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Standard construct traits like the inability to heal via Cure spells? I wonder how accurately "+1 LAish" describes +.85 LA. Good for the Maug. But it's more vulnerable to ranged attacks (like the 3rd level Fireball that' so terrifying) than it is to melee attacks. Is there something you...

I would count those construct HD against all the other benefits I asked you about. I still don't know if they have SR, DR, and other immunities. It certainly isn't +0 LA. Closer to +1, surely. What detriments do you weigh against reach (which factors into your chain-wielding tripmonkey)? -1 AC...

Hmm. I may need to play some Shadowrun... Still, I dig putting those elements into fantasy.

As was understood. Don't have the book, though. I did see on the interweb several examples of PC Maugs that were clearly broken. As in, no racial HD and only +1 LA. Which is why I asked. Yours does not seem nearly as unreasonable as those others. I'm confident we can hash this out... Large...

May I ask (again) what the LA and racial HD burden of a Maug is?

I just finished watching the hilariously terrible Johnny Mnemonic, and between guffaws I thought that a lot of elements in the movie would make a wonderful transition to my D&D game. (Shadowrun too, I imagine, if I played it.) Enchanting couriers to carry messages without being able to read or...

The Power Attacking Greatsword wielding Maug will deal more damage, and go through more PCs who think that closing to melee is a good idea, than the Chain wielder. The PCs won't have the hilarious time getting tripped, but how much more hilarious is getting Cloven? Nor do I suggest such. I...

This changes little; that'll take care of the Will saves, but since it has that power as well, there should either be a complimentary weakness or the monster should be thrown at tougher PCs. How crippling is its LA and racial HD? If it's large, the ECL* goes up. If it is immune to all...

Only if the party doesn't have someone capable of casting a Will save spell. Seriously, if you put all your resources into doing one thing extraordinarily well, yes, you'll do that thing very well, but you'll open yourself to some glaring weaknesses while you're at it.

Frankly I think it would be more in keeping with the flavor of the Alienist if his madness and insanity crept into even his illusionary creatures. It may not be mandated by the rules, but I'd make those summoned illusions pseudonatural whether the Alienist wills it or not.

Great stripping by Rich, as always. Heh. So since the comic started with the 3.5 revision, is the release of 4e going to prompt the breaking of the Snarl's prison and the destruction of the world?

Perhaps this is not meant to be objective, but this description paints the players in a poor light. There are indeed unfair encounters, and ways that a DM can exploit his omniscience that put upon the players. Because this description is equally as vague, it's impossible to say what's what...

From memory I thought it was Robert Herrick, but a Google turned up Ovid several times. *shrug* The quote by any other author would sound just as pithy, neh? ;)

Ovid may have something to inform this discussion: "Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason." I just thought there might be an element of this with regard to what is, or is not, whining.

All through the updates (Updates! :D) I was having an evilgasm. Until: Eadric roots for GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY! GO PATRIOTS!

There are also rules against calling someone out on the tone of their post in a post (the accepted remedy being to notify a moderator), so I can understand why you haven't accused anyone by name. But I think this comes as close to an accusation as one can without crossing that particular line...

Yes: the difference is the quality of taste satisfaction! Though wine may be a better analogy for Mind Flayer brains; one glass every night with dinner for the wine drinker becomes one brain a day for the Flayer. A cranialier, perhaps? "Ah yes, this is a full bodied Amnian, with undertones of...

Pfft. I'd have known that if I was paying attention. As if. :heh: :D Not bad for two-handed weapon tanks either.

2-handed weapon. Some bard spell still have somatic components, and you can't use somatic components if you have a weapon in both hands. Also, you'll get more from Power Attack. And of course there is the small matter of your Alignment. A Bard cannot be Lawful and advance in the class and a...

Any particular reason you don't want to use a Huge Monstrous Spider and simply call it a "Dire Spider"?