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We use a rule that I think was inspired by True20. Not only can people take 10 when not threatened and 20 when there's no consequence for failure but people can take 5 under any circumstances whatsoever. Whenever a DC is 5 or less over the PC's skill we declare it an auto-success and move on...

DMG 3.5 page 15 "The important point to remember regarding the actions of player characters during an adventure is that each player controls his or her own character. Don't force a character to take a specific action (unless the character is under a magical compulsion; see below)." And when we...

I've been doing some thinking about this myself recently. If they're willing to spend 2 minutes, yes. It seems like a good idea when you spot the treasure sitting on a plinth or a heavily reinforced door to take 2 minutes out of your schedule to check for any traps. Don't forget aid other if...

I do sometimes look at my earliest gaming books, (in a sorrowful state of disrepair) and worry about my 3.x books. Still my oldest books have served me well for 15 years, so there's some hope. I have been considering buying some spares just in case though. Printing out the SRD is a good idea...

Some might argue that this is why Clerics have high will saves. Anyway, it is a perpetual problem in games that you may have a perceptive player controlling a stupid character or a socially inept player who supposedly runs a charming bard for their character. In this case what's written on the...

My reaction to Dragon Magazines is to treat them like I were converting 2nd edition material. It may have some really good ideas and be expressed in a very familiar set of terms, but it may need a lot of modification to fit into a balanced 3.5 game. I don't usually include them as written, but...

I'm assuming that this player has committed horrible crimes against you and earned your enmity somehow? Perhaps you have sworn some sort of vow to make them suffer? That's the only possible reason I can think of that you would DECREASE the power of the Arcane Archer from the rules as written...

I don't have all my books with me right now, but I think there is a feat to allow you to do that. Maybe called 'Cutpurse' maybe in Complete Adventurer but I can't be 100% sure.

I'm sorry, this class is completely broken. By 3rd level you can easily cast wish or any other ninth level spell once per two days. All you need to do is get a modifier spellcraft of 35 for one full round. Create the channel for the 9th level spell that you want. Then (assuming INT 20) take...

After seeing this tactic used to brutal effectiveness I have since house-ruled that any spell or magic item designed to manipulate mass or weight of an object has random unpredictable effects on its aerodynamics. This means that such objects shift somewhat randomly in the air and can not be...

But it's clearly marked as a new and different game. If I'm playing NWoD Werewolf: The Forsaken then I'm not playing OWoD Werewolf: The Apocalypse so why should I expect them to be the same? I'm glad you guys took so many risks with the new setting. Okay, so I don't like some of the new books...

If you have the free time, perhaps you could have the player create a first level character and come over on a non-game night. Together you could play through the past 'highlights' of the PC's career. You wouldn't do the entire adventures, but maybe one or two encounters per character level...

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Um, problem. 1) Programmed Illusion doesn't work that way. The DM needs to reread the spell description and take note that it includes only Visual (sight), Auditory (hearing), Olfactory (smell) and Thermal (heat) elements. The word he's looking for is Tactile, meaning to touch. It's a...

Ah, eight 15th level guys. Well, that'll certainly make a difference. It'll still be a hard encounter, but sounds like it will be an really exciting adventure that they'll remember for a long time. Sounds like fun.

Can the players run away? Because while any encounter 4 CRs over their level can be deadly dragons are already powerful for their CR. This is likely to be a TPK scenario. Just out of fairness I'd recommend allowing a Knowledge: Arcane check for them to realize that a dragon of this size and age...

That is an absolutely awesome idea. Hope you don't mind if I steal it for my campaign setting (to run, not publish or anything) because I've been looking for ways to flesh out the gnomes and give them some cultural identity. Of all the core races, gnomes and halflings are the ones I have the...

My reading of it is that Xykon usually doesn't care about anything because nothing is a threat to him. If he were to die, he'd just resurrect himself next to the phylactery. He wasn't really an idiot or fun guy before, just operating under a rather alien mindset of an eternal creature with no...

I'm currently playing in a True20 game and preparing to run a 3e game. No one I know is terribly interested in 4th edition. I'm not really interested myself. I'm sure I could find a group playing 4e if I really wanted or maybe even convince my friends to give it a try if I run it. However I'm...

Nicely written post and poll. It made your question very clear. I usually DM and voted that I acknowledge the problem but think the solution you've posed is unreasonable. Mostly because any power gamer knows how to get their effective caster level high enough to beat any spell resistance...