Recent content by bobhayes

Your second player is correct. It's all right there in the power description; there is no ambiguity.

The x3 refers to the damage done on a critical hit, not the # of attacks. Standard criticals do double damage; some weapons do x3 or x4.

Yes, about once in every series of 8000 rolls. It's simple random chance.

"I learned something today." Hadn't realized whips were so nerfed. Never mind! (Switch to Spiked Chain and THEN follow my advice, that's my [revised] advice!)

Short and sweet: Hold Person is a 2nd level spell, and smart enemy clerics know that fighters have crappy Will saves. Long: If a player's character is unbalanced, there are a lot of ways to approach it. Here are a few. If the player is not a jerk (sounds like your guy is a jerk) then the best...

Combat Reflexes. He should also find a way (friendly buff, take a wizard level, magic item) to increase a size category and double his reach.

Evil, flat out. The troll didn't attack you, it attacked your enemies. The detect alignment was icing on the cake. Dandu's breakdown is spot-on. Your mage's attack in the heat of battle could conceivably be neutral - maybe he was just worried that the troll was going to attack, and went on a...

However, instead of agreeing to be arrested, they killed the guards (which I was not expecting them to do, seeing as how we are all good characters). Not anymore you aren't.

Enemy casters.

Easy answer: there are no wands or scrolls of Imbue With Spell Ability.

There are a lot of "invisible prices" to pay for not starting at first level...but for your group, none of them are relevant. You are grognards. It's like married sex - after a few years, you can skip the preliminaries if everyone is agreeable. My suggestion would be to start at 5th to 8th...

Make sure you have offline copies because you're going to get shut down by the Wrath of Lawyers in 3...2...1...

It's not a house rule. Your skill points for the level in the class where the skill was a class skill counted full. It didn't remove the cap, it just allows a higher cap, and you can spend skill points up to the cap when you level in the new class. So say I have a Barbarian 10. He could have up...

A universal scale is a neat idea but your conception of the physics is incorrect. Push an elephant off a 10' cliff and it will not only notice it, it will break its legs. A man will drop off a 10' cliff and usually walk away; he might twist his ankle if he lands badly. A spider that drops 10'...

Marginal changes in AC can be very impactful when battling creatures that are around your power level. It becomes less important if you're outclassed or dominant.