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I personaly belive from your description that you were in the right. We as GM's have a responsibility to our players to keep things interesting and to force them into uncomfortable situations. However: There are a few angles to consider. 1) if this is the first time the player has had a...

Thanks to all for the input. I think the biggest thing that comes to mind when thinking about this situation is the players lack of fear of the Church in our gamming group. Plenty of times PCs have hatched plans to attack someone inside a church. I almost every case, they have been not so...

if you read the spell that it is based on, it works for both slashing and peircing weapons...

I'm waiting to see what the Babylon 5 D20 system from Mongoose Publishing Looks like.

Keep it simple and interesting. Give the wizard proficiency with Whip and the feats of Improved trip and Improved Disarm. If the whip is kept hidden under the cloak, nobody needs to know that the wizard has it until the fighter has lost his sword to the now teleporting wizard. Bye-Bye Cool...

Cronology/Sit-Rep. The party is hired by another adventuring group to help them track down a criminal gang in the city. An ambush is setup (by the players) and the two groups go in from different angles. The party kills a large number of devils and also disables the wizard who is responsible...

Another option would be to arrange with the player a betrayal were as the BBEG contacts the character in question and asks them to do something for him in exchange for something. Of course you arrange this out of game with none of the other players around so that nobody suspects a thing. Then...

I think the best way is to do a dramatic death that advances the story line. If the party has been harrasing or having confrontations with a BBEG, then have that person show up near the end of the last game session that the person is involved in. There should be a surprise situation where the...

Definitly aim for the shot on the run and the spring attack feats along with the prerequisites for same. Don't forget to add early on a pair of Boots of Sriding & Springing as this will make those movement feats much more dramatic. Also, I think a Fighter/Rouge is the best route to take. Take...

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DMG p. 96 "Variant: Power Components" These rules can provide an excellent alternative to XP expendiatures when making Magic items. Assume that the standard rules allow someone to make a magical item without any special or exotic components. If they want to avoid the XP cost, then they may...

Sounds like a simple error in judgement on the PCs part in not being aware of their situation. If it were me, I would look through the treasure that the party is about to find, and pick a suitably juicy item and replace it with a scroll of resurection. Once the the party has found the scroll...

Re: Not to paint a target on my chest, but... I would have to say that I agree with Lord Pendragon. All campaigns need NPCs and they are invariably of different power levels. In my games, the PCs are never the most powerful people around, but they are alwasy at the forefront of the fight. I...

Not exactly a mistake with the rules, but more of an omision of descriptions. I was DMing a group of 3 1st level characters at the begining of a campaign. They had managed to sneak up to an area they wanted to gain access to. I described a group of 5 tough looking guards at the door. My...

I paly it that every dragons physiology is slightly different. Just like people generate saliva at slightly different rates or recover from exhastion at different rates. Role the Dice when the Dragon is generated, and that is always how long it takes for that dragon to regenerate it's breath...

Stikes me as lacking consequence for failed actions. Allow your player to make the spell craft check at some DC, if he makes it, the the spell goes off with the enhancement. If he fails, he looses the spell altogether. Just like failing a concentration check to cast defensively to avoid AoO.

Re: Re: Consequences of Magic I was aware of the CoC D20 system. A little more extream than I was leaning towards. It would be an example of the opposite end of the spectrum. Magic in that world was never realy intended for anyone bu the insane cultists that server the outer gods and a few...

According to some optional rules in the DMG, they do. In those rules, you have a list of specific individual creatures that you summon, and when one is killed in an encounter, he takes 24 hours to reform before he can be summoned again. Of course called creatures are always real and can realy...

Re: Re: Re: Consequences of Magic If you use a system of subdual damage based soelly on the spell level, then low level characters would be more affected than high level characters (precentage wise). Just a thought

Has anyone done any work with regards to using the Spellcraft skill to enhance spell aspects in the D20 system. The PHB has a breif discusion on using Spellcraft to make a binding diagram to help with plannar binding spells. However, is this the limit on what is possible or should the area be...