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  1. Malin Genie

    Moving in a grapple question

    This question has come up a few times in my games, as I play a half-orc Bbn/Rgr (contemplating possibly going for Sacred Fist) who grapples a lot: Can I move while grappling (i.e. dragging my opponent along with me?) Some of the many rulings I have encountered: (1) If you win a grapple check...
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    Broken spells?

    Actually, I'm really surprised nobody's thrown up teleport. Once the party and/or their enemies are capable of casting that, the entire game changes. In 3E even the 'misses' aren't nearly as deadly as they used to be
  3. Malin Genie

    Anyone done work on a Shaman "core class"?

    I did a quick Shaman class on another thread; based off the Bard class rather than the Cleric class. In essence, BAB 3/4, hd d6, light armour, shield and simple weapons (like the Bard) although if you are going for primitive/animist feel you could simply use druid proficiences, minus, of...
  4. Malin Genie

    Most and Least Powerful Skills

    Most useful: Spot Listen Tumble Search Concentration (for spellcasters) or the Hide/MS duo Least: Innuendo Read Lips (both cool ideas, just never really see much light. Possibly in very specific types of campaign) Intuit Direction (even though my character has 3 ranks in it...) Forgery...
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    Sacred Fist - is it worth it?

    The class seems to have a lot of nice abilities (evasion, uncanny dodge, and eventually blindsight and no shadow blows at higher levels), some minor spellcasting, and good For/Ref saves (although poor Will saves and lower hp) I play a Bbn4/Rgr1 longspear wielder with Combat Reflexes and...
  6. Malin Genie

    How to do a Low Magic Campaign?

    That's a very general question. Do you want to keep the 'type' of magic the same while reducing the power? Solution 1 --> Allow spellcasting to be picked up only after a certain point (for example, the first four character levels must be in fighter, barbarian, ranger, paladin, rogue or...
  7. Malin Genie

    Broken spells?

    I would say that Polymorph Self and Polymorph Other are gamebreakers as written. For a 4th level spell, the party fighter can gain reach, huge strength and constitution, and natural armour (as a troll - if you are a 14th level caster and go Stone Giant it is worse!) I would change Polymorph to...
  8. Malin Genie

    A query: Harm House rule users ONLY please

    As heal not only repairs hp damage but ability drain, insanity, poison, disease, etc I always thought that it was kind of liniting that harm only focused on hp damage. I was playing around with the idea that Harm could inflict poison (as the poison spell), disease (as the contagion spell,)...
  9. Malin Genie

    Link to that face making program?

    Amazing site!
  10. Malin Genie

    Different Harm variant

    Given that Heal cures blindness, deafness, insanity, disease and hp loss, there is no real "opposite" to Heal. Harm has arbitrarily taken the "hp" component and "reversed" it, but as much discussion on these boards has suggested this choice has led to huge balance issues. What if Harm were...
  11. Malin Genie

    ForceUser's Vietnamese Adventures Story Hour! (finis)

    Bump This post is self-explanatory. Move along. Nothing to see here. (Except, of course, a fantastic Story Hour. Many Kudos!!)
  12. Malin Genie

    3E art and age

    27. DiTerlizzi is my all-time favourite artist of any edition. 3e art - there's good, bad and indifferent, but overall the quality is high. As a previous poster noted, the 'parchment' chapter headings are beautifully done.
  13. Malin Genie

    House Rules on Death and Dying?

    IMC the stabilisation check is a 19 or 20 on a d20. I have changed the Toughness Feat to give +3 to Stabilisation checks as well as +3 hp. Unaccountably it's more popular now :-) and has saved a death or two.
  14. Malin Genie

    Need help creating desert dwarves

    Very nice idea! I would agree with favoured class: Ranger I think that the Desert Metabolism ability is a little *too* good in a desert environment - perhaps half the amount of water and double the time (2 days + 2x Con hrs) without water? +2 racial bonus to Spot checks and Intuit Direction...
  15. Malin Genie

    I'm annoyed at archers.

    I like the idea of preventing GMW from affecting multiple arrows - but I've always thought 1/50 of the item price was too much to pay for magical arrows. Maybe 1/200 though, rather than 1/500 - but the exact number can be tweaked. Good idea anyway.
  16. Malin Genie

    Wulf's Collected Story Hour -- FINAL UPDATE 12/25

    Small-boy-on-small-boy action. Only in Wulf's Story Hour. Proudly brought to you by Eric's Grandma's Line, along the edge of which this Story Hour carefully walks. ^_^
  17. Malin Genie

    Anybody else hate facing?

    I will probably *yoink* the Shield fix for my home campaign.....thanks for the idea PlaneSailing! Shadow64 - perhaps the problem I have is the interaction of the turn system and the 'facing' system. You can reposition your 'wall' every 6 seconds but then opponents get to run around it as if it...
  18. Malin Genie

    'Origin' of Your User Name

    Descartes. Originally it was 'geniemalin' (the English word order, which I still am on other fora) but the French feel that the adjective 'evil' is one of the few important enough to go before the noun. ^_^
  19. Malin Genie

    Grease save

    By the rules a Reflex save. If using the 'grease the floor' option I make it a choice (although nearly all characters and monsters seem to have better Reflex saves than Balance checks...) Grease is a fantastically versatile spell. As a readied action against a charging or running opponent...
  20. Malin Genie

    Bardic music - detectable?

    If they are fascinated, they do not notice the suggestion attempt. Others around who are familiar with bardic abilities might notice the interaction but I would say it is a pretty subtle ability.
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