Search results

Two questions: 1. Using D&D 3.x rules (and subject to DM approval), mechanically what what would you do to create a character that was a human raised as a dwarf (genetically human but culturally dwarf)? I'm thinking she wouldn't get darkvision, but how about stonecunning? Not stability...

Seems to me there is a similar theme of "making things easier to find" between the new Wizards monster stat blocks and this new character sheet. 'Course, I don't really like either, but I'm like that.

I get lost all the time in RL, so I've always liked the idea of a minotaur PC. Oh, and the massive axe is cool too.

I side with Particle Man (and Kant, by the way). Law and Chaos are the means that are preferentially used to achieve the ends of Good or Evil. If you think that lying to save someone is "more good" than telling the truth (even if someone is hurt because of truth-telling), you merely define...

Korimyr, Monstrous Humanoid get full BAB, no?

What keeps me going back to OoTS I just keep telling myself, "Zykon is coming with his zombie army. Zykon is coming with his zombie army." It keeps these saccharine days from getting too sweet. I want to see Roy's new sword in action.

I have used this, and just had to limit the players to not take a level of three different classes (since we don't use favored classes to limit multiclassing) and pick different favored saves. Since characters in my campaign are not very "optimized" and more flavor-rich, this has never really...

I have tries doing the same thing, so I understand how difficult it is. From what I read here, this means that a werebear or weretiger needs to take feats to be able toattack in were-form, but the other shapes do not? That seems very artificial, but I understand you need to do something to...

I will be the first to bring up "balance": how do you think these changes will affect the CR of encounters, or for PCs their ECL? I really don't think the Large template is ECL +0, since a 10' reach and larger weapons makes a measurable difference, especially at low levels. I really like the...

Random Suggestions regarding "crunch": 1. Average ability score bonuses between two templates, or just pick one set as the "dominant" side 2. Only take some immunities from each list, or same as above Random suggestions regarding "fluff": 1. Appearance will be very difficult to work out...

Higher BAB than fighter, better saves than fighter, better number of feats than fighter, some extra cool abilities that fighters don't get. Not balanced with fighter. I didn't "catch the vision" for this class, but I can't see anyone letting it into a game with standard PHB classes.

I wonder if the problem that one specific player of mine with assigning skill points at leveling up has less to do with a complicated system and more to do with a poor character "vision." I thought for some players this might take less focus off of out-of-character decisions at leveling. My...

Anyone tried this out in a game yet: d20srd.org: Alternative Skill Systems: http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/buildingCharacters/alternativeSkillSystems.htm#maximumRanksLimitedChoices Basically, pick some skills as "trained" at character creation. These are effectively always at max ranks...

Belkar's buzz cut I think it has always been there now, but that doesn't mean it has always been there before. But I had to read "1984" in school and have a disposition to paranoia.

Amen. Same experience here. We have too many ideas for fun play to get too attached to a particular party.

"Isle of Dread" came with the Blue "Expert" box, right? That one. I was 10, and by the end we had a triceratops for a pet. Rules were less restrictive in those days, especially as a 10 year old DM.

To younger audience: It is like playing a character in a video game, only you describe the character on paper and then one of your friends tells the story instead of watching it on the screen. To slightly older audience: You ever read any "choose your own adventure" books, where at the end of...

...Centaurs have darkvision? I was reading about centaurs on d20srd.org and discovered that they have darkvision. I have been playing this game for 20 years, and have run centaurs times without counting, and never noticed this. And looking up their type, monstrous humanoids come with...

"Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil" has a Madness domain for Clerics that looks a lot like this, but more streamlined. I'm not sure where else to find it if you don't already have the book.

My favorites from my early years of D&D: goblin, hobgoblin, bugbear, orc skeleton, zombie, wraith displacer beast, blink dog, unicorn, pegasus, griffon, roc giant spider, giant scorpion purple worm animated statue, flesh golem, stone golem, iron golem