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If I'm running a normal world game, I like to do the opposite thing -- I don't have heavy creatures come looking for the PCs, and I don't have people telling them to go do things they can't do. (For instance, a prince asking the 6th level party to go kill a great wyrm -- they're not famous...

It might look a little better at Monk12/Fighter4 (again, just one BAB difference, but you pick up weapon specialization.) Monk12/Fighter8 It's more different, as you pick up 2 BAB for not being a ((multiple of 4)+1) in the monk class twice (lose a BAB at monk13 and monk17,) plus you can pick up...

By that route: If you ready an attack to hit a charging opponent, and you do, and you hit or miss, doing double damage if you hit... If your opponent continues to charge at you, do you still get your Attack of Opportunity? It's my understanding that you do. It's also my understanding that this...

Here's another somewhat by the rules answer: Frost giant spellcasters need to meet the prerequisites for making their weapons, if you follow the rules down to a letter. Frost giant clerics generally worship gods of Ice and select ice spells, while frost giant sorcerors cast magic from the...

I used Jamis Buck's dungeon generator quite a bit when I was getting started dm'ing and was just playing around -- drop people in a dungeon, GO. Simple enough, it generates the dungeon, and the dungeon can be cool. Requires only minor tweaking if you want to go with a theme. where's a link...

eek, don't let the rules limit your backstories. give the people cold incantations for making weapons if you truly want. throwing out flavor because it doesn't mesh with the rules is a step far in the wrong direction, in my opinion. that being said, those monsters have cold attacks because...

Eh, just from goofy foam-fighting quasi-SCA experience, if there's three people, and two of them are using shields, having the third use a spear instead of virtually anything else is optimal, assuming equal skill and an open field condition. And yep, short range melee weapon vs. spear starting...

Put 36 pieces of paper into a hat. Have one of them marked "You open the Statue's chest cavity, and pull out the McGuffin." Have the rest labelled, "You open the Statue's chest cavity, and it punches you for d4 damage." At least it doesn't take much brainpower. (And didn't, either!) I...

conanb's system sounds much like Neverwinter's system, except neverwinters ranges from 0 to 100 instead of -100 to 100. I've used something like that before -- the party started as true neutral amnesiacs, and whenever they did something suitably good/evil lawful/chaotic, they got a point. Once...

hmm. I'd never even looked at that table. Yikes. At least it's generally easily ignored, unless you're having differing sizes of flying monsters/PCs with different flying speeds and classes and... wow, that could get ugly. My idea would be to stick with the current table (it wouldn't use up...

14) There's an according rule to this that hasn't been mentioned -- if there's a book you've read, a plot device you really liked, and you want to use it in your game, use it!! Especially if the players won't recognize it, and will think it's interesting. Having necromancy use a series of...

yeah. that rocks. :)

Echoing the EL 2-3 baseline recommendation.

there are specific rules for lassos in the book of exalted deeds, that I'm not sure are legal to reprint... but they're there. Not much of what you're looking for, though. p. 34. in the BoED. As to lassoing someone then tying it to his mount... that's pretty cool, actually, and I don't think...

... ..... gwuh??

I'm not going to read any replies or post anything logical besides that Nethack lets you turn undead to stone while you wield a cockatrice corpse, or wear a ring of conflict and let the cockatrice hit them, or whatever you want, so I'd rule it that way without thinking until I read this post...

Mercurial weapons are super banned, and I don't like anime swords that much so I'm not big on monkey grip, but I'd probably allow it with enough player whining. :) Old running joke was that we'd make a character who had monkey grip, huge weapon (some feat from the netbook of feats, lets you use...

I don't read many story hours, but the ones I have read, I've been really happy when the players popped in for a little bit to discuss things -- like when Jo popped in to talk about Jonrog's dark*matter campaign, and Lombard drops by to talk about playing Eadric. As to the whole "only bump...

Note: These are proximally and for the most part equivalent to each other. yes, that's all I've got.

It's not that broken. However... just use a wand. 5 level magic missile (or negative energy ray) wand is 3,750gp. It's in the rules, you won't have people yelling at you that it's broken, and for the price you stated you could get more than 100 charges, which you would only use if you were...