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Hmmm. By the logic presented here, would Detect Magic not detect the held spell since it isn't an active spell on the familiar? Would the familiar be able to fly into an anti-magic area and deliver the touch (for example, of a longer-duration spell such as Invisibility, and if so, the effect...

Keifer113 - You've come in here with a lot of insults ("He's inexperienced" and "He lacks interpersonal skills") and self-justifications. You've now added your own innuendo ("small sword") to the immature insult flung by some other member of your group, from which I can infer the level of...

I've always assumed that rule was for damage-dealing touch spells that allow multiple touches, such as Chill Touch, which lets you target 1 creature per level. I don't see anything in that spell's decription that contradicts me--from SRD: Chill Touch Necromancy Level: Sor/Wiz 1 Components: V...

Nac, I believe I understand the point you're trying to make. And I think a couple of the responses you've gotten have been because a couple of people are reading your comments with an assumption already made that you're "min-maxing" - so they're reading into your examples something that I don't...

Female game master checking in. My husband and I alternate running campaigns with our home group, although that's kind of fizzled out right now. I typically run pre-published stuff, albeit heavily modified at times, because I just don't have time to create my own adventures and worlds like I...

Maggot, I hope you end up checking back in this thread despite your comments above. I've been considering introducing similar rules. Our group's main reason for this is that we feel it would let the characters "play the heroes" better if they don't have this constant consciousness of each...

He he. I work for GM too. Every November, we get election day, and then we get a day that they always call Veteran's Day, but it is NEVER scheduled for the same day that everyone else calls Veteran's Day. Instead, it's always scheduled for the first day of hunting season in Michigan. They...

18/20 for me. And at the beginning, I guessed that I'd be really bad at it...

From the free adventures, we found The Thunder Below to be excellent. It has a good variety of activities throughout, from a mystery at the beginning to several combats with interesting mixes of foes. Easy to scale up if necessary. One of the NPC villians, Lzeirabel, became a recurring...

We only had 25 kids this year. It goes down every year in our neighborhood (a few years back it was at a high of 60 or so), despite the fact that we give out full-size candy bars every year. We used to get the big assortment-bags of candy, and my husband would sort it all out ahead of time and...

Lawful creatures have a strong need to follow rules as patterns of behavior. Someone with Aspergers Syndrome (sp?) or someone who is autistic has a very strong need for certain things to follow rules, and they can be very disturbed when those rules aren't followed - but they aren't likely to be...

Personally, I don't see any "mistakes" in the way you ran the situation or the fact that he died. If the whole party has triggered a couple of these effects already, and no one takes any precautions or asks any questions, it's pretty likely they'd have to accept that if there are any others to...

We give fighters a feat at every level not divisible by 3 (so at 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, etc.). It's only 3 extra feats overall (14 feats over the course of 20 levels instead of 11), but it seems to make continuing as a fighter more appealing. It hasn't been unbalancing at all in our...

152. One player plays a paladin, but keeps talking out of character about all the evil stuff he wishes he could have his character do. 153. Another player plays a manic-depressive rogue with serious abandonment issues who bursts into tears and yells and screams every single time the party is...

My real first name is Cintra, and as far as I know, it's virtually unique. So it was quite a surprise one day in WalMart, as I stood next to a big bin of bargain lollipops, to hear a woman's voice behind me say, "Cintra, get your hand out of those lollipops!" I turned around, and she was...

It's no fun joining a group and being penalized for not having been there all along. The other PCs don't know what this guy has been up to while they've been adventuring. Use that fact. Just say that his character managed to get a different group together temporarily, went and retrieved his...

It sounds to me like your character is having a literal crisis of faith engineered by your DM. I'd suggest answering the following questions: 1) How good is the evidence that your goddess really is dead? 2) Is it really more likely that these visions are true, or that these visions are the...

If they "assume" the same enemies will be present, but wait to determine their attacks until the door is open so they can see exactly where their enemies are positioned etc. (or so as not to waste spells/ammunition), then they are surprised. If they say, before opening the door, that they'll...

We met through gaming, and we've been married almost 5 years now. (I wouldn't have considered marrying someone who didn't game. What would we possibly have in common?) :D

I'm more prone to pick up a book, notice the font is kind of big, and feel cheated, because they're selling the book for too much money compared to the actual word count. I do remember once in high school, we were assigned to read A Tale of Two Cities and it was such a thin book, I figured I...