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From the SRD under the Skill Ride... You can react instantly to drop down and hang alongside your mount, using it as cover. You can’t attack or cast spells while using your mount as cover. If you fail your Ride check, you don’t get the cover benefit. This usage does not take an action. The...

Arravis, The following three excerpts are from Ride in the Skills chapter... Fight with warhorse (Ride DC 10) If you direct your war-trained mount to attack in battle, you can still make your own attack or attacks normally. This usage is a free action. Control Mount in Battle (Ride DC 20)...

Are we saying that a hidden opponient does catch you flat-footed if you fail to spot them? Even if you saw your opponient run behind cover but then lost sight of them in the middle of a combat? For example, lets say there is a big brawl going on outside. There are half a dozen people fighting...

Arravis' opinion is that BK means a notible person. Like Bob the drow. Not just drow. So you could roll to know Bob and all his bad habbits (which I agree with), but you can't roll on drow to know there is a drow named Bob and he has bad habbits. Troll - no. Famous Bob the Troll - yes. So if I...

I have no rules to support my counter-argument. DM to DM, I still disagree. If I have a player who doesn’t know the gaming world very well, and I mention some race, I would let her roll BK to see if she knows Bob, a famous member of that race. She rolls REALLY high, I’ll tell her all about Bob...

Here is a great example of bardic knowledge at its best working to know what a hobbit is. http://www.alteringtime.com/features/misc/?p=baggins ~ Patrick ~

So, what you are saying then is that if someone was talking about herbs once and mentioned this root, and had neither Knowledge Nature or Knowledge Local Louisiana, you would give him a Barbic Knowledge check to know AT LEAST, "Oh, I heard that in a song once. Something about voodoo I think. I'm...

We have had a really funny "bardic knowledge" running through our game for a long time. It is the rumor that drow eat babies. This all started when we were first starting to get introduced to drow and one of the players said unprompted, "Hmm, I hear they eat babies." Ever since then we have made...

I am the "bard" in question. I would like to clarify my stance in the discussion. I have "Lore" from Ardent Dilettante. This keeps coming up in our game. I ask all the time, “Do I get a Lore check on that?” but to be denied. Last game we had some planar race mentioned that I (even as a player)...

Obviously, if it said that it makes you immune to "all divinations," the question would have never been voiced in the first place. So, it comes down to the question: Does See Invisibility "gather information?" I believe that the spirit of the law answers, "No." There are many divination spells...

Does a blinking character retain their +2 to hit and the flatfooted (dex loss to AC) advantage over an opponient that has See Invisible? How about True Seeing instead? Patrick

OMG! That's AWESOME! Patrick PS I don't know what else to say.

A friend and I came up with this idea while talking about Morn, a character from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, who stored a bunch of liquid money in one of his stomachs. I decided to write a real rule on it. Anyway, I hope you find it as amusing and cool as we do. Digestive Gland (Ex): Kobolds...

The only reason I'm deriving these is because I found it fun to do. And I’m simply posting them for anyone else who finds them interesting. Here are my two final examples of the devastation that is Power Attack. The first presents the scythe, threatening a critical 10% of the time on a...

I have included quotes from the text at the end of this post. I have change my mind. I have yet to talk to my friend about it, but I will inform him of my decision as to why I changed my mind. Text presented on p114 of the PHB 3.5 trumps sidebars present on pages p140 and p306 of the PHB 3.5...

We were noting a pattern of the damage we presented in our post just a few moments ago. In our particular example the difference in damage between Method 1 and Method 2 is 6 points of damage per level. Note that the level 1 fighters differ by 6 points, and the level 5 fighters differ by 30...

My friend and I were going over this. We think it is completely obvious that Power Attack is not considered "normal weapon damage" as required under Critical Hit in the PHB 3.5 p140. At level 1, it doesn’t make much of a difference, but we went ahead and ran some numbers for level 1 and level 5...

I think I will try looking in the Complete Adventurer for that additional hide technique. That may solve my problem with little fuss from my group. Our main DM does now have the CA. If, as stated, that the CA says you can move from a hiding spot to a hiding spot over non-hiding areas with the...

I just wanted to clarify something. About 70% of our games is RP. We try to use the rules as much as possible even when RPing. Bluff/sense motive checks with the NPCs (and PCs sometimes). Spot/hide, listen/move silently, spot/slight of hand, etc etc etc.... We go many games without having a...

Someone once coined, "I look up. I look down. I look all around. Do I see, hear, feel, smell, taste or sense anything unusual?" After the phrase was said a dozen times in the first game, we came to a clarification that it isn't necessary. As DMs (we all take turns DMing episodes in our story...