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i would consider the use of a long-term charm or spell to render a harmful or dangerous creature (or creatures) docile to be acceptable. keeping a troll from terrorizing or killing innocents through an extended charm is acceptable, as it would save the lives of many and keep the troll away from...

i would define the thrallherd's mental calling to be non-good, as the intent may not be good or evil, but the act of sublimating people would likely be antithesis to any good character. for instance, putting someone in a cage for the rest of their life and claiming that you've done neither good...

ugh...forum ate my reply... but at any rate, keep in mind that i never used the word evil. in my belief, a thrallherd is not evil, but he's certainly not good. ironically, your potato chip analogy works to my argument perfectly, as you compared his flock to mere foodstuffs, inanimate...

i would disagree with this, because a charm on a single creature is a temporary measure at best, unless taken further. a thrallherd is basically having some form of command over people against their will (they do not serve willingly), and, psychic resonance or not, they are not of their own...

as an aside, but perhaps tangental question: anyone have the latest errata on polymoph and how it's supposed to work? is PHB2 the latest, with the polymorph school subset?

a modular multiclassing mechanic. i love being able to stack differing classes together to get different results. i find it more realistic than the "Congratulations, you've graduated Fighter College. Have fun being a Fighter for the rest of your whole life." also, it was far superior to "that...

perhaps you are right, but that's just applying a variant form of fluff to the mechanics of the class. from the srd, emphasis mine: while it could be argued that the followers (believers) follow her for a sense of duty, this effectively negates that belief. i realize i could just remove this...

hey all, browsing through the srd20.org and noticed the thrallherd and for whatever reason, i simply cannot believe that it doesn't have "Alignment: non-good" as a requirement. am i alone in this feeling? would it be wrong for me to tack that on, as i feel that no truly 'good' character would...

interesting points all! i like the 'interview needed' quality of the followers, and may just go that route... i run two campaigns and have only used leadership in the one, but want to introduce it to the other in a different format. basically, in the campaign i play with the wife and her...

on the topic of leadership and its effects, i was curious about followers as well. basically, how do you run them? are they literally a huge gaggle of people that swarm around the PC as if they were a movie star? i'd think not, as they'd die in droves during a combat encounter, being some 6 or...

is it possible to take the leadership feat more than once? if not, is there a feat that allows one to take additional cohorts? just curious, is all.

while looking for baddies to populate the brutal north of my campaign, i noticed an interesting tidbit of information from the writeup of the Winterspawn (p. 162, Frostburn). basically, anyone who downs a Winterspawn comes into possession of it's former gear: a blade, a javelin and some scale...

GAH! sorry everyone, i guess i was fairly tired and not realizing that I wasn't making a NEW post instead of replying to someone elses. this is an entirely different topic and this particular question should be erased, if possible.

sneak attack and some types of creatures. while i understand that undead, constructs, oozes and plants are immune to critical hits and sneak attack, why aren't elementals? it seems that an elemental is basically just a large collection of the element in question, almost like an ooze, except...

if a 1st level psychic warrior has 0 power points, does it lose out on the psionic subtype, thereby cutting it off from holding a psionic focus/gaining psionic feats? is there something i'm not seeing here? does having a power, but an inability to manifest it count as having the prerequisites...

really quick question: if for whatever reason i'm helpless, does this affect my saving throws in any way, asides from the obvious of -5 to reflex since my dex is effectively 0? like, if i'm helpless, do i automatically fail all saves, or do i take a penality or something? thanks!

i'd probably let it happen, with no more than the 3 or 4 closest guys 'pitching in' to help him on his check. however, keep in mind that intimidate is usually quite threatening, so as soon as all of these other cads see their fellow being brow-beaten by an ocean-hating rock-eater, they'll...

i'd suggest making it as morally unambiguous as possible for them, so it's quite easy to 'get' what they're supposed to be doing. i'd keep the standard fare for a lower level campaign, but perhaps take a note from Blizzard mythos: fell orks. basically, they're regular orks, except they've been...

i tend to think along this line as well.

wow, so now i've really got to scale back that encounter. even a CR4 hydra becomes quite deadly very fast. although, something tells me that being a large, stupid, land-bound animal is deadly at low levels, it's not so much at level 7+, when the party will most likely regroup and return with...