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Yes, but it can't be used on anyone other than the wand wielder. The fact that it's in a wand or on a scroll doesn't change the fact that it's "Personal". Yes. Spell trigger items are command activated. Remembering the 'Swish and Flick" thing, eh? :) Cool. The answer is no, though most do...

I generally try to remember that the world doesn't level up with the PCs. In one scenario, it was winter in the northlands, which meant snow and sub-zero temperatures. The party were among the very few travelers on the frozen roads (world without snow plows, you know) when they spotted some...

She wasn't asking the Orcs anything. She was asking a pirate SIM dealer about BDSM porn. She just happened to be a pretty Elf in an Orc biker bar when she did it! The player may have been playing a personal fetish, or may have been trying to play his character's presumed personal fetish, but...

No, the player kind of forgot who and what he was playing, and where and with who the character was.

My current 3.5 game/campaign started at 1st level. Several PCs just hit 17th level. I've played in campaigns that went Epic (levels 20 plus). It can be hard to challenge player characters at the higher levels, but a little creativity makes just about anything possible. The key is avoiding...

I called a fight once, but against a player. I know that sounds weird, but... The game was Shadow Run. Someone was selling Sim chips (virtual entertainment) with hyperviolent scenes that were causing people to act them out IRL. PCs traced it to one particular dealer, so they tracked him...

To be fair, I don't think the subject was what RAW says. It's what we think RAW could/should say. Continuous time flow in game, rather than segmented time (rounds, standard and move actions, swift and immediate actions etc.) doesn't really exist. True, continuous time, where actions can occur...

Interesting. I thought Hackmaster was a spoof/rehash of 1st Ed. D&D

Sorry, I wasn't trying to scream. should have used italics.

Hmm. On the general theme of turn-based action v realism, reality is continuous motion, with no synchronization even implied. But I don't know of any RPG system that can emulate that. They're all turn based. The best way to emulate reality would be wit, let's call them micro-turns. It takes...

You touched on a few points I'd like to explore. First, to be clear, the spell is Fireball, not Iceball or even Fireball(Cold). It's an important point because the rules say that "A wizard can also add a spell to his book whenever he encounters one on a magic scroll or in another wizard’s...

So, according to that a Wizard can, with the appropriate creation feat, store a metamagicked spell in a scroll, potion or wand. I observe that it doesn't say "spellbook". It also says that they can copy a spell from a scroll into their book. It doesn't say that they can copy the spell, plus...

For the record, using the feat Energy Substitution the spell level doesn't change. I guess my view is that "spell known" would be Fireball, in this instance. Any Metamagic feats added are feats, add-ons, not actually part of the "spell known". So you'd get Fireball in your book, not Iceball...

You asked about "steampunk" monsters in another topic. To make steampunk characters is something else. And epic? Wow, you are ambitious. I guess it really depends on the vision you have for the campaign. For example the Girl Genius comics paint a picture of a world dominated by the...

Okay, the classic Steampunk setting is the era of Jules Verne, who lived through most of the 19th century (born 1828 died 1905), and did most of the writing he was famous for started with a meeting with Alexandre Dumas in 1848. So let's call it the latter half of the Industrial Age, or as some...

Let's consider some other metamagic effects. Q1: What happens if the scroll is Maximized Fireball. What level is the spell in the book and what do you get? Q2: Can the Wiz even copy the spell, if they don't have that feat?

The accuracy/reliability of the CR system varies wildly based on the party makeup and, to a lesser degree, spell selection. It's a guideline at best, and an outright fraud at worst. Still, in 1st ed, there was an undead (I don't recall which, might have been a minor demon/devil) on the 1st...

My own guess would be that he/she can copy either the level 3 Fireball or the Level 4 Iceball. I don't see the Iceball ever becoming a Level 3, since the metamagic bumped the level*. *Energy Substitution feat in 3.5 doesn't actually bump the spell level...

Sorry, but I've seen PCs try the "Passing around" trick at the table. It's not something I made up, it's out there. As I mentioned earlier, however, I'm not really trying to be argumentative, I'm just pointing out that no system is perfect, and the more convoluted the "fix" is for a problem...

As a general reply: The Elmentals in general have weak Cs, depending more on their DR. Their attack bonuses are okay v the higher level character ACs, so they do some damage. What they do, tactically, is provide flanks, and complicate the lives of spell casters with their expanded area (i.e...