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+4 Strength is a similar ability to shooting fireballs. +4 Dexterity is similar to becoming invisible. --- It's a question of goal. The Strength allows you to attack people, you can't hit people while casting fireballs and vice versa. The abilities are similar because they accomplish a...

You wander away for a while and people are already coming up with stuff like this. OK, I think everyone here needs to get a grip: 1> Magic doesn't give a crap whether an item is "slotted" or not. 2> Magic doesn't give a crap whether it is providing a "common" or "unusual" bonus type. 3>...

How realistic do you want this? A Heart Attack kills because the heart is no longer pumping oxygen to the brain. As such, until the heart is brought back to working order, the character is simply not breathing for all intents and purposes. Thus, it should be handled exactly like suffocation...

In 3rd edition it is because Synergy Bonuses are specially allowed to stack. In 3.5 it is because bonuses from Synergy are all unnamed. contrasted with: -Frank

It's not 3rd party - it's a WotC book written by Monte Cook. And it has exactly the same kind of mechanic as Phantasmal Killer. So it is neither bizzare, nor third party. The primary author of the entire friggin game wrote it for the company that produces the game. -Frank

Yes. -Frank

Yes. Did I mention lately that the new "item affinities" are really stupid? -Frank

It doesn't matter. So long as any of the abilities match the affinity it is not an "item that does not match the affinity for a particular body slot". So long as any of the six bonuses match the affinity, the item does not suffer a penalty. Remember, body slot affinity is by item, not by power...

I would say that it "incurs" further argument. Noone seems to have a problem with people throwing weapons without suffering the TWF penalties, for example. The rules have no provision for slapping you with penalties simply because on attack A you used weapon A and on attack B you used weapon B...

It's +3 to one save. Which is like a Charisma bonus of equal size except that it is one third as big, doesn't add to lay-on hands, doesn't add to smite evil, and allows you to get some crappy little spells. Did I just say crappy little spells? I sure did! You'd get Holy Sword faster by...

Great Value for Wisdom in a Paladin? Gwa? Paladins get Will Saves from their Charisma mostly, so Wisdom isn't particularly of critical importance there. And their spells suck and don't allow any saves anyway - so Wisdom is of virtually no importance there. Once you have a 12 or so, most...

Although it would probably make more sense if they did give you a deal on it. What purpose does +6 Charisma serve to a front-line Fighter? What does a Plate-and-Shield Cleric need with +6 Dexterity? Why would an Evoker care about +6 Strength? When you have an item that gives +6 to one...

Well, you did demand that your players use suboptimal tactics against overwhelming opposition. That's called "suckering". You slapped down a situation where the players were in a fight for their lives and then used DM-Direct-Command to get players to do stupid things. Generally, that's regarded...

The point is, any missized grips are uncomfortable. Not just ones made for children - ones made for people who simply have smaller hands are extremely uncomfortable. It's like gloves - I wear large gloves, medium gloves cut off my circulation if I can get into them at all. But that's also a...

If two allies are charging after the same fleeing kobolds - how often should they bump into each other? If you said "less than once per minute" - that is an event too infrequent for D&D to handle at all. If there is even a 1 chance in 20 of this problem occuring, then the fact that the two...

I honestly can't see why there should be a "charging through allies" penalty at all. While in the real world you could certainly bump into a friend pulling a stunt like that - in the real world you could also hit your friends while swinging a sword. The resolution on the game simply isn't fine...

I'd like less things to work lie the caster mechanic - where a single stat determines how much you can do something, and how likely it is to work, and how good it is when it does. I think that influencing just one of those things is plenty enough for a stat to do. Stat bonuses are linear, but...

Actually, you have more control with the knitting needle. It's inertia is negligible and it goes pretty much exactly where you tell it to. If you have one of the sharp ones, they are actually quite deadly. The problem, such as it is, is the reach on that thing (which is very small). There are no...

Most foes don't have specific weaknesses, however. The only creatures which have any real "weaknesses" like that are fire and ice creatures - so once you have a Fireball and a Frost Burst prepared you are pretty much ready for anything as far as that goes. If every creature took double damage...

I just don't see the Charisma Mod as being unimportant - it determines how often you can do it in a day. Now, currently the rules are that you get 3 + Cha modifier per day - which means people never run out. In fact, the only reason people take Extra Turning is to get 4 extra greater turnings or...