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A pit or ledge is usually seen as an opportunity for a bullrush fest, so I'm really tickled by the idea that your players, by doing the expected thing, might actually strengthen the enemies' AC. Of course the peeling process will cost some hit points the next day.

Oh, I see. You might wanna build something into the adventure that could lower their ability score so they'd have a chance of missing the check and stumbling into the pit. I say the pit turns their skin into leather -- +1 to AC, but eventually it starts peeling and smelling.

DC 15 seems a little high for tasks as easy as smelling a pit of brains or gauging how much weight a catwalk will hold.

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You gave pretty much everything I could wish for with the random encounter updater. I was especially happy when my forest encounters ranged from centaur druid to a combo of a vampire elf and a fiendish half-elf. I did find myself deselecting "humanoid" and "goblinoid" a lot, checkboxes for...

I house ruled that the defender doesn't get his BAB on the grapple check. This makes it possible for you to take turns whaling on each other, or try actions like using their own weapon against them with some hope of success. It also means no one ever has an impossible +24 advantage against you...

"Congratulations! You are now ready to begin your new aquatic campaign. Happy LARPing!"

Great thread, my D&D.txt file has doubled the size of its aquatic section now. Thanks Dannyalcatraz.

By the way, roguerouge, this is the third time I've tried to give you XP but only one went through because of the 50-person limit. You're just going to have to accept good karma instead.

That encounter calculator is a good rule of thumb machine. Thank you very much. I never thought of it because the Goodman Games modules I'm using talk in general terms: "This is for 4-6 characters level 4-6. For weaker parties (less than four characters, or less than fourth level), remove one...

I have only three players in my group, level 5, level 5, level 7. The module I want to run is for "4-6 characters of level 3-5 -- suggest a total of 20 character levels." But, just guessing, it's going to be too easy for them. Level 5 is a lot higher than level three, in actual play. I was...

My "GM Notes" is a single page listing the things I want to do in order that session. 1. Intro new Improved Grab house rule 2. Give out karma points 3. PC wakes up in dragon's lair, negotiate 4. Door closes on other PCs (DC 25) & clatter - skeledemon 5. First PC - escape or accept dragon's...

I guess that was what really worried me. +1 to a stat is nothing, neither is "I wish I always had free chocolate." But a +5 longsword at 4th level, that's pretty broken. But now that I look at the spell, can you even wish for a +5 longsword? If you rule that the genie's wishes are the...

I have a module with an efreet in it that can give wishes to PCs three times a day. It also suggests hooking the players with a genie that offers a wish as reward. There's also an altar that you give you a limited wish. Wouldn't that be massively distorting for an adventure for level 3-5...

I used to know that, all my wands have come with command words. But they should have repeated it in the "wands" entry in the SRD. Thanks.

There's no wand of hypnotism listed in the SRD. Is there a rules reason for that? It's just that I never got to hypnotize anything when I was a little wizard because they'd hear me casting, and now I'm realizing that you can have basically silent, stilled anything by using a wand (seems like...

A halfling rogue made a deal with a pseudodragon to get him a magic helm. The dragon told him the password that would let him waltz by the skeletons that were killing his other party members. It was "Sucitpyrc" -- the name of the god Crypticus backwards. (Crypticus likes codes.) So the...

Do animals other than cats react to pictures of animals on TV? Those are incorporeal. Dogs might not go after an allip for a similar reason as TV -- they perceive a lot of the world with smell and the allip doesn't have any. Of course, smell relies on Wis too. I guess Wis is the consensus...

Thread title says it all, I just can't decide. (The character in question had Int, Wis, and Cha of 6 each.)

I think the discussion of skill points applies more to character generators than to monster advancers, where you apply the levels all at once. You don't swap in and out if you change your mind, you just generate a new one. The level of detail isn't necessary either, since "select {Int + 2}...