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Sluggy? ;) Once I saw the picture, I knew I had to change my username so I could use it as an appropriate avatar. :o Yeah, I go a bit overboard with my fandom, though I am not yet a Supporter of the Nifty.

Hate bumping myself, but here we go:

I don't generally use house rules, so if there is disagreement, it will be over the grey areas. I tend to talk those over with players to get a consensus. I offer examples of how their interpretation could be used against them. If, after all of that I was consistantly at logger heads with...

Let's go ahead and reprint from the SRD again with some added emphasis: Hide in Plain Sight (Su): A shadowdancer can use the Hide skill even while being observed. As long as she is within 10 feet of some sort of shadow, a shadowdancer can hide herself from view in the open without anything to...

Let us stay with this thread. It can be proven that shadows exist indepent of the ability to percieve them. Does anyone care to contest this fact so that we can lay it to rest once and for all?

I vote for the other.

Ah, back to the origins of the thread. As the above situation: If I can't adjust to the GMs expectations I generally quit the game and thank the GM and other players for their time. Life is too short for games I don't enjoy.

A challange... As I and KarinsDad have pointed out, one's inability to perceive shadow doesn't mean the shadow isn't there. In the shade on a sunny day is still cooler then out of it. Yet no one who thinks that darkvision negates HiPS has responded to that that I have read. Please respond...

Thanks Thanee! Not sure what is wrong with me today...

Well, it is percision based damage, so I would say extra damage on the initial hit, nothing thereafter, like sneak attack damage.

I can't honestly say I see any inconsistancies. HiPS says you can hide in the open with nothing to hide behind as long as you are within 10' of a shadow that isn't your own. HiPS says nothing about using the shadow you are near for concealment. The existance of shadows doesn't depend on the...

For the thousandth time: NO! Shadows exist due to the nature of light, not because of our ability to percieve them. From the SRD: Hide in Plain Sight (Su): A shadowdancer can use the Hide skill even while being observed. As long as she is within 10 feet of some sort of shadow, a shadowdancer...

As a player inclined to argue with the GM when I feel the GM is making a bad call, I try to keep several things in mind: Is this issue big enough to matter but small enough to win? This may seem obvious, but a lot of people, both players and GMs, seem to forget it. Is this a clear cut rule...

I have no problem agreeing to disagree with you on the first part, but it does open up a number of questions that now need answering. By the book, if you cast Silence on an unwilling creature and they make their save, the spell fails. Allowing anyone in the area of effect to make saving throws...

The only problem with this interpretation is that it kind of contradicts the text of the spell. The save is Will Negates, see text. The only Will save that is given in the text is for the direct target of the spell. No mention is made of those who are in the area.

Personally, my favorite use for Silence is to place it on a tripping or grappling fighter type and have them get engage the caster. Monks work particularly well for this, as usual.

Hate to point this out, but ANY caster who is limited in mobility with melee people is boned. In most games I have seen, your average arcane goes down in 1 round, maybe 2, once he is cornered. Clerics and druids only fare slightly better. Silence also does nothing vs. supernatural abilities...

Ride By Attack Not bad, but not really good enough to stay either. PDF - A Menagerie of Summoner Options sound interesting

Well, sure, but it would far and away satisfy my selfish curiousity! ;) That, and if it devolves into "Yes! No! You're stupid! No, you're stupid!", it is nice to have a general idea how people besides the extremes feel. Part of me harkens back to the old 1st edition days when the GM had...

No Poll? I say Nay! It would help if there was a rhyme or reason to it, but, taking Wu Jen as an example, plenty of the spells would work perfectly well on either the Wizard or Druid lists, but aren't, even though others are. Where is the method in their madness?