Recent content by Lothar

The rules state that you get sneak attack damage when your opponent is denied their dex bonus. A locking garrote grapples, which does that. So, yes. The real question is whether sneak attack damage is added to the garrotes attack roll on successive rounds.

The good thing about giants is their one-dimensionality. They are just stregnth, reach, and hitpoints. So if your tactics are sound, it becomes much less of a challenge. The most important tactic is controlling the battlefield with your mage, as described by Ridley's Cohort above. When it's...

So I take it that the cleric didn't prepare magic circle agianst evil? It looks like there really wasn't any time for a turning attempt either. When the vampire was grappling, he loses his dexterity bonus to AC. It also gives the arcane archer an equal chance of hitting his grappled ally...

Enervation!!! Enervation, Enervation, Enervation. Get about a dozen scrolls of it, and have your hasted mages fire two of them a round. Then you can have fun with disintegrates and flesh to stones. Just make sure you cast a few greater dispellings on the dragon first to ensure that he...

Base AC for an object is 5. Add +2 for size. Total AC=7. Objects don't have dexterity modifiers.

Yes. That's drow combat tactic #1.

DOWN UP! DOWN UP! I personally think that WOTC did prone rules and modifiers correctly. Of course, they could always clarify what denotes a "prone" position. I consider any condition in which you are stationary and not supported solely by your legs "prone" with respect to combat modifiers...

Sounds like a good, well-ballanced system. Watch how well it fits into my formula: Total Budget: $1527 (not including the s-video cable) Television: $799 52% Speakers, reciever, speaker wires: $549 36% DVD and interconnects: $179 12% The s-video cable is for a secondary playback...

Multiples of three (3, 6, 9, 12, 15).

Home Theater Economics Here is a good method to determine how much to spend on each component of your home theater. Spend half of your money on your video display and the other half on audio. Spend half of your audio budget on speakers. Spend one quarter of your audio budget on...

No. But you can do this with the second level spell "alter self".

If I allowed these in my campaign, they would be called "balerina slippers of twinkle toes".

You forgot to add that the red dragon was wearing pajamas.

I've come to the conclusion that the great majority of gamers are moral relatavists. But these same people seem to believe that when someone does something that they consider "wrong", it makes that person irredeemably evil. It's pretty simple: Assassination is murder. Murder is evil. Hiring...

It depends on how you cast the light spell. If you cast it specifically to counter a darkness spell, then both are gone. However, it would be difficult to target the spell directly since you likely won't be able to see the object that upon which it is cast. So generally the light spell will...