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In my game, I've decided that Raise Dead is necessary for "first aid" type situations, especially in higher-level games. Basically, in my cosmology (heavily influenced by Book of the Righteous), the departed souls head off to the realm of the god of justice to be judged and sent to the...

Party is discussing whether or not a particular creature is evil. Discussion goes OOC as a player who is somewhat new to the game isn't quite aware of the distinction between creatures that are innately evil vs. ones who just happen to be evil. Player. "No, see, some creatures are just evil...

Subdue -- to kill with extreme prejudice. This one happened after the party Dwarven warrior tried to subdue a female NPC Halfling tavern keeper with his Dwarven Waraxe. He rolled a natural one, and given the insanity of the situation, the DM ruled that he brained the poor girl. Since that...

I find sarcasm to be my biggest enemy in game. For a long time, my fellow players have all shared a similar sense of humor to me. It's tough to have a truly sincere character, or a character with no sense of irony. It's even tougher as DM because I have to portray that sort of emotional...

In situations like that, I think it's best to communicate clearly with the player (usually the player in this situation is well aware of the situation he's in). Asking that the player invest some small portion of his character's experience in social skills to compensate for how the other...

Social skills are only half of the problem. What about the high-WIS cleric whose player is wishy-washy? The high-INT wizard whose player can't think his way out of a paper bag? In my game, I try to be lenient about people playing one way or the other when it comes to their mental stats. When...

Communication is key Especially as these folks are your friends, you might want to just open up about it and get ideas flowing. For every situation like this there are at least two sides to the story, so hearing it from their point of view would probably help you in addition to them. It's...

Ah, sorry, I didn't make my point correctly. Let me elaborate. Assuming the baby is innately evil, it still may be good to spare its life. You're in a situation where it is not evil to kill the baby, as the baby is evil and if left alone will certainly grow up to someday raid, pillage, and...

I've never been told I'm particularly good at combat DMing, but I think my players enjoy fights enough. In any case, take my advice with a grain of salt :). My biggest "trick" that can be used in every fight is to recap every so often everything that has happened since the last recap...

Q: Is it evil to kill this baby? A: No. No, it's not evil. Go right ahead and do it, and sleep easy, low-wisdom-have-to-ask-your-god-easy-questions cleric. I doubt you will ever sit at my right hand in the afterlife, but you'll do your god's will just fine. Q: Is it good to save this baby? A...

IMC it would be a difficult choice with no "right" answer. Killing someone helpless is not considered good, but killing a helpless someone who is innately evil is definitely not evil either. Self-sacrifice to save the kobold children would definitely be a good act, but not an act you would...

1.) What is the best number of players at the table Four players, one DM. 2.) How often should you be able to game in an ideal world? As often as I want :P. Ok, how about twice a week? 3.) How long should those sessions be? Six to seven hours, including socialization and such. 4.) what are...

Currently I'm trying to get the max game payoff I can with as little time investment as possible, so I'm running an almost-by-the-book version of Monte's BaneWarrens in a home-brewed world that isn't defined much at all outside Ptolus. I've pulled in the cosmology from Book of the Righteous...

Yeah, that's me By this he means myself, him, and one other player. Two players and one GM. I agree with his points, two is the bare minimum. We've done some one-on-one work and it just wasn't as fun. It was work. Sometimes it was rewarding work, but ... no, I don't think I'd go back to...

IMO the "pass through or touch" (i.e. what it says in the text accompanying the diagram in the PH) is the only way that makes sense. To do otherwise, to assume that a line spell has zero width and as such can straddle the boundary between two squares perfectly and hit nobody, just raises his...

Exactly. Right! Think of it as something impossible in the "real world" ... a combination of luck, almost-supernatural speed and reflexes, etc. I usually picture an insane cinematic leap, roll, tumble, etc. In a hallway, he might press against the wall -- in the open plain he might drop...

Re: Re: Re: Re: Found it Probably a good idea ... it can rip through a party but not beat the living tar out of one person :).

Re: Re: Found it Well, that's what I felt too, but I can't see anything anywhere that would give a reason why the elemental couldn't move into someone's square more than once, or why having been subjected to the attack earlier in the round would make it so you didn't have to resist it again...

Found it Thanks for the tip, found it here. So it really is that powerful. After discussing it with my players, it seems like the self-limiting aspect of this power is that eventually you'll fail your save and get picked up -- or you'll be so good that you won't fail either of your saves and...

Hi all! Last night my group ran into a Huge Air Elemental (3.5E). It was doing a great job of beating the party up, performing very well for a CR 7 creature against a party of level 7's and 8's. As it began to drop in hit points, I decided it might try the Whirlwind form. As I described the...