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And there you have the Knock-On Effect, Ladies and Gentlebeings: removing AoOs affects the balance between classes, the value of certain feat choices (and, recall that some PrCs require AoO-related feats as entry requirements. You could just remove them--but that makes the PrC more accessable...

I'm not looking for advice; I helped her because I was asked to, and gave her the help she needed. I'm happy to help anyone learn the game, and would gladly help the other folks in teh group, too. My question was based on my reaction to that incident--that I shouldn't suggest she do things...

Knowlingly innocent? I'm just trying isolate if advising others on optimization might be considered bad separately from whether advice can be given in a bad way. As noted, some folks think rules lawyering is always rude, even if the lawyer is clearly correct on both spirit and letter of the...

Yeah, I phrased my question poorly. I guess I mean: any social interaction can be rude, if you flub the social part of it. Is the underlying game part rude? Normally? Automatically? Or only if it's handled poorly? As others have noted surely saying "what a moron, take feat X' while rolling...

Agreed. Additionally, AoW is reputed to be a bit of a meatgrinder, anyway. I've played two sessions of it, and we lost a PC in the first game (elven mage failed a save against a trap that did ~5d6 damage; elven mage go *splat*) In the second session there were several opponents which should have...

Well, is it? I am intentionally cutting out ambiguity and many relevant factors in the poll. I know that. :cool:. Surely offering advice on any issue could be rude in certain situations. My question is more about gaming than social skills. Some folks are offended by questioning the GM, even...

It definitely opens up issues with how wardings interact with magic items. To what degree are they the product of a spell one casts on oneself, and to what degree are they the result of spells bound to talismans one wears? I dislike buffing items, just as I dislike buffing spells (though...

Length of resolution time is not necessarily directly related to rules complexity. Particularly length of combat resolution. Consider the old World of Darkness. Combat rounds took forever despite the relative simplicity of the system, because you had to roll initiative, declare actions, resolve...

That's it, thanks! In my backstory I have my dad lending me the money and me owing him. The DM decided it would be cool if my dad were Gelch Tilgast and he had gotten the money from Smenk, meaning that I now owed Smenk, and work for him as a gopher. This has given me the strong impression that...

That's right. It's basically a rogue/cleric multiclass PrC. You need to have the ability to turn undead, sneak attack of 2d6, and 8 ranks Knowledge: religion (the one applicable to undead). Through ten levels you get more sneak dice (1 per three levels, IIRC), immunity to a lot of undead...

I'm starting up Age of Worms tomorrow. After asking around here what sort of character would work well the whole group sat down with the DM to make PCs. I decided I'd be the trapfinder, and I was thinking of a build along the lines of Rogue 3/Swashbuckler 3/Invisible Blade 5/I'll worry about...

I apologize if it counts as necromancy, but I wanted to report back that we've done chargen and since there was already a paladin in the group I decided to go with a rogue. I'm thinking of aiming for Invisible Blade, though the DM warned me against doing so since SA is of less use with the...

They're already exposed. They barely won the game when, based on their ranking, they should have won by 4 or 5 touchdowns. College football is not the home of parity. I have a question: during the Wisconsin/Bowling Green game the Badgers returned a punt to around the 10 or so. Only a major...

Next time you get a guy calling, ask him if he "wasss... a man...?" Good times, I tells ya. And to Darth and Dimwhit: thanks! -C.

Yes. Apparently the NFL strongarmed them into putting it in that package. My wife was thrilled, as she's a huge NFL fan. We've watched a ton of games this preseason already. -C.

I got Dish last year after pricing both DirecTV and local cable. Dish was cheaper than both of them. I have had no problems, and in fact nothing but good times with satellite for the last year. DirecTV was not much more expensive, though, and it does have some good channels. In particular...

That's pretty much what I do, too.

Thanks for the suggestions! I often play primary spellcasters, so I think I might get away from that for this game. I'm thinking maybe a warrior could be fun. I was talking to my wife about it last night, and playing with the "spelunker" idea I was thinking about an adrenaline junky who was...

I've been invited to play in an Age of Worms game, and am thinking about what type of PC to play. I don't play a lot of pre-written modules in general, so I'm not really used to fitting my PC into the plot instead of the other way 'round. But that's what I want to do here. What sort of character...

The problem that per encounter solves is not the problem of vagueness. The problem it solves is being locked into a given number of encounters per day, and the converse issue of parties resting after about 20 minutes of activity (such as when you sleep in a dungeon and within two rooms your...