Recent content by Thraka

What about auras that do untyped damage, like the kruthiks' Gnashing Horde (MM 170)? If a PC ends his turn near multiple kruthiks, does he take damage from all of their auras, or just from one of them? And what about auras that do no damage, but enable a monster to attack a PC, like the...

Howdy, This may seem to be an obvious question, but I just had a session grind to halt over this issue: If you know more than 1 encounter power, can you use all those encounter powers every encounter? Or are you restricted to one encounter power per encounter, even if you know more than 1...

"We can smell the smoke of our smoldering homes, the dire promise that our children will inherit only dust and bitter memories. It is destruction for which you hunger, sweet girl, and so I must ask: have you ever craved the taste of cinders?"

They do gain a lot of strong racial traits, but with the reduction of their movement speed to 30 ft (from 40 ft), the inability to wear armor, and the increased damage from fire, I think it all balances out. It makes the natural AC bonus a necessity, in fact... Like Dreamchaser said, you'll...

Measuring up gnolls against some of the newer LA+1 races (goliaths, poison dusk lizardfolk), there's an obvious deficiency in the gnoll's racial traits. The why's for this have been explored in numerous posts in the general and rules forums, so I was hoping that this thread could be used to...

All right, I've briefly run the gutterkin through a small adventure and a number of low-level combats to play-test them. They certainly weren't over-powered, and my play-testers said that they didn't seem weaker than the other characters, either (or perhaps my play-testers were just being...

I like this ability... I just think it gives them too much of a good thing. It eliminates yet another penalty due to their small size (leaving reduced weapon damage really their only Small drawback). That seems a bit much to me, though only because the gutterkin have so many other racial...

How about this: drop Move Silent, and drop the Search bonus (not the bonuses to spot and listen, though). In exchange, give the grapple bonus. With these changes, their racial traits look like: Gutterkin Racial Traits • +2 Dexterity, -2 Intelligence. Gutterkin are quick and strong for their...

True, it’s not a Str bonus, not really. It just seems that the design philosophy for the Small races in the PHB was that they lose Str (perhaps because they already get a +1 to hit for being small, or whatever). So whenever there’s a Small race that doesn’t lose Str, I suppose it might seem...

Truth be told, it was the natural armor that caught my eye. It's a bit much, I think, considering that they arleady get a bonus from being Small. The favorable ability scores I can live with, they seem in line with other LA+1 creatures. It just seems to me that they've got an awfully big...

Heh, that’s kind of what I was going for- everyone looks down on these wiry, little nebbishes, but they’re much stronger than they look. Sort of in the same vein that Terry Pratchett does his gnomes. But yeah, I see where you’re coming from, monboesen. I’m still a little leery of dropping...

During the course of looking for any LA+1 races I might want to include in my next campaign, I was going through my MMIII today when I happened upon Poison Dusk Lizardfolk. I was browsing their racial traits when it occured to me that they're quite good as LA +1 PC characters. Perhaps, dare I...

Not liking gnomes, halflings, or goblins for my campaign world’s Small race, I cobbled together my own. Enter the Gutterkin- I tried to model them off of the gnomes in Majesty, which are basically little grubby humanoids that live on the outskirts of civilization. Gutterkin are industrious...