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Most feats translate to at least a +1 or +2 on weapons or armor. Since it's better than Rapid Reload, it would need to be at least +2 on a firearm and might need to be disallowed since the game doesn't really seem to support firearms shooting that much more often.

HP is always a balancing act, especially at first level. Obviously a character should be able to survive one or two normal hits, but what about crits? Using 3.X terminology, should a first level character be expected to survive a crit from a x2 weapon, but not a x3 or x4 unless it's a tough...

Understandable. I guess I made the mistake of generalizing (or at least not being specific enough), just as everyone in this thread has at some point, but I was trying to make it go with that grell scene. The combat was the goal and the DM putting the players on a detour to that by making them...

I think I might have a way for you and Hussar to relate, if I might use that bit of text. In his eyes, he's not particularly keen on doing the life story of those mercs. And due to lack of wanting to interact on that level, it's possible or even probable that he'd be bad at hiring them due to...

I'm quite sure there are more complex ideas people are trying to put out than can be adequately expressed well enough to fully be conveyed to another.

Alright, domain spells are ones prepared in the domain slot. It is fairly clear. However, chances are it wouldn't be a problem in this specific case if spontaneously casting empowered, maximized spells from the Healing domain by sacrificing a non-domain slot was allowed. Healing in combat...

I think the key thing to note here is that Celebrim and Nagol (and likely others) prefer a simulationist style where everything is set up and can't just be handwaved while Hussar and Permerton (and likely others) see the game as being there to be fun first and foremost, even if a sense of...

Keep in mind the generational gap here. Most of the young adult crowd (18-25) I game with (doing 3.X though. I know nothing about 4.0's stuff) would wonder why there isn't a wand-mart. Heck, a couple of the illustrations in the Magic Item Compendium literally have between them almost a dozen...

Celebrim, I'm very sure your campaign style isn't average or typical of most D&D campaigns. Most DMs would probably say that getting a bunch of 1st level warriors for hire is fairly easy so long as the community is large enough. While they might not favor spears or other long weapons, they're...

That kind of a scene I agree could add something if the horse being lame was a possibility. It's suspenseful and very much along the lines of survival horror. In regular play though? Yeah, it doesn't really add much and might even detract from the game since it might be nothing more than a...

I would characterize Celebrim forcing the skill checks as being true to the game but in now way thinking they're there to screw you over. You're the one who pulled up a mount after all, so the checks are therefore expected. If you wanted to entirely ignore the desert, that was definitely not...

Assuming the reading of "a domain spell is one cast from a domain slot" then what would happen to a character that had access to the domain spells but didn't have domain slots? For example, if a Favored Soul took a level in Ordained Champion, he would get access to all the War domain spells as...

I wouldn't say that the hirelings are so important that they require a lot of exposition, especially if they only show up once. In a more roleplay-centric game the players might perhaps have the expectation that they should get to know them, but in a more action-oriented game like what was...

It's not entirely clear whether the spell has to come from a domain slot. The description of a domain spell simply means "a spell gained from X domain," so it's possible that it wouldn't need to be in a domain slot, but it does need to be that spell. Which leads to the question of whether the...

Going with this point specifically, (and I don't have an opinion of what I would do, so don't shoot me) one of the rebuttals to that is that you're hiring people who could very well be risking their lives in combat. There is no guarantee of safety like with the painters, thus most would...

First of all, just because something has great stats doesn't mean it's powerful. It certainly helps, but that monk would get smacked around by almost any full caster. Note posts such as this which might very well fit your criteria. Yes, the is technically legal, but of course anyone with...

Perhaps one way the centipede scene could have played out is by first doing knowledge checks and then telling the players something about the desert that would definitely interest them. A reclusive hermit that could make them a teleport scroll keyed to the city perhaps. That might have stopped...

If you're worried about hitting things, Greater and Superior Invisibility will knock down their AC too as well as gave you a +2 boost to hit as per the invisible condition, if it's a sighted opponent.

Hm, that does beg the question... What happens when you use the Living Spell template on a necromancy spell? Just a joke of course since those that can get the template would function like any other spell really, but it's still a fun thought. [/offtopic] But yeah, there's a reason I added...

It's a necromancy spell. It just keeps coming back from the dead. Mwahahaha!