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Agreed. Shooting to disable happens in video games, movies and some cheesy RPGs. <g> Shooting in real life is nothing like a video game. Don't open your coat to reveal a gun and knife, and then walk towards a cop, and you probably won't get shot.

Does anyone know of a good greyhawk map that I can use as a background image for Visio? I have used the Eric_Anondsen maps (which may well be the best maps I have ever seen) but the group is currently in the Celene/Veluna/Furyondy area and to my knowledge, he doesn't have one for that area. I...

Nevermind. Just saw the variable part to it...

Interesting. Color me corrected.

Yes. As another thread mentions, this is where stuff like blindsight (as well as armour fortification) come in real handy...

I addressed how I would handle it in my game. Random roll (because I have no desire to map it all out, blah, blah, blah). I don't think effect of spell or ability is an accurate situation given the limitations on what effects a mirror image (if the caster isn't effected, then none of them will...

Actually, I think you would be surprised at home many do. I believe, but don't have time to research, that in fact most do still live in "rural" areas like that.

Splash damage doesn't occur, to my knowledge, without an attack roll. In the context of alchemists fire, you have to make a ranged touch attack, which if it fails renders the attack (and the splash damage) ineffective. IMO you are confusing the attack action with the damage result.

QFT.

That is because you are confusing cause and causation. The proper chain of logic is this: Surprise round | \ / Flat footed - I can do an AoO while flatfooted | \ / Unaware - I can't act while unaware The unaware supersedes the flat footed effect, which is illustrated by flat footed being an...

I would have ruled the same. The flat footed effect of the surprise round is the result of being unaware. Creatures that are unaware (which are also flat footed) can't act. Your player is only correct in that he is only dealing with part of the situation (flat footed) while ignoring the unaware...

I think getting rid of "all of them" is wishful thinking. Yes, a flask of alchemists fire will deal a point of damage to all creatures withing 5 ft of the point of impact, but mirror image doesn't require all images to be within 5 ft of the caster, rather "these figments separate from you and...

Here is how I would adjudicate it. Mirror Image vs. Blindsight. The keys are the following from Mirror Image: "When you and the mirror image separate, observers can’t use vision or hearing to tell which one is you and which the image" and the following from Blindsight: "Some creatures have...

A corollary to this that I have heard from many of my European friends (and when I lived in Europe) is how American's never see how other countries live. For example, it's quite common for folks in Europe to go all over Europe visiting other countries on vacation, etc. Of course, we do...

y'alls appropriate? As in, "all of y'alls stuff". If so, should it be "y'all's" :D

IMO, that's why they are easily abused. 5000XP should be one hell of a price to pay. 15K should, in many cases, effectively wipe out sessions worth of gaming benefits. My last long term character was a cleric that retired at 22nd level I believe, after 3+ years of gaming. That XP cost set me...

For 5000XP, sure.

IMO that question is answered by a DM's creativity. What does an invisible wall of force look like? Personally, I'd go with a brick wall with graffiti from ethereal hoodlums... :D

This is how I have seen it handled as well (and in practice, our party lost a couple of folks to an assassin before we invested heavily in blindsight type items for this exact reason).

Here's my understanding, and the way I have seen it adjudicated. FoM does not grant an automatically successful swim check. However, if someone makes their swim check while under a FoM there is no movement penalty. So a human making their swim check would swim at 30 while under a FoM, not 1/4...