Recent content by skelso

That's an excellent point. I often try to talk people out of Monkeygrip and to take Power Attack instead. When you math it up, Power Attack let's you create all kinds of useful comparisons and is a good way to check for balance.

Thank you, FEADIN and Starbuck_II, for the exceedingly useful replies. This is pretty much how I've been running it, but it's good to know for sure.

Also, I don't think anyone has answered the question about having to overcome damage reduction for the special abilities to work. For example: Flaming Longsword. You hit a creature with DR 10. You roll 7 regular damage and 4 fire damage. Does the creature get the 4 fire damage, or does the...

Well, I'm running a Pathfinder campaign rather than writing my own. Most of the time, everything is fine. Occasionally, a fight that's supposed to be hard is a little too easy. The campaign I'm running uses a lot of advanced hit-die monsters and npcs with class levels rather than just...

Thanks for all the responses. Part of the reason for my question, though is the resulting unbelievable outputs of damage. I'm kind of searching for some way to mitigate it. In my current game, I have a party of 15th level characters. We've been playing since level 1 and things have been...

Those who replied with Monster Manual II are correct. I would only add that you can download the 3.5 update file to get the appropriate level adjustment and other rule changes.

1: Are there limitations in the way that abilities can be added to weapons? For example, can you create a +1 longsword with Flaming, Frosting, Shocking and Acid as special abilities? I know that a weapon cannot have more than a total of +10 worth of bonus and abilities, unless it's epic. I...

*yoink* Seriously, I'm adding this to my house-rule document right now.

Looking at the Sorcerer further, take the example of one with an Intelligence of 3, but a Charisma of 12. The sorc could cast the spell, but would have an Intelligence modifier of -4. Since this is a possibility AND the modifier gets factored into the AC AND the AC is always at least 22, this...

One thing I pointed out earlier that no one has addressed is that a Sorcerer could cast this spell with an Intelligence much less than 12. I'd be more convinced if the description referred to the caster's primary casting attribute instead of Intelligence.

Though I could be interpreting is very incorrectly, when I just ran a villain using Spectral Hand, I gave it an AC of 22+Int Mod. Perhaps it could be argued that it should be 21+Int Mod, because you have to have an Intelligence of 12 to cast it as a Wizard. However, a Sorceror could cast this...

You might take a look at the Unearthed Arcana alternate experience table. It no longer relies on a sliding scale of experience reward; every CR has a set xp reward. So, even a 20th level party would still get xp from killing a lowly CR 1/3 Goblin Warrior, though such a piddling amount that it...

It sounds like a pretty cool campaign. Are you planning to sell this or post it here?

Clever. Spiffy mathing, I say!

This. Are you playing the game to have fun, or do you prefer to just play with the numbers?