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I don't like the Taking 10 mechanic. I want to propose this alternative to my players: "Doubling the time spent reduces the DC by 5." Why get rid of Taking 10? - It creates wide disparities in out-of-combat skill performance. For instance, a character with a +4 bonus performing a DC 15 skill...

Last night I decided to house rule that Raise Dead could raise the victim of death magic. A 13th level party member failed his save against a 9th level revenant cleric's Slay Living spell. Previously a cohort got slain by a bodak, but the party's 9th level cleric couldn't raise her because of...

Last night the party ran into a random encounter with two bodaks. One of the cohorts, a level 8 rogue, failed her saved against the bodaks' death gaze. Two questions: 1. This is dumb, but here goes: Is the Death Gaze ability a death effect? It doesn't specifically say in the MM entry. If...

I'm trying to convert a template from 3.0 to 3.5, the revenant from City of the Spider Queen. The template grants DR 5/+1. I thought there was a 3.0->3.5 conversion guide but I can't find one on-line. Does anyone know where there is a 3.0 conversion guide? My best guess is that DR 5/+1...

True Resurrection has a range of touch. You don't need an actual body to resurrect someone with True Resurrection. If you are resurrecting someone whose body was completely destroyed, there is nothing to touch. In this case, what is the range of the spell? I'm running City of the Spider...

One of my players has lost a third character since we began our campaign back in September. No other PCs have died except for his. He wonders what he's doing wrong. I know what's he doing wrong, but I don't think he can change. We are playing City of the Spider Queen in 3.5E. The players all...

One of my players is playing a spellsword, Wizard6/Fighter1/Spellsword3. When he gets to 12th level (Wiz6/Ftr1/Spl5) he wants to take Obtain Familiar to improve his current familiar. According to my reading of the feat, his familiar will gain the abilities of the familiar of an 11th level...

Hi, I'm looking for one additional player for a Forgotten Realms campaign in Torrance, CA. Right now we have two players and we're looking for a third. We meet every Monday evening in a home in Torrance. This is a higher-level campaign, with PCs starting at 10th level with a free cohort...

I've noticed this phenomenon in two groups I joined from on-line ads (one I stayed with, the other I didn't). The DMs instructed the players to roll for stats using the standard method. When I rolled each time, my highest stat was 15-16 and my lowest stat was 8-9. Then I noticed that some...

WotC translates their products into multiple languages. Does anybody know who coordinates their translations work?

I know it's unorthodox, but I've got all these Basic D&D products I've collected throughout the years and never used! This thread is a longshot, but I'm looking for players for an OD&D game set in Mystara using the Rules Cyclopedia. The OD&D product line has a mystique I just can't shake off...

This has surely been discussed, but I can't find it in the FAQ. How do a monk's unarmed attacks combine with its natural attacks? I will be running a published adventure in which the PCs run into a 5th level mind flayer monk. The person who wrote the adventure seemed to think that meant...

I just ran an adventure from Dungeon 92 that takes place in a mind flayer prison. The players did not like it because half of them were stunned half the time from mind blasts. Although mind blast may seem like a good villain power on paper, in reality it makes for a very boring encounter...

That's my question. The spell description from SRD is as follows: This is written strangely. The text says a successful melee touch paralyzes, and a Fortitude save protects from the sickening spell of a paralyzed victim. But the Saving Throw line doesn't deferentiate between the two...

Here is a question I have from last night's session. Our party had infiltrated a fort of ogres and goblins. My character had silently opened a door to see three goblin guards in a room. I shut the door and indicated to the party that there were goblins in the room. I then opened the door...

I have been learning about advancing animals in helping my DM deal with the first druid in our group. Do you realize that several animals grow to gigantic proportions in D&D as they get older? The wolf starts out as a Medium creature. By the time you get done advancing it, it is the size of...

This has probably been discussed before, but do animal companions increase in size as per the MM when the druid advances? Can druids choose larger, "advanced" forms of animals for their wildshape, as long as they have the requisite levels? These questions are my DM who has a new druid in the...

I just printed off the ELH errata, and it looks like it's all still 3.0. Why did they go to the trouble of creating 3.0 ELH errata now when they could have updated it to 3.5?

Is there a reason why movement rates can't also come in increments of 5? Like, dwarves, goblins, and kobolds having a movement rate of 25?

Last night a troll grabbed my character's cat familiar. According to the rules, it was a grapple, which means you use the grapple rules. However, the grapple rules made no sense. Two problems: 1. When a Large creature grapples a Tiny creature, the Large creature is considered grappled...