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Evard's Black Tentacles got a hell of a rewrite from 3.0 to 3.5. In 3.0, it had a whole bunch of work associated with it. Like, the caster chooses the center of the effect. A random number of tentacles appear within a certain radius of that center (20' I think), and must be randomly placed...

Extra damage is a sufficient goal for a single feat. For a knockdown effect, see Knock-Down. Hammering Blow Prereq: Jump 8 ranks, Str 13, Improved Unarmed Strike The character leaps into his attack, striking with both feet or both hands and landing again afterward. Effect: On your action...

He's just trying to drum up interest in his new book. Basically, spamming.

If Paizo added an advertising option to peoples' accounts and made it opt-out, that's pretty shady.

Given production schedules in TV-land, this episode was written, filmed, and edited before anyone knew the show was being cancelled.

There are so many feats written to boost light fighters because the 3.5 change to power attack made them completely outclassed. A two-hander doesn't even need an exotic weapon to do it, a greatsword or greataxe will work just fine. The weapon focus-specialization-improved critical feat set, as...

I did just this not long ago. M&M for rules, Star Hero and Alien Wars for setting and spice. Man those are awesome books, it almost makes me wish I was into Hero. I picked up Terran Empire, too. I also stole liberally from my Alternity collection, particularly Star*Drive stuff.

The "starships have their own scale" thing is a bit of a pain when you have to compare the two. Dragonstar put starships on the same scale as characters, and extended the top end as so: Medium: 4-8 Large: 8-16 Huge: 16-32 Gargantuan: 32-64 Colossal: 64-125 Colossal 2: 125-250 Colossal 3...

They're in the d20 modern core book. Are you asking if they're reprinted in Dark Matter? Because that would be really odd, if they were.

I like to boost Combat Expertise with shields to mirror the way Power Attack favors two-handed weapons. When using a shield and Combat Expertise, instead add twice the number you substract from your attack roll to your AC.

Simply saying no to the "goliaths are large" thing (they aren't) drops his damage to 4d6. At 9th level, your average greatsword/greataxe wielder will be doing more than that with a bit of power attack, a magical weapon, 2-handed bonus to damage, etc. And have a higher bonus to hit, to boot...

Yes! Window of Opportunity is on at 10:00 eastern. I love that episode. It's the only episode I actually know the name of, because I had to look it up to vote for it :)

Cool. I liked that comic, and didn't know a movie was being made of it. According to IMDB, it will be out in 2007? I'm looking forward to it.

If you and your DM both think you got the best part of this deal, what's the problem? You're both happy. Be sure that you're willing to retcon your character later if it ends up being wildly unbalanced one way or the other. What's the worst case scenario here. You play a human fighter. You...

I think the lesson of ptolus is that the primary indicator for the success of an enormous gaming product is a large fan base. If this had been produced by somebody who wasn't Monte Cook, it wouldn't have sold nearly as well. You have to have a track record of useful, well-written gaming...

Why not just "Animated"? Imbued. Possessed. Loosely coupled. Forms. Shells. Externals. Controlled. Extrinsics. I think Animated is the best, really.

How about Wushu, Universalis, or Polaris? All are RPGs. Two of those are designed to be played without GMs, the third works perfectly well without one, and none of them use boards at all. I believe that also applies to Donjon. Try some new games, man.

It's a shield ability, so you can precalculate it for anybody that has that shield. If it was a weapon ability, yeah, it would be much more of a pain in the butt to calculate every time you attacked someone with a shield. I think the correct order would be Everything that applies to your touch...

Pale Green Prism Ioun Stone gives a +1 competance bonus to skill checks, among other things. I'm sure there are other miscellaneous +1 bonuses someone could grab. Prayer would give +1 (unnamed I think), Heroism +2 (morale) (for 10 minutes per level)

That's not even necessarily a suicide run. Give the stack of necklaces to a rogue or monk. He only has to fail the first save, right? That makes all the necklaces go up (well, they get their own saves vs whatever effect it was, so it should probably be a Fireball, heightened as much as...