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I don't think readying to attack with a bow carries any requirement at all to perform the free action of accessing the ammunition ahead of time. The character is mentally preparing, certainly, but readying is a game term, not a description of what the character is doing. Someone with a bow can...

There we go. As I said, there seem to be interesting points on both sides of this particular question. Personally, my feeling is that the intent of the rules is fully expressed in “When making a melee attack, you get a +2 flanking bonus…”, and that that sentence would include “or ranged” if...

I don’t think you’ll see much argument on the second question: I think everyone agrees that an individual is never “flanked” as a general state – each individual attacker is “flanking” when they meet the requirements. I agree completely with the first answer, that the rules do not permit...

I favor opposed checks each round, because I think that is what the rules include, and also because it seems like a good system. It will make following a group that close for an hour quite improbable, but I think that it IS quite improbable unless the follower is extremely stealthy. The...

Kill things, take their skeletons.

That is my take on it, too. Certainly as a Dm, if I want a wolf that is a druid, I’m having one. The tougher part is whether the option is open to PCs and their companions, as in the thread example. I strongly suspect that the rules, as RC says, discourage animals from having levels. But...

I’ve posted this same argument before, and recently, so it feels kind of lame even to me. However, I really believe it, so: For me, the foundation that allows all other methods of creating fear to work in an RPG is one of verisimilitude. Tell the players out of game that, whatever your normal...

Lots of good ideas there – one thought I have is similar to #1 above: enemies who know the PCs. This is always the most dangerous challenge, in my view. Some wealthy opponent (they don’t have to be high level or powerful themselves, even) decides that the PCs need to go. They have them...

I searched the RTFs of some of the magic item sections of the SRD for the word listen, which appears seldom, evidently. I only found one: that an intelligent item may have 10 ranks in listen for 5,000 gp, so that might be one route to a magic item helping a character in that respect.

I could not agree more. Ask for opinions, and you will, if you are lucky, find people kind enough to offer them. Answering them with anything but “thank you”, whether they are correct as in this case, or not, does not make any sense to me.

I'm with that - reword, or remove, or provide some clue what they were intended to mean…

Well, under Improving Monsters, the SRD notes that: "Class Levels Intelligent creatures that are reasonably humanoid in shape most commonly advance by adding class levels. Creatures that fall into this category have an entry of "By character class" in their Advancement line." So there is no...

From Prince Sharam “These are diametrically opposed, which is why they even get attack bonuses/penalties against the opposites”. I don’t think that is true at all of the elemental types; air, water, and earth have no such qualities. The fire and cold types have that kind of relationship. There...

This is exactly what I would like to see, too. There is no chance of my buying the large books they regularly produce, but a second golden age of modules would certainly be wonderful.

Yes, like the “Ransack a chest full of junk to find a certain item” example given. Not much chance you are NOT setting off traps on that chest in the course of such an attempt, I think. Basically I think DM and player should both be clear on whether each search attempt is just by looking, or...

I agree with the three minutes from last activation time. Which seems like very bad news for an invisible character that becomes unconscious and needs help... Note that anything they DROP becomes visible – it might be kind to have unconscious people drop things that are in their hands...

I think it is a great policy to quickly check each player’s sheet when they level, just for an extra set of eyes computing things, and because the DM should have a ballpark idea of what characters can do that is new. I like to have spot and listen figures for myself, for example, as well as MS...

For a solo mid-high magic campaign, I would have thought that a fighter would not make the short list of classes that would be a great choice for the character that is going to unequivocally be the protagonist. While the Conan stories spring readily to mind, they do so in a way that to me...

It is a cool topic, but you may have gone all in right from the deal with that story – what are the odds that anyone can beat the Beholder scroll piñata story?! I’m always kind of stumped by generic treasure situations: some goblinoid or such, living in a squalid cave attacking passer-bys….in...

There are lots of cool small ways to bring fear into a campaign (like the above great ideas). To use any of them, though, I think that one D&D hurdle has to be overcome, first. Collect your players and say to them loud and clear that you will be placing creatures appropriately to their...