Recent content by patchmonkey

I think someone, somewhere, in upper management, missed the boat one day at business school. It doesn't matter how much you try to keep an eye on the bottom line or maximize stockholder wealth, there is no reason to lay off your design and marketing departments. I include marketing because...

A incorrectly advertised price does not need to be honored. It is not considered a bait and switch, unless the offerer does not inform the customer that the price advertised is incorrect, and then charges a higher price for the purchase. No retailer is required, under any current US law, to...

I think that you're getting a little too tough on DL, especially the three "Comic Relief" races. We've had no trouble with players playing Kender, Gnomes, or Gully Dwarves. I have played as a Kender, a half-kender, and a gnome, and I have to say it really depends on the player. Kender are...

Dr. Zoom - Basically, the situation is this: There's a LE Wiz19, a LN Ftr7/PlanarChampion 8, a CN Druid15 and my Paladin15. We've been asked to get something from this dragon while in the elemental plane of fire. The druid points a rod of wonder at the dragon, and turns the dragon purple. The...

I've been checking erratta, and this has been bugging me, but does time stop have any restrictions whatsoever? We had a situation in which a great red wyrm was killed because our DM pretty much let a favored character (our DM got stupid with 3E) kill a dragon by himself by casting three time...