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I loved the heck out that class. The character started out as a Gnome Rogue/Barbarian cartographer. I tried to limit myself to only taking feats and such that were almost completely useless, and therefore ended up falling almost seamlessly into the Royal Explorer PrC. However, the character...

Ok, over 2 different campaigns with the same DM (who apparently loves Swallow Whole), the party has encountered 4 monsters with Swallow Whole. The Purple Worm managed to kill 2 of five party members by swallowing them. The Behir(1) managed to kill 1 party member of 4. The Behir(2) managed...

I wonder if that could be why their site started lagging?

That's the important part right there. Most of the monsters that have swallow whole and improved grab don't really care if they're grappled. Since they can go ahead and grab and swallow the character on a full attack, it doesn't really matter if they lose their (miniscule) bonus to dexterity...

"realistic acid damage" There is no such thing. From my experiences and studies, the vast majority of acids will not damage organic materials to any significant degree in a reasonable time frame. However, they will rapidly destroy almost any metal. I would probably suggest looking at the...

Brekki: Wow, grappling with an appendix. That's a disturbing image. :) I think you might mean appendage.

Another mean thing to do would be have a Hench-Monkey with maxxed out Bluff. All of the sudden in an important fight, the psion finds out that he just wasted all his PP to kill the wrong BBEG.

All of that sounds really good.... When you say "monster" are you including animals? I can honestly say that it never made sense to me that animals never got better at tracking under basically any circumstances.

Lethal?.... When did they change that? As far as I know IUS doesn't allow for a character to deal lethal damage normally with unarmed strikes, it just takes away the AoO for unarmed attacks. Yep, that's right. One more reason why IUS really stinks.

That's correct, Improved Grab onlly activates for his bite attack. However, he can use his other attacks (6 claws) for grapple attacks. With those six attacks, the Behir can swallow the offending creature. Once the creature is swallowed, the Behir's (possibly misleading) entry states that it...

IMO, vampires could benefit greatly from the Prestige Races detailed in Dragon #)$.

IIRC 10*CL*SL ==> If I recall correctly the cost of a spell cast by an NPC spellcaster is 10gp multiplied by the level of the spell (SL) multiplied by the level of the caster (CL) A source of Mageware (or magical enhancing hardware) would be Dragonstar, a setting by FFG. ( Here is their site. )...

KaeYoss: The same issue came up in a campaign I'm playin in right now. I'm playing a Druid, and wanted to take Scent for my Lv 6 feat. The DM had some trouble with the power of the "feat" and so we toned the application you are reffering to down to only giving a bonus to the spot check to...

In DnD, the functionality of any character ultimately comes down to how they can help the party overcome conflicts. The spellcasters you have just described essentially have 0 role in combat, and a limited role in pretty much any other type of conflict. Therefore, magic as you have described...

Well of course I do, it's just that I assumed that there had to be some "official" words to it floating around out there somewhere.

How about if, instead of only using 1 opposed roll, you just halved the number of rolls by assuming the defender takes 10. That way grappling wouldn't really take any more time than the other attack actions.

Spunky: I was thinking the same thing when I saw the title. BTW, does anyone actually know all the words to "A Wizard's Staff has a Knob on the End?"

In general, the only way to handle giving XP for skill checks and the like requires looking at how much of the parties resources will be consumed on a successful result and how much on a failure. Combat, which is what the CR system is designed around assumes that failure will consume 100% of...

I was right. (Well, about the revisions and clarifications at least.) As stated by Andy Collins on his own message boards here. And I still say that Grappling is Brokenly good for all of the monsters that have abilities for it in the MM.

You might want to look at the Deepwood Sniper from MotW. Some of their abilities can allow for mass damage from a great distance (roughly equivalent to the range of the most popular damage spells). Of course range is fairly moot in most encounters. Also, IIRC, WotC has published a...