Recent content by BigAl

Airwolf, Well, the player's followers have been becoming a bit of a issue now that some of their characters have reached epic levels - they have some pretty nasty enemies that have targeted or had some other effect on the followers a couple of times now. I don't see all players who take...

I'm looking at modifying the Leadership feat to add flexibility to the types of followers that are allowed, but still keep things balanced. My proposal is to allow players to choose any classes and races (including races with ECL modifiers) rather than strictly limiting the choices to NPC...

With regards to weapons of speed and stacking with Haste, I believe that you cannot get an extra attack in both your standard action AND your extra partial action - you only get one extra attack with the weapon regardless of your Hasted status. Some people seem to believe that this means that...

Thanks Crothian, that makes MUCH more sense! I was getting confused about caster level vs. character level.

Thanks, Macbrea - that's what I was afraid of. So I guess this means that a Ftr10/Wiz10 who wants to take another level of wizard is wasting his/her time - that character will never have access to 6th level spells. Does anybody know why this restriction exists? Is there something really...

Forgive my ignorance, but why wouldn't the sorcerer get more spells/day for Sor16-Sor20? Does reaching character level 20 suddenly change the rules, even if none of the class levels are above 20? - Al

The epic level rules are turning out to be a bit dissapointing. I was hoping that there would be a smooth progression between levels 20 and 20+, but this is not the case. One of the things I really like(d) about 3e was the mathematical basis: the XP, gold piece awards, BAB, saves, etc. all...

I believe that the "does not stack with haste" description of the speed weapon enhancement in the DMG means that you cannot take the extra attack with both your regular action AND your partial action. I can understand some DMs insisting that the extra attack must be taken during the regular...

I don't think it makes sense for non-spellcasting classes to contribute to caster level, regardless of the "order" in which the classes are taken. Take a barbarian. He can't even read. He's been raised in the wild. He's a ferocious warrior who likes to eat his enemies' heads. However, if he...

hong, I know what you mean, it's a big minus to multiclassing when caster levels don't stack. My campaign has a house rule for this: If a spell could be cast from multiple classes, then the caster levels stack. For example, a sorcerer 6/wizard 5 casting dispel magic would cast it with a...

So: - The creator of the scroll sets the scroll's caster level. - This defines the range and damage of the scroll's spell. - When reading the scroll, the target of the spell can be anything within the range that was determined when the scroll was created. Back to the permanency spell: - The...

kreynolds: "You don't have to specify the range for ranged spells. " I'm not sure if that's true - I seem to recall the PHB mentioning that everything must be specified except the target (sorry, don't have my PHB here at work, I can't give a page number or even verify that right now) So...

It sounds a bit off to me as well. But, when you place a spell on a scroll (a spell completion item), I believe that you must specify everything (except the target) when the scroll is created. This seems to indicate that you must decide what effect will be made permanent when the scroll is...

Regarding the original question, I believe that you must specify the spell that will be permanent at the time that the scroll is created. Thus, you couldn't say that it was a scroll of Permanency with a 500 xp budget, but you could create a scroll of Permanent Darkvision. - Al

One of my campaigns has a monk who uses chill touch in concert with unarmed attacks. If an attack misses the targets normal AC, there is no unarmed damage. However, the touch attack may still be triggered if the hit was enough to hit vs touch attack AC - this is a glancing blow that doesn't...