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If a subscriber orders a printed version, is it at cost? Or is at as if we had never subscribed in the first place. I believe Lulu's charges a very different amount for an at-cost product than if the publisher is receiving a profit from it.

At 4000 gp a pop, this item is not too expensive to make, but you probably wouldn't use it on every goblin you come across. Significant villains maybe. I once reverse engineered the item to design a spell that would duplicate the effect of the item. Let's see.... Reverse Alignment. I doubt...

You are very welcome! I thought it might be the Pyx, but they were tiny and didn't fly.

Here's a medium race with wings from four years ago. Throwing Dice Games released it as a free Tuesday Two Pager. http://www.throwingdice.com/downloads/ttp/ttp008-aerova.pdf

I wonder if you could use a curse to offset the cost of an item? Like relics in the Magic Item Compendium. Only instead of taking a true believer feat, you have to take a flaw (net result is being down a feat equivalent). For instance, take the Millennial Chainmail relic; mithral chainmail...

I'll say it here, so it isn't buried in the post somewhere: if a PC's CR is two less than the character's level in the WotC exponential system, this translates to being 63% of its level in a cubic system. And in place of M in the first post, use CR3 divided by 30. (Or 31.25, if you want it to...

:looks interested: Even a link would be nice; I don't know my way around the WotC boards.

I think a series of Bluff checks could make all kinds of things reasonable. For instance. (Starting at "Oh, I still have one more deception up my sleeve...")

:raises hand guiltily: Actually I was speculating about this earlier. I figured that if "crystal echo" was a magical ability with a flat cost, it should be possible to add it to something else, like a crystal echoclub or a crystal echokatana. But your more substantial point is correct; this...

This rule has very dramatic implications when the CRs are a long ways apart. According to the chart, if a CR8 creature squares off with a CR18 creature, the CR8 creature will end up dead and the CR18 creature will have used up (16/512)2 = 1/1024 of its resources. E.g. for CR 18 take a...

Ugh. I hate it when the order you add things makes a difference. Those items *should* have the same price. Not that I'm contradicting your interpretation of the rules; I'm just expressing a desire for the rules to be otherwise.

The contretemps with Upper_Krust about the "new" formula relating CR to EL has drawn me back to the basics; the official rules for challenge ratings and encounter levels. Specifically I'm been trying to figure out the mathematical basis behind Table 2-6: Experience Point Awards (Single Monster)...

A player in a former group had a cavalier named "Ruel Dragonslayer". Said character was commonly referred to as "Drool Wagonslayer". Another player made up a cleric called Hismanol of Sudafed.

Crystal-echo would be a precedent for the notion that, unless otherwise specified, every special property can be treated as a flat cost. And since specific items do not specify the cost of their properties, that would be all of them. Maybe crystal-echo won't be a problem, but can you make a...

A were-ent! That would be a cool monster!

I'm trying to understand what happens for non-epic monsters. Generic ones, insofar as this is possible, not ones that have an achilles heel that another monster can exploit. You mean multiply by 2/3, right? To go from v5 to v6? So the numbers get smaller? Is that all you did with the v5...

Now whenever I see someone saying "there are multiple valid interpretations" I tend to parse it as "don't point the flaws in my argument- let's just pretend that all our interpretations are equally good." Sometimes this leads me wrong, of course. I tend to go into a discussion like this with...

I love these ideas! Especially about the variable factors (discourages metagaming). I've often thought that lycanthropy should be all about the temporary replacement of the PC with a monster - not giving monstrous powers to a PC. Kudos to your old DM.

I'll believe it when I see it. :D I admit the IH looks like it is in the home stretch, but I am reminded of some paradoxes of Zeno. Besides, if Gods and Monsters hadn't been split off you'd still have a ways to go. IIRC the prerelease of IH was to have been only a few updates away from the...

If I understand Hypersmurf correctly, the question was whether it was appropriate to make a +1 katana into a +1 crystal echokatana. That is, whether crystal echo could be added to other items. He accepts that you can add special abilities to an item that already has the crystal echo property...