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You can basically achieve the same effect by messing around with the service mode of your TV and adjusting the vertical size. Just set your DVD to output an anamorphic picture so it will use the entire 480 lines of vertical resolution for actual picture information and use the picture controls...

That's the feel I get from the text and the way the diagrams illustrate the effects. When I read it, I just pictured spreads as behaving like a gas or liquid. Put some of it somewhere and give it some direction and watch it flow naturally around obstacles since it's just a bunch of individual...

You have that backwards. Fireball _is_ a spread. Gaseous type explosions are usually spreads while light bomb style energy blasts, such as holy smite, are bursts. Although there are exceptions such as the energy burst psionic power.

The illogic of the situation could be attributed to the D&D weights incorporating an encumbrance factor. How else would you have the superheavy weapons that are listed in the PHB? So you would have a 10 pound weapon which only really weighs 5 pounds with another 5 fake pounds as encumbrance...

While the Eradicator is a good candidate for being the passenger on that ship, what about the speculation that the voice and accompanying tech in the cave is really the Eradicator? The attitude of inherent superiority over humans is fairly similar to the version in the comics. You know, after...

I originally parsed it as s/LaSH echoing something he heard as being true. I know that people used to believe that this meant the bodies were still "alive" post-burial, but I thought he meant that the nails thing was fact. Rereading it I see how it was supposed to read now.

This is patently false. It's just an urban legend. Nails appear to have grown after death because the skin around the nail recedes as the body dehydrates. This leads to the nails and hair appearing to have sprouted a few extra millimeters. Coffin Nails...

ThirdWizard is most likely referring to a situation where you're armed with a longspear that threatens at 10' but not within. So an enemy who moves within 5' must leave a threatened square provoking an AoO before attacking. On your turn, you can drop the spear as a free action and Quick Draw...

Paradox is inherently complex and nonsensical. :confused: Part of the reason why it's so much fun to mess around with it. :) Undead are only hurt by healing spells because they explicitly say that they use positive energy. Since the correction is based on the wounds being fixed because they...

Total agreement. Much props to Kelleris. Much thanks to him for sharing this with us and provoking such interesting discussion. :cool: It took me a moment to comprehend the situation you're describing. Short version: Bill & Ted say it's "Excellent!" :D So in other words, BOGUS. :( No fair...

Nice! Very cinematic. Presumably this is as a full round action? Does it allow a 5-foot step? Some more text detailing how it would work would help. It reads to me that it functions like Whirlwind Attack giving you one attack against each opponent, but it might also be read as being limited...

Should be obvious no? Nonstandard casting time aside, it's still a regular spell and subject to all the same limitations. Can't cast something if you don't have it prepared or have a slot free to cast it now can you? They count as your swift action for the turn, and you can only perform one...

Complete Arcane's explicitly allows sudden metamagic feats to work with spell-like abilities. It even says that Sudden Still works on invocations.

But we're talking about a dominate [foo] spell here. They all create a telepathic link between the master and slave. You didn't specify, but it appears that the caster and creature do understand another enough to go beyond the "basic commands" only stage. As such, there's little room for...

This chronomancer appreciates the nod for a paradox safe version. :) Just to be clear, I hope you realize I wasn't serious about the multiverse destroying paradox question. Hence, the huge run on, stream of consiousness style sentence. :) I'm glad you kept the overcompensation in true...

Cool spell. I really like the flavor and mechanics. Very original and creative. You're just missing the [Force] descriptor next to the school since it deals force damage. I have some questions about the paradox correction. What happens with a paradox correction when the target is...

You're thinking of hold person's special property of allowing saves to end the paralysis each round. Paralysis in general doesn't allow any additional saves.

I disagree. When your turn comes up determines the point at which you become aware of the situation at hand. You must already be aware of your surroundings in the first place to choose to do nothing. If you are not aware, then you would not have the ability to pick when you want to act and...

Didn't Bruce Leroy from that movie The Last Dragon deflect an arrow while blindfolded by chopping it in half? I'd say it's an argument for allowing the deflection even if you can't see it visually because it fits right in the genre of heroic fantasy for the skilled to be more aware of their...

I initially pictured a Whirlwind Attack to be a one big circular sweeping attack and also became puzzled at the odd choice of prerequisites. Then it occured to me that the manner of attack could be more creative in its interpretation. What about Jackie Chan versus a gang of mooks or maybe Yoda...