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our age of worms campaign was a series of 3 round battles, followed by a hasty retreat, pretty much alternating which side was doing the retreating every encounter. a funny thing about PCs though: I was running an Iron Heroes game, with a modified D&D adventure, and the PCs are fighting some...

the game I in which I was playing the Psy-War, the DM liked to do everything he could to make any special abilities or tactics any PCs have become completely useless. Take Elusive Target = you get bluffed instead and never get flanked again. Use reach = all encounters are flying...

bah! PCs never retreat, it should be within the EL+4 range for ever encounter.:uhoh:;):p j/k

8th-9th level, no changelings, I don't think races of stone is approved, and the goliath is too cheesy for my taste. by 'works all day' I mean at-will powers, passive powers or anything out of the PHB is fine. I've played a duskblade, it was boring, and a reach fighter (psy-war actually...

guess I forgot to mention: 3.5, no psionics, no fractional BAB or saves. no FR (half the game has been in a homebrew world and half in Greyhawk), Healing Belt requires a turn attempt to use. haven't rolled any stats yet, which makes things harder. i can't get him to use point buy...

So I found out that my DM no longer allows Book of Nine Swords, so all of my 4 backup characters have been shot down. We have a swordsage (my current character) and a warblade now, but when they die, they can't come back, and no new characters with martial adept classes can be used. What I need...

PCs doing that tends to break the economy of the game. let him sell stuff at half price, like the rest. he'll stop trying.

I agree. You can put 50, 100, 200 spells on the same scroll if you wanted. Like arcane toilet paper. :p I also hate the one scroll, one potion per day crap. What's the difference between making one long scroll with 5 spells on it, then cutting it into 5 separate sheets, each with one spell on...

My first 3.5 character was a rogue named Malik. I have trouble thinking up names sometimes, so I've had about 15 Maliks of various classes and levels. Though I had one dwarf barbarian that died before he was even named. he was a backup character not even fleshed out, and was a captive the...

I thought martial characters were just meat shields so the casters can shine. ;)

there is a big difference in power between a 32 point buy equivalent with all even scores and a 32 point buy equivalent with all odd scores. Not saying it isn't unplayable, just saying that being behind everyone else even though you might technically have more 'points' isn't always fun. As for...

don't forget, you could still provoke AoOs from opponents with reach (or without, depends where you move) that you weren't attacking during your spring attack.

for some reason, I was thinking metamagic rods were introduced in the miniatures handbook. :blush: ...sudden metamagics, my bad. actually, you get something out of empowering a spell anyway, adding a higher DC would often break it. it's like Power Attack for spells.

the DMG just had bonus squared times 1000gp, so that's double the base price. I like odd stat boosters, especially if the DM makes you roll instead of point buy. lots of odd numbers = hosed compared to the rest. but I'd be sort of against them with a point buy game, at least, anything under +3...

which was written before metamagic rods. it says right there that it is cast as a higher level spell, and since the rod is being used as the spell is being cast, it is a higher level spell.

-the +2 attack is balanced out by the -2 AC and vulnerability to set weapons. unless you always miss by 1, the +2 is pretty trivial. -4th edition is probably one of the reasons they never got around to it. -the only problem I see so far is Leap Attack, but it was put in the errata a long time...

as opposed to the rules as how you interpret them? this can go on forever. and how is a tiger with a full attack more broken than a tiger with a full attack plus another attack at the same time? most of the charging feats were either written more clearly or put in the errata making only 1...

Tome of Battle is awesome. Our current DM doesn't like it because all the powers are 'at will', but having a warmage nuking something every round of every encounter is perfectly fine to him. :erm: Fighters are boring, book of nine swords fighters are not. Warblades make workable two weapon...

Save or dies don't work very often, except against mooks. Negative levels skew your chances of survival a lot. Your poor saves quickly go to negatives, your good saves become poor, you suddenly can't hit anything reliably. Your spell slots go away, along with your ability to overcome SR. I...

Then why are there erratas and FAQ? Just because they haven't fixed it yet, doesn't mean they shouldn't. There are tons of things that are poorly worded, which leads to arguments like these. That's one of the reasons 'by the RAW' means nothing.