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Back in 3.0 days, was converting on-the-fly the Night Below boxed adventure. Party had gotten into a scrap with a certain sorceress who had a Contingency that teleported her to a safe spot if she was dropped to 0 hp so she could be given a healing potion. She proceeded to scry on them, found...

It helps to think of things like the Quickhit bracer +d6 and Quarry damage simply as extra dice added to the initial roll. Additionally, I would suspect that the Quickhit bracer property only applies when taking a 2nd attack by activating its property to gain an immediate free attack with your...

<edit> Bah, never mind, saw the thing about Mono not supporting part of what CB needs after I posted....

First time running into a Chick tract, eh? That thing's from the big D&D satanism freakout of the 80s or so. Heck, if they ever put out new ones, I'll be secretly pleased, as that means D&D is hitting the public consciousness again in a big way.

Even if it doesn't stack, the fact that multiples of them means that it'll always be refreshed back to full damage even if you DO save -- that's the scary part.

I have mucho love for D&D as well! Although, being the "sure-the-glass-is-half-full-but-it's-all-arsenic" sorta person, I can't help but worry that this thread is going to end up like unprotected overexposure to the Positive Energy Plane -- lots of overhealing and then.... *KABOOOOOM!!* ;)

Something like this happened in a campaign I ran. Party was assigned to clear out a tower infested by devils, and, as happens, the leader of the devils was at the top, with a nice balcony and view. 99 times out of 100, this particular party will choose the "kick in the front door and kill...

THAT -- soooo very much THAT; although I do like the skin-being-a-black-starry-sky thing the official image has. Mix 'em up and that's perfect!

Yeah, when I use 'em (and I will, oh yes, I will indeed) I'm going to mix up their physical description a bit. Probably leave 'em humanoid, but with a nasty, swirling vortex where their abdomen should be. I will say, these things have me absolutely drooling for MM2 now -- more aberrant things...

Well, anything like this involving maps and timelines must of necessity include the ability for the maps to create an Indiana Jones-esque red line showing travel from point to point for folks following along.... ....complete with appropriate pulp-adventure travel music.

Well, what I was circuitously getting at is that once the technology does progress that far, we'll still end up doing it the same old way, only in an entirely virtual arena. People are funny like that -- nostalgia rules more than we'd like to think, and the tales of "Why, back in my day...

I'm currently toying with the idea of giving each power source a bit of a slight mechanical advantage (maybe +1/+1 per tier or something) against certain monster keywords. Divine, for instance, would have the bonus vs anything with the Undead & Immortal keywords, Arcane vs Elemental, Shadow &...

Now, the real question is whether or not I make the minions created by each power different creatures with slightly different abilities.... ;)

I'll probably leave the Breeding Explosion as an Immediate Reaction, as I sorta see it as being a somewhat traumatic reaction. It's going to have enough other things going on that losing 3 Immediate actions over the course of the fight won't be that painful in the overall scheme of things.

Got an idea for a Solo to end a campaign I'm working on, and I thought I'd run two of its "signature" abilities past the folks here. Budding Conjuration, Necrotic At-Will,Free Action Bile rises in your throats as you watch a writhing mass of flesh and tentacles drops off and wriggles into...

That's actually a decent idea. I'd put two limitations on it, though. 1) Make it a per-encounter thing, so if you burn, say 2 dailies in one encounter, you can only recover one of them during or before the next encounter, and 2) Make it so you cannot recover a daily in the same encounter in...

See, to me, it's all a bit of a moot point. By the time we're able to functionally replace all the books, rules, etc we'll all be plugging directly into the 'net anyway, leading to the following situation: Virtual people sitting around an exact virtual replica of someone's kitchen table, with...

I have a fondness for cribbing classic movie tropes and translating them into D&D terms -- my very first Eberron adventure, for instance, was basically an in-game amalgam of Airport/Poseidon Adventure -- set on an airship on its maiden voyage. The passengers fit all the requisite archetypes...

A teleporting melee combatant that can curse, and possibly rampage? EEP! I'm now envisioning a Barblock (Warbarian?) critting, killing, poofing, and rampaging on the unlucky fool he appears next to.... All while raging....

I'd agree it's a spectacularly dumb move -- for many of the reasons already outlined: punishing honest customers, being counterproductive, etc, etc. Can't exactly say I'm worked up over it, though; PDF books aren't my cup of tea, as it were. I'm one of those tactile folks -- gotta have the...