Recent content by graypariah

Animate Dead is a level 3 spell to summon one skeleton (with the ability to summon multiple skeletons by using a higher spell slot). Doing so is arguably an evil act and has it's own ramifications making it actually less desirable for many players than the Ranger companion. You also need 5...

Find Familiar is CR1/4? I think warlocks can have their familiar be something that is CR1/4 but I thought everyone else has CR0. Regardless, familiars can't attack in combat so their CR is pretty much decorative. To put it in in perspective - it is an Action by a Ranger to have the animal...

My response to this if a player brought it up in a private message would be to say that the human bonus feat and the halfling's "luck" are different from the half-orc racial as that the half-orc relentless endurance is part of their physiology. TBH though the way the rules read the player would...

There is a difference between having a pet and having a well trained animal companion that you can use in combat to any great effect. I am not sure that I would even go as high as CR1/4 for the companion if I made a feat for it - even a CR1/4 enemy can be used to great effect. I would probably...

Are you choosing Half Orc and Circle of the Moon Druid because of the theoretical synergy between the race and class? Or are you choosing it because you think it would make for a neat story? The first is my definition of power gaming although I am sure a lot of people don't consider it power...

I don't use xp personally, but when I did I probably would not have rewarded any additional xp for making an encounter more difficult. The reason for this is because if I did that then logically I should probably reduce the xp I give them for encounters which I fudged to make less difficult -...

This is an issue I have noticed more in formats such as roll20 than in person sessions. If the player is absent (but likely to return) I generally have their character tag along and make humorous comments occasionally then come up with a reason why they can't participate in a fight. It keeps...

You don't want to be that guy. That guy will stop a session dead in it's tracks to call the DM on any thing not done according to the letter of the rules and consider himself being perfectly polite about it if he does it with a note or private message. I have banned that guy from playing at my...

I said I was going to duck out and I really am going to try after this but I have to say something in response or it will irk me all night. Joe should not always get his way over Jane, but why should Jane always get her way over Joe? How about a scenario where Jane always got her way unless it...

It has become less thought promoting than it was earlier. I will try to duck out myself. Before I go I would like to leave people with this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments How much of what we believe is because it is the popular opinion among those we spend most of...

It was simply a metaphor. Since we are dispelling with the metaphors though, do you honestly believe that you would not be treated at an emergency room or would be refused medicine at a pharmacy? How many times do you really visit a town with only one motel? I apologize if any of this seems...

The problem with this, is that we live in a very different world than 50 years ago. There is no indication that a significant number of business would even use this legislation to negatively impact people's lives. The keyword here is significant. I am sure that stories can be found that are...

We all follow the laws the best we can and live according to our own moral compass, the issue is not whether or not the issue is legal (although people seem to just keep repeating "it's the law" like that is somehow the crux of the issue) - it is whether it should be. By your logic if a...

This is not true, saying that is like saying that by supporting a law that gives members of the LGBT community rights makes me a member. While I definitely would not have a problem with that, that isn't how it works. Two people can strive for the same result and have two very different motives...

I assure you I did not mean to twist your words, but instead to simply restate them without their religious connotations to make part of my point. That part was that the fact that this is an issue related to religion changes things and makes it a very different thing than for example men and...