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Simple question, really: Can a Drow see through his own Darkness? If it were a spell, the answer's easy: No. Since it's an innate spell-like ability, and the Dark Elves have excellent Darkvision, it makes a certain sense that they are basically unaffected by their own Darkness...

Yup, I got out before "new math" hit the schools. :p This old grunt (MOS 11M) is pretty familiar with most tactical terminology, yes. :cool: However, most humanoids learn pretty quickly not to bunch up, especially when there's a spellcaster on the other side. From what I've seen on both...

Thanks for the perceptive, yet entirely inaccurate analysis of my campaign, Sledge. :cool: I guess I could have been more clear. :heh: Almost all of my campaign's "big fights" are with a number of humanoids of mixed classes. The monks blow right through the front lines and engage the...

My problem with it is three-fold: 1) A decent Monk or Rogue pretty much has free reign of the battlefield starting around level 4. (7 ranks, +3 stats, +2 synergy = tumbles successfully on a 3 or higher.) That's pretty powerful stuff for seven skill points. 2) He's pretty much done with...

I'm not following you. If tumble is a class skill, it should improve by at least one each level (assuming you're not ignoring it). Add in the synergy and stat bonuses that you'll probably get, and your tumble bonus is going to grow slightly faster than one per level. BAB never grows at faster...

So, if you were rolling 4d6 for a character, what would you get? To be sure, let's do this four times (archetypal party size). Four sets of numbers, in no particular order, using 4d6 drop lowest. I'm using the online roller at: http://www.openroleplaying.org/tools/dieroller/index.cgi 10...

I do believe you've got it. Why should a few skill points (okay more than a few) affect combat so strongly? Are there any other skills that impact combat so directly? As an aside: Has anyone ever considered the fact that it's actually far easier to hit someone doing somersaults and...

Outside the RPGA (and let's not include them in munchkin discussions, please), I don't know anyone who does point-buy at less than 28. Most are 32 point systems. Even striving for maximum effectiveness, I can find multiple ways of building a PC with a decent point-buy. Does anyone remember...

Sounds like a well-thought-out list of reasons why they aren't there in the first place.... ;) Telas

Best of luck to you; it's indeed a Herculean task. Personally, I've looked at retooling all the core classes into more truly core classes, based largely on Hit Dice (feel free to use what you will): d4 - Wizards, sedentary types d6 - Rogues, commoners d8 - Clerics (and Druids), light fighters...

I don't have any experience with Tumble houserules, but I am starting to have a problem with monks having free reign of the battlefield. Since the DC doesn't scale, I don't see how it will get any better as levels increase. Someone mentioned the DC(10+BAB) not scaling to Epic levels, but how...

Dunno. It all depends on if it's cursed (needs Remove Curse to be taken off). Your call. Personally, I don't like PvP, but it takes all kinds of spice to make a chili. If he puts it on in a place where water's available (near a stream, in a tavern with a water barrel, etc), he could survive...

Thanks for the compliments. Any items in my campaign worth more than 2000 GP have a story or unusual abilities. I try not to have simple +1 items. Something I did earlier was a bowl that filled three times a day with a nutritious, but tasteless porridge. The problem was that it filled up...

Here's where it gets silly. That's over 3/4 a mile, with a longbow. Most modern snipers can't hit that far with high-powered rifles, optics, and such. The longest confirmed kill in Iraq was at 1050 yards with a 7.62 (.308), or less range than that. World record confirmed kill was in...

The standard array 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9 "prices out" at 21 points. I use that and 15, 14... that "prices out" at 28 points for more powerful NPCs. BBEGs get 32 points, just like the PCs do. Once I remembered that NPCs get that stat bump at every 4 levels, just like PCs, I made even better...

How about a little turnabout? A summoned monster is dispelled when it hits 0 hit points, right? It doesn't die, but is returned to its natural environment. How about an NPC with a wand of summoning that picks the PCs as the "summoned monster"? The PCs get epic combats that by all rights...

Beep! Wrong answer. ;) None of my NPCs use dump stats, unless I'm looking to build in a certain trait. Only one PC has under a 10 in my campaign (and it is indeed charisma, but since he gets kicked out of more meetings than he gets let into, the player probably now regrets it). I doubt...

I got a bit creative with some magic items over the last week or so. Before I start dishing these out, could I get some feedback on price? Miniature Items – These are shrunken items of miniscule size (generally about 1” per side) that grow to full size instantly when the command word is...

Everything in this post is my opinion. *** SPOILER ALERT *** Spoilers below. Great quotes: "There's no such thing as 'tough', there's untrained and trained." "Creasy's art is death, and he's about to paint his masterpiece." Lisa: What are you gonna do? Creasy: What I do best. I'm...

Kobolds. Cuz they never fight unless they want to fight... which means you're on their territory, and you better have a backup rogue. Drow. Yeah, I know.... But mine are the kind of evil that leaves the players staring at you in shock after you read the room description, not the cutesy...