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Don’t see any big holes – sounds interesting. I’m not a fan of the whole planes-by-alignment thing at all myself, so cutting back is a great start in my view. One small detail would be what exactly are celestial and fiendish animals, and where are they summoned from. Given that they are more...

Total defense seems like a good choice in that situation, since the AOO is coming unless the Golem uses theirs some other way. A Phantom Steed does not fight in any event, and in this case I think should be regarded as a friendly creature, to the degree that it is a creature at all. One...

This is very cool, and an excellent solution, I think, if there is a problem. For me, mixing up player record keeping with the actual game world is just awkward. If it makes no sense at all that a character would not have taken the flaming greatsword, but the player did not write it down, I...

To agree with some other posts, I see those rules as there to provide balance between PCs, and hence fairness among the players. I don’t use them to make NPCs balanced relative to PCs – there is just no point to that concept, in my view. If a very smart NPC is called for, then they exist. The...

"2) The party had already mowed through many of the undead's buddies. The proverbial writing was on the wall. The PCs would "win", eventually." While the creatures may suspect, or certainly fear this outcome, it is only the DM who knows it. Having the creature act on that knowledge is...

You could also perhaps try bullrushing the helpless character further away from danger, as well.

Because the D&D combat system allows characters to take massive damage in a round but still be, in all measurable ways other than HP, completely unharmed, maneuvers like this one seem like perfectly acceptable risks. When players do them, I think it is OK to let the line between player and...

Basically, I agree. Those creatures are such broadly considered, paper-thin concepts that, to be honest, I find them laughable. I tend to believe that intelligence does carry with it free will, and thus an intelligent race of creatures would run the same gamut as humanity. While a race that...

You can move freely through a friendly square, and choose to tumble as part of that movement, if you like. As long as you finish in an empty square, there is nothing that will prevent or hinder this action. As mentioned, DC 15 to avoid an AOO, (+2 for each subsequent one), but failure will...

A couple of things spring to mind for me. One is: would anyone who built such a device see any advantage in requiring such incredibly valuable gems to be used to activate it? That is, who would want to throw such wealth away- was there no way to build it without that feature? The other is: can...

Someone standing on the second story of…well, most things (although who knows what this is?), is not all that likely to be twenty feet up. I would have thought more like ten or twelve. Even taking 20 as the height, I think there is still no possibility that the fall will take 3 or more...

“If a character deliberately jumps instead of merely slipping or falling,” I don’t think this means that a character can’t deliberately move into a position that results in a fall – falling is not defined as only accidental here. So, I think a character can five foot step into a space that...

I don’t think the spell affects memory or intelligence at all, at least after the fact. So, a target should vividly remember seeing someone casting a spell at them, if they did. Their own behavior while charmed will more than likely tip them off to the fact that they were the victim of a...

I always find that campaigns that lack any real threat of death for my character also lack the capacity to make me feel like I am being daring and/or smart in my choices. Which is actually what I play for. If my character can turn in any direction and meet only challenges that can be overcome...

SRD: “You only provoke attacks of opportunity when you begin casting a spell, even though you might continue casting for at least one full round. While casting a spell, you don’t threaten any squares around you.” So, the Ogre would get an AoO only if it was in a square that threatened the Druid...

Hello, This is probably well known here, but I don’t see it mentioned, so I will mention it: this notion is the basic premise of Michael Crichton’s novel Eaters of the Dead. The 13th Warrior movie, based on it, depicts some sort of cave people as the Wendol. Crichton is quite explicit in the...

That version is certainly not clear to me. There is nothing in the letter or intent of the rules, in my view, that requires players to pre-define their character’s reaction to anything. Does a fear effect take the decision on whether or not to speak away from each character’s player? There is...

I don’t know - it seemed fairly clear to me: PCs don’t generally answer to each other in a leader/follower relationship the way virtually every NPC group will. It is that relationship, not simply proximity, that requires explanation. Why is one NPC leading others when they have no feat to...

Which side is supposed to be offensive? Looks like too decent role-players at work, to me. The characters are not going to resolve their issues, clearly - that happens. I don't see who would be offended outside of the game, though. It looks as though the new player needs a new character with a...

Ramping up the combat portions of an adventure for higher levels is not too hard. I think the thing to watch for is whether the story and/or environment of the adventure are originally lower level precisely because they would easily be circumnavigated by the powers of higher level groups. For...