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Hello all. I'm interested in giving my players some treasure containing magic items that grant the wearer spell resistance. However, when I went looking for such items in the DMG, the only items I could find with spell resistance were armor and shields. If I put a shield or armor that has...

Another convert to the anti-crunch crusade! Can I get an amen?! :)

A lot of responders have been making this point. It is true that when I am creating an NPC for the campaign, I don't keep a close watch on encumbrance limits. (I think most DMs would agree that we've got better things to spend our planning time on than counting up every half pound of...

Hi everyone. I'd like to get some feedback from some fellow DMs about a judgment call I made during the last session. This situation involves a player trying to manipulate the rules to maximize the amount of stuff he can carry. Disclaimer: I realize that some DMs/players don't pay much...

Thanks for all the help so far. I had not considered that a character could be in mid-air at the end of a round... Interesting. But here's a situation that I'd like to get a definitive answer about. The monk (with 40' of base movement) runs 20' in order to take a running jump. Then he...

Why hasn't someone exposed this stinker here on ENWorld yet? I can't believe that prior to this review The Spear of the Lohgin had an average score of 3.6! Let me be very blunt: this is the worst d20 module I've ever read, bar none! Although I don't enjoy trashing the work of others, I have...

One of my players just got a Ring of Jumping, but there has been some controversy as to exactly how it works. There is a small piece of text in the ring's description that some of us in the group are interpreting in different ways. The text says that the ring "..eliminat[es] [the wearer's]...

But the whole premise of my question is that the Sense Motive skill is not supposed to be used as a lie detector. (That's the way my group has used it in the past, but it was recently called to my attention in another thread that that's not the way the skill was intended to be used.) What...

Dear Jester, You asked for the references that my friend is using to support his view. The primary one he is basing his interpretation on is the one that Heifitz referenced above. (The others are just places where the rules refer to "cohorts" plural instead of "cohort" singular.) However...

I'm relatively new to DMing and I have a general question about how multiple characters make opposed skill rolls against multiple characters. I'd be grateful for any input people would be willing to provide. Here's an example to help explain the problem I'm having. Suppose a party of 5...

In a recent thread (can't remember which) I recall reading that many people abuse the Sense Motive skill by turning it into a lie detector. My group is guilty of this abuse, and I want us to change. But I'm so used to the lie-detector version of Sense Motive that I can't even think of what a...

A fellow member of the group I play with has taken the Leadership feat (once). Now when I read the description of the Leadership feat in the DMG it seems abundantly clear to me that the Leadership feat grants *a single* cohort and a number of followers. Although it doesn't say this outright...

I voted for levels 1-3 because I find it very difficult to come up with interesting challenges for parties of low levels. The emphasis here is on *interesting*. I guess I've been playing D&D now for so long that the inevitable orcs/goblins and skeletons/zombies as stock adversaries at low...

Personally, I am opposed to the fixation on "crunchy bits" that a lot of people seem to have. (Nikolai doesn't use that term, but he seems upset that there is "nothing he can use" in Dragon, and that's what I'm responding to here.) For example, I'm sure I'm in the minority when I admit that...

Yep. Since my character has died about 2 times more than everyone else, he is 2 levels lower than all the other characters in the group. Luckily, though, every time I've died recently, the party has been awarded so much XP that I end up leveling back to where I was before. (According to the...

I agree with frankthedm: you need a 9+ option in your poll. In my campaign, the DM was reluctant to kill us until the cleric got to 9th level and was able to cast Raise Dead. Once that happened, the kid gloves came off and the flood gates of character death were opened. I think there were...

1st or 2nd edition I am like the original poster in this thread: intrigued by Hackmaster but knowing nothing about it. Here's what I still don't understand: is it supposed to be based on 1st or 2nd edition D&D? I've opened the books before, and font and layout of the books definitely evokes...

Half Price Books Allow me to echo Krieg's comment about Half Price Books. It is a chain book store that operates in many cities in the Midwest. If you can find one near you, it will definitely be worth your while. Half Price Books is a resale shop where all the books are marked down to half...

pronunciation My DM is going to be running us through this very shortly (so I'm trying hard not to pay attention to any important details). However, I can't help taking this opportunity to ask a question that has been burning within me ever since I bought this module: How do you pronounce...

I have no idea. In the campaign I am currently playing in, the party looted a beholder's lair. After killing the monster, we found a treasure room that had gold, gems, and other valuables piled up almost to the ceiling. The DM never bothered telling us exactly how much it was, so I really...