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Can the one free hand required to cast spells with a somatic component be the same hand that manipulates a required material component? Or do spells with material and somatic components require two hands to cast? I never felt the rules were entirely clear about this...

I didn't run a Wheel of Time game, but for a short while I allowed the WoT channeler classes into normal D&D. Big mistake. There were 2 PC channelers, and they walked right over everyone. The damaging weaves are fine, but the warding weaves can be horribly abused. "I'm gonna put an impenetrable...

Uh-oh, my bad. That should have read: If I'm being observed by person A, but not by person B, can I just use Hide against person B? And thanks for all the answers everyone. I'm at work now, but I'll try to digest everything and see what new questions come of it tomorrow.

Over 6 years since the arrival of 3e, and I still don't completely get how to mechanically apply the Hide skill. For example: - How often is it rolled when a character is moving? - What if I'm moving through shadows (with a normal move of 30), but stop every 50 feet and wait a minute. How...

Can you do sneak attack damage on a martial strike (from Tome of Battle), such as Sapphire Nightmare Blade from the Diamond Mind discipline? I'd imagine you can, just like casting a weapon-like spell at a flat-footed opponent. But I'd like a second opinion as backup, because I'm pretty sure my...

But the D20 Modern Sense Motive skill description makes no mention whatsoever that it can be used to determine if a statement is a lie. And the list of things that make you roll a Bluff check does not include simply telling a lie. So what makes you think they're narrowing pre-existing abilities...

But I can't find a single rules reference that actually backs this up. The Bluff skill description never explicitly states that when you lie, you make a Bluff check. It instead says Bluff is for convincing/conning/distracting someone under false pretenses, which would involve lying. The Bluff...

With every group I've played with over the years, any lie told by a PC or NPC has always led to a Bluff check if anyone was trying to Sense Motive. But, I just found this question concerning D20 Modern, answered by one of its designers: Egads! Nowhere in the PHB Bluff skill description can I...

Hey everyone, I can now update you on what happened, and let me tell you, it isn't at all what I expected. First, though, a little necessary exposition: There are these 3 lycanthropes my character met early on in the campaign at a poetry recital: a werecat, a wereraven, and a werespider. All 3...

My D20 Modern GM has presented us with a seemingly lose-lose situation, but claims there are ways out of it we just aren't seeing, so I thought someone here might be able to help us out with a brilliant idea. The PCs are all 15th level in an Urban Arcana campaign: - Matthew, Battlemind (Me) -...

Well, most people don't play "number-picking" lotteries for fun. They play for the "more likely to be hit by lightning" chance of winning a huge cash prize. Televeision commercials show us pictures of people who have won, so surely it isn't impossible...

Suppose my BAB gives me 4 attacks and my grapple modifiers are +25/+20/+15/+10. I try to grapple someone I start the round next to. My first touch attack fails, but my second succeeds. What grapple modifier do I use for the opposed grapple check? Either way, suppose I win the check and...

A quick look on Wikipedia reminded me where I remember her from: One of the jewel thieves in Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Larter

I must say I loved the ending, how they carefully paced the info they were giving you about Hiro's situation, so you'd figure things out just a few seconds before they revealed it explicitly.

Cool, that's an interesting start, though I'd personally ignore the crafting feats and get something more generic, like Great Fortitude. Anyway, I'd argue that for Psions, a feat chain would have to be done for each specialization. So your blaster would be the Kineticist.

I'll be running a new Eberron campaign soon, and would like to avoid my usual habit of mostly using mosnters straight out of the MM because it's quicker and easier than creating classed NPCs. I'm considering a variety of ways of being able to quickly come up with an NPC of almost any base class...

In the campaign I'm about to run, I'd like to ignore multiclassing XP penalties and give any race with a Favored Class of Any another bonus to compensate for losing that small advantage. I was thinking of letting them choose a certain number of skills to become permanent class skills. But...

From Montreal here. This might or might not be relevant. Marvel recently reduced the Canadian price for all its comics so that it's more in line with the exchange rate. But Canadian prices for trades and hardcovers have not changed. Here's the answer given when asked why: So the Canadian prices...

I voted 9. I've received the comment that it feels as if I'm not in control of my characters. That they just do what they want regardless of anything I have to say about it. I'd say that's a good deal of character assumption. And currently in d20 Modern, my character Matthew is on the verge of...

I'm trying to think of cool non-magical traps and/or obstacles to place inside a giant spinning cylindrical corridor the PCs must go through. Something Tomb Raider style. The cylinder's about 30 feet in diameter, isn't spinning that fast, and is completely inside a huge anti-magic field. I'd...