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You know, in none of my recent campaigns has a single halfling shown its face. Not even a cameo, and no one seems to have noticed. Plenty of gnomes - the group is sick of them, so IMC, gnomes are pirates - the bards sing sea chanties to inspire ill-advised boarding operations: "Oh we're the...

I'm a big fan of reach and AoO. My spiked-chain wielder with Improved Trip, Sunder, and Combat Reflexes is too much fun to play. The DM in the game allows me to pick on Mooks, which makes me happy, and sends in the spring attacking, high defense, magic-wileding bad-guys, which makes him happy...

Wow, there is a significant consensus that clerics are the most powerful class. I'm truly shocked. Seeing them in action, on either side of the combat, has never revealed this secret to me. In fact, IMC, I created a pantheon of spirits for clerics that grant powers at specific levels, just to...

My first instinct was to require a +2 Level Adjustment, but at the last minute changed my mind and allowed it as is. Call it DM arrogance: "I'm a great DM, I can not only fit this character in, give him something fun to do, keep the other players happy, and still have exciting deadly...

First off, thanks everybody for your input. To clear some things up, the player did hand me several reams of paper outlining his classes, his feats, etc (all of which I was unfamiliar with). I dithered for a quite a while actually before letting him in the game with this character, as I didn't...

Hi there everyone. Had a tough game tonight, and am looking for input. Basically, party of 7, all 9th level faced a Young Adult Blue Dragon (CR11), that was Huge instead of Large. One of the characters had a newly minted half-ogre barbarian/frenzied something (tonight was my first savage...

Thanks for the input everyone. I think I prefer to allow the rider to select feats, since the paladin's unique circumstances of acquisition of a mount may not always result in the prototypical average creature. In that vein, I'm inclined to let the player roll stats as well, which is...

It would seem that the mistake is in rolling the stats separately, which is what we did. The paladin mount must take the monster manual stats, then? It also seemed fair to let the paladin choose the feats, rather than take the feats listed in the MM. But based on your information, it looks...

13th level paladin wants a griffon for his mount. Fine. A griffon cohort adjustment is +3, thus, if I'm doing this right, the paladin can have the mount starting at 8th level (based on PHB), and the mount would have bonuses at 3 levels less than the paladin. Thus at 13th, the bonus is +4HD...

Sorry I didn't reply sooner - I was out of town for a few days... In general, while I can imagine what the outcome might be, I prefer for the game to be more dynamic, i.e. I don't have a pre-conceived vision for the outcome. The fight was designed to establish this group as a credible threat...

Ah, thanks. That's much clearer. Given the relative power between 2-weapon fighting and archery, I'm no longer surprised that no ranger I've ever seen has gone down the ranged weapon route.

Hmm, given that, I think I may at least house-rule that a move equivalent action can be taken with a manyshot if the character also has rapid shot. There should be some stacking of the benefits from these feats, IMO. I suppose I've been playing too much Return of the King on the PS2, since...

I strongly suspect that I misused the Manyshot feat with an NPC arcane archer in a recent adventure. Here's my take of the feat, used in conjunction with rapid shot, far shot, a distance composite long-bow, and a specialized ranger6/sorceror1/arcane archer 2. The character's full attack...

Well, I do hate to kill players, but it seems that I have one of the more lethal campaigns going. Thanks for reminding me about the enemy getting their stuff, though! For the record, I expected the party to be beaten by this group in this setting - surprised, at night, in a well-coordinated...

Hello everybody - my game last night took a turn for the worse when 2 of my players, probably acting in character, got themselves killed. The short version of the story is thus: Chasing down a wayward princess, the party (5 8th level characters) runs into the assassins trying to...

Thanks to everyone for your replies. At least there's an overwhelming consensus - TPK. The reasons for the limitations are due to plot points. This particular dragon has hidden its form for hundreds of years (in fact, one of the ways I've scaled down its age is by not counting these "mortal"...

Hello all. Long-time lurker, first time poster. The set-up is 6 11th level characters, and they will be facing down an Old Red Dragon (though they don't know that). Now I realize this is listed as CR20 in the Manual (ie TPK), but the Dragon will be somewhat limited. The setting is a great...