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I just can't believe how many people think "skill check or Cha roll" first, instead of "awesome, this is gonna be great roleplaying". Seriously. Romance is such an important part of life, and arguably an even more important part of all kinds of storytelling (novels, plays, many many TV formats...

Why not pick the Deformity feat regardless and reflavor it a little? Of course, deformity feats come with a penalty to Cha-based stuff, so maybe the transformation is not wholly under the PC's control? Alternately, refluff Improved Unarmed Strike - the damage is almost exactly the same (d3...

Our first little one let me play after a few weeks, but with a second, it gets complicated... We're not that into simulationist realism. But having a bow strung or unstrung actually makes a tactical difference, which spoiled rations don't. The armor thing, btw, has happened in my group. But...

Very interesting stuff, thanks for the link! Will probably adress this in my gaming group (when and if my 2-month old ever learns how to sleep proper, and I can get back into gaming again, that is...). I'll never give my guys grief over bow stringing again!

Maze. No save, gone for some rounds, just mop up the rest of the opposition, then gang up on the mazed target. Good with Chain Spell, it must be said.

I usually expect my PCs to look after their gear like the professionals that trained warriors and experienced hunters are. They don't have to spell out every time they use a whetting stone, change their bowstring, or look after their arrows' fletching. However, I do include strung and unstrung...

Many thanks for your feedback! First of all, balancing concerns: I don't think full BAB and a d8 on a next-to-frontliner is excessive, even given sneak attack/skirmish progression and good class features. I'd compare this guy to a Ranger: similar chassis, but worse saves and worse skillpoints...

Just like the last Spiderman movie, or X-Men: Origins. Sigh...

And how did that goddess come to be? Lots of inter-subspecies-breeding, that's how!

Actually, T/BA has good incentive not to dump Cha (and will often include base classes with good social skills): feinting relies on the Bluff skill, and taken together with Ranged Feint and Superior Feint, maxing Bluff makes for a good way of denying Dex to AC to your opponents. Really, the...

As you said earlier, that fight would probably boil down to initiative much of the time (which the wizard would be in a good position to win, given Nerveskitter). It would also depend a lot on circumstances: encounter distance (very important for the "Targeteer/Battlefield Archer"), terrain...

Thanks for the constructive replies, guys! I will adress your comments in turn below, but first of all let me give my basic idea of the class: It's based on the concept of ultra-precise shots at close range, which take the place of a regular melee option. You need to keep a few steps away from...

Hi guys, I'd be interested in your opinion on a prestige class I threw together. Tired of the "casters are better" thing, and of the fact that Tome of Battle does nothing (OK, very little) for ranged attackers, I thought about an archer who could hold his/her own on a battlefield - not through...

I don't believe the D&D brand will suffer for a bad movie, at least not where the pen&paper RPG is concerned. The two media are barely interconnected. Granted, if the D&D movie is a huge success, that may get people to look into what came before, and might hook some on roleplaying. I don't...

What do you think anybody with an interesting bit of content is supposed to do if they're interested in the movie thing, but don't have the resources to make a movie of their own? They sell the rights, that's what. Any given non-movie company is basically stuck with that option if they want...

Gender associations aside, are pink dragons in some way not funny to you? Does the notion that somebody might find it funny offend you? If so, I'm sorry and won't bring it up again - but do you think any socialists nowadays are offended by the fact that red dragons are considered greedy, and the...

Gender stereotyping? I'm just saying pink is a stupid color for a dragon! My little pony, but it eats you after freezeflaming you half to death...

And of course it would be stupid to go fighting a Pink dragon, even though it'd be immune to both cold and fire...

Or, to go one step further, have a Medusa encounter, but alter petrification slightly, so that the affected PCs remain aware of their surroundings. A few weeks later, another group of adventurers enters the room...

I thought more along the lines of summoning a Dretch, which casts Stinking Cloud and Scare in turn. Or summoning a Fire Mephit, which casts Scorching Ray and Heat Metal. Or, slightly higher in level, a Bralani, which can do the following routine: At will— blur, charm person, gust of wind, mirror...