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4E and 5E have the oddity that a Fireball like effect fills a cube, not a sphere. I've made a number of these templates out of wire. 12 gauge house wire, from the hardware store, works well. The different colored insulation available makes it easy to color code the different templates, and...

Odd that you picked that particular item. The description of the cloak of Charisma specifies that one need merely "possess" the item, not wear it. Many consider that a mis-wording, but the rules do say that some itesm need to be worn, while others need merely be possessed, and that the item...

Good advice, if a little too late: I already ran this one. I thought I had seen a "Toxic Elemental" from the para-elemental plane of Earth/Water someplace, but couldn't locate it, and I was in a hurry. Half an hour until game time and I was the DM. But whether I create my own, use yours...

I was looking for a toxic elemental to use in my D&D 3.5 game, and the closest I could find on short notice was an Acid Elemental from Pathfinder. I picked an Elder (the biggest/nastiest) for the party (12th through 14th level), and situated in a polluted/acidic/toxic pond he put up one hell of...

Greater Restoration? That fixes stats, level drains and/or conditions like fatigue. So, while Restoration might reverse some of the debilitating effects of a disease, making someone appear healthy, I don't see it actually removing the disease. I figure that some debilitating diseases, like...

I wrote a Supers system a few decades ago, and it highlighted one of the base differences between Fantasy game and most other settings: Fantasy games are, to a good degree, loot based. Advancement is tied, at least in part, to the quality of gear, so it seems perfectly natural for PCs to...

Yeah, this thread seems a lot like, "Is two plus two always four?"

They share the same time bubble, so long as the Familiar is within 5 feet. So they can continue to share spells, including buffs and healing effects. It's actually pretty clear from the Share Spells section of the Familiar rules. So long as the target is You, it affects and includes your...

One problem with Dispel and SU abilities is that Dispel (and Greater Dispel and Break Enchantment), whether cast as an area or at a specific target, works its way down by spell level. Supernatural Abilities don't have spell levels, or caster levels for that matter. So the key numbers needed...

That's pretty easy, actually. There have been many descriptions of the Prestidigitation cantrip over the years/editions. One included the phrase "Perform minor tricks as a professional magician could do". I used to be a professional magician. Give me a deck of cards, and I'll let you...

Silly me. I was thinking he was talking about a spell on the Assassin's spell list. As for the "Turn to Stone, Shrink Item" option, Shrink Item has a duration. As for what happened: Lich threw Prismatic Spray, and two PCs rolled bad. One was shunted to the Ethereal Plane with no way...

A fellow gamer, in relating a tale from his game made reference to "the Assassin's spell", meaning a spell that keeps a slain person from being returned to life. From context, it seems to lock the soul away somehow. That's what I have: No idea which edition, what the spell level might be or...

Including damage rolls? It's been a long time so I might not recall it right, but I think damage you wanted high and other things you wanted low.

I agree, but the mixed mechanic is actually pretty common. GURPS uses it in all their settings, for example, and if I recall Runequest did as well. This might inspire another topic on how to deal with dice cheats. Thoughts of the moment involve taking lucky dice and applying a sledgehammer...

One reason for the mixed mechanics was to deter people from using "lucky" dice. If rolling high is always good, unbalanced dice that tend to roll high are an obvious temptation. If rolling low is always good, dice unbalanced to roll the other way are equally tempting. I played in a Blood Bowl...

Variation on the theme: The Sky Hook. Fit the rod into a tube with a small spring device built in. Attach a rope. The rig is set so when there's tension on the rope, the rod is immovable. When the tension relaxes, it can move. Now throw the rod high into the air and yank the rope tight...

There are creatures that make any given class less effective. Non-corporeal undead make melee combat proficiency of questionable value. Golems have a resistance or pure spell immunity makes arcane casters all but useless in fighting them. The list goes on. It's part of play that there are...

MIC is, in my opinion, book full of bad ideas. The designers set the mid line of usefulness, from the DMG, as the base line for their items. In short, they average 50% more powerful. They also average 50% cheaper, for what they do. Now if you are running a game ailed at the higher power...

I had this guy. It became obvious after a while that it was an ego thing: The DM had to keep twisting the adventure path so he'd be included. It got so bad that, in one Supers campaign we restarted with a common "white event" where all the PCs got their powers together. That way they'd...

The hard fact is that mundanes face a serious curb-stomp potential from leveled martial types. according to several world guides I've read, 90% of the world is something like first or second level. Elite soldiers might be third, with NCOs at about the same level. So a 9th or 10th level...