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Never. We don't have a battlemat or minis, and the most we'll ever do is ask for a Cheesy GM Map, which is a very roughly scrawled diagram on a piece of notebook paper that we can look at. This is true in every system we play, not just D&D. I can see some circumstances where having a mat...

But if they meant to replace the word bracers with the word amulet, why are they saying to replace the word amulet with the word bracers? In other words, which takes precedence: the instructions that where it says "amulet" I'm supposed to put in the word "bracers" instead, or the page number...

You know, I never even noticed the iconic characters in the core books until (contact) did such a hilarious job inserting them into his Liberation of Tenh story hour. This, to me, says that the iconic characters are being used correctly. They appear only in illustrations or are mentioned as an...

I swear quite a bit, so most of my characters do, too. (My mom was a registered nurse, so I probably heard more profanity growing up than the kids of a Marine Corps Drill Instructor. ;) ) They're just very useful words to me, words that express a range of sentiments in one or two syllables...

The 3.0 DMG errata corrected that by making them Bracers of Health instead (which they already were on the random wondrous items table). Did they change it back to an amulet in 3.5? Why would they do that? :\ And not only are gauntlets of ogre power a sacred cow, there's another...

We played a lot of Call of Cthulhu in college, and after discovering the way skills improve in that system (if you succeed in using a skill, there's a chance it'll improve at the end of the scenario) we kept looking for ways to try doing just about anything, on the off chance that we'd succeed...

No one in our group has any of the 3.5 rulebooks, so we're 3.0 by default. Those of us who've looked through the SRD and read the 3.5 reviews really like most of the changes, though, so if we were wealthier (and if we were going to be playing D&D again anytime soon after our Scarred Lands game...

There's usually someone filling the position of leader, at least on an unofficial basis, in any of our games where the PCs are an independent group with no higher authority in charge of them. And sometimes even if there's not an actual in-character group or if there is an NPC authority that's...

Well, the 3.5 SRD says that Call Lightning takes 1 round to cast, and immediately calls down a 3d6 bolt of lightning at the end of casting (and once per round thereafter, for up to 1min/level), and it gives you one bolt per caster level up to a maximum of 10 bolts. They also let you cast it...

...and apparently it doesn't apply to "all." Or at least that seems to be the conclusion I can draw from the examples you're bringing up, and it seems to be the point you're trying to make. So, um, good work. The rule doesn't make any sense. Bravo. How are you planning on fixing it? Isn't...

The only class I really don't ever want to play under any circumstances is the druid. It's not that the druid is a bad class from a mechanics standpoint. Far from it--they're ridiculously powerful and versatile and can do lots of fun things within the game, and I love it when someone else is...

That would probably depend on whether or not your game considers a quickened spell to have any significant somatic components. (After all, a stilled spell is never subject to arcane spell failure, no matter what you're wearing or holding.) Then you'd have to consider whether you'd have a free...

:D We had a similar incident in our Scarred Lands game. We were having a showdown with a very evil organization, and at the start of the fight our paladin more or less called 'em out of their big manor house. We were surprised when it turned out that there were an awful lot of them in there...

Fair enough, and if it's working for your game more often than it causes problems, more power to you. I'll just submit that in this particular case you described, it's obvious that this particular player was not, in fact, aware that his actions would be grounds for losing his paladin abilities...

Which works fine, as long as both you and the player agree that what he's about to do is going to cause a problem for his character. Obviously, that wasn't the case this time around. The player looked at the situation, looked at what he understood a paladin's responsibilities to be, and...

I'll take a different interpretation: if the area of the Wall of Force you can create is greater than the area you're attempting to seal with it, then yes, it would be a perfect seal. I don't see any reason to treat it differently from Wall of Stone or the other Wall spells in that regard. No...

I get where you're coming from, I just disagree with the method. I'm all for giving a warning when a character is about to do something they will suffer for, and giving them a chance to reconsider. I just don't see the point in being vague about it. I mean, I want to warn them and give them a...

^^^^ Agreed: it's certainly much faster that way. The sniper attacks, the target falls down, and at that point the uninjured observer tries to figure out where the arrow came from. So the sniper rolls Hide, with a -20 to his roll because he just shot a guy, plus whatever circumstance bonus...

We've got tons of them, from all kinds of sources. In-jokes are a way of life, it seems. Anyway, our most venerable and relevant gaming in-jokes are "Camp Happy," "I sit in my dinghy and hold my action," and "...the one not closest to me!" The first one is from the AD&D2 game I played in...

Fish, barrel, *blam!* An excellent point. The "Good" part of Lawful Good is the kicker where paladin abilities are concerned. They should lose their paladin status if they do evil, and should be encouraged to do good instead. If they're doing something that is neither evil nor good, it...