Recent content by James Gasik

I just ran Sea of Bones, which has a few "skill challenges" in it. The first happens in the midst of battle, which proved to be kind of rough for my party (Bard, Fighter, Mechanist, Sorcerer). The second is a simple "get past this locked door in a timely manner" (the adventure has a very tight...

Not a staff, but in a Pathfinder 1e game, I played a character who wielded a lucerne hammer. We were in town, and the DM told us the local ordinances insisted that weapons be peace knotted. Naturally, we got ambushed in town, and when I stated I was moving to attack, he told me I needed to...

I solved the issue of it's fragile nature by buying the Premium Edition when it came out. : ) I never said the book wasn't flawed, it totally is. Many (ok, most, lol) of it's ideas were poorly implemented. I could have gone with the DMG, and only a few years back, I would have put it here...

The 4e Essentials Barbarian might be a good reference for this sort of thing. The class could flip from Defender to Striker based on what the player wanted to be doing at the time. Maybe instead of "lose spells to gain dragon powers" the class could choose which mode to be in, so you either...

1e: Unearthed Arcana. I can hear howls and screams now, but it was a book that injected many new ideas into the game, even if all of them didn't land. 2e: Complete Book of Humanoids. Some of the implementation was wonky, but this book really got creative with the kinds of characters one could...

3.5's Green Star Adept turns you into a construct. It's not a good PrC (suddenly losing your Con score one day is pretty terrible) but it's thematically interesting. Weretouched Master was in one of the Eberron supplements. And as I recall, I think it was the Dread Necromancer that slowly...

I think I like the new Nale.

Ah, I knew I'd read this here before: Last November

I feel like this was posted before.

They want to be able to officially put "Ranger" on their character sheet.

Tom Bombadil and/or his wife Goldberry?

Honestly, I'd avoid Necromancer Wizard. Necromancy spells aren't the best for Wizard, and as a Necromancer, you're forced to put that 16 in Wisdom, which doesn't help you a ton. Worse yet, if you're here for creating Undead, Animate Dead is a Fifth-level spell for Wizards, so you wouldn't see...

Eldritch Knight- Level 7: War Magic When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of the attacks with a casting of one of your Wizard cantrips that has a casting time of an action. True Strike Casting Time: Action Range: Self Components: S, M (a weapon with which you have...

If the PC's aren't special, and there's always other adventurers out there to handle things, is their any real risk to the setting if they fail?

Of course, maybe we shouldn't be asking for a roll to open the lock in the first place. I don't know about you, but most of the time if you fail to open a lock, you just try again. Most locks don't break or summon guards if you fail to open them in the real world...