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In my campaigns places like castles and forts are allowed to get magic defenses at reduced costs. After all, in a world with magic it’s as silly to build a fort without considering magic assault as it is to build a fort with only 3 out of 4 walls. So I include things like scry blockers and...

I give mounts 1/2 their rider's hit point total as 'phantom' hp against AoE spells/effects only. No other bonuses. The biggest problems for mounts (I found) was they were being taken out incidentaly as the party got fireballed. An opening fireball from the enemy that wounded party members...

I use a house rule that mounts gain 1/2 their rider's hit point total as 'phantom' hp againt area of effect spells/effects only. The idea is to not overtly punish the mount for attack spells who's main goal is to damage the rider. That allows the mount to usually survive the fireball that was...

It can be done as a tank. My halfling barbarian 5/bard 4 has the highest regular AC of the group (small size + dex benefits + large shield). He also has the highest hp of the group (d12's for the win!) He's also taken the Mounted Combat tree and since we're playing in Eberron, I get to use...

I've seen 1st level archery rogues. I've played 1st level archery rogues. And I had choices to make about my 1st level feat as opposed to saying, "With my high dex my ranged attack will be on par with the fighter (the guy who doesn't have nearly the same number of skills as me)... why not a...

Because by 3rd level you've already started to branch out and might have followed other paths (ie: archery rogue) because there wasn't a no-brainer feat to take at 1st level. Besides, by 3rd you might have multi-classed into something else and need specific feats for that. Because...

Because the vast majority of rogues and bards would take weapon finesse if it were available at 1st level. What other feat could possibly compare for a 1st level rogue or bard? If just about everybody of certain classes take a feat (ie: a no-brainer), then it reduces options and increases...

Which is why I use "cinematic time" for combats. Basically this means that offically a round is 6-seconds in length, when describing it to the players it can be as short as a single second (mages exchanging a rapid barrage of spells), to over a minute in length (party members moving through a...

You can use it to stay awake on the night watch. Have any players actually said, "My character falls asleep while on watch"?

Which is more important: the greater good that may occur in time, or the good act that only I can do, right now? Can I sacrifice 1 to save a hundred? At what point is mercy not becoming an enemy? Must I always take people at their word, or is it enough to give everyone the benefit of the...

I can count the times I (or the people I play with, or the DM) have used rope trick on one hand. 1) When fleeing from an overpowering encounter, we used a scroll of rope trick to hide when there was no other good alternative. We recognize its use as a cool hidey-hole when all else seems lost...

I have no problems with that. You have the spells, use them. You want to try cool things with them, no problem. You want to stretch the rules, no problem. You want to get unlimited 9th level spells without risk to yourself and without being 17th level? Big problem. Except you're not using...

Because this is a game about adventure? Playing a flawed character with a disturbed background and personal troubles doing adventurous things is fun. Playing a flawed character with a distrubed background and personal troubles casting cure light wounds at home is boring. (And too much like...

Efreeti: "Go froth from this place to Sharn (or some other DM assigned city). Enter the lowest ward and find a store run by the lady with one tooth. On the third shelf behind the blue vase you will find a way to immortality." [DM note: the efreeti has directed the character to find a book...

As others stated, the Emerald Claw is an outlawed terrorist group. While they started as a patriotic order created to promote Karrnath's interests, they hold an extreme view of Karrnath supremacy and quickly spiralled out of government control. The truth (again, that most people don't know)...

The religion still exists, the church still conducts open services, people can still publically be members of the Blood of Vol. However, it no longer has the backing of the government that it once enjoyed. Before, royal proclimations would have had a line like, "Declared as law by his...

Is there any higher calling?

*shrug* I never said she's not an idiot sometimes. Good people can make some serious, bone-headed mistakes. I actually agree with you here, but what's what makes her such a great character: a good person with flaws. ^_^ But it does show she's trying. An evil person wouldn't care. A...

The new Starbuck took herself off flight status when she realized she was too drunk to fly. She spoke out loudly and forcefully against shooting down the Olympic Carrier, even though letting it close on the fleet would have been a bad move. She wanted to give Zac what he wanted, so she let...

True, but almost anything the players can interact with in a physical sense (ie: beat to death with swords or magic) has hp and AC. As Hypersmurf mentions, it is the sentence "You conjure a Large, quasi-real, horselike creature" that we believe gives this thing creature status. Check again...