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In editions I'm most familiar with, some creatures had "always evil" listed in their alignment, such as Imps. Others simply said "evil" So it isn't as if every Dark Elf you ever meet is 100% guaranteed to be Evil. It's simply the default case. You might meet an Orc with a sense of pride, and...

I'm still stumbling on the concept of an "illegitimate rule". I'm not sure there even is such a thing. Kind of like asking, "Is this color too fast?", the adjective is inconsistent with the noun. If you want to say "bad rule", okay, that's your opinion. But "Illegitimate" implies that the...

Reminds me of a discussion I had on another forum regarding long distance movement. Someone quoted a rule from the book, and my counterpart replied, "But that's wrong". (The rule involved treating run/walk combinations as "Hustle", for purposes of endurance and exhaustion, IIRC). Saying that...

Sorry to jump in, but that opening paragraph hit a lot of my hot buttons. The ends justify the means in almost every case, in real life. Is it okay to jab someone with a needle? Depends: Is it a hypodermic used to draw blood or administer medicine in a hospital, or are you just attacking...

I think I see where I/we went astray. In later editions, third and later, Instantaneous and Permanent changed meanings. In first and second editions they meant exactly what they said. I've never liked the misleading definition of instantaneous used in the later editions. Still, in the...

Regarding "Instantaneous": That word you keep using? I don't think it means what you think it means... In game terms it means that the result lasts forever and can't be dispelled. It doesn't mean that the spell takes zero time to manifest. If it too zero time then there wouldn't be any tiny...

After many a struggle we got Discord working, sort of. We were able to add Sidekick dice bot to the "general chat channel", and it works. But only when in chat mode. While video conference mode has a chat channel, it's separate from the general chat channel, and you can't add the Sidekick bot...

In a 3,5 game I had the group encounter a Cleric of Wee Jas, who is the Lawful Neutral goddess of death and magic. He's one of the few 3.5 deities who allows/favors necromancy. And because, under 3.5 rules a Cleric can be one alignment point away from their deity, I could habve made him a...

Well, I got two of the group to check in with my Discord server. I can video chat with them, but I have to keep switching back and forth. There doesn't seem to be any easy way to merge the calls. And we're still struggling to add a dice bot, any dice bot. That part where everybody says...

Call me a grognard if you like. I'm setting up a Discord server for my group and I'm having a hell of a time actually gettin a dice bot installed. Researching Sidekick lead me to a link that said it would install. Took me to the Discord site, did a validation song and dance and announced...

No, this was a Resurrection. :)

There's a variant on the Reincarnation approach. I don't recall the source book off hand, and the spell has to be cast within a round of death, but it Reincarnates the target without the level loss. Now Reincarnate says that you can regain your original form via a Wish or Miracle, but that...

We have a coupleof tricks. The most obvious policy is that we try to "ignore the Elephant, and Donkey, in the room." For those outside the US, that's a reference to the major political parties. Rules arguments are settled by the DM, ideally with a clear reference to the rule book. Personal...

Yeah, it's scary, but we came up with this last September, before anyone had ever heard of Corona Virus. Still, maybe if we pretend it's all curable with a glass of orange juice, then reality will copy us again? Maybe?

For my group the social aspect is a good chunk of why they're there. To som extent that means that the side chatter, the jokes and stories we swap, are part of the fun. Doing a group chat doean't do a good job of handling it. We've used plain old Skype for a couple of our players who live in...

In 3.5 you could explicitly Wish for a Feat, and there were two Feats that might apply. One gave you a new spell (for Sorcerers and Bards mostly), and the other gave you an extra spell slot. That was the only way to gain Epic spell slots, since you didn't gain them from level advancement. So...

Ironically, the main campaign theme for my current 3.5 campaign is a plague, an influenza-like affliction modeled after pneumonic plague. We decided on this months before we ever heard of corona virus. Remove Disease works, but if you read the world builder guidelines for 3.5, a city has to be...

That term, "Instantaneous", caused more arguments and confusions than any other in spell descriptors. It didn't actually refer to how long the fire/lightning/acid/bunny-rabbit lasted. It refered to the fact that the spell's effect couldn't be dispelled after the fact. "Permanent" meant the...

One common misread of the infamous "Pinball Wizard" spell was that it didn't bounce around the room. It bounced back at the caster. You couldn't actually play pimball with it, but you could fry yourself and your party if you weren't careful.

Thinking about the Wis(Guitar) reference: If it was actually important to the plot line that the performance go well, I might make it two skill checks: A Knowledge or Profession check to plan the performance, and then the actual Perform check to see how well you carried it off. Knowledge -...