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As I may have let on in previous threads/posts I'm interested in doing mass combat and such in my campaigns. Now everyone knows that PCs should not be up on the wall fighting like common foot soldiers, they should be sneaking out of the city and setting fire to siege weapons and attacking the...

I had this problem in my campaign with the groups sorcerer. She had so many AOE attacks that the usual method of Big Bad with swarm of lower level baddies, was being wiped up in about two rounds. I found that if you want to keep the parties magics users occupied, or at least give them enemies...

While I was building my latest wizardy character and picking out certain spells I'm planning on taking I was looking at the enhancement spells like Eagle's Splendor and Cat's Grace etc. and I've noticed that, even though they're not blowing tons of stuff up they're very good spells (excellent...

That kinda hits the nail on the head if you ask me. Wizards and such need that kind of high Intelligence to figure out the subtle nuances of casting the big spells that tell the laws pf psychics to sit down and shut up. In the case of Sorcerers and other classes that spontaneously cast I look...

While I think this could work generally, I wouldn't use this. Some of the mutations are very specific and unless you have a DM that can weave a story around environments where every PC has a chance to show off his mutation and shine, I wouldn't do it. You should pick up the Beastiary 2 and...

I've played a Magus and yeah, I think once you spend the points from your arcane pool the effect is applied on your weapon. I choose to think of it like a shortcut, it does the activation thing for you. Now if you had a normal weapon that had a fiery enchant on it, as a DM, I wouldn't add the...

They don't seem to be but a creative player could abuse them. But really, the number is so low that it hardly seems worth it. - - - - - - - - - - - Going with the hierarchy idea, I cam across something when I was looking over the animate dead spell. Sorcerers and Wizards get Animate Dead at...

That's actually good, the siege battle is going to be the final encounter of the campaign, the PCs being led on a "wild goose chase" distracting them from the necromancer slaughtering outlying borders towns for his troops. Doing something similar to that can be an optional ending if the PCs get...

I know this is hijacking my own thread, but what do you think about the enemy using catapults to fire Earth Elements onto the walls instead of boulders.

That was my initial plan. Destroying an artifact is a nice high level quest, especially since there would be other Lich's or evil necromancers who'd love to be able to raise as many Undead as they could. The trouble is coming up with good destruction rules. Thanks a lot! Bookmarking these...

3.5 supplements still have a strong place in our games so that'd be fine. Can you get me a link to the Dread Necromancer class, I can convert it to Pathfinder myself though. As for the whole cauldron thing, I was thinking more of a crystal of some sort... I just like crystals. But yes, a thing...

How about answering what kind of bonuses you get if you go into combat mounted?

I'm designing a Wizard turned Lich main boss for an undead campaign I'm running in a homebrew setting. At the end it's supposed to culminate in a Minas Tirith/ Helm's Deep style siege with the Wizard/Lich leading his undead army. I'm making him level 15 and his army is mostly comprised of normal...

Rooftops, gotta love rooftops.

I don't have a 1-20 build of my characters but I do try and plan what feats, skills and spells to take when to let my character do what I want him to do. Our DM is pretty good about tailoring adventures to his players talents. If you build a wizard to be Mr. Evocation, expect hordes of lowbies...

Is meta-gaming as the DM really that bad? I know my players pretty well, I know what they excel at and what they're lacking and I tailor my encounters to that. For example, our monk has specced himself to be able to trip anything with two legs and disarm anyone, unless they're Huge size or...

After reading through everything I have to say that kicking this guy out might be the best solution if he won't change his ways. If that's really not an option you could try making him DM for a little. Of course there's always the problem that he could wind up like the bad player we tried that...

For the longest time I had a sadistic DM who would give us very challenging but very fair fights and quests and the like until about level 5. Once we hit level five however he pulled out all the stops. I don't know about you but pitting four level five PCs, even if two of them are a paladin and...

Now before the flaming begins, I know that taking a prestige class doesn't mean your Rogue wakes up one day and becomes a Duelist. It's a representation of how much power your rogue has gained that they now have the abilities of a first level Duelist, or whatever class and prestige class you...

I've got an 8th level Magus who recently lost his Breastplate. Long story, boring ending. In the party's latest loot table though there is a set of +1 Full Plate. I can't use this with no spell failure until level 13 and since we play with slow XP progression that could be a while. What I want...