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In the interest of giving WotC the credit they're due: I not only stole the name "Tapheon," but also the name of his fortress and the rod despoiler of flesh. The only things about him I made up were his physical appearance and his personality. He's the from the Manual of the Planes, but that...

I think you've missed that Scree's eyes are sapphires. :) -Sagiro

Thanks! The hardest moment was the day or two before the session, when my wife (who plays Kibi) actually guessed that the Lord of the Roses was Sagiro. Of course, she was joking, ha ha, because how preposterous would that be? I joined her in laughing off the suggestion as ridiculous, but I...

Here's the explanation: Sagiro didn't literally fall off a cliff. He was knocked down a very steep mountainside into a raging river which swept his body away. But he hadn't taken lethal damage, and he washed ashore before drowning. In other words, he didn't die in the same way that...

You are a foul tempter! :p -Sagiro

Piratecat wouldn't let us look at Ioun's sheet, but Fajitas (who was playing Ioun) did at one point utter the phrase: "...back when I was 27th level..." :eek: -Sagiro

Sagiro’s Story Hour, Part 243 Waiting Room Morningstar suggests that any further interrogation of Sagiro should take place under reliable truth magic. Sagiro maintains that he is telling the truth, though he assents to being questioned inside a zone of truth. He balks, however, at giving...

Hi there! Although it's 3.0 and not 3.5, what you're looking for is the Lasher prestige class from "Sword and Fist." It takes a small amount of retroftitting to make work in 3.5E, because the whip used to be considered a ranged weapon, but we worked it out with little difficulty. Class...

Regarding your gear/sweat/shadow/etc. examples: before I ever reach the point where I'm asking the sort of questions in my original post, I do (believe it or not) apply a "common sense" test to spell effects. In almost every other relevant place in the 3.5 rules, "gear" is part of a person. In...

I guess I'm content with: 3) Nothing in the spell description mentions that effect. For instance, a player might say to me: "I just hurled a highly-damaging ball of fire at that creature standing on the cliff. Surely the impact would knock him back five feet as well." That statement fails...

Yes, and no, respectively. :) My statement was not meant to imply that. I agree completely that the sort of cognitive dissonance I'm talking about is what causes a saving throw, and not an automatic see-through-the-illusion effect. The bar for automatic disillusionment should be pretty high...

Graf, I appreciate your opinions -- and even if I am a "more experienced DM" (which may not even be the case), it doesn't make them more or less valid. As I read your comments, I found myself agreeing with some and disagreeing with others. For instance, while I agree that DM's should not...

A reasonable speculation, but only because of some unnecessary red herrings on my part. I may not have explained this well before, so let me do so now: the colors of the exterior doorway into Het Branoi -- the one that started red, then became blue, and finally was green when the Company went...

I have neither the time nor the technology to make an mp3 available of the "big reveal," but it would probably disappoint most of you. There were a few seconds of "No way!" "You're kidding," etc., and Piratecat must have said "No...!" about half a dozen times, but the players got right down...

Piratecat, I'm inclined to agree with you about spellcasting to a point -- that avg. intelligence creatures won't instinctively know that the rat casting the fireball is actually an illuision. It could be any number of things: a polymorphed spellcaster, someone invisible or hidden who's...

Infiniti, how would your answers change, if it all, if you assume that the caster has long since stopped concentrating, and is just riding the residual 1 hour/level duration? I've thought about this some more since I posted, and I'm leaning in a less sympathetic direction. I'm more inclined to...

[Note: players in my game MAY read this if they want, and even comment. Nothing is being spolied that you don't already know, given the circumstances. I'll trust you to be objective.] 3.X D&D may have cleaned up many questions about illusions, but it's still a messy subject. I have a...

Using only myself as an example, I'd say not. On the one hand, I get called a Rat Bastard on a regular basis by my players and Story Hour readers. On the other, I've been running the same game for almost 10 years, the characters who started at 1st level are now in the 14th to 16th range...

That's why I asked the question. :) It's clear that you can be grappled by multiple foes. The PH is quite clear that you can't escape a grapple unless you beat all your enemies in opposed grapple checks. But if you can be pinned by multiple opponents, you get into weird cases where you're...

This came up in a game some time ago. I've checked the PH and can't find a definitive answer. The question is simply: can someone be pinned by two distinct grapplers, such that he has to break each pin separately to escape? Thanks, -Sagiro