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1) No, you have to use one of your own attacks to perform a grappling action. 2)No, if you lose the grapple check you spend your action trying to free yourself up enough to cast the spell, not casting the spell. 3)Yes, the concentration check simply replaces the attack of oppertunity that you...

No, he's just having some problems with the CR system. He doesn't understand how much the situation can chage the XP value of an encounter. He feels that an encounter with 5 orcs is an encounter with 5 orcs. It doesn't matter to him if the party is standing behind arrow slits and basically...

You're tellin' me. In that night of gaming, the encounters we had were, (oh yeah, the party is 7 lv5 PCs and 1 lv8 guide NPC) An 11 headed hydra (CR 10), a group of Lizard Men (CR 5 or so), A Storm Giant (CR 13), a group of 8 Ogres (CR 8), and an adult black dragon (CR 10). By the time we had...

Hmmm, its definitely an interesting system, but I think I will stay away from it for the same reason I decided not to use my own. There's just too much math involved with it to keep game-play fast and smooth. Of course, your system does actually give PC's a reason to continue to increase the...

About the Avatar, you have no idea how remorseful (sp?) I am about the loss of "The Smiley Face of Warr." The really important part that I needed was the ECL of the Lizard Man. I have a lot of trouble believing that its only +1. BTW, why would there be any major prejudices against Lizard Men...

I had thought about the same thing, like taking a creature with DR 50/+5 and parsing up the DR somehow. So, the DR would be: 0 for +5 10 for +4 20 for +3 30 for +2 40 for +1 45 for silver and 50 for mundane If I'm not mistaken, that is what your post is saying, right?

Could someone be polite enough to post the relevant facts for a Lizard Man (or woman) character? The DM decided to let us fight a black dragon (APL +5) after a couple of other encounters, so a few of us need to make new characters. I decided to play a Lizard man, but he went on a trip and has...

By TranceJeremy: But then neither was the OA stuff, and someone managed to weasle use of that out of WotC's grubby little hands. If someone went up to them, I'm fairly certain they would decide that the project would be of small enough scope to not be interesting to them, and therefore would...

Well, there are roughly 12 different dragons (chromatic, metallic, and gem), along with all the types of undead (lets call this 15) and then the lycanthropes (8). That should be about all of them, but assuming about 4 pages for each one, that gives 140 pages. Yeah, it wouldn't be a very...

Has anyone given thought to creating a book dedicated to template monsters? I started thinking about this the other night when one of my DM's was complaining about how much prep time a game required. Specifically, he was complaining about how much extra time was required if he wanted to include...

Yeah, but the reasoning that BRC used to justify allowing the extra attack from bite can be applied to the others. At the very least, a ratling's tail spikes should qualify as an extra hand. As to whether or not having a weapon on your shoulder/boot/helmet should qualify, *shrugs*.

I think the text of the feat is good, basically allowing characters to get the Improved Grab (ex) ability. However, I do agree that the Prereqs are a bit lax. Adding Str13+, Dodge, and Mobility to the prereqs might help it out a lot. They should also help to emphasize the strength of the...

How would a threat range of 12-20 fit on your table?

Which can lead to some arguments over what constitutes a natural weapon. The bite and claws may or may not, since the character wasn't born with them. The tail spikes certainly don't, since you can't make an unarmed attack with just the tail. The Blade boots are also questionable, since an...

Who says they can't. The next thing you're going to say is that a PsiWar using bite of the wolf has to use one of his hands to make an off-hand attack with the bite. The greatsword slash followed by a shoulder ram is exactly how I pictured using the sword and spike TWF. Another good one is...

TWF with a great sword and armor spikes is pretty good too.

At 30k, I think its reasonable to give one character a +6 to his BAB for 1 fight.

So, if I'm understanding you, you're a halfling hater. ;) In addition to the -2 they get from their race, you want to limit their final Str to 11.

OA has the improved grapple feat. IIRC Improved Grapple [General] Prereq: IUS Benefit: Whenever you succesfully make an unarmed melee attack, you may immediately enter in to a grapple, skipping the touch attack and attack of oppertunity. I think that was about it, but there may have been...

(3) Whack a Kobold: PC's given padded mallet and told to stand in from of wooded table with 9 holes in it. Each hole connects to an opening in a metal crate full of kobolds. When the PC pays his money, a fire is started under the crate. Sorry, I forgot that one last time