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Things that are undead and things that are constructs are creatures under the rules. Both of these creature types have no Con score. Therefore, something can be a creature without having a Con score. No debate, we both agree on this. It also lists where it specifically is different, ie...

Except that part about having at least 1 Con refers specifically to living creatures. Iron golems (golems) and skeletons (undead) are creatures in the rules, but not living creatures, and thus no Con score. So there is precident for the idea that a phantom steed is a creature, but one with no...

Actually, I think intention has some baring... just not as much as actions. For me, alignment is made up of three parts: before the act, the act itself, and after the act. The intention: what did the person intend the act to acomplish? (Of all, this is holds the least importance, say give it...

As an addendum to my previous report: Quoting from the hypertext SRD: Constitution Any living creature has at least 1 point of Constitution. A creature with no Constitution has no body or no metabolism. It is immune to any effect that requires a Fortitude save unless the effect works on...

Phantom Steed is an interesting spell. It gives only certain physical stats, and leaves others blank. It specifically describes the creation as quasi-real, horselike creature. It says it can not fight, and gives exact values for its AC (from which we can determine a dex of 20 or 21), and...

As was stated, there is no official reply to the question, "Do you need heavy armor proficiency to wear mithral full plate without penalties?" The wording of the armors and the set up of armor tables suggest that all you would need would be medium armor proficiency, but serious arguments can be...

The name of the setting, the planet, and "The Dragon Between," aka: the planet is thought to be a BIG sleeping dragon. True. Imagine an atom, with the prime material plane as the nucleus, and the other planes orbiting the prime. Unlike an atom, these 'obiting' planes sometimes overlap with...

A friend of mine managed to snag some preview passes. I saw it on the 14th. I have not read the book, so I can not compare the two. However, some books were handed out as prizes, and they look significantly thicker than the screenplay would have been, so I'm thinking a lot was cut out. My...

I'm the guy who wrote those stats (I'm The Fireballed Mage on the WoTC boards), and I wrote them up before the movie. You know, back when River was cute, (mostly) helpless, very strange, and had shown no signs of turning into a teenaged death machine. Yeah, after the movie River'd need a whole...

As one of my friends so elequently put it: "Jordan has written a pretty decent fantasy trilogy. It's a pity it took him 12 books to do it in."

Percy is not on the top of many people's favourite lists (except for 'Who do you want to see die?' lists), but remember that neither is he bad. He's younger than Bill and Charlie, two brothers that his parents obviously love. Both of them seem to have been adventrous (although not as much as...

Actually I've got both books open before me. I'm talking about the end of year exam, not the boggart the other members of the class faced early in the year. Prisoner of Azkaban page 234: 'Excellent, Harry,' Lupin muttered, as Harry climbed out of the trunk [with a boggart] grinning. 'Full...

Who is stronger in magic, Harry or Hermione? Hard to say, Harry after all has 'main character' powers that allow him to survive certain death. It would cut the series short if he didn't. There were two times where their relative levels of magic could have been compared directly: the third...

A system of nearly-constant magic effects is not bad, provided they are generally the sub-optimal choice. You don't want a mage to have a 1d6+primary modifer per round, because at 1st level that's better than magic missile. Sure it's a ranged touch attack, but when you don't worry about it...

These pictures have very little or no influence from anime. Whether that's good or bad is a judgement you will have to make for yourself. Although I do recommend watching 'Record of Lodoss Wars' or 'Scrapped Princess' to see what D&D and anime can do together. As for the pieces themselves, I...

From SRD: Adamantine This ultrahard metal adds to the quality of a weapon or suit of armor. Weapons fashioned from adamantine have a natural ability to bypass hardness when sundering weapons or attacking objects, ignoring hardness less than 20. Armor made from adamantine grants its wearer...

In game, you use an adamantine press, that deals with the hardness issue. Or course that raises a whole new issue of making things out of adamantine...

I can't believe what I just read. A 1st level wizard can get more than 1 spell per day with a high ability score?! Man, what a clear example of power creep. If you can't survive with 1 magic missile per day, then you don't know how to play. And now there's no reason not to have a character...

A very good read Lazybones. I'm really glad I stopped in to read this thing. Some points I think must be raised to mention here however: While the ending was fine, it was too abrupt. There much was set-up, assending action, and climax, but there was no falling action, nor an epilogue...

Because as a mortal, you are someone capable of changing the grand balance of the multi-verse. The immortal outsiders are too evenly matched, it is the choice of those empowered by a limited life that will decide the fate of existance. Or some such nonsense... Actually, the quest for...