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Long time lurker here at enworld, I originally wrote this up for craigslist--which didn't really get any hits--so I'm bringing it here now; target audience and all that :) We're a group of friends that run regular tabletop gaming sessions, usually on saturday, about 3 times a month on average...

The Encyclopedia of Arda is great reference for the overall scope of Tolkien's world. While there's no real substitue for reading the Silmarillion, it certainly would be a quick way of tying the spell domains with a specific vala. http://www.glyphweb.com/arda

Monks, definitely, for all the reasons stated. They just don't fit in more ways than one. Poorly thought out and an even worse execution, here's hoping they have a good revamp in 3.5.

This is a repost from the old thread, but I'd like to know what the monk looks like now, if it's not too much trouble :)

Forget the ranger, I'm dying to hear about the monk; they've been too tight-lipped about it. Any info on the monk's stuff would be greatly appreciated.

Mages are great at taking out fighters with the knowledge of their weak will saves. Get a mage to dominate that samurai. The rest of the party vs. him + a few creatures should make for an interesting fight, and they'll be MUCH more careful about what they're fighting. I suppose it depends on...

Monte, I agree that the BoVD has some huge misconceptions in the commercial world. The guy at the gaming store described it as "D&D's mature book" when he was telling me about it. Thumbing through the book and glacing at the art--oh boy, the art--with "D&D's mature book" in mind made it seem...

You may not be dead, but I just killed your DM, so logically you are next. Any last words before you are dead?

Since he'll most likely get a cohort assigned by the bad guy, that should be incorporated in some way. * I liked the earlier suggestion of having the cohort initially a bad guy too, just spying. Make the cohort yourself so 1) it fits what the evil guy would give them and 2) the PC won't get...

Ask for repayment. Maybe not even directly, just drop a hint or say how bummed you are because you were going to spend the cash on such-and-such. Don't lord over him though, and when he gets some extra cash he'll most likely gladly give it up since you weren't such a jerk about the loan. He...

I'll take maximize for 500, alex. "Ok guys, WHO let the raging 10th level half-orc barbarian get a 40 strength? I thought we discussed this. Do I need to remind everyone why we had to leave the last town we were at? In the middle of the night? With 200 urban militia chasing us?"

Don't forget the wind also puts a penalty on my ranged attacks. Now of course I've got a decent attack bonus, but some of you have a wicked AC (ictrik). Also, I think most of the arena is in my first range increment wherever I stand. Clockwork, I'd be interested to hear who you think might...

Trying to put it into non-rules sense... Ranged touch spells are activated and then sent; targeted spells skip that step and activate on the person unerringly. In other words: Ranged/touch attack spells target physically while 'target' spells target magically. Spell turning takes advantage of...

Re: Re: Re: Re: Just one question... That's for character generation. I'm used to an older edition of RM (2nd I think), and it was either a rule or a variant for that system. You buy skill points at character generation, then once you're in the game, you gain ranks by using the skills. We had...

I was sort of hoping you just didn't mention other parts of it, and that the feat didn't work as it seemd. Though you must admit earlier in that post you did say that "all metamagics stack fully on eachother" and that certainly gives the impression they stacked on themselves too.

>crimson night & celsian moon. Crimson means red, like the color. Usually it means something is red because it is dirty with blood. I do not know what celsian means, I don't think it's a real word. Might be a nonsense word or just really badly translated. This sounds something like "bloody...

Wow, that's very powerful. So a 5th level wizard can take 12 subdual damage and throw a 5d20 damage fireball. Granted, the DC will have a 4-8 penalty, but who cares if everybody saves? The avg. damage of 5d6 is 17.5, the avg. damage of 5d20 is 52.5 or 26 assuming they make their save. That's...

Oh yeah, forgot to add that's how rolemaster does it too. One roll for attacks, the higher it is, the worse the damage. Each weapon damages differently, like clubs and maces can hit people with a fairly low roll, but it's not much damage until you get higher up. Arrows, on the other hand...

Re: Re: Just one question... I find different dice can actually help players distinguish what they're doing. Instead of just rolling the same die over and over and just adding whatever numbers whenever the DM says to, they can go "ok I roll d6's when I'm doing sneak attack damage, got it".[b]...

I think that rule of each benefitting from the base spell is only for empowered/maximized metamagics, as it lists those two specifically. Otherwise you'll have really weird stuff come up like an enlarged, empowered magic missile that does 1.5*(1d4+1) damage within 170 feet, and between 171...