Recent content by StGabriel

Rather than editing again and exacerbating the problem, let me just apologize here for my bloated post. I don't know why, but Opera (my web browser) or the forum itself are somehow conspiring to make my edits FULL of white space. Sorry. --- StGabriel, the Taoist saint.

Ahh, but psychology and linguistics are involved, not just logic. Don't get me wrong, logic is great and all, but a fair amount of the stuff we say isn't necessarily logical. For example, if my friend asks me to come watch them perform in a concert and I say: "I'll go tonight or...

Average values for other die rolling methods are: 5d6: 13.42 6d6: 14.27 7d6: 14.90 8d6: 15.38 9d6: 15.77 10d6: 16.08 . . . 20d6: 17.494011 This answer was brought to you by the might of the Monte Carlo method (accuracy to within a little better than a hundredth or so). --- StGabriel, the...

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bah What's this? Just do more adventures? We've done four already. Yes, it will even out eventually but so what? Are you saying that D&D is just broken for low levels, so everyone should start at level 5??? No of course you aren't your just being argument for the sake of it. *snicker*...

naysayer hong: If you're talking about melee combat, I suggest giving your ranger a decent Str score next time. If you're talking about ranged combat, your ranger will do more damage with a bow than the wizard will with their sling. He does have a decent str score. The wizard has a decent dex...

oh, got it Got it now. So I was off on some rules bits and pieces. My statements still stand for any check that is not trivial enough to be Take 10'ed. Yes, there are certain domains where take 10 is a nice facility for allowing someone to easily do something that should be easy to them...

well . . . IMC lifting is a DC of X. This is the core rules way, no? If so, then no, it is different in the game. Regarding "just take 10" or "just take 20" . . . Most of those situations are ones wherein failure means a penalty (for jumping and climbing the penalty is falling which is...

unrealism in D&D This all has to do with a fundamental rift between D&D and real life: D&D is random and gaining skill does not do what it should, i.e. give one very low variance (make them very consistent). Before I express what I mean, let me say that I'm not really advocating big changes...

ahem "Each blade of grass has at least 1 hp, and can be taken down to -11 hp." And I hear that if you boil an anthill you should gain at least 1xp per ant and you can level up in no time. Or you could just go wash the DM's car. More seriously: any DM that allowed that sorta logic in his game...

magic weapons Well, the Excalibur idea works for casters, with core rules. I ran a druid back a few compaigns ago that was way into hunting and archery. One of his goals in life was to perfect himself as a hunter/archer and he saw his magical abilities as a way to do this. To that end he...

bah on +skill items I agree that skill items are too cheap. A perform item for a Monte bard is a particularly egregious abuse of this. A +10 perform check effectively allows a Monte bard to always use his "metasong" to maximum effect. The class is already capable of some rather nasty sonic...

Re: Re: Rangers a) what do judgments made right after release have to do with judgments made years later? Yes, snap judgements made then were likely to err. We're not talking snap judgements now. Most avid 3e players I've ever talked to agree: rangers suck. Fans of faithful renderings of...

Rangers I love message boards. Something that is generally accepted throughout the 3e world (i.e. rangers are the most underbalanced core class) actually gets debated. Why? Because most of us know this, and don't even visit that thread, and then a handful of people who don't, do and post 20...

Rangers ... blah It's not that ranger spells are worthless, it's just that they're nearly so at the rate they are given. Yes, you can tell me the virtues of hunter's mercy and entangle, but when those are your ONLY spells at level 7 I'm just not that impressed. It's not that rangers are bad...