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Help! I'm not sure if this is the right forum (or even the right Web site) to ask, but here goes: My players are split up right now, each doing their own thing. This seemed to be a really bad idea. All of my encounters were tuned for groups of four level 1 characters (EL 1), not four level 1...

Unless Improved Shield Bash explicitly removes the -4 offhand penalty when using a shield as a weapon, I would say yes, because that's the purpose of the Ambidexterity feat.

From the SRD: In short, Web is flammable. Hack away with your flaming sword; just be careful not to toast your entrapped friends! ;)

Low-level sorcerers/wizards aren't that powerful offensively, but they have a nice bag of tricks for defense and escape. Shocking Grasp is fine as long as you cast it before entering into melee range. Otherwise you risk an attack of opportunity while casting the spell. Cast it, hold the...

Is it +300 to make armor spikes a masterwork weapon or +150 to make armor spikes masterwork armor? My hunch is that it's +300 since armor spikes have no armor check penalty. I ran into this dilemma with masterwork shields and ruled that you could spend +300 to reduce the armor check penalty...

PHB p. 60: "For ties on opposed checks, the character with the higher key ability score wins." You might also want to allow people with the Sense Motive skill to add those ranks to their Wisdom check.

That would explain the non-existence of a 15' entry then: thanks! Amended table: human barbarian (base 30') with no armor and light load = 40' ...with medium armor and-or medium load = 30' (20+10) dwarf barbarian (base 20') with no armor and light load = 30' ...with medium load and-or medium...

My problem with this feat is that you can use a shield as an off-hand weapon to bash. Getting a +2 dodge bonus to AC for using a shield as, well, as a shield seems a bit fishy to me. That reminds me of a few questions: when using a shield to bash as an off-hand weapon, which weapon...

The way that I interpreted the rule was to apply the Fast Movement +10 feet modifier after the speed was determined, i.e., after looking up speed in the Armor table and then looking up speed in the Carrying Loads table. human barbarian (base 30') with no armor and light load = 40' ...with...

The original poster mentioned MMII, because he wanted to know if the entry for the banshee in MMII had anything to say about her wail having the Death descriptor. Here's the MMII entry for the banshee's wail: Wail (Su): During the night, a banshee can loose a deadly wail. This attack can slay...

The spell description seemed to suggest that spider climb affected the wizard's bare hands and feets, not his whole body, hence the requirement that "the affected creature must have bare hands and feet to climb in this manner." You could have ruled that the wizard needed to make an Escape...

It should be noted that Darkness is Saving Throw: None so neither the fighter nor his armor (if it can make saving throws) can make a saving throw. However, since it is attended, the caster has to make a successful touch attack (melee or ranged, if he has the Reach Spell feat). The fighter...

A problem with pebbles is that someone can pick it up and throw it right back at you (or some place else); that can also be a benefit though at times. Also, you might want to cast Darkness on the ceiling or some other place gravity would prohibit a pebble from landing. You couldn't use Reach...

You could get a feat to give your touch spells (like Darkness) range. There are some prestige classes that can grant this ability as well, e.g., Archmage, Hierophant.

That, or rolling a natural 1 and missing. ;)

I know that it has already been errata'ed to a -2 morale penalty. Had there been no errata though, given the original description of troglodyte stench, it had a 10-round duration so I would have said that the effects from the stench of multiple troglodytes would overlap but not stack, i.e., the...

Considering that their preferred class is ranger, it is likely safe to assume that thri-kreens have a history of rangers within their culture. I would also allow thri-kreen fighters to pick the "Multi-" feats for their bonus feats even though the PHB doesn't list those (but does list...

How do you handle the order in which the Area Dispel version of Dispel Magic attempts to dispel a spell on a creature with effects from more than one spell? This isn't an issue for the Targeted Dispel version since it attempts to dispel all spells with effects and durations on a target, but the...

PHB, p. 171. If the target of a spell is "You," you do not receive a saving throw, and spell resistance does not apply. The saving throw and spell resistance headings are omitted from such spells.

Thanks. I'll check out the MTBDDG group.