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That's not a fighting retreat, that's just getting more damaged for basically nothing. A retreat in d&ds turn based system usually requires retreating one turn earlier than you have to, otherwise the AoOs & pursuing charges have a good chance of cutting down some of those retreating and turn...

Ime, if the frontline warrior is needing to roll >15 then alarm bells should definitely be ringing. Needing a 20 to hit should be triggering thoughts of flight rather than full power attack - I'd imagine the full power attack warrior is about to fight their last battle. Basically it is fine by...

What modifier is there to moving silently while walking at full speed or hustling? The skill description rules seem to cover: - move at half speed or less at no penalty - move greater than half speed but less than full at -5 penalty - move full speed at ?? - move at a hustle at ?? - move at...

Simply put, does the fly spell allow underwater movement or affect the move silently skill? Having reread the spell description, I am thinking it has no effect underwater and only removes the ground underfoot modifiers. What's the verdicts? Thanks in advance. :)

We limit the source books for good reason - we're very busy people outside the game and have little time for rules mastery. Also when I dm I slow experience gained if a player is having a hard time mastering their character's various powers. The temptation to cut slack actually works out...

My character's cohort is built using 25pt buy because she has pc class levels. She's a nature cleric of Ehlonna with sun and plant domains. She serves communities and performs crop rituals daily. She's quite good at combatting plants and undead, but usually she casts protections on my main...

We played the 1st ed. modules about 10 years ago and generally had a blast. There was one player who wanted to recreate the books, but he would get constantly over-ruled on creative grounds. Pregens were useful as moving pieces - I employed them all as potential companions but only a few were...

Is that so? :o :confused: Well well well, that puts an interesting spin on some of my earliest d&d experiences. :D

Ditto. The typical political power in d&d seems to be a rather limited state with transitory borders, few or far neighbours, with a host of small-to-moderate threats. This sort of situation could maybe encourage the localised excursions into hostile lands to defeat enemies and collect...

Any idea if there was a method mentioned in the phb - or was that a 2nd ed. thing?

I stand corrected :)

A fine mini, but I fear his staff will curve outrageously if I got him in NZ. I always found it amusing how Raistlin was supposed to be weak and frail but 10 str & con in '3d6 roll in order' 1st edition was perfectly fine - especially as he pulled a 16 & 17 where they mattered. Really, he was...

Yep :) Maybe a previous campaign consequence for raising the dead could give a more realistic context for the game rules. Something like: a ruler was killed -> the heir took over -> the ruler was raised -> a civil war raged -> benevolent clerics couldn't rationalise why the ruling class got...

Don't underestimate the importance of playtesting. If the playtesting groups say that the CR24 creature on paper is CR20 in real play, well there we go. In this case perhaps it is enough non-associated levels may reach the point where they begin to move towards associated levels? I.e. 11 levels...

Changing rules halfway in a game kind of mucks around with the previous decisions that were made. That's a pretty good reason to continue with the status quo. That said, bunk rules make a bunk game. Having an overshadowing character is a pretty good reason to change to the better balanced...

The current paladin that I play wouldn't kill orc babies, children, women, elderly, non-combatants or those who yield. It's not all benevolence, there is a bit of arrogance & laziness that comes into play. But I think his general viewpoint would be that that is overindulging in bloodshed and...

Yeah. Our characters got smashed recently and we had some pretty dramatic character developments. Two characters were killed and the party was broken into two groups. The self absorbed sorceress heroically risked herself to retrieve the corpse of the dead warrior-priest and then activated a...

The party is 9th Level. Party = 4 + 1 Cohort Deaths = 4 Raise Deads = 2 Insanities = 1 Left Party = 3 It's RttToEE I'd expect more than a couple of Raises in the future.

Oh I agree. The diplomacy skill is one of those rules that you have to nut out in actual play to find out how it really works. There are quite a few of these sorts of rules. The book says something, you think you know how it's going to work but then actual play comes along and says "sorry mate".

Hmmm, I appreciate your example Airwalkrr but when you say: This is not how it plays out ime. The problem with using any social skill (except for the explicit combat applications of bluff & intimidate) is that their needs to be a dialogue occuring. If one side is not listening then a...