Recent content by Usumcasane

Yes. The only damage you roll is extra damage that you get ONLY BECAUSE you scored a critical (i.e. High Crit weapons and weapon/implement crit properties).

Honestly I don't care what alignment it says they are. I think it is better for the game in that it is a step in the direction of jettisoning the whole stupid alignment system. But I think it is better for DMs because they can open the MM up and say, "hey, I think a Unicorn would be fun in...

That's my justification. The rationale for why it is that way? Because the designers thought it would be better. The default should not be the status quo. It should be "what do we think will make the game better?" The status quo already exists in multiple editions on people's bookshelves...

Naturally. Now who is more likely to be uncreative (at least initially)? People playing for many years/editions or brand new DMs? Which alignment type helps the uncreative design better encounters but leaves those that are quite creative free to adapt the monsters as they need too?

Nope. I'm saying that if you can't revert back to that flavor because the new text says something else -- then you're uncreative.

So if you are a long-time player with assumptions about D&D monsters, you can easily ignore the alignment in the MM, no? If you are a brand new player, you don't have those assumptions to begin with, so nothings been ruined. If you assign your monsters an ethos and place in your game world...

Human Bard multiclassed into Cleric and Shaman. That nets you all the "knowledge" skills trained, gets you a little extra healing, and with the right armor (Warding Spirit), a bonus to AC vs. Opportunity Attacks. That's 2 feats. if you get Bardic Knowledge and Jack of All Trades, you have a...

Dragon 301. I was just looking at the sheet yesterday. It'll work for 3.5, because they didn't list the skills, just spaces for you to write them in.

Easy. Human Paladin with Weapon Proficiency Bastard Sword and Two Weapon Fighting as his feats. Done in one.

Magic Missile and Eldritch Blast counting as ranged basic attacks are mostly flavor, with some mechanical hooks for later. While any class can use weapons, Wizards and Warlocks aren't really designed for it. With the exception of the Wizard of the Spiral Tower, neither class has powers that...

In the exception based system of 4E, if versatile allowed you to treat a weapon as though it were a two-handed weapon, it would say so. As it is, it says you can use two hands to wield it and get a +1 to damage. That's it. Beyond that, the base rules apply. So since a longsword is not in the...

Neither do I. I know you cannot take Penetrate DR more than once, because it doesn't say you can. And I could have sworn that it said Enhancement bonus in Imp. Ki Strike. Perhaps it said "as if." I'm not super savvy on Monks, so... Even still, if you can take the latter multiple times, that...

Improved Ki Strike can be taken multiple times, stacks with existing Ki Strike, and provides a +1 ENHANCEMENT bonus to unarmed attacks each time. Penetrate Damage Reduction can be taken only once and only allows a character's attack to overcome a DR 2 higher than normal. It is the quick and...