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Hiding does (or should) give you the same benefit as being invisible - +2 to attack and opponent loses Dex bonus to AC. The reason invisible people get the +2 to hit and no opposing Dex is because their opponents can't see them. If a person has Hidden successfully from his opponents...

Actually, the example of the cat isn't relevant, since a cat is only two sizes smaller than a human. A better example would be a human trying to grapple a mouse that didn't want to be held. That's the relative difference between a troll and a cat. That said, if you do successfully grapple a...

My DM was saying that anything with an attack role could be used to coup de grace - I tried my acid splash spell, for example. Even though I did 6 damage with a coup de grace critical, the troll easily made the DC 16 Fortitude save. After rereading the PHB, I don't think you can use a spell...

Last night a troll grabbed my character's cat familiar. According to the rules, it was a grapple, which means you use the grapple rules. However, the grapple rules made no sense. Two problems: 1. When a Large creature grapples a Tiny creature, the Large creature is considered grappled...

Last night our party fought a troll for the first time. There was some confusion about how to finally kill it. The rules on regeneration say that you can kill a troll by delivering a coup de grace. However, unless the damage is fire or acid, it can't kill the troll. You can only deliver a...

Révision de l'action d'Altran: Toujour couché au sol et voyant que Créature 1 est demi-cachée de lui à cause d'une colonne et de son compagnon le nain, Altran décide de viser sur Créature 3, qui est plus accessible. Jet d'attaque 15 + 2 - 4 (pour tirer au mileu d'un combat) = 13. 2 dégats...

Is it necessary? The Law/Chaos isn't necessary to play the game. However, it might add to the game if it were consistently defined, say as Order vs. Chaos or Law vs. Crime. Right now LG and CG characters and groups can work together in WotC settings. However, LG and LE cannot. Heck, LN...

I have thought of this, and I think it is possible. The item creation feats simply require a caster level and the ability to cast the prerequisite spell once per day. Perhaps rules as written a spell-like ability does not count because it is not strictly speaking a spell. However, it's hard...

Action 1: Altran charge son arbalète, et puis il attend que Thrin sorte de case I17 et le couloir (changement d'initiative à 18, après Thrin). Quand Thrin sera sorti du couloir, Altran se déplacera en L17. Son Esquive est contre Créature 3. Action 2: Altran voit Créature 1. Il se met par...

Neither - it's an aberration :)

The sorcerer class doesn't make sense. Sorcerers supposedly possess "raw power that they direct at will," yet they have to abide by the same verbal, somatic, and material components that wizards do. I think it makes more sense for sorcerers to have spell-like abilities. Spell-like abilities...

Elder Basilisk, I hope that WotC hires you when they start working on 4.0 so that you make one of two following things happpen: 1. Law/Chaos are thrown out of D&D. OR 2. Law/Chaos are given objective and consistent definitions. I couldn't agree more with your analysis. The question in...

OOC: Après avoir lancé le sort, Altran s'est déplacé en I18, pas J17. (Je voulais qu'il se protège derrière le coin pendant qu'il chargeait son arbalète.)

Remember that unless the wizard speaks Celestial, he can only indicate enemies for the creature to attack, no torturing.

Good points. You're especially right about the Balance skill. Each time it has been used in a game I'm in, it always ends up in a Reflex save. "You failed your Balance check? Okay, make a Reflex save to see if you fall." ???? Also, there's really no need for the Search skill. Right now...

Why not just go with the Star Wars VP/WP system? I think that system can handle normal D&D magic without too much tweaking, although you have to figure out which classes get which defensive bonus.

Je n'étais pas sûr, et je dois savoir pour mes sorts et pour le déplacement. Guillaume, peux-tu confirmer qu'Altran doit être en case I17 dans la carte?

Whoa! That's just what I was going to say! Ciaran's right. When you look for things nearby it's Search, while if you look for things far away it's Spot. Just get rid of Search, increase the DCs for secret doors by 5, and give a +5 bonus for active Spotting.

I don't really see anything wrong with giving all the classes +2 skill points to their base. This would give characters more points to play around with cross class skills.

You might say that the spells duplicate the effects of a successful skill roll.