Recent content by kromelizard

Dual wielding has been a feature of the ranger since 1e. If I remember correctly, hidden in the ranger's class description is a note that the ranger can wield and attack with a weapon in their main-hand and off-hand, reducing the penalty for their main hand by two and their off hand by four...

It certainly is fun to have wide open tactical movement and abundant viable choices in and out of combat. There's no reason, given the incredible modularity inherent in the power system and the uniform advancement for all classes, that we couldn't have been given both the fun play options for...

Don't forget the Human's +1 to all defenses. That's half of the bonus to three different attributes right there. I would say go with human. The wizard is all about variety and utility and the extra at-will only improves the ability of your wizard to be able to provide the right power at the...

In fact, buying an adamantine "door knocker" was a pretty common tactic, and I say if it's good enough for Wolverine, then who am I to judge? D&D is a weird magic world where men might just find an eldritch sword and use it to cut a hole in the wall. I'm pretty entertained by that.

When it comes to actions the players want to take, or actions they are subject to, I hew as closely to the rules text as practicable. The rules provide a predictable framework for both the players and myself, which reduces my workload and empowers the players, as they can rely on being allowed...

Maybe your fantasy genre doesn't include the possibility of tunneling under the walls of the fortified city by night, or cutting out of prison with the magic knife the wizard concealed with prestidigitation, but mine is a little less restrictive. With a rules guideline in place that figured...

So is stabbing folks with swords, yet there's what, 50 pages of rules for that, not counting the power lists? D&D characters do a whole lot of unusual things.

A simple solution is to directly import the 3.5 rules for objects, since the damage output between editions is about the same. It does seem an unnecessary rules change, for those who want to do it by DM fiat rather than reference the table, you were always free to do that. Hardness worked well...

Your statements regarding armor and firearms are wholly inaccurate. Armor was effective against firearms for a very, very long time. There was the practice of proofing where armor would be shot and the dent left by the pistol ball would provide evidence of the armor's suitability. Their are...

Is "Graduated from an adventurer academy" the new "So you meet in a tavern?" Anyway, 200 GP for two bonus feats is crazy cheap. Really, if you're going to give them bonuses you're better off with fewer bonuses but greater options, just to save yourself from the headache of PCs of greater than...

Manual of the Planes was a work of mad brilliance in 1st edition. The 3rd edition iteration was a weak retread with improved mechanics but little inspiration. I credit it's dullness with WotC's decision to abandon the Great Wheel cosmology for 4th edition, which is unfortunate, because making...

The biggest strike against the DMPC isn't abuse, it's that they aren't really that fun to play. You'd be better served getting somebody to alternate DMing with you and focusing on what makes running the game fun when it's your turn behind the screen.

Is it also an equation?

I've found, in my admittedly limited maybe 500 character vocabulary, that there is a gernerally consistent, if distinctly foreign, logic behind the combinations of words that form new words. It makes neologism a reasonably straightforward excercise.

http://www.xuezhongwen.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=translate I use this dictionary for reference. It provides definitions in romanized form, and even has sound clips to aid pronunciation. They use the Babelfish translation engine, but also give individual character definitions and...