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Yes, I enforce the -4 penalty under the theory that people are dancing around in melee and you have to aim carefully not to frag your friends. There was a discussion of this recently in Rules; I'll see if I can find the link. -edit (link found) -...

I know I've seen this thread before; a bunch of different answers were proposed. A successful Search check might bring you a treasure! ;-) Personally, I think 10+HD alone is way too easy. I like the caveat that you must also have seen the creature in some meaningful way (talked, fought...

Tangent: Do people who have played RA feel like it fits into a campaign world? From looking it over and from reading the design philosophy I didn't really feel it was intended to be a part of a world. It's just so lethal that it's not condusive to role-playing; it's more about tactical...

Hrm, I think you are right. On cursory reading I interpreted it as being a new slice, but looking more closely at Violate Spell I seem to have been wrong. Oops. Now my Tangent is extra-Tangential. ;-)

I have maybe four big handfuls of D&D minis. (How else to measure such mass-produced things than by the handful? Like toy soldiers. ;-) I bought certain ones, such as 10 Kuo-Toa as singles to use as default medium bad guys. The Kuo-Toa have gotten used in every session. Various other...

What I was shooting for in my post was to question whether this is true. The Core damage pie has five slices; Fire, Cold, Acid, Electric and Sonic. What effect does slicing the pie again to add a sixth type have (leaving aside the special properties of Vile)? Then, reductio ad absurdum...

Tangent: I was discussing with someone the other day whether adding new damage types like Vile is unbalanced in and of itself: In a world where there are few damage types, it's a good idea to cast Resist X or Protection from X on yourself; playing the odds that it will be useful. This is as...

That's Dragon though, not Dungeon. I agree that Dragon is skewed towards a younger age group; what with every issue having something like "12 Insane New Items for Tiamat" or "6 Extreme Prestige Classes that Haven't Been Playtested!" Dungeon is relatively staid; an adventure or two, a map and...

Well, because if the Jar visually "sees" then it should work like vision or darkvision (ie, being countered by Invisibility). If it smells people, it should work like Scent and so on. If it's a magical sense it should be countered by Non-Detection (or an Anti-Magic field?!) Maybe it's best...

Well, in any case, does anyone think that a Mind Blanked character would show up on Magic Jar's targetting list? What I am getting at is that if we imagine that Jar divines the existence of the life-forces around it by a method different than a (Divination) spell then you have a spell that...

I enjoy Dungeon. I don't care for Polyhedron but the whole magazine is 44 bucks for 12 issues. That's less than four freaking dollars an issue - and I figure the content I like is worth that - so I can't work myself into a froth of indignation about Poly. If I recall, I just subscribed on...

Hehe. But you know where I am going with this; we're headed towards Mind Blank which is worded sustantially like Non-Detection. (You'd think Jar might be (Mind Affecting) since I'm Jarring your freaking brain, but no. ;-)

What if the protective spell were "Non Detection"? (The warded creature or object becomes difficult to detect by divination spells such as clairaudience/clairvoyance, locate object, and detect spells.) Can Magic Jar detect things protected from scrying/divination? ;-)

--edit: oops, misread original question --- Adding HPs is really the same as adding HD. You can calculate how many HPs are expected for HD, HD+1,HD+2 etc. If the new HPs are above the expectation for HD+3 then the monster effectively has HD+3 hit dice. Here's the rule from the MM for...

On the topic of "invalid targets": Would a target who had cast the relevant protective spell (such as "Protection from Evil") show up on the targetting radar or not? Or do you have a chance of selecting that body during random selection and *then* finding out you can't Jar it?

Your formula is correct for explaining the cost of item creation in an ongoing campaign, but I think we're talking about starting high level characters here. In that case "6 months" and even "7040 XP" don't really mean anything. So taking one feat can allow you to have up to double the items...

Yeah, but if you play that way what Wizard will not take tons of item creation feats? For example: At 12th level a Wizard has 7-8 Feats and 88,000 starting GP. What if that Wizard takes the Craft Wonderous feat and then crafts up a Mantle of Spell Resistance SR21 ? Thats a 90,000GP item; an...

You dont want to spend $150 a person at French Laundry!?! ;-) Anyway, House of Nan King is well known, but it's way on the Americanized end of the spectrum. That's fine for a lot of people, including me, but here is a counterpoint from a Chinese friend who is quite the foodie: My friend...

Although the DMG does mention certain classes of items which cost "more" if you are creating high level characters for a short campaign. Things like potions and wands as I recall. Although kreynolds is not interested in house rules, I think that special rules are needed to start high level...

I think the pendulum has swung back; they have a bunch of stuff and they've bought a set of bins to put the RPG product in rather than scattering it on a couple of shelves. Much more is in stock these days, I found a copy of Magical Medieval Europe there which I couldn't find anywhere else...