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I'd allow it in my game, cuz that's some really cool visual effects when you think about it. Very creative.

Which works fairly well for specialist wizards. What about generalists? Or what if the specialist ability just doesn't seem like it'd be useful to your character or game? A great example is a wizard of mine, a necromancer, who specializes on the negative energy aspect of necromancy rather...

True, but it's difficult to retroactively apply sometihng like that to a character. A ritual like Arcane Earthbond can be done any time. Plus, Item Familiars are astonishingly broken if one takes them from some time near first level. Combine a barely-epic-level specialist wizard who just...

Fair enough, but requiring casters to take a familiar or nothing when creating the characters seems unimaginative. It just doesn't fit the style of some characters. I'm looking for options, not limitations. Nothing earth-breaking, I'm not looking to break the game here, but a...

It's not so much I hate them because I forget. I hate them because I don't like the flavor of it. Just doesn't seem to fit the kind of characters I make. And they have a habit of getting blown up later on; trust me on this one. I've seen it happen to too many players. I'm sure there are...

The problem is, I hate familiars. Every wizard or sorceror I ever make never takes a familiar. At higher levels they're just a liability, and at any level I find myself forgetting I even have one, not to mention most creatures available as familiars are, well, LAME. With the advent of...

Since we're on the subject... If one took the original 3.0 version of haste and had to make it a higher-level spell in order to be balanced, what spell level do you folks think it would be? Or is the general consensus that there's no way making it higher level would balance it? What about...

Umm...well, I can't let that pass without at least adding that not all black belts are created equal, friend. Compare Tae Kwon Do to Okinawan Shuri-ryu Karate some time. But that's a good enough benchmark, I'd say.

Does martial arts training count? If so, I'm 3rd level, soon to be 4th. Rawk, and w00t.

Don't recall the reindeer, no. As for props, I've done all sorts of things. Besides the standard aged maps, I've also collected some interesting bottles and used them for "potions," and cheap coin-operated-vending-machine jewelry has made a good prop once or twice. Once I had a character that...

I'm a monk in training, and I have the feeling my adventuring career is just about to begin... :uhoh:

Too bad I hadn't seen this sooner. I'd definitely vote for the dedicated basement room, but part of me knows that gaming in a sufficiently-sized bedroom can actually work quite well.

Let me just say that, to whomever keeps writing the Tempest prestige class as being in that book, it is most definitely NOT THERE. I got the book after reading this thread, thinking it would be there, and was disappointed. Can somebody please correct this error and maybe suggest to Morrus that...

Thanks for the responses, all. I think I'm going to stick with a final ruling of Iaijutsu damage on the initial strike, double that damage with a successful Echoes of the Edge, and standard weapon damage on the second strike from One Stirke, Two Cuts. It's either that or as one poster...

Hopefully you folks can help me come to a conclusion about this. With Iaijutsu focus, does only the first attack after drawing one's weapon recieve the bonus damage dice? It seems to me that any subsequent attacks no longer meet the requirement of being *immediately* after the weapon is drawn...

Girallon's Blessing can only give a Medium-sized creature a total of six arms, so you're only going to get one extra pair of arms out of it. That IS some impressive bleeding, though. Maybe not a true smack, but still MEAN. :D BTW, where are the crescent knives from?

Chop, slice, hack, mince, whack, death. Hey, finally found this thread again! Couldn't remember where it was... Anyway, has anyone on this thread pondered the fun of a Flaming-Burst-Mercurial-Greatsword-wielding, monkey-gripping, Tempest-PrC-levelling, power-attacking, hasted...

And I forgot about Cranium Rats, too! Has anyone done a conversion of those yet? Not to mention conversions of the illithid psionic items in The Illithiad. How do flayers use something like the Exoskeleton if they use powers at will, and don't have PPs? :(

Thanks, Blacksway! I wasn't aware of those threads. Maybe we could work on an Illithid vampire here? I'm open to suggestions.

Hi all, This is my first post to the forums, and I'm in dire straits: I plan on running the 2E adventure trilogy based on Bruce Cordell's The Illithiad for my group soon, but need the monsters in it converted to 3E rules! I have mind flayers, neothelids, and the phthisic, but I still need...