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An excellent point, and this would definitely be an extremely limited thing. I do like the idea, though, of the archvillain having a seemingly indestructible thing which must be destroyed by first going off and doing something else like tracking down and destroying the platonic ideal. It's...

Personally, I simply got tired of WotC releasing a new version every time they wanted to rifle through my wallet. When I heard that Paizo had committed to remaining compatible with their first version and never forcing people to replace their entire library if they wanted to remain current...

Really? No replies at all? I'm a bit biased, of course, but I kinda thought this was a pretty cool idea. Figured it would get some love. Eight months later I'll bump it and see if anybody has any ideas. (Hey, at least I'm not one of those guys that bumps every couple days.) ;)

That's not how it works. That's not how any of this works. You'd have a valid point if they started with a huge pile of monsters and picked the best to go into a book, and then pick the best of the remaining to put i a second book, and so on. But that's not the way the real world works...

I just have to say: This is the best thread ever, in the history of best threads ever.:) I'm swamped at the moment and can't possibly take the time to think about and/or rebut anything on this, but I will say your arguments sound very good to me. I think the lesson to take away is that even...

What do you suppose it would cost to hire a wizard/sage to research a way to use permanence on a zero-level spell that isn't usually compatible with permanence? I'm imagining unbreakable items that have a permanent mending cast upon them. You smash somebody over the head with a wooden chair...

derp face begin The situations where I enforce component rules have always been pretty limited. And now I will be adding a new one. Oops! That would have made a big difference last night. Okey-doke. Thanks for the reminder! And that will undoubtedly still be critical information at some...

A spell caster sneaks up on a target and casts sleep. The target successfully makes their will save and the spell fails to affect them. Was the save a passive thing that the target wouldn't even notice, in which case they still don't know there's a caster around; or do they realize they are...

So magic is the most predictable aspect of the world? That doesn't sound odd to you? Okay, to each their own. Like I said, we'll probably never agree. But that's totally cool: If all DMs were the same, the hobby would be dead.

We'll probably never agree on this one, then. The way I see it, if players wanted predictable results then they wouldn't come to the table with bags filled with hundreds of funky dice. I actually had another thought about this. I was watching a Mythbusters rerun last night where they were...

Rakusia's Schrodinger's Bag reminded me of a fun one I threw into a game once. The PCs came across a black featureless cube, two feet to a side. It functioned like a bag of holding, but only for living animals. Any animal you could fit through the top surface would disappear into an...

Regarding the question of if the bead explodes on impact, the real question is whether or not Solid Fog is solid enough for that to happen. I think the most interesting answer would be "maybe". I dropped a wine glass in my kitchen last week. It fell about four feet to a linoleum floor and...

That's an interesting flavor of synesthesia you've got there, Umbran. ;)

Heh. I saw "odor" and thought it was a very imaginative idea. Didn't even occur to me that it might have been intended as aura, though you're probably right. I thought of it as a metaphorical odor, but even thought of mentioning bacon. :)

Czar of the pinkie bracelets!

Keeping them out of sight but showing the consequences of their presence increases the mystique. They are truly powerful, and truly rare. I imagine anyplace with a gold dragon living nearby will have cults dedicated to worshiping it as though it was a deity. The priests of these cults won't...

1. True. My brain was still stuck on the point upthread about Plane Shift not working in relation to the Mansion, but that's obviously only a one-way problem. Still, Plane Shift will land you 5d100 miles from where you went in which could be a major inconvenience. Gate is a better option, but a...

The reason my question about the cessation of the pocket space and things inside it is relevant is because it speaks to the previous points upthread about preparing the return area instead of trying to storm the Mansion. If a high-level caster knows that his quarry is in a Mansion, and he knows...

This all prompts a new but related question: If the Mansion is in a "pocket space that does not exist in any dimension" then what happens if the spell expires before everybody leaves? A kind and benevolent DM would say that everybody gets dropped back into Prime Material. But that kind of...

That right there is the best argument so far against my point of view. If these spells and items "create a tiny pocket space" then so can Magnificent Mansion. Personally, I think that's wrong-headed and that the book should instead use the word "utilize" again, as it does in the previous...