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Ok, folks -- the well of inspiration runneth dry. The sitch: My players, at around 22d level (it's a straight-up, no-holds barred, all-sourcebooks 3.5 game), need 144,000 soul coins from a vault maintained by a Knights Templar analogue. Here are the PCs. (Warning, link not particularly safe...

Title says it all! thanks for your thoughts. Carpe

Dear all: I'm writing asking for help drawn from the well of your collective experience. My 3.5 campaign, which pits freedom fighters against a fascist theocracy in a steampunk-driven milieu derived from the chaos of the Paris commune and French revolution, is hitting epic levels. You can see...

Question: I presume Divine Mettle can be used to grant an ally an improved death save. If so, that's an interesting use of the power -- essentially a high-risk ranged heal on a downed party member. Possibly useful if the paladin is low on healing surges, or can't get clear from the fight to...

Proposed: That the tank is an impossibly paradoxical role. The simplest statement of the problem: The tank will never tank (that is, take a hit) when it is in the best interest of the party to have a hit land on the tank. The problem: Taking into account the reduction in damage output in...

Help me understand the Paladin. After a few sessions playing one, I'm confused as to why one would tank as a Paladin rather than a fighter. The critical difference seems to be that Combat Challenge does not have a green-headed box around it, whereas Divine Challenge does. The consensus...

So, now one of my players is using Greater Metamorphosis to turn into various things, all of which are enormous fun, but the one that gives me true logical headaches is the Prismatic Golem. Here's my question: what happens when you use magic to turn into something with the special ability...

Folks: I need real rules wonks on this one. Here's the question. Can a Psion with Metamorphosis turn into a Phasm, and then use Metamorphic Transfer to use that Phasm's ability to turn into, oh, say, a Pit Fiend? I know the resulting Pit Fiend won't have many of the abilities of the real...

After playing through and running a few games, I'm discovering that monsters still find it in their best interest to ignore the tanking paladin, and tear into the strikers. In our game (which I am not DMing, for the first time in 25 years) the paladin does his best: piercing smites every...

Question: When a mage polymorphs, does his familiar do so as well? How about a psion? I've got a gentleman in my game who's a Psion egoist / Anarchic Initiate. He's been turning into not one, but *two* cryohydras, since his take is that "share spell" permits his pet rock (psicrystal, fine)...

Dear folks: I am writing to seek your collective wisdom on a number of rules moves in my current game. I'm perfectly capable of using similar moves to keep the game on par, but I do want to make sure that my players are doing legit stuff before I equip every evil cleric with knight's move and...

Hi all: We have a good group going in Harrisonburg. Experienced gamemaster, players are mature (mid-20s plus), educated, and into it. We have room for one or two more. You can check out the world at www.arva.wetpaint.com. Send email inquiries to fairfieldj-at-wlu-dot-edu. Carpe

A pc in my game recently contracted lycanthropy, the wolfy kind. In figuring out the rules, I've come to the conclusion that being a werewolf is *terrible* from a game perspective. You lose four levels (+2 char level adjustment, 2 baloney "wolf" levels) and gain very little in return. My...

Today I woke up, worried. I needed something great for my game this evening. I ran to the basement, broke open the box, and spent a great time thumbing through old Dungeon mags. Indeed, as I remembered, one of my old Dungeons had a list of 100 cool shop names that I just spent a happy morning...

Do you really get to take one level of swordsage, but take higher level abilities? Your initiator level *for purposes of what abilities you can select* is listed as being your Martial Adept level plus half your other class levels. So, an 8th level Paladin, 1st level Swordage could take 5th...

Paizo does a great job of taking cultural references and using them to remind us what D&D monsters really were before they became stat-blocks. Paizo's take on Goblins in Rise of the Runelords 1: Goblins as little weak green humans? No. Goblins as Labyrinth-style Monsters under the Bed, mad...

So, in our campaign Wieldskill was one of the most commonly used spells. Unfortunately, nobody noticed it had been monkey-nerfed in 3.5 (yes, yes: how far behind the times could we possibly be?) so that only Initiates of Gond can use it. Are there any spells that mimic the weapon-proficiency...

Howdy folks: I'm running a healer build, Cloistered Cleric 6 / Radiant Servant 1. Domains are Healing, Sun, Knowledge. Pretty standard stuff. I have Divine Metamagic (Twin Spell) and Twin Spell. Any advice what cleric spells are best to twin? I have to say that Shivering Touch, twinned, is...

Ok folks -- we have a problem in our Divine Comedy campaign (background is a fantasy version of 13th Century Italy). We made a hurried exit from town one step ahead of the forces of ethnic cleansing by hijacking the Frigate Si Fortuna, bringing the town's oppressed gnomish population with us...

Howdy folks: So we've been having fun in our new game. My wife has enjoyed playing the gypsy rogue / swashbuckler that y'all helped us dream up. Here's the catch -- she really has a vision for this character, fluff-wise. She wants Francesca (the character's name) to be a horsethief turned...