Recent content by Volefisk

Re: Re: Re: New Feat: Stocky, Not Slow Interesting. I always felt that Dwarves were basically short creatures (which is why they moved slower), considered medium-sized creatures because of their girth! <volefisk>

My dictionary defines feint as "a pretended attack intended to take the opponent off his guard, as in boxing. (2) to deliver such an attack." Now, before people start yelling at me that the game doesn't define feint in that manner, I say this: "feint" is a loaded word because it has a meaning...

A couple of people have mentioned possible explanations for performing feints at range in previous posts, they just haven't been terribly explicit (until LostSoul's recent reply). I get the impression that some people find it very easy to justify, while others find the concept difficult to...

Leaders A lot of very good advice has been posted here, though more theoretical than practical. In my experience as both DM and player, the position of group leader almost exclusively falls on the character that doesn't want to be leader, but is willing to reluctantly accept the...

When I think of a typical wielder of a spiked shield, I think of a heavily armoured combat-type fighting similarly outfitted foes. With this in mind, 2" spikes are not going to do much damage against someone in full armour... it's just not likely to penetrate through the layers of armour, cloth...

A Bashing Shield (as you put it) magically "allows great momentum to be applied to the target. You are hitting the target with the shield face." Shield spikes extend beyond the face of the shield, limiting target contact with the enchanted face of the shield. Ergo, the enchantment (at the very...

Well, not exactly Bad Guys, but my current favourite conspiracy plot organization, guaranteed to make your players scratch their heads in disbelief: the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The United States Patent and Trademark Office reviews the specific attributes of novelty...

Re: Re: DMs Don't Kill PCs. PCs kill PCs. Possibly, but not necessarily. Perhaps the caster wasn't able to move the sphere into the second occupied square; the sphere can only be moved 30 feet a round, and the controls (SRD: "rolls in whatever direction the character points") are admittedly...

Bill was an avid Rolemaster player who really felt the need to prove the competency of his new Healer character. The rest of the players met this character in the middle of an adventure: they found him locked in a prison cell. Bill: "You need me to join your group. I'm a Healer, and I'm so good...

The Easy Way The easiest way to impress the significance of this mis-deed upon the party, without creating side-adventures and complicating the storyline, might just be to give them fair warning that the dwarf is coming. Perhaps the Sage comes down with an attack of conscience, because she...

Correct. This just came up in a game I'm in, and required some rather close reading of the rules: Poly Other from the SRD: "The subject retains its own type (for example, "humanoid"), extraordinary abilities, spells, and spell-like abilities, but not its supernatural abilities. The subject can...

Three things: (1) I was assuming that the caster would take the least radical transformation possible to achieve the new vision sense (Dwarf, Elf, etc.). (2) I was responding to a message which inferred that such a sense could not be represented by a 'gross physical change' (I do know that there...

Thank you! That certainly puts a new spin on things!! <volefisk>

Re: Well... Better yet, it is the ability to 'anticipate and make provision for future events' while in the dark. The subject doesn't see anything at all, they just instinctually know where things are going to be a split second into the future even when they can't see!! <volefisk>

Yup. I'd make that call too. I was only trying to use it as an example of a sight ability being the product of specialized anatomy, not as a suggestion for Alter Self. <volefisk>