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Difficult terrain as defined in the PHB (pg. 307) is: "An area containing one or more features (such as rubble or undergrowth) that costs 2 squares instead of 1 square to move through." And I'd personally allow him to skip the balance check, though I suppose if you took an uber-RAW look at it...

Once a friend of mine was playing around with a dicebot to generate scores for fun (4d6 drop lowest) and they were progressively getting more average. He made the comment that he was waiting for his 10 10 10 10 10 10. And the next thing it gives? Six 10s.

Gimble is The Man.

Yep! Also keep in mind that there are no 5th level ranger spells or 7th level bard spells, so those slots would be used for metamagic.

I listened to some of the soundtrack of Valkyrie Profile and remembered how much I liked the game, so I've been playing that a lot recently. Got the Dragon Quest 8 demo recently in the mail, but I wasn't very impressed with it so I probably won't be getting it when it's released this month...

Warforged, eh? Maybe the Lord of Blades could ask for their help in retrieving a Xen'drik artifact for him, having to steal it from a well-guarded exhibit at Morgrave University. Or Mordain Fleshweaver can ask them to retrieve the flesh of various obscure and dangerous aberrations scattered...

While we're on the subject of D&D shirts, Penny Arcade has a couple: Rogues do it from behind I Roll Twenties, for those of us who don't take 20, but roll 20s.

Welcome to the story of the last series of campaigns my group has tried to run, including the last two I ran. And then one person can't reliably show up and another has gotten into WoW, so between all those factors I don't think anybody is seriously considering starting another campaign anytime...

Handwaving is probably your best option, and if it works then it's certainly not a bad option). As mentioned, ECS has a feat that allows druids of a certain sect to treat mindless vermin as a standard animal when it comes to wild empathy and enchantments (along with adding various vermin to...

Looking through the list of Sor/Wiz spells, I'd probably use Grease, Obscuring Mist/Fog Cloud/Solid Fog, Antimagic Field (though this would just have to be dipping into AA), Detect Thoughts (I'm not even completely sure how -- or if -- this would work), Invisibility Sphere, Magic Circle Against...

To add one other druidic sect to Henry's Eberron list (which only gets a few blurbs in the ECS so is easy to miss or forget) Greensingers: A small chaotic sect that engages in revelry and has strong ties with the fey.

I voted for Eberron, and I did so because for me, it was the first setting I was really and truely interested in. It's hard to really say what I like about Eberron... I suppose I mainly like its spin on fantasy, the "wide-magic" element of it, and the new takes on the races, the planes, the...

I've personally never considered turning a big deal, and for one of my cleric character concepts I've even used Cha as a dump stat. The turning mechanic to me has always felt a little... oddly designed to me anyway. But of course, it depends on your DM.

Dude, I can't even figure out how to level up! I'm trying to take a level in sorcerer or cleric so I can cast some sweet spells, but this whole process is mind-boggling. Where do I go? Do I just come up with a char sheet and write it down? Do I have to roleplay it out first? I've tried...

It's my initiative, and I cast Time Stop. I get 4 apparent rounds to act within the limits of the spell. Note that in "real time", all the following actions effectively happen within the standard action of casting Time Stop (or swift action if you're somehow casting it quickened). Apparent...

Not going to cover the other points since they're reasonable enough and I'm not really invested in this issue. One thing I'm wondering about here though: couldn't you say the same about Cha and (to a lesser extent) Str? Cha is used for spontaneous arcane spellcasters, bonus to cha-based...

Can't say I've played this way. Seems to me that not making retroactive changes would actually make things simpler, unless you're making a char from scratch.

Count me in the "apathy" category. I just really don't care who gets to be a judge; isn't really that important to me. And I'm also with Psi as far at the informed vote goes -- particularly this year since I haven't been keeping up much with books at all, and normally I don't even keep up with...

Unearthed Arcana has a Bardic Sage variant class which makes your bardic songs less effective and sacrifices of good reflex in exchange for a bonus on bardic knowledge and an additional divination spell known for each spell level.

Mainly, it refers to jumping. Jumping the right length/height, jumping at the right time, landing on the right spot, avoiding pits... stuff like that. Think Super Mario Brothers. Fortunately, it doesn't get too crazy with the platforming, and most of the game is still used destroying enemies...