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Many characters don't have a Feat to spare for that, and I've played with DMs who hate/disallow the feat: They don't want to have to deal with a PC who has a small army of hangers-on following them around. When my characters have taken that feat I try to work with the DM so my characters...

This is a sort of follow up thread to the "Fashionable and Practical" thread. In that thread we touched on the idea of adventurers having hirelings to help set up camp, prepare meals, and generally handle the task of schlepping gear around. Recognizing that under the mechanics of just about...

I think the word you're looking for is Squire. The PHB has suggestions for the cost of hirelings, including combat pay. Of course, most players don't want the ongoing expense of hiring someone, and don't want to dedicate a Feat to Leadership. But hey, you can be frugal, or you can be...

You say you want to dis-join a magic item into it's component parts? Sounds like disjunction to me. Want to change the appearance of a magic item? Maybe it's actual form? (As in, change Huge Flaming Axe into Medium Flaming Axe?) Consider Dispel Magic or Greater Dispel, followed by Polymorph...

This past week my players faced a classic challenge: Having sneaked past an army they saw a long, narrow bridge across a 100 foot deep chasm, with two Large guards on the other side. And, in tribute to every structure in the Star Wars universe (just because), there were no rails or raised...

Two easy answers, neither one easy to implement. First, enforce the item slot rules. One head item, one neck item, one cloak or cape, one belt, one vest or shirt or piece of armor on the chest, one pair of bracers or bracelets, one set of gloves/gauntlets, one pair of boots, one pair of lenses...

I've just about finished running our annual Halloween adventure. Themed, of course. I found a lot of help straight from the Monster Manual, bu not directly. Looking for Flying Monkeys I considered Half Fiend Dire Apes, bu settled instead for Harpys. I re-skinned them, of course, describing...

For a while there was the generic spell "Cantrip", which covered pretty much all of them. I think Change was my favorite though. Why use Knock? "Change Locks to Bagels" did the job nine times out of ten. The big thing on all versions though is the caveat, "Can't duplicate the effects of any...

Originally that feature was described as a "small whirlwind" that dusted. It wasn't a shower, shampoo, dry-clean and armor polish" all in one. The list of things it does has changed from publication to publication, and the interpretations and house rule additions have done nothing but expand...

Awarding EXP to those who helped in the kill is an old and time honored tradition. But the game has changed, and there are now classes that don't focus on personal kills. Support characters like Bards, and to a lesser extent Rogues, aren't going to be in the front lines hitting heavy. My...

There are rules for "tight quarters" that apply general penalties. Realistically, many pole arms are "piercing" weapons. A long spear might be hard to walk around with, but since you don't actually swing it, the amount of space next to you hardly matters. Consider how many of those were...

In first edition our standard round was the "Four Ms", in order: Missile, Magic, Movement, Melee. Movement and Melee could be reversed, in some cases, but Missile attacks went first. Not a true "initiative bonus", in that the numbers didn't change, but since they were resolved first it acted...

Look up "Animated Object" in the monster manual. That makes them Constructs, which in turn gives them a remarkable set of immunities.

Hey, it's Halloween season. Thread-necromancy is seasonal, isn't it? :)

Don't forget that larger weapons do more damage and smaller ones do less. The other advantage of size is Reach: The ability to AoO an opponent before they can close to striking distance is HUGE, particularly with feats like Large and In Charge, or Improved Trip. It's so big that many consider...

Consider this version of the Full Attack: I take some (but not all) of my iterative attacks with my spear/axe/other weapon, and finish off the set by throwing the weapon at an opponent. Since I took a Full Attack sequence I can't move more than 5 feet in the round, so the "can't move" thing...

We have a tradition at our table that somebody (often me) will come up with a Halloween themed adventure right about this time of year. I was running this over the past two weekends, when suddenly the play seemed to laps into a comedy of errors. The party was pressing their horses to try and...

I may have been a bit hasty. Apparently the Mold Earth you mentioned was a cantrip in its own right, not a use of Prestidigitation. Can't find a reliable source for it though, outside of 5e, which isn't what we're talking about.

Several of the uses you mention are borderline illegal, and a couple flat out don't work. You can warm, cool, clean or soil up to one cubic foot of non-living per round. So cooling and dampening your surroundings or yourself in a fire? A cubic foot of surroundings maybe, but not yourself...

Which kind of explains the purely pragmatic decision to avoid including any living religion in the game. He pretty much knew the kind of backlash it would cause.