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I believe the DM is going to have to wing this since the Halfling is invisible and the contact is incidental; the core rules tend to refer to things that PCs do intentionally. Tangent: How would people rule on this (which comes up all the time with high level parties): Invisible PC Fighter...

Depends on the campaign size. Ie, it's easy for one person to put aside time, it's less easy for the group to do so. For instance, my campaign has 6 players which means that you've got to get 7 people's schedules to align. Weekends are pretty much booked for the players who have kids, so...

Interesting. Here is the Sorcerer12 from my current campaign with his different choices bolded: 1st - Magic Missile, Mage Armor, Shield, Ray Enfeeble, True Strike 2nd - Glitterdust, Invisibility, See Invisibility, Resist Energy, Blind/Deaf 3rd - Fireball, Fly, Dispel Magic, Lightning Bolt 4th...

It might be interesting to look at it in relation to Blur then; Blur gives a flat out 20% miss chance for all opponents for the entire combat. Mirror Image gives a very high miss chance at first, but each miss causes the effectiveness of the spell to fade until it reaches 0%. Allowing...

Well, if you follow the FAQ, part of it suggests that Cleave, Great Cleave and Whirlwind attack all work on Images. That means that Great Cleave negates Mirror Image; the warrior will just keep Cleaving images without losing attacks and he'll unload on the caster eventually. I wondered if...

I noticed this spell is a bit of a pain to DM, so I am curious how other people have done it. When I first ran it I considered all the figments to be in the same space as the original creature; which was simple to adjudicate, but not exactly to the letter of the rules. Before I ran the spell...

I played a PHB Monk from 1st-6th under 3.0E and was very very disappointed. It's one of the great eternal debates on this board whether "Monks suck", and I've already partaken of that, so I wont rant here. (Except for this; I can't help myself: One thing when looking at whether the "Monk...

Subscribers get the shaft. ;-) I got my 116 at the beginning of last week, long after the "116 is here!" thread had died. Since I always miss the "X is here!" thread, I have to say this somewhere: I love the new Campaign Workbook feature. Tons of ideas to scavenge in each issue. The...

One other thing is that Chinese cuisine has a lot of different aspects. Depending on where you live, different things will be done well. For instance, San Fransisco has a lot of Cantonese expatriates, so the Cantonese stuff is a good bet. This will shade which things are good/bad/available...

If you buy into the idea that a Lawful culture would be more group-oriented and less individual-oriented, you might take a look at some Eastern scholars such as Confucius. One thing that springs to mind is the emphasis on family relations/heirarchy. If the Laws are designed to help all people...

The original is an oil painting, roughly 36"w x 24"h. The style is very loose, Impressionist isn't a bad description. It was on display at Noreascon in Boston back in August. (I think it was roughly $2500 and it didn't sell during the show. So if anyone wants the picture, try e-mailing Kidd...

Ok, so I was too curious and I went down and checked. The artist is Tom Kidd (who actually has been around for a while, just not in D&D to my knowledge.) The piece really looks better as a painting; as a book it's cut in half to be front and back covers. This is a bit of an odd piece for him...

So who is the artist? My guess was Tom Kidd, but I haven't been by the FLGS to confirm (or deny).

People are going to get upset; no one likes to have their turn taken away (even if they took 10 minutes to make their move) or to lose a character (even if they pulled the handle marked "Danger: Do not Pull!"). As long as the majority of people had fun, the DM shouldn't worry too much about a...

Wow, this is much better than it used to be. There used to be like different three places Amazon might file a D&D rulebook and one of them was also used for other junk like D&D novels. I never could guess where they might put a 3rd party publisher. (/Role Playing Games? /Games/Role Playing...

I dunno. There is a huge movement afoot towards digital art in fantasy and sci-fi illustration right now. There are a lot of techniques that people are trying, including some produce an effect of digital material re-painted or re-illustrated. Here is someone who's been getting a bit of work...

I wasn't planning on picking up this boxed set; the funny thing was that I automatically assumed that if Lucas had re-editted the films yet again he had probably done something new and horrible while he was at it. But when the biggest things people were complaining about where Anakin's ghost...

I would have expected them both to make it on the lower end of the list. For all the pooh-poohing of them as boring dungeon crawls, they'll end up being the classic 3E touchstones for this generation of players. But I can't quite fathom voting that puts FoF just outside the Top 10 while...

Obviously, having no turning is going to make the undead quite a bit more difficult. I've watched a mid-level group with no cleric go up against the incorporeal undead and get roughed up in a way that a cleric party would not have. I suspect this applies more at the low end of the power...

Does anyone know who the artist is on that cover? I saw a Tom Kidd piece not that long ago that looks a lot like this; cool blue night with skeletons animating up out of a grave; also called "Libris Mortis". I wonder if the cover shown on the web-page is a color-study for the final piece. In...