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    Mounted Feats?

    In the Player's guide to Faerun (so it is 3.5) it is called Saddleback, and you have to be human, from 1 of 5 or so countries and take only at 1st level. Hard to hit once per turn plus one save per turn, so if tehre is only a single attack that hits during a turn, the mount is hard to hurt...
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    reach spell??

    It's also in one of the forgotten realms books from memory.
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    Scrags aka sea trolls

    So you are saying the puddle (or pond) idea is a valid one? The hole only has to be 10x10 to allow free movement, a 5x5 hole could do in a pinch (with squeezing modifiers). And note that the hole does not need to be filled to the brim. "Mostly" and "completely" are two distinctly seperate...
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    Sites That Sell Lots of D&D Minis?

    You can try amazon and ebay, they seem to have a plethora of people selling mini's, either in ones or as groups. You may be outdidded though. Also, depending on where you live, items in the UK (or anywhere else for that matter) need to be converted into local currency to see how much you are...
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    Destrying a Lich's Phylactary

    There is that clause about breaking items with inappropriate weapons, I think a sword against a stone wall is the example used. An axe is better than a sword, but personally a hammer would be the best. See my sig ;)
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    Attacking into a grapple

    I2K has it. I'll also add that it does pinning does not change anything.
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    Scrags aka sea trolls

    You could include the "puddles" as part of the imersion I suppose (very big puddles admittedly), but here is an idea. The terrain could hold the rain, immersing the scrags in water. Holes, steep sides like a ravine or river (the water has to go somewhere), flood waters. That gives you other...
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    Evard's Black Tentacles get only one try?

    A couple of things to note: 1. There is no clause for being immune to further grapple attempts like they do for critter's fear or nausiating effects; and 2. There is no mention of "each round spent in the spell's area of effect allows another grapple check. My take is that the the text...
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    The spirit of the game and the Sage

    Another thing to note is that if the PCs can have a 25% chance to stake a vamp through the heart, thus a 25% chance to stake any non-vamp through the heart, any foe with a modicorum of fighting skill should be trying to do that to the PCs. I wonder how happy even a 10% chance of being staked...
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    Rites of the God of Knowledge

    To butcher a quote from Solomon Short: A religion is only as good as it's cliche's. Have common sayings like : Light the way, burn the darkness away, illuminate me. And to use some real world examples (although only some are ceremonies): For ceremonies everything is read from a book, by those...
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    OotS #505

    Elan seems competent only when he can come up with a good one-liner. http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0438.html
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    Pulling an unconscious ally out of combat

    While I generally agree with your statement (and how the OP ruled) I have a problem here . An AoO is not ignoring the other combatants to take a leasurely swipe. I don't know about the Savage Tide, but from the sounds of it those affected are more vicious, so I see the possibility of something...
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    Little Known Rules of D&D

    Somewhere early in the FRCS (a sidebar in the section that talks about paladins) there is a list of orders/deities/etc that allow paladins to multiclass without the ability to advance paly levels.
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    Oots 501!

    Why not Kazumi? it looks like she could be the one the "accidently" killed a soldier with a polearm. "Dear, i have a craving, can you get me some BLOOD, BLOOD, BLOOD, please?"
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    Am I being unreasonable?

    I didn't read it as that Aus_Snow. I read it that the OP was not aware of the fact that the player was already doing things wrong. That is an important difference.
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    D&D 4E Magics Items in 4E

    I think that some of the 24/7 shopping came about because of the expectation that PCs would have a certain amount of magical items to "meet" the challanges they were going to face. A shop eliminates the need for a DM to provide an item specifically usable by a PC.
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    Am I being unreasonable?

    I've often thought that it would be a good idea to use such a player's PC against them. File of the serial numbers and unleash to see what that player says. (BTW I noticed that my house rule document changed tone quite noticably for one DM stint to the next to combat such a player :( ) There...
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    OotS 498 is up

    Here is a thought: What if time does not flow at the same speed in both places? So the 12 hours is how long in the prime material plane roy has been dead but he has been in the LG plane sor the 103 days etc?
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    OotS #497 is up/The Grand Fighter [Merge Powers Activate!]

    Bastard sword maybe? Feat for one handed use otherwise 2-handed martial. Actually Gramps goes 2-handed as well.
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    D&Disms That Make You Go "Huh?"

    The cantrip Prestidigination would seem to cover a great deal for normal life situations. Mending, cleaning, amusing small children etc.
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