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In virtually every combat lately. I'm playing a barbarian/battle sorcerer focused on being well-nigh unkillable despite an AC of 8 or lower in a conversion of the old Bloodstone Mines module. We keep running into runty little duergar patrols, and between all my temporary hit points, fire...

What I was quibbling with was your statement that "we don't" do this sort of thing, when we do it all the time. If you had said "we shouldn't" that would be a different deal. That's all. :) Though I'm not sure this is a relevant complaint for the term gish. I haven't ever seen anyone...

This is just wrong, actually. Many parts of the country, including mine, use "cokes" as a generic term for dark sodas. We use "kleenex" for any old brand of tissue, "xerox machine" for any kind of copier, and so forth. This kind of change of usage happens all the time.

This poll desperately needs an "Other" option. I voted roc, out of the available options, but I'd really like a skybleeder, from the Fiend Folio. Giant acid-drooling, weather-controlling, druid-hating tenatcle-beasts for the win! It needs the Hover feat, though, since it's really more like a...

You might try running him through a short e-mail exchange or an instant-messenger conversation. Make it nice and informal, just so he can feel out how his character plays before he dives in with the whole group, and you wouldn't have to set aside a whole session if you can just find a couple of...

That's a really bad example. The duskblade actually has exactly two illusion spells on its class spell list - color spray and phantasmal killer. And no special abilities related to illusions either, except those that apply to all spells. I actually find the more common "fighter-mage" to be...

But a threat is just the chance of a penalty. You can't turn one into another, they're not related like that. The penalty of death without resurrection magic is that you don't get to play that character anymore - but in any game I've ever seen you're free to play another one - whereas with...

Did you just argue that the penalty for being killed isn't big enough, and anyway being raised from the dead is too big a penalty? Anyway, My biggest problem with raise dead is verisimilitude - the whole "assassinations don't really matter" thing. I solved that by adding thinaun weapons to the...

Now that is a great idea! All kinds of weird special contacts and people to meet and make friends and/or stab to death in that line of business. And you could use the PCs' special position to make raise dead SRD-normal easy for them while not having some of the weird verisimilitude effects of...

Fair enough. :D You might try changing it to an XP penalty for the casting cleric, however. I find players are much more willing to spend gold than experience, and then you can introduce power components to cover the XP cost - rare power components which would require them to jump through...

There are two problems with that plan, by the 3.5 rules - raise dead doesn't help if you die from old age (it can't be used to extend your life past its natural span), and you don't need to cover the cost with a single diamond. Rich people are better off just making sure they have neutralize...

The Astral is largely featureless, but being a transitive plane it's dotted with all of these portals to other planes. They appear as multi-colored pools.

Heh. Sorry, I've just moved here from Texas, where we don't believe in public transportation. Having to get somewhere by that abhorrent method turns me into a neurotic bundle. At least I'll be in the right mood for the game when I arrive! :p Would it help if I bring the d20 Cthulhu core...

Well, alright then! I shall try my best to get there on time. Since I have to take the El to get to the Metra, though, disaster remains a possibility. :uhoh:

Hmm, you appear to be correct. Should've checked that. It does say - in red, no less - that we should settle in by 9:15, though. I'd feel better if someone could suggest an alternate route to get there or if Trevalon Moonleirion could tell me what his preference is. Hmm...

I've just noticed a bit of a scheduling problem. To get to Mount Prospect I need to take the Metra Northwest line, and the earliest I could possibly arrive would be 9:11 am. Counting time to find the game store and get situated, that means I probably couldn't get to gaming until, say, 9:30...

This Forgotten Realms site has a number of flaws from various sources beyond Unearthed Arcana.

If you mean in terms of overall challenge to the players - how well they have to play the game to keep their characters alive and accomplishing their goals - I typically try to keep it steady as they gain levels. At higher levels they have fewer and fewer overwhelming individual challenges or...

You mention "the technologist's handbook," and I was wondering if you meant mine. :) If so, I might be able to help if you can tell me what specific things need a whacking with the nerf bat in your game, since I probably have a better idea of why and how things are set up the way they are in...

You make a DC 24 concentration check (for a 4th-level spell). Dimension door is one of those spells that has only a Verbal component to it for precisely that reason. It's a life-saver, literally, at higher levels.