Recent content by Tetsuyama

Crazy DM idea... Since a Sorgoth (in its intended role) isn't likely to be a random encounter, the DM could roll the summoning check beforehand and only stat out the dragon that the Sorgoth summons. It might be good to roll twice and stat out both if intending to have the Sorgoth summon another...

Hmm.. I'm thinking at least 5 ranks in the appropriate Perform and Craft Wonderous Item. Price should be 2000gp, since this doesn't strike me as much more useful to a bard than a 3rd Eye of Concentration (+10 to concentration checks) is to a spellcaster or Psychic Warrior.

I'd vote with Celebrim and go for Improved Initiative. It's a good companion for Combat Reflexes and Quickdraw. I tend to view Hold the Line as mostly a Psychic Warrior feat -- couple Hold the Line with Stand Still and it's *much* more effective than anyone else can make it. It's still handy...

You might also check out http://www.roleplayingtips.com -- between the two links cited above and the tips on the site I just mentioned, it gives you a *lot* to chew on, and lots of good ideas to bounce around.

PC death has been fairly common, which I guess isn't too surprising given that we have a whopping 10 players (makes balancing encounters hard as heck on the poor DM). So there are 11 of us total, all either software developers or designers, with a variety of mostly-technical degrees (I think...

Has anyone tried this? It looks like there are a couple of PDAs in the almost-affordable range (under $150), and I was wondering if anyone had tried putting the SRD on a memory stick for their PDA so that they could look stuff up faster or anything.. It seems like it could be kind of handy...

We've only had one PC die due to instant death effects so far (massive damage forced a DC 15 fort save, which the paladin failed). Typically, it hasn't been much of a problem (the ruinous combats with dozens of enemies has been much more of a problem, at least for the PCs). Particularly...

Going a wee bit OT... Some new core classes, particularly with associated prestige classes, would be a welcome addition. And for DMs, some sample NPCs who have gone down the various prestige class routes would be cool, kind of like the sample NPCs from the DMG, but aimed at the prestige class...

"Is this sort of thing useful to anyone?" Yes! Absolutely! This kind of reminds me of the old Judge's Guild stuff (City State of the World Emperor), though its been a few years since I read that. Definitely good source material. What did you use to make the floorplan?

I think I'd try making it available at CL 11-14. It seems fairly powerful, but I doubt that a 10 is going to cut it with attacks past the second on most opponents if the user power attacks for very much. The other key is that since the user gives up the ability to crit, at high levels this is...

+4. The size bonus and quadruped bonus are +4, and mean that a normal fighter can effectively *never* trip a horse. A feat that disallows the free trip attack on the attacker if the attacker's trip fails would probably also be good (but maybe a subject for another thread).

1) On the one hand, balancing the encounters at low levels is easier in some ways -- the PCs don't have as varied a set of abilities, so you don't have to take as much into account. However, the PCs are more fragile, and likely to be killed. Better to start off with encounters that are too...

Say you have a pretty standard party: BBN 1 w/Power Attack and Cleave, wielding a 2H sword, at 14 Str and 14 Con, does 2d6+3 when not raging, which should autokill a standard Orc, and with Cleave, should be killing two per round. Raging, can't be killed with one blow unless the Orcs get a...

Some other things to check out to increase your damaging effectiveness: have an arcane spellcaster polymorph you (root through the MM to figure out what, but since dwarves are Medium and you say you're around 9th, Troll makes a nice choice as long as you're not near civilization); have the...

On the jump topic, the last Psychic Warrior archer in our campaign also had boatloads of jump. That, combined with the Psychic Jump feat got him a commanding view of the field of battle. Since he could Metaphysical Weapon his arrows, it pretty well offset the to-hit penalties of being a couple...