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Three more I read recently that I liked: "Often the search proves more profitable than the goal." - E. L. Konigsburg "The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live." - Ann Landers "If we could read the secret history of our own enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and...

I was answering the OP's question, in part, with quotes from a book. I wasn't preaching. If you think my answers are poor pieces of advice (pieces of advice being what the OP was asking for) then I suggest you simply ignore my answer and post your own answer to the OP's question. Thank you...

Never eat spinach with a stranger. Seriously, though, I heard one from a computer game that claimed to be an old Chinese saying as well as the only truth in the universe: "This, too, shall pass." My favorite two, though: 1. "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul...

I remember years ago that both McDonalds and Burger King claimed to have "America's favorite french fries." McDonald's based their claim on sales. More McDonald's french fries were sold than Burger King french fries (or any other kind of french fries, I imagine). Burger King based their claim...

My error was thinking that an "attack action" was the same as saying "an action that can be done multiple times during a full attack because of high base attack bonus." In other words, I was making it similar to actions like disarm, grapple, and trip, which all fall under the "action type...

It is a supernatural ability. However, here is what the SRD says about gaze attacks. However, why bother calling it an attack action if a creature can never use it as part of a set of iterative attacks? Thanks, Atavar

How about the gaze attack? Is that considered "physically part of" the creatture? Also, when a warforged attacks with his wielded weapon and his slam attack while making a full attack, what penalties apply to his attacks? Thanks, Atavar

Hello EN World, An Abyssal Greater Basilisk has a Base Attack Bonus of +18. However, he only gets a single bite attack when doing a full attack? Why? Why doesn't he get four such attacks (at +18/+13/+8/+3 BAB)? Also, per the Monster Manual a creature with a gaze attack makes such an attack...

Actually, I remember reading in one of the core 3.0 rulebooks (I think...and I'm not sure it made it into 3.5) an example of two characters trying to go last in a round. Essentially, the lowest initiative count on which a character can delay to and still act in that round is [0 - initiative...

I am reminded of a line I heard from the movie JFK (paraphrasing here): "Can a traitor ever be a hero? No, because if he truly is a hero then we wouldn't call him a traitor." My point? Is railroading sometimes a necessary evil? Yes...but when done correctly, it isn't railroading. I think...

Hello Everyone, I was reading up on damage reduction in the SRD and came across the following: I had NEVER read that before. Is this how it is written in the core rulebooks, too? If correct, this concerns me. There are now magic items and abilities (Book of 9 Swords, I'm looking at you) that...

I have not played the original modules, but I just finished perusing the new book and it looks like it does a combination of two things: 1. It alters some of the encounters of the exisitng modules (but not the dragon one--that one stands as is) to tie a dragon cult throughout all of the...

Hello Everyone, I found this pleasant surprise at my FLGS today. Maybe this is old news to most, but I had not heard of it until I saw it today. Anyway, I found Dungeon Crawl Classics: Saga of the Dragon Cult, which is a boxed set of the following DCC adventures: DCC #2: Lost Vault of...

The implication being that a rider should be able to control his mount during the surprise round even if the rider is surprised? I agree that makes some amount of sense in the real world (e.g. instant, muscle-memory response with no thought v. considered and deliberate actions). However...

I find it interesting that two people read RAW so differently. The mount is surprised, yet it can act? By definition, being surprised means you cannot act. It looks like I am interpreting the RAW of "the mount acts on the rider's initiative" as a statement of the timing of the mount's...

I totally disagree with the claim that the RAW is clear on this issue. I also disagree with the claim that the mount is not a combatant. Of course it is. It isn't a Mini Cooper. It's a creature, with stats, attack rolls, damage rolls, etc. Do some of the posters' assertions rely on the...

Surprise doesn't have to be a condition like stun or daze in order for something to be affected by it. Within the rules of the game, a horse can be surprised when he is alone. Nothing in the rules says that he becomes immune to being surprised because he has a rider. You are assuming that...

Thanks for the great replies everyone. I can see a DM choosing to hand-wave the issue and only require one role from the rider to make things simpler. However, I see nothing wrong with my ruling, either. If a mount is paralyzed can he still act on the rider's turn just because the rider isn't...

Hey there, I had a big disagreement with one of my players last session. I called for spot checks to see who would be surprised at the start of a battle, and I asked one player to make a spot check for his mount. He insisted that he didn't need to make one because his character was not...

Actually, any non-aberrant dragonmark is a true dragonmark. "True" is not another level of dragonmark. Thus, only one feat (dragonmark, least) is required to meet the prerequisite. Later, Atavar