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It doesn't provide rules for building them from the ground up, but does it have to? The beginning of Fiend Folio has a very large section detailing all the rules for swarms. They don't go so far as to say what type of hit die, BAB, saves, or attacks that Swarms get... but is all that...

Yup, the Fiend Folio details rules for swarm creatures. I don't think they've been presented in any other book.

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Hmmm... perhaps you're right... the Dire Boar should have probably counted as "equipment" in an odd sort of way, and then it simply would have been automatically figured into the cost of the NPC's treasure value. I'll have to remember that for next time. I have an upcoming encounter in my...

It's sort of similar how you don't count the CR of the animal companion of a Druid or Ranger into an encounter - they're sortof automatically accounted for - or so I've assumed. I did count a beast in the CR of an encounter from a Wizard who had a Ring of Animal friendship though. Since Animal...

Most people here will say "Yes" that you get a separate attack against all the images. This is because each image counts as a "target", in the sense that when attacking a Mirror Imaged wizard with a bow, for example, you could say "I rapid shot, and fire an arrow at image #2 and image #4" and...

Have the PCs be orcs/goblins/bugbears/ogres, etc... that are suddenly facing a menace of their own kind. Recently, the PCs have had to be on the move more and more because of armies of adventurers hunting their villiage. It turns out that the tribe of the PCs is being blamed for countless...

I haven't seen the PDF... but I LOVE Deadlands. My only REALLY big complaint about this system is the REQUIREMENT of multiple books. You can play a NORMAL character with the Player's Guide AND the Marshall's handbook (Marshall's handbook is practically required... it's not supplemental info...

The only reason one of MY players would want a Scimitar to be Finessable would be to further min/max his or her player. IMO, It's already easy enough to min/max in D&D... the players don't need more help. If a high dex player wants to take advantage of a high dex, he need to pick an...

I would agree. I'd simply say that any "negative energy" effect which drains anything qualifies as an "energy drain" attack. There might be exceptions that I can't think of right now... but that's my initial thinking.

Where does it say that in the rules. The spell only talks about the wizard and the weapon moving out of the spell's range. There is no mention whatsoever of line of sight or line of effect. You're pulling that from nowhere, unless it's mentioned in the errata or the FAQ, which I admit I...

Sorry, that's what I meant. I didn't think we were literally talking about sight through the familiar's eyes here. By "use" the blindsight, I meant as per how the wizard can get information from the bat.

I suppose I would allow the spritual weapon to track a phase spider and keep attacking it, even once the spider had gone etherial. However, you can't cast this spell and just designate "The invisible wizard". If you cast this spell on the wizard, and then he subsequently made himself invisible...

Both my Fiend Folio and Races of Faerun were warp-free! Has anyone else had difficulty with the PAPER though? I was reading Races of Faerun, and I suffered from a little bit of "sweating thumb" syndrome. When I moved my thumb, I had succeeded in blurring out some text. Now I have to be very...

Invisibility does not stop a bat's blindsight ability, but Silence does. You should allow a wizard to use the bat's blindsight. It is the primary method by which a bat "sees" anyways.

Historically, reach weapons are slashing and piercing weapons to be held against a charge of enemies. Bludgeoning weapons would be too heavy to weild effectively at the end of a pole. The lucern hammer's "Hammer" is really just a heavy weight so you can "drop" the peircing end down onto...

Lemme just clarify my thinking when I say that a +4 to an attribute should automatically make that race a +2 ECL. Attribute bonuses are HUGE advantages. There are ways to get around the absense of to hit bonuses (more str) skills (more int) hit points (more con) and so on and so forth. I...

NO +1 ECL race should get a +4 to ANY attribute, no matter what the penalty is. In my mind, a +4 to an attribute automatically makes it a +2 ECL.

Just to make a MINOR point here... compared to Genasi, Aasimar are on the HIGH end of a +1 ECL. They have 2 +2 stats, NO attribute penalties, some minor spell abilities, and elemental resistance. Compared to the Genasi who have a +2 stat and a -2 stat... that's a large difference. I've always...

I also assumed that new DR would still take enhancement bonuses into account. So we'd have DR 5/Magic +1, or DR 10/Magic +3 for something really powerful. Otherwise, once someone has an enhancement bonus on a weapon, no one is going to bother enchanting anything up to a +2 anymore... we'll...