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I don't get this at all. Even if a monster has 80 HP. And the entire party of four casters has crossbows and does average damage (4.5 per round)... you can kill it in 5 rounds. Mix that party up to be balanced and just two of your attacks can easily take 10% of a monster. And you always...

Take out your crossbow Take out your sword and possibly put on your armor. Diplomacy. Hide. Do something else during combat. Like evacuating the civilians, or untying the prisoners or looting the room. FIRE. it isnt always magical, you know. What to do when you can't do what you do best is...

I disagree with this. The dragon said he would stop fighting the PCs if they stopped fighting. They refused. The horn made the dragon's army stop attacking. So he clearly isn't out to destroy the city or all the people in it. The dragon wants the general dead and that its. We know the general...

I'm purposely making a mistake again. Can the three (four?) of you who keep railing about how the system is broken explain what your purpose is here? The original point of the thread was someone asking "What would you say is the biggest problem with Wizards, Clerics, Druids, and other "Tier...

How is following the letter of the spell hosing the wizard? He cast cloudkill and presumably killed his targets. The spell rolls 10 feet every round for 100 rounds and does not say its dismissable. I'm not nerfing that...because maybe you WANT it to roll over armies in the future. So I am...

Are you purposely trying to obfuscate your points with 50-cent words or do you really speak this way all the time? Can we get some elucidation up in here? This isn't meta-gaming. This is role-playing. Which is the first part of role-playing game. Why is it that people always seem to forget one...

Well I was looking at his spell choices, which was going to take TIME. But I replied to the part I thought was most telling first. I suppose I could have said "I'll respond to the other bit later." but I didn't so good going jumping at me within an hour when it took almost a day for me to get...

Which is great for the character once the character is formed. But if you go into a game as a player saying "Usually I always play X class/race combo because it is the most powerful, but I suspect this DMs playstyle will nerf that combo so I will use my fallback class/race combo, and if every...

Which pretty much sums up this conversation. You're choosing your characters and making all of his character choices in order to "win". You are specifically trying to munchkin the game to the limit. Congratulations, you won! I'm not sure who would play with you, but good job! Yes the system...

I prefer systems with a DR component because it gives more flavor to monster/armor types AND (most importantly, especially in the case of D&D) weapon types. Its sad when weapons are relegated to just damage numbers and range/melee and there's no real advantage to one over the other.

Spellcraft is a DC 20+ spell level to understand the writing. At 9th/10th level, that's a 25 for a 5th level spell. An 18 INT wizard who puts max spellcraft ranks while leveling has +17 so they can take 10 and make it automatically but that wasn't the case until 8th level. And this is...

Because my wizard doesn't have teleport (his cheat sheet said to take Hold Monster and Wall of Force and Cloudkill and Dominate Person)? Because even if he had teleport, he doesn't have scrying magic to have "seen" Waterdeep or Sharn because he dumped Divination and Necromancy to get extra...

No. Not at all. 95% of randomly generated settlements..everything except a large city and a metropolis, has a 15,000 gp limit. The DMG goes on to say that nothing over that limit is available (no headbands of intellect +4, no high-level spells in wands) and anything under the limit is "likely...

Let's pretend that wizards NEED to find scrolls... how many "new" spells do they need to find per level? per campaign? What's the correct amount? There are no rules either way for this. So in my opinion, most DMs err the wrong way, and give too many new spells to a wizard..mainly by allowing...

And out of those scrolls that are found...how many of them will be from the list that the wizard already has? How many of the new spells will come with failed spellcraft rolls? And like I said, my first post only said no to the crafting feats. A 10th level wizard only has TWO possible crafting...

Well first off...no. This isn't a thread about fighters being overpowered. Its a thread about wizards being overpowered. So I want to see it. I didn't say you didn't find ANY magic items, I said you don't get to choose them. There's a big important difference. Maybe the DM seeded treasure...

This is what I want to see. Someone who thinks wizards are over-powered needs to make me a 3.5 10th level wizard - PHB only. Use the standard point-buy. DO NOT BUY ITEMS. There are no rules in the core books that say that magic shops exist and you can buy anything you want. You can make your...

Sure, but you never make it single-PC. If you go after backpacks/unattended items, you do it for the whole party. If you require item saves, you do it for the whole party. If you attempt to sunder a fighter's sword (which happens occasionally)...you attempt to sunder a wizard's wand (which...

I think most of the answers have already been given but I'll answer anyway. 1> Magic shops / the Economy : Just because an item has a price, doesn't mean a player can buy it whenever they want. Magic shops should pretty much not exist, and even if the setting calls for them, it should put...

Sense Motive (Wis) Check A successful check lets you avoid being bluffed. You can also use this skill to determine when “something is up” (that is, something odd is going on) or to assess someone’s trustworthiness. Hunch 20 Hunch This use of the skill involves making a gut assessment of the...