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Wow you guys are fast! Hackmaster? hmm:p The issue is seldom game mechanics, my knowledge there is far greater than the players. In this regard we do go by a ruling if in doubt and look it up later. No, it is usually something like: "that river wouldn't bowl a golem over" (the golem lost...

It irks me greatly, enough to want to post on it. Am I being unreasonable? The situations are different and it does not come up too often but when it does it rattles me. I do consider myself to be reasonable (who doesn't?) to suggestions but I do not give out information that the pcs would not...

Thanks all. I will house rule it but as it doesn't affect anyone but npcs, it'll go unnoticed. My players are woeful with knowing the rules...:rolleyes:

I am having a little difficulty with my players regarding the plots. Basically I am wanting them to take a more active lead but they are proving indecisive. Currently I play my adventures in two weekly session lots. The first session is getting a hook that will fit and by the second session I...

My players have agreed to the save for 1/2 editted version of harm. I am really pleased as I no longer need to not use it on their characters for a cheap kill. The encounter coming up will be a nice challenge with an enemy with a couple of scrolls of Harm (and Slay living). In regard to the...

Thanks Shilsen. All that said I don't know what the mechanical reason would be for the armour check penalty applying for shields? Masterwork would eliminate the penalty for all but large shields. I think it is a needless rule that is best disregarded. BTW, sorry Darkness, I did not even look...

Looking at the weapon finesse feat it incurs a penalty for using a shield in your off hand. Unless the shield has no penalty check. What is the deal when duel wielding two weapons? The off hand is to be used for balance yet no mention of weapons, only shields. I am at a loss to understand the...

A lot of the taxes would go on corruption. Or patronage if you will. Depending on the ruler/govt, a lot may go on extravagance like palaces, magic items. Tributes to stronger kingdoms. Armies and navies are not cheap. Tax evasion would be rife, no tax codes and central computers to monitor...

Man that site is good. I've just been reliving the horror of "Diff'rent Strokes" and the Dana Plato memorial page. Dana Plato rocks(ed:() Anyway, I am not sure when when FR jumped the shark... I think it was when I realised Elminster was a reoccurring character, or was it his girlfriend...

Is there a feat that allows the use of weapons 3* your size category? My Paladin with a GARGANTUAN longbow... cool. :p

Here is my non-mechanical solution. Most, if not all people, do not wish to be resurrected. They simply do not wish to return to the realm of toil. Pc's and other mighty npc's are battlers however and can choose. Right, taking a quick look: 1, initial death check is 60% in the pc's favour at...

Whomever is levelling the taxes needs to ensure the taxes are all-encompassing and unavoidable. The easiest way to do this is to tax basic commodities. Food, lodging, clothes and other basic services that everyone needs to survive. (Here in NZ it is called GST, Good and Services Tax of 12.5%...

Talk about expensive, a 4th level spell cast at 7th caster level. $$$$$$$$ Better hope these wizards are in significant numbers and are particularly patriotic. It would be a slow process building up companies which would be susceptible to dispels. I think using it for recon, covert and...

I still want Harm to cause grief because if it doesn't it probably shouldn't be 6th level. Despite my Will save idea being akin to the inflict spell I rank Harm close to the save or die spells. Finger of death will reduce hps to -10 or some piddly damage if saved. The Harm effect of reducing...

A book on home campaigns. What heaps of us use. Mass combat, stat blocks for company v company, so the dm doesn't have to roll % or guess. Give at least a bit of structure to war but keeps it in the background. Suggested rules for high & low magic campaigns. Discusses the pros and cons. Mods...

It's all good Ferox4 I for one do not like deliberately altering core rules, spells in this case. But until 3rd & 1/2 is done, and I think no time soon, I'll have to act. For the record I as a dm have used Harm exclusively in our games. The pc's never have, levels being 10-11, now 9-10... It...

Methinks I'll go for the 1/2 damage will save. Still hurts a lot. Potentially ravaging a single opponant.

By defence I am not meaning the more situational types. Otherwise you can include wide chasms, successful diplomacy or invisibility (to a degree). By defence I am meaning a method of resistance that improves with level as per the whole point of levels in D&D. Usually this resistance comes in...

Ranged Harm is broken. It certainly isn't core rules either.

Blackguards look good on paper but actually suck for players. You need to plan for it (5 ranks in hide!) or multi to rogue if you were a Paladin. I hate losing BAB... same thing with Fighter/Clerics. Plan to fall from grace, woh that is strange. "I'm gonna play a Paladin for 10 levels (1...