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Holy Grail. Princess Bride gets quoted a lot, but the quotes are usually over quickly - they're one-liners. Python quotes all too frequently turn into a recitation of entire scenes from the movie. J

Have the spell automatically allow communication with the summoned creatures (automatically allowing you to order them to do things other than attack). J

Not satisfying, maybe, but not useful? I use the method a lot, or, if I want to put just a little more work in, I'll break one or two of those skills in half and pick twice as many skills he has at half the ranks. J

Actually, feudally a standing army was rare. People didn't 'join the army' - your lord basically said, "Come on now, we're going to war" and you went. It was only later that you got nations financially capable of supporting a standing army. Most of the mass combat rules for D&D have added...

When and how much? I didn't see it on the Adamant site...

Or the equally logical objection, "so acid that can melt a greatsword in two rounds only causes a flesh wound?" (Just be careful, you might wind up with Con damage...) I always throught that the real killer was that it slowed you down to 5' per round just like solid fog. J

Slavelords system is much more high-level, less detailed approach, conglomerating forces and comparing them based on EL. (BTW, Slavelords of Cydonia is an entire campaign, not just a mass combat system - but you can get the mass combat system separately as a PDF.) Cry Havoc is of a detail...

I hate killing PCs. J ...it's so hard to torture a corpse.

My drow are rare - when I ran Monte Cook's Queen of Lies, I replaced all of the non-named drow with other spiderlike monsters (arachnoloths, chitine, etc). Only the named drow remained - each one a powerful and unique 'Pure One'. Now I can have massive waves of semi-arachnid creatures if I...

Exotic? It's a club on a string. There's nothing exotic about it. I'd make rearming it the equivalent of drawing a weapon - move action. I do wonder what our cane-using wizard has in his other hand, though - seems to me he could just use the off hand for the casting. J

Actually, what the FAQ says is that "the rules don't state what type of action is required to switch hands on a weapon" - but it's talking about the weapon from one hand to the other, not letting go with one hand and putting it back on. It goes on to say "it seems reasonable to assume that...

"The Kraydn Effect" - named after my PC on an online game. Whenever I was running, the die-rolling program hated the players with a passion, but it wouldn't happen when anyone else was in the DM chair. Now, whenever a roll is botched on an online game, the Kraydn Effect is blamed. J

Getting back to the original topic: "Invincible", starring Billy Zane as a bald fallen angel who suffers a change of heart and trains a group of four walking cliches from all walks of life to be mystical warriors, so they can stand around and watch as he defeats the main bad guy. There is a...

How anyone can talk about great car chases without even mentioning the Blues Brothers is beyond me. J

As you wish... <tt>BEOWULF (originally posted to rec.ards.tv.mst3k.misc, IIRC) Just finished watching this direct-to-video release (well, OK, it was released theatrically in Europe, which says nothing for their taste) and as it is of that "entertainingly bad" level of quality that spawns so...

I'd say a readied action for a bow would involve having the arrow nocked, the bow drawn, and the arrow pointed at the potential target(s). So, yeah, pretty obvious. Otherwise you're not likely to be fast enough to interrupt whatever it is your target is going to do. Then I'd make him make a...

I can think of two other instances - The Fifth Element ("Anyone else want to negotiate?") and Firefly. Enjoy! J

It can make you immune to AoOs, though, for at least some of your spells. A 1 is not an automatic failure on a skill roll, so if you have a bonus of 15+your spell level, you'll never take an AoO for casting that spell. And if your concentration is high enough, it can make you immune to normal...

Adventurers in my Freeport game are kind of looked at as tourists - they show up, put a lot of money into the economy, and generally annoy the snot out of everyone. Dru specifically despises them, often at great length. In my upcoming Relic Hunters game, they're more like Gold Rush miners -...

Sure it can. Just not by someone readying an action to 'attack when he casts a spell'. I'd say protection from arrows does that by itself. BAN IT! ...except you're not. At least, I don't see anything limiting you to 'I ready my shot for when he casts a spell'. Yeah, we should ban Combat...