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If I ever had the potential to do that, I'd just save my immense luck and go buy a powerball ticket :)

While he's there, ask him why the pacing of the books changed so drastically after book 6. Maybe I'm reading them upside down or something, but it feels like it takes 2-3 books now to cover an amount of storyline, whereas earlier in the series that same amount of storyline would be covered in...

The ruling seems good to me, taking the following into consideration: 1) you get two checks for that DC 20, increasing your odds by quite a bit; 2) DC 20 isn't that bad at 15th level, there's plenty of room for some skill points in listen and spot--something an adventurer *would* have...

aaaww, but it takes ALL the fun out of it :(

My PCs use "freeze", I can't figure out a way to make it NOT a coup de grace (He times it with another PC in melee--usually the rogue:(). Facing a flying wizard (the spell fly), the same PC used "crash". A couple years ago in an old campaign the party captured a cronie and the party had about...

In a surplus economy, the squeaky wheel gets replaced :D. There's something to be said about joining someone else's game, and as soon as issues come up immediately questioning the creator's ability, credibility and integrity instead of trying to dicuss it in a civil manner. There's a...

It's the attacker's charisma. The quote is talking about negative levels that an undead would give its victim. I also use the "debt" system. Well, while we're on it, the way we do exp is add up what we get and have a goal for each level. This is best used in an example. Take joe, a 1st...

Thought Vampire I like this one. A couple things: * Since you gain more from people with higher intelligence, it might be balancing to allow them some sort of bonus to their will saved based on their int (a 1:1 int:will bonus might work). * A caveat saying the caster can choose getting...

I 'tax' the spellcasters every now and then. I take an educated guess at the amount of materials of nominal price they've been using up for spellcasting, and say they lose X gold to restock on the costly stuff. Other than that, provided they have their usual gear with them, we pretty much...

I like the ogre bomb idea, regardless of how badly it may backfire. Be glad your player hasn't thought of this one: Buy/obtain ballista bolts, have a spellcaster cast shrink item on them, do this shorly before you know combat is coming (an extended shrink helps). In combat, put ballista bolt...

You've earned your name, ruleslawyer. I think I feel sick (though this is 36th level). How many are in the party? Forget the paladins, plot to overthrow Lolth :).

Hmm, I had a gargantuan zombie planned in a few sessions and two characters that love power attacking... I think I'll make them bring drinks for that session. As for power attack not being useful against decent AC opponents: Potions of true strike are cheap. Even more so if you have a...

A couple points/observations: * Price isn't the issue (though I wince when small books go for $20+). You could sell gaming books at 50 cents a pop and they would still be pirated. As long as the desire to have these books electronically is there, the "market" will be there. Actual books have...

Hey, another poster in Tempe. Whereabouts are you? I'm by the 60 and McClintock. My folks get tickets to the Fiesta Bowl every year for the past 7-8 years. Same seats, too: 8th row on the goal line (6 seats). Very nice. I love the Fiesta Bowl season, and I love seeing the fans of the teams...

Let me make sure I'm understanding the mechanics correctly: Safe & Slow: You activate the feat each round, the penalties to initiative accumulate and the AC bonus is only there for each round you use it. I think Safe & Slow is underpowered since you're taking two penalties (one cumulative)...

I really like that PEP system, consider it stolen. Our group has tried a lot of ways to allow a die rerolling system that anyone could use (not just some domain), but were always too over or under powered, it's a tough balance, and that PEP system looks like it handles it well. I also really...

I can't really offer any help to your problem, but I had a question for you if you don't mind. I have a player with a cleric who is very close to getting his first Hunter of the Dead level, and he plans to take it all the way. My question is how did the PrC work out for both you and its...

Cool, I wonder if his favorite part in Return of the King was when Frodo stole a GTO from drug dealing orcs and burned rubber straight into mordor and ramped off the slope of Mt. Doom just as he threw the ring in, showering the Nazgul with machinegun fire while in midair just as the mountain...

Our whole party got in on this beaut: We're defending a forest-type outpost from devils (it held something they wanted). We fight off a couple waves of lesser fiends with our NPC guards, balista, etc. Then after we finish a rather nasty wave, the battle seems to ease up and perhaps be over...

Our gaming group got together. We would have gamed but one person was out of town visiting her parents, and I have a big session planned that nobody can miss. It was a series of movies, light drinking (These are devious), and fondue. We'll have to reschedule the gaming, which is good because...