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There's an obvious difference between most of the game deities and "real" pantheons, like the Greeks, Egyptian, Norse or Celtic. The focus. Looking at the standard deities in the DMG or other source books, they are focused on the alignment far more than their main aspects or domains. The...

I was just painting figs with a friend, and had a stupid idea that worked really well. I got a palm sander (small orbital sander, used in woodworking) for Christmas, and decided to see if it would work as a paint-shaker. I took the sandpaper off (I didn't want to sandpaper the bottles), and...

I'm curious how you good folk handle Teleport effects with regard to escaping chains, bindings, grapples etc. One DM I know of used to rule that if a bunch of people piled on a caster, so they exceeded his Teleport capacity, hey could keep him from escaping via Teleport or D-Door. We had a...

This came up in our game. You want to enhance a monster by giving it an energy resistance or immunity. How does that play into the Challenge Rating? Yeah, yeah, I know, CR system is somewhere between deranged, disfunctional and just plain broken, but humor me here. I want to give a critter a...

I don't know if I'd make it a potion. Maybe something alchemical. Distillation, as a process, was known and used for centuries, since 350 BC or so. But it wasn't used for liquor. instead, it was used in the making of perfume. While many experimented with distilling wine over the...

When I got Stormwrack I'd hoped it would do more with underwater environments, but it's mostly about adventuring *on* the water, not in the water. They added some spells, items, monsters and weapons but basic rules for movement and combat remain unclarified. You can apparently stab with a...

We have a Dm who likes to throw us off our stride, usually by trying to change the rules in unexpected ways. His current attempt is an underwater adventure where we can't seem to find out what rules he's using. One oddity that comes up though is weapon use and damage. By the DMG, Stormwrack...

There are a number of spells in D&D 3.5 that designate that they are centered around the spell caster. Some of them have durations. So my character casts Control Weather, which says it is a "2-mile radius circle, centered on you, see text". There's nothing in the text that addresses this...

If I was the DM, I'd read the Skirmish ability as written: 10 foot Move before attacking. As in "Move action". That shuts down the abuse completely. But that's just me.

Do you know of a decent virtual tabletop application? I've heard of them, but most of what I've heard wasn't very encouraging. There's another aspect to consider: I'm not rich. I mean, ideally we'd be in a virtual game room, able to "see" each other via visors and hear each other via...

I've had two of my players attending the game via Skype for over a year now, and we just recently added a third. The first two share an apartment about an hour or so from my house, and neither one drives. (One is legally blind and the other has other issues of his own that aren't mine to...

A Flying Carpet does the job as well. While the Skirmish ability specifically says that Mounted Combat doesn't work with Skirmish, the Carpet is another matter. You spend a Standard Action to set the carpet in motion. After that it moves as directed, responding to spoken instructions, which...

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I gave the Invisible Blade a look. Their own example, straight from the book, has an AC at 11th level that would be low for a 5th level. I mean, you can beat an AC 17 at first level without trying. The class disallows armor of any kind to get some of its advantages. Specifically, the...

I've seen this done by a player who was cheati... er... misreading the rules like hell. I'd like to do it right. I'm looking for prestige classes and feats that focus on the Feint maneuver. Feint can be done by anyone, as a standard action. You get to make a Sneak attack the next round...

I agree,vis-a-vis Fireball. What other spell examples have you seen where someone debates "color text" (by any turn of phrase).?

In the recent Wall of Force debate we got down to arguing the meaning of a phrase in a spell description. It brought to mind other debates I've had, at the game table and on line, regarding spell descriptions. Some have argued that they are mere "color text", to be taken with a grain of salt...

"Normally" doesn't mean "like the average person under common circumstances", and I never suggested that it did. It means "like you, under common circumstances". I would have used the word "normal" in place of "common", but using a word to define itself is bad form. Not clear on why this is...

I interpret "Normally" to mean, well, normally. As in the way one usually breathes. Not just the mechanics of working the lungs, which you can do in a vacuum or under water, but normally, like we do all day, every day, supporting life. That means that there's somehow air to breathe, and it's...

I'm not the one who argued the size of the sphere or the volume of air consumed. I said that creatures inside one could breathe normally, by whatever mechanism, despite the fact that neither air nor anything else can pass through. How? It's magic. And generally this isn't a competitive forum...