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This will actually be my first familiar as a DM (my wizard character had one, but it was of the invisible stay in pouch forgot I had one variety). So I should handle it like a druid's companion? It rolls its own initiative and acts completely separately, with the wizard dictating what it does...

Okay, so one of my players suggested a potential house rule for our Eberron game today. His idea is that, essentially, a specialist wizard could pick a fixed spell from his selected school (I was thinking maybe one new spell every three or four levels) to spontaneously convert other spells into...

One of my players is thinking about selecting a raven as a familiar. Assuming he does, and the raven can speak Common, can he give it a command word activated magic item to use? If so, how is this handled in combat? Does the familiar get its own turn and actions, or does it act as part of the...

My players definitely enjoy challenges! In case anyone was wondering (no? I'll share anyway!), today's session consisted of one CR3, three CR4, and two CR5 encounters, including an aballin, a sword spider, a cave-in, a pair of leucrottas (one already wounded by the sword spider), and the big...

Will do, and thank you for the info! I'm embarrassed to admit I tried that, but I couldn't find '5/6' in the srd encounter generator. (And I got a really odd look when I 'figured out', heck, no sweat, I'll just use half the creatures at 1/3 and half at 1/2. Works out the same, right? It's no...

Okay, I'm running a game tomorrow featuring a lot of skeletons (any players in my Eberron game, stop reading now!). I was going to use the skeletal hydra from Libris Mortis as the ultimate fight, but I'm confused on a few points. 1. The skeletal hydra loses the combat reflexes feat and gains...

My wizard had one of those, but it's been like... three years? I'm pretty sure it was in Dragon -- a google and a quick check -- okay, found it. Issue 280, page 60. +2 to reflex saves. I'm thinking I remember another version, too. ETA: There's a fox familiar in 291, page 49. Also +2 to...

I like the idea of using something like the Tzimisce in my Eberron game. I've been thinking about it a bit, but the best I've come up with is maybe using a Fleshbound Vampire as the base, then adding a version of the Manipulate Form abillity?

Awesome, thank you! That'll help me out immensely. One of my players is planning to go into business (in tomorrow's game) with an NPC artificer as a silent partner to create a very specific magic item he's dreamed up (a single use, command word, refillable item that holds a single spell of 1...

Sorry if this has been asked before (I tried google-searching, but no luck), but is there anything in the books about how to handle a player-run business? I think I read something about it being in the DMG but I couldn't find it. If there isn't, how would you handle it? I don't want one...

Interesting idea. The campaign I'm running right now is heavy on the PC spellcasters (druid, cleric, wizard, and barbarian), so something like this might give them a little more ammunition and staying power, without my having to worry about including as many rest stops. On the other hand...

Heh, I didn't know that! I'm working on an undead-heavy adventure for a similar party range as the OP and this might just do the trick. I was thinking about using the huecuva template (from the fiend folio) on a cleric, but this could be much more fun!

Intriguing, but I'm confused (heh, not a new state for me). If I were untrained in Tumble. to make a Tumble check I'd roll a d20, then subtract it from my Dex score, say, 16. If the number is less than zero I don't succeed? Or is there a target DC set by the DM? I'm thinking that someone...

Interesting you'd say that! Terramotus is my IH DM, actually, and I agree, if he didn't know the rules so well, it'd be pretty miserable. He was too nice to say that I was the DM for the ill-fated pirates campaign he mentioned or that it was basically my lack of experience that doomed it. I'm...

Cool idea! I may have to yoink it. :) My first thought is where does the item come from? What's its history? If it was wielded by a fearsome mage known as the Serpent, for example, there's a good starting point. As far as nerfing the PC goes, I think it would depend on how often and...

Wow, very informative and useful thread! Thank you, Jondor_Battlehammer, for reviving it... my players won't thank you, I'm afraid. ;) Just off the top of my head, I'm thinking I'd make a chest or other loot appear (or augment existing loot with more pieces). Just to be mean, I'd then have a...

That's an interesting idea! I'm not a big fan of save or die spells myself, but I haven't had one come up yet as my players are just short of third level. I wonder what the ramifications would be of a tweak like that?

Not sure if this is useful (might be good for comparison, at least), but there is an item in the Magic Item Compedium that does something like that. If you have two pieces of the set (the Manticore set, I think), it grants a Featherfall effect that you can negate and renew as a swift action.