Recent content by lupus

They also actually make pretty cool sorcerers. Who cares if your strength sucks, when you're tossing around 5th-level spells?

Personally, I allow those with Quickdraw to sheathe weapons as people normally draw them - move equivalent action, can be combined with regular move (as long as you have BAB +1 or greater). I find that works well for speeding up sheathing of weapons. :)

I see paladins as being all about the redemption, whenever possible. I stress that paladins are not about destroying evil. That's not their aim. They're about protecting good - it's just that destroying evil is often a way to protect good, and paladins, being holy warriors, happen to be pretty...

Most of my libraries in fantasy games have books without titles. I can't imagine most wizards publishing titles that sound like modern theses, unless they actually are members of genuine university-style wizard colleges. Otherwise, they'll probably just be their own personal notebooks. Of...

Personally, I really don't like PRCs with their own spell progression that reach 9th level spells in 10 levels. Buncha other ones in CD do the same. One objection: magic item prices. Suddenly, all items cost a little over half what they otherwise would. Level 9 spell, caster level 10... that's...

Dunno if this settles it or not, but: From the BoED, a mind flayer monk: Full attack: +17 melee (1d4+3, 4 tentacles) or +15/+10/+5 melee (1d10+3, unarmed strike) or +14/+14/+10/+5 melee (1d10+3, unarmed strike). The +14/+14/+10/+5 may be a misprint (shouldn't that be +9/+4 on the end?) But it...

It's not the nicest world, no, but it's essentially heroic. Largely, I work out what my players wanna see, and I work those things in to the player-specific plots. This player and I both share an enjoyment of heroes who go through huge problems and lose a great deal, before finally winning...

I used a fully-advanced Half-Fiend Dragon Turtle, once. 36HD, Blasphemy 1/day. I ruled that it had used that ability already that day, and so it wasn't available. Otherwise, it would have been instant TPK (the cave the battle was in? Everyone was inside 40'). SR penetrated automatically. No...

Being a hero is as much about why you do something as it is about what you do. If you do something for 'fame and riches', then that, for me, makes the whole 'hero' thing moot. If you do something because you're a semi-sociopathic man who'd go insane if he didn't risk his life (James Bond, at...

Just posting some stuff from my own game world, for general comment. It's somewhat long, as it requires certain background information before I can get to the meat. The most important thing about my world (Zion; a kind of Middle-Eastern/Hindu-influenced setting) is that gods have no direct...