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This became a problem in my last Dark Sun campaign that just ended. (The PCs did it several times to NPCs and the NPCs returned the favor to them.) One of the cheap solutions I came up with is that nothing in the teleport description says that the spell displaces matter in the way of the...

I tend towards clerics and paladins (usually dwarves) so Dex is almost always my dump stat. I currently have a human ran1/pal1/cleric14 who has a Dex of 8. Dex is by far my least important stat because my suit of Dwarven Platemail +3 Great Fortification takes care of my AC issues for me...

They actually didnt push the envelope at all. I was bracing myself to see what was actually in there and once I read it my only thouhgt was, "That's it?" I was expecting something more on the level of White Wolf's products based on the complaints I heard. The book is useful source material for...

Honestly, I didn't even notice the picture until you mentioned it and I read my book from cover to cover on wednesday. I do agree with your commentary about lack of good pictures of the creatures in the monster section of the book. I really don't like the pictures of the demon princes, with the...

ALL of the ones in my local gaming store have the sticker. I just ignore it on my copy. Tzarevitch

I don't remember the exact sequence but it involved Wishes to lower the defenses for a round whereupon the spellcasters piled the damage spells on at longest possible range. We then repeated the process for 3 or so rounds using limited wishes as nevessary to simulate other damage spells like...

Your list looks good to me. There isn't anything on it that screams "poor choice." I do have some minor suggestions though. I'd probably swap mass charm or maze (depending on your preference) for Horrid Wilting or some other high-level damage spell. Otherwise the highest level directed damage...

My opinion: 9th lvl: I'd replace Meteor Shower with Gate or Wish. You have too many fire spells on your list. Meteor Shower is also hard to target and does fixed damage. It also doesn't doo that much damage for such a high level spell except to the target of the spread. 8th lvl: Ditch Planar...

The problem is that the time it takes to make something is not necessarily related to the item's finished cost. A very simple object that has high value for the material alone in 3e can actually take longer to make than a very complicated object made of simple materials. The example that I used...

Yeah. When we played it (in 2e) our lawful party didn't even think about stepping in. Even when the Lord High Exultant started cheating we figured that there was something in the rules that we didn't know. Eventually our champion (a 21st level 2e fighter with a girdle of fire giant strength) put...

Re: Spell List Honestly, I wouldn't have taken Greater Dispel yet. At your level, it is not that much better than a standard dispel and your spells known list is few and precious. I don't have the list of 6th level spells in front of me but Disintegrate seems the best choice of the ones I've...

More importantly. There is little reason why Demogorgon would try to attack Grazz't on his home ground. Sure he could probably beat Grazz't hand to hand, but Grazz't wouldn't fight that way and he knows it. He'll use the traps and defenses that he set uo for this contingency and he'll bring the...

Honestly, the Craft rules are pretty bad. For some reason (I guess for reasons of simplicity) they chose to base the time it takes to create an item on its cost rather than actual complexity of manufacture. This generates odities such as it taking longer to make a golden sphere than it would to...

My current cohort in the Birthright game I play in is a trumpet Archon. My character is a Ran1, Pal1, Priest 14 (several prestige class levels included.) Tzarevitch

Amen brother. I couldn't have put it better myself. I'll put my 2 cents in now since this thread is shorter and has much less hot air blowing about. I held this in as long as I could and refrained from commenting on the previous thread, but my will to resist has broken now so here it goes...

Spiteful, yes. Dumb, no. There is nothing wrong with a foe taking an action just because it will enrage a PC. PCs do it all the time. Why shouldn't an evil NPC do the same? The NPC is EVIL after all. Tzarevitch

In Thulsa's defense, sometimes there are good reasons to ban or alter spells. Sometimes the ban is for setting reasons, sometimes it is because the DM simply doesn't like a particular spell (I personally call these "Crack Spells", meaning that I'd have to be on crack before I'd allow these in my...

As I recall in medieval Europe, a handful of universities (which were almost always affiliated with the church) and the church itself tended to have the vast majority of the existing books or manuscripts. Wealthy private collectors (nobles) held the rest. As several people have pointed out...

I agree with Hand of Evil. That idea works better as part of a membership tithe for a wizard's guild than as a national tax. THe problem with using spells as a tax is that spells are not easily convertable into currency (despite what the DMG suggests.) They also don't provide a useful enough...

Re: why IP law? Basically it is considered to be one of the better growth areas as far as practicing law is concerned. The field is growing VERY nicely and to date it has not been saturated by attorneys who are trained to practice that type of law because the requirements for patent law are...