Recent content by Geffor

There's a lot of talk about trying to represent 'reality' in D&D armour and weapons. I wouldn't bother, if there is an abstract mechanism to approximate how long people can fight for then go for it. Having spent a lot of time fighting my friends with a variety of weapons and wearing all sorts...

First level party, commissioned to sneak into an a dragon's lair by the back way, wait until the dragon is lured away by a great hero and then find out if she had laid any eggs and, if so, steal/destroy them. Party fights their way to the dragon's lair - huge, ancient dragon in residence...

Good news: Readied action to attack dragon doing flyby attacks. Attack hits, dragon immobilised. Bad news: Dragon plummets to ground, lands on rest of party!

Personal weapon usage as a 15th century foot knight Polearm until opponent is too close or it breaks. Then draw close combat weapon, usually a hand and a half sword but I frequently use a long sword with an off hand parrying weapon. If I was actually trying to hurt my opponents I would choose a...

I would be unhappy with making a monster attack itself (even though RAW would allow it). Leaving aside the issue about it being very hard to attack yourself with many weapons, my inclination would be to give a saving throw in line with the restriction on moving a monster into hazardous terrain...

The Bad Lucker We have one of those too ;) We worked round this by heavily optimising their character for combat (high bonuses, multiple rolls etc.) while the rest of the party members are substantially less focused. This means that encounters are satisfying for all and the party functions...

Just for people's interest: You can use a long (up to at least 9 foot or so) spear in one hand with the other hand holding a shield. However, it is very much a one trick pony in this configuration. If you can stab your opponent while he's still at the end of the spear you win :) Once they are...

Was just looking at this and wondered if there had been any clarification of how "Their defenses scale with their master’s level". One could assume that you just add level to the various defenses but the wording of the errata does not actually specify.

Results of experimentation ! Just thought people might like to know my experience of putting on and sleeping in armour. Please note that I am a human being and not a fictional hero so this shouldn't affect game mechanics if you're happy with the results you get (and there are some good...

I approve of making Sanction/Challenge based on Cha or Str and see both as pretty much the same thing. I also believe that powers that just 'mark' an oponnent should be revised to impose a 'sanction'. However, I disgaree about relaxing the 'engagement' clause of DC. I find that it adds to the...

That is quite an investment - item, background and 2 feats (skill focus and, presumably, skill training or did you get Intimidate via multiclassing?) for the +7 and two standard actions (Astral Seal/Bane + Intimidate) to make the attack. However, including level bonus (as I should have done the...

Just how much have you managed to boost your Intimidate? I've never seen a great deal of success forcing enemies to surrender, the +10 to will defense (+15 if you don't speak their language) tends to significantly reduce the chances of this working. Most of the parties I've played with tend to...

I always like to make sure that the party has a good reason for being together. An introductory module is a good place to lay out the back story. A couple of options I've used : 1) Each of the party comes across an old diary, great-gramps reminiscence or other message from the past that tells...

Something else to ponder on when switching to inherent bonuses rather than magic weapons is the critical damage bonus. Often, XD6 where X is the enhancement bonus of the weapon. This can be a gratifying chunk of damage, particularly for characters that crit often. Even when it's only a 1 in 20...

Lack of houserule support within the online character builder is a definite problem for us and tends to result in characters being imported into "Classic" for final tweaks if not built entirely offline. We also get prettier (to us) character sheets with power cards that incorporate the modified...