person who wants to play...
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    D&D 3E/3.5 (3.5) Monks and Wisdom

    I've DMed my group of 6 and them being flat footed has never really happened. DEX modifies many 'melee/athlete' skills like balance, escape artist, tumble, while WIS gives... nothing I can see a brawler needing. If certain fantastic feats need Wis 15 or the like, that's a good reason to take...
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    D&D 3E/3.5 (3.5) Monks and Wisdom

    Low AC is simply part of the class. I think that by devoting high scores to both DEX and WIS just to get the AC of a cleric is a waste of a good possible STR or CON score. I don't want to gimp the character's damage or health for the sake of over-compensating his low AC. Compare the...
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    D&D 3E/3.5 (3.5) Monks and Wisdom

    This build is assuming that my monk will have a guarenteed, full day mage armor from a friend.At 8th level, he will have base 10 + 1 monk free AC + 3 dex + 2 from ring/bracers + 4 from mage armor gives a respectable 20 AC. I can't imagine sacrificing melee chance to hit/damage from STR...
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