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Interesting. Major seaports share a number of defining characteristics (deep water sheltered by land, convenient trade winds/tides, access to 'upstream' transportation infrastructure like canals, rivers, rail termini etc.). The physical structure of ports are determined by these...

Realms and Dribble are definitely at the bottom of my list. However, Eberron would be pretty cool: Follow the exploits of a group of Clifftop Adventuring Guild types. Gritty noir flavor. Sharn is an amazing backdrop. Lightnig Rail. Warforged. Dragonmarks... All cool. Good Art and Good...

Excellent. Hope you enjoy it. I've got no problems with it. Eberron emphasizes interactions with NPCs - particularly if you're playing in Sharn - and Monks can do very well in that context. If you're planning to go that route a lot, getting 5 Ranks into Bluff pays HUGE synergy dividends. A...

I think these are fabulous topics... My wandering mind hit on the idea of a new Magic Item... Take a Ring of Sustenance, toss in some additional abilities (For statrters: Silence - to keep baby and party alive when being stalked by Dragons, and Prestidigitation - to keep baby clean etc.), and...

I seem to recall Rambo doing exactly this in First Blood (although, I think I'd have rather just hit the ground than crash through/bounce off Every. Single. Branch...) I've also seen a Monk (10th) jump down 100' to rescue an unconscious party member who'd fallen (and was about to get eaten by...

'Melee Builds'. Look, you want the best 'Melee Build'? Build a Fighter and start getting ready to whine every single time he fails a Will Save... "My apples aren't orange, so they suck!" is getting old. I've both played and played with hugely 'competitive' Monks. If you can't make them fun and...

That was my original, 'presumptive' position as well. The position is NOT, however, supported by the wording of the Seeking enhancement. A'Mal

Is a tough one. I've been both the DM and the 'Veteran' Player in this scenario and can sympathize all around. Couple of thoughts. 1. Co-opt your Veteran. He's a DM as well, so he's likely to be cooperative. Ask him to look for opportunities to 'hold back' a little bit to give the others the...

Great Goopy Bovine Puckies! See, this is an artifact of a 'Good' Stat MUST be an 18 mentality. Because your Monk gets to Stack his Wis and Dex for AC, you can afford (and get even more from) three 'Good' stats with the same 'Point Buy' you'd use to get one or two Very Good Stats: 25 Point Buy...

No, but Readied Actions work just fine... Also, getting in their face disrupts their activities, limits their ability to move/act, and often provokes errors. Besides, they can't cast when Stunned and the Concentration Check/Component Limitations for being Grappled can ruin a Caster's whole...

Or, optionally, that D&D Player Character Generation methods don't result in a set of characters that realistically model the abilities found in a normal human population? Mechanically, this is a function of using too few die :). Actually, human populations often show empirical distributions...

While the D&D attribute system is a fairly 'blunt' tool for measuring intelligence (So, for that matter, is the IQ scale), please do keep in mind that AVERAGE (mean) human intelligence is most closely represented by a 10. Odds are that most of the people you (all of us) know are going to be...

I'm yoinking this as a 'to do' list :) I see these ALL the time... The smaller pokemounts fitting easily into dungeon settings make 'em awesome... A'Mal

I am apparently contrarian... Allow me to introduce Juna Hillfar, Half Orc Diviner and Head Librarian for the Thesdonian College of Thaumaturgy and the Arcane Arts... The Books. Do not. Leave the Library... I'm just weird, I guess: One of the FIRST 'named' NPCs in my current campaign...

Often, because there is so much for the DM to DO (running the whole world) it's USEFUL for the Player to roleplay the item for most day-to-day stuff - otherwise the item won't get any 'lines' - and intelligent items are too cool to just have silent all the time. That said, the item is an NPC...

See, I'm reading the title of this thread and thinking that you're looking for QUESTIONS... Yup and Yup. I was assuming that it would NOT work for Blink, but the Seeking description implies otherwise If it would normally provide a Miss Chance, you ignore it. Yup. I think not - the...

I wrote this pretty late... Could be taken as fairly insulting (not what I wanted, nor a safe thing to do :)). What doesn't come across here is that: a) I'm referring to the subset of practitioners who primarily practice Kendo as a 'Sport'. Too much emphasis on the sport aspects ruins the...

Fascinating discussion going on here... I'm going to weigh in slightly (apparently at length - yeesh!) on the Swordfighting/Strength connection. It's been talked around, but there's a wrinkle I haven't seen directly touched upon (I might have missed it though - I saw conversation veer in its...

Really, I ought to just let this go but... As he wished for all of it 'back', shouldn't it have all gone back where it was when he still, er, 'owned' it? Not dying horribly under a torrential downpour so much as dying horribly in an immense excremental explosion... Approximately 1 Million...

I treat Fireball as a Sphere. Fireball is defined as a 'Spread'. Let me check... Yup, defensible... Spreads are centred on a 'Grid Intersection' (between squares). By default I imagine the caster selects a Grid Intersection 5' above the ground (picture the grid of squares as cubes and extend...