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Well, no. You explicitly get to attack as part of the Sustain. It's written into the spell text. So all of that other stuff you wrote doesn't apply.

Suppose we declared that no no-artifact weapon (or implement for 4E gamers) has an attack/damage bonus of more than +1? In fact, assume the same thing for armor and other defense-boosting items. None of them any more than +1. They can have special abilities beyond this +1, but it's all...

This reminds me of one of the old time D&D players, Ryk Spoor (went by the handle of Sea Wasp) who used to post on the usenet D&D forums. He used to talk about a power level chart that he had developed for wishes that clarified what each wish could do, depending on the source. So a wish from...

They've already beaten him once. Don't forget that the last time Xykon and Redcloak faced off against a united Order of the Stick, Xykon got sent to chill in his phylactery and Redcloak ran away. True it was due to taking advantage of a battlefield hazard (the Gate) plus Roy's quick thinking...

Not to mention that the Order of the Stick actually defeated him in their first encounter due to some smart tactical thinking by Roy. He's only still around because Redcloak got away with his phylactery.

I think everybody's missing the forest for the trees. The problem isn't that a grappled character remains grappled. The problem is the shut-down nature of a grapple. A grappled character can't cast most of their spells, probably can't attack with their weapons, and pretty much can't do...

I think complaints that Vaarsuvius is ruining O-Chul's plans are a little overblown. O-Chul has been working on the MitD for a while now, and he probably has a while still to go to get results. I don't think the Monster was right on the verge of turning on Xykon or anything. If Vaarsuvius can...

It's not like Vaarsuvius has been loitering around for an hour. It's probably been barely a couple of minutes since Elan and Durkon walked into the room. While avoiding extra time of having your soul committed to fiends is a good thing, Vaarsuvius randomly doing something because he's in a big...

What are folks' feelings on Summoning type Dailies? At least for lower levels, have to trade your own attack for the Summons' generally pretty weak attack isn't that great. The main benefit is to have the Summon soaking up some extra attacks and that you don't have to sustain it every round if...

If somebody wants to run Sailor Moon in D&D, I for one am happy they should have the option to do so.

What calculation should we employ? If a PC has gone to that much trouble to max out a particular skill, then arguably a near autosuccess is appropriate. Do we give a monster a 10% chance of beating a maxed PC? A 5% chance?

It's my opinion that there's no point in statting out any god higher than mid-thirties. Past that point, PCs can't possibly defeat them, so why do you need stats? Sure there's the epic quest to get some thingamajiggie to reduce them in power enough that you can take them on option. (Which...

The interesting thing there is that the specialized Diplomat is probably going to make his check anyway. It's the middling character, who might be trained in Diplomacy but not have Charisma as a primary or secondary attribute (or vice versa) who could really use the boost. Characters who are...

The rules as written say that NPCs don't have to obey the same rules as PCs. An NPC doesn't need nulticlass feats. You want to give him a wizard power, you just declare it so.

If you're playing a gnome, it's advisable to think carefully when the DM asks you to put your miniatures on the board. Don't be afraid to ask about random barrels, chairs, sacks of grain, or other items that might conceivably be in the room but that the DM didn't bother to draw on the...

He's not being an idiot. I suspect that the DM knows perfectly well what the base rules are and has decided to change them because he thinks it makes sense for his campaign and game world. There's absolutely nothing wrong with doing that. The rules exist to serve the game at the table, not...

I don't really think of xp as a reward or incentive. Playing the game, roleplaying, winning fights, is its own reward. Players do it because they enjoy it. If they didn't, they'd do something else. Nobody roleplays out of a desire to see their imaginary character experience imaginary stat...

You can use the Heal skill to: 1) Give somebody their Second Wind in combat. 2) Stabilize a dying character in combat. Why does a druid need magical healing powers beyond that?

I would make Literacy a background benefit. Choose the right background, and you can pick literacy as your one free background benefit. If you want to learn to read at a later date, spend a specified amount of time in game and declare you're doing so. That's about all the mechanical level it...

It's even built into the ritual. Eye of Alarm gets to make Perception checks against Stealth. It doesn't see creatures automatically. (Well, unless you cast the super-high Arcana check Tremorsense version.) The way to actually handle this would be for one of the group's Stealthy characters...