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Here's what I've done in the past when I DM leadership. 1) Alignment: I've never had a cohort not of the same alignment as it's leader. Honestly never occured to me. Race: I generally pick unless the PC has a vast preference or story reason for a specific race. (I.e. A famous dwarven hero...

This is in my opinion the key sentence to answer this encounter. Was there a nearby danger to distract the BBEG? Obviously, since he rolled initiative, he wasn't surprised, and therefore was aware that there was some danger to himself. He was probably aware of the danger the second he saw...

Rolling for all players I let all my players roll (4d6 drop lowest) and everyone writes down the totals they get. Then each player can take and use any of the stats any player used and order them for their own character. This preserves the ability for people to roll, injects some luck, and...

Where's the Peerless Archer from? Thanks in advance.

Mage in my game had a chimp for a familiar. I could swear there's an entry for Monkey in the monster manual under animals. I used that. I won't claim to be enough of an expert on monkeys to say what the difference stat wise is between a chimp and a "generic" monkey. If you are just tweak it...

From the Changing Form section under lycanthropes Emphasis mine. The armor survives the change if the hybrid form is the same size as the base form or smaller. Personally IMC I allow lycanthrope hybrids to wear any light armor just fine while switching back and forth between the two. I...

If the information is in there somewhere and it's just a question of looking til you find it, you could always go with Search. You could make it more complicated also by allowing a syngery bonus to the search roll for skills like knowledge (local history, or whatever appropriate), gather...

I don't have the book in front of me but I thought the Forgotten Realms source book had information on travelling spellbooks. I'll check when I get home if no one else does.

I agree with the others. The idea is that a Miracle is granted by your patron power who you've been serving presumably faithful for 17+ levels now. Also, what you can ask for is generally limited by the power you follow. A LG Wizard can, in extreme circumstances, wish to temporarily raise an...

A little while ago my party thawrted the minor plots of a 5th evil cleric but unfortunately (for them) couldn't finish him off before he got away. I'd like to reintroduce him at some point later, probably after the pc's have gained a few levels and forgotten all about him. I'm thinking he'll...

What's truly disturbing is that he's required Still Spell, Silent Spell and Eschew Materials for it. That sounds to me like he hasn't completely read the item creation rules and just went by how he thought it should work. That alone puts the item at 6th level minimum to have all those feats...

For a siege with a red dragon fire can be a good tool. If terrain permits (a nearby wooded area perhaps) the dragon can set fire to the trees in an attempt to draw out pc's who may try to put out the flames. Crops work well for that also since the PC's then have to decide whether or not to...

Actually it boils down to: This is the discussion of the impact of an rule in the game and the possible pros and cons behind it. Therefore it does belong here. Apparently it belongs right alongside of people with bad attitudes.

The full quote from the SRD So it does say they offer no resistance to the harpies attacks, but also that they take no penalties and that they can defend themselves. I take 'no resistance' to mean that the victim doesn't try to take cover behind his tower shield, cast protective spells...

I've come close to having this happen (all pc's failed but one) and I thought of a couple ways you can be merciful that are somewhat along the rules. 1) The harpy can really practically only spend so much time singing. While singing I usually only let a harpy take 1 attack a round. With a...