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To be honest, no matter how creative I've been or experienced from other DMs, the party always meets in some convenient location. For example: the local RSPCA run by the kindly Monk patron, the service station en-route to a holiday destination, etc. No matter how convoluted we make the ties...

Arrgh! Mark! I am also a teacher in Australia ... and it has nothing to do with law-suit happiness. You well know our education system and the problems you could encounter just by tapping her on the shoulder if she was a student in your school. There is no question about meeting the parents...

I played a warmage and he got done over by a crack team of trip experts (since I was decimating a lot of the opposition). He was the 5th character in the party ... and we had a specialist conjurer as the main arcane caster. IMHO he was extremely powerful. I had a lot of spells per day that were...

Okay I'll have to read it ... is it a Shield bonus or an increase in the Shield bonus of the Shield? Because that with Phalanx Fighting could be a big bit of stacking. It would make those 1st level Fighters AC18 when naked. Thanks, D

@Bagpuss: you have mentioned Shield Wall a couple of times, however the only Shield Wall I know of is as a part of Phalanx Fighting - is there a feat I do not know of? TIA D

Right okay, I somehow missed the "also with this feat" bit :) +3 to AC, no stacking ... so it is +6 with a heavy shield and shield specialisation. Not too shabby but not as uncontrolled as it first seemed. so the fighters in question would have ACs of 16 before counting DEX or armour. For a...

I previously posted a thread on Shields and Aura usage, and I was reading over some of the Shield based options available to characters. I thus came across Phalanx Fighting in Complete Warrior, p103 As I read this, I had the following issue come to mind (assuming Heavy Shields and Light...

So this concept could be broken if people try to break it but would make for an interesting concept otherwise? What I was thinking about was a core command group of 4 "heroes" surrounded by mooks in their army or unit. All their auras stacking and helping out weak mooks etc. Of course they...

Greetings, I was having a discussion with a member of my playgroup this evening and we somehow found ourselves talking about Shield Brothers and Auras. The first query would be: how much could someone abuse Aura classes? For example if a party consisted of 4 separate Aura using characters such...

Well after reading all of this I sat down and did "some numbers". And I am guessing WOTC probably sat down and thought along these same lines. Currently they release AT LEAST one book a month that I buy. Average book price $35 (?? I'm doing an in my head calculation from AUD to US). They want...

Actually he looks a bit like Shaggy in disguise ... maybe the Scooby Doo guys got jealous of the D&D guys and sent them on a psycho trip.

Thanks for the information. So errata are covered, but anything like Web Enhancements (or their new version of such) are a pay for service? Regards, D

Greetings, I've not been keeping up with my D&D or roleplaying forums for a long long time. I've been too busy with work and new baby. Only tonight at a d20 Modern game I run did one of my players inform me about 4e and I was surprised since the last time I was online in regards to d20 there...

The problem is that Microsoft never really demanded standardization previously ... now with Vista they are. So it is causing headaches even with their own software. As to XCorvis ... unfortunately in a college environment where development is being taught we cannot release installation...

Yes the virtual directory is transparent ... and it causes a lot of headaches for developers. I teach game design and Visual Studio for example has intermittent problems directly related to the virtual directory system. There is an SP for this now, however there aren't fixes for every...

One of the main reasons software applications may not run on Vista is the concept of the 'virtual directory'. Unbeknownst to the average user (and older software), Program Files exists under /user/Program Files. This breaks a lot of applications since they are still relying on the old...

IIRC the 1st Edition Players Handbook had a line of text buried in the Ranger description that indicated they could fight with both hands equally (ambidextrous). Perhaps this grew into the Drizzt/Ranger concept and thus was made gospel in the rules.

I'm a Mac programmer/Excel user and I've looked and many character sheets that use Excel. Almost all of them crash in some way or another. The reasons are fundamentally related to 1) the implementation of VB on the seperate OSes (OS X is much stricter and crappier) 2) in general VB hobbyist...

When I have named my gods in the past I've chosen a pronounciation style first then formed the names around that ... for example the last set was a bit of a hash of Aztec/Spanish constructions. Arunqawe being the most obvious here. So in your case I would suggest starting there ... I note that...

The only major "hole" I can see is that Characters with Good BAB will use stunts more often in combat to garner the +1d6 damage. It is like power attack, doesn't grant the same amount of damage bonus but its free as opposed to a feat. All they need to do is describe the action. 1) Do multiple...