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Hmm, good question, King. I hadn't really thought about it. Right now, the pendulum is swinging towards prosecuting IP infringement more severely than theft. The U.S. courts just put the CEO of Enron in jail for 25 years (although he's made a motion to be released pending his appeal, expected...

This is an amusing thread. :) And this is a huge post. If you don't care about intellectual property law, skip it. But if you do continue reading, be aware that I'm not trying to be accurate in general, only as it applies to this thread. First, if anyone reading this is a lawyer and wants to...

Hmm. If enlarge person is cast on a human, does s/he become a magical beast? If grease is cast on a floor or wall, does the wall or floor become magical? If light is cast on a coin, does the coin become magical? IMC, I would say that the items listed above do not become magical items...

Sorry, I should've been more clear. What I meant was that the description does not allow the user to separate the masterwork enhancement from the magical enhancement. You'll notice that the description doesn't say that you can transfer the "magical enhancement", but just "enhancement". To me...

Actually, this turns me off. But it's more a principle thing than anything else. While the Mono project is progressing, it will be some time before the Window.* and Forms.* modules are complete enough to actually use. And given their track record, I expect MS to create a "dialect" of .NET...

A worthwhile argument, but the description does not say that you can control that aspect, does it? Well, this is fun, but it seems to be pointless. Have fun playing the game by your rules. TTFN.

Hmm. I saw a show on the Discovery Channel a few months ago that discussed medieval weapons and one of them was a chain with a dagger on one end and a metal loop on the other. The metal loop was so the chain could be attached to the fighter's wrist so that the weapon wouldn't be accidentally...

Hmm. Well, you can rule any interpretation you want, but I don't see that the RAW describe things that way. They say "enhancement bonus", not "enhancement bonus from magic", as you state early in your post. Then later you say you're transferring +5 and leaving the +1 enhancement bonus that...

As has been discussed here before, the modifiers to Spot don't jibe very well with the modifiers that an archer can get. For example, an archer with Far Shot has some ridiculous range with a longbow. But they can't see that far to Spot something?! Yet the ranged attack modifier is supposed to...

Well, there's always the option of saying that the casting time is defined as the minimum time required to cast. I don't see any reason why a spellcaster shouldn't be allowed to draw the spell out so that it takes a full round, a full hour, or a full week. (Except that they'd have to eat and...

It occurred to me that because there are only three PCs in the party, the DM should be awarding extra XP because of the smaller than average group. This means your party is going to progress even *faster* -- and that makes the wealth difference even more important. Especially in RttToEE...

Well, this *is* RttToEE, after all! This adventure/module/campaign is famous for being stingy on both wealth and magic. But Nail is right, you're fighter is under-equipped. The spellcasters probably are, too, though. I agree with the others: amulet of health, displacement or blink+ghost...

Nope, no AoO. I mean after all, who's going to go flailing about with the arms as their action for the round, when they can't do anything about it even if they find the guy since they've used their standard action already? I don't link this particular rule in 3.5E. It's also a bit of a pain...

Those are all pretty good uses, depending on the DC. One thing I've used with my BBEGs in the past is for them to create an escape route from their hideout that is lined with false walls and floors. I have one villain that the party has come up against twice, who has done just that. (He's a...

As DMFTood pointed out, pretty much all of the tools will do this. He described DMF, so I'll describe DM Genie. :) It's essentially as he described: create a group with PCs and opponents in it, then start taking actions. There's a button for making each attack separately (as per BAB) or to...

I wouldn't bother with Windoze at all except that I need it to run certain applications: DMGenie, Adobe Distiller (for work), and to visit some of the online poker sites I play at. :) Whatever you figure out, please come back and report what you chose and why, as I'm sure it will help out...

Heh-heh, you're welcome. :) What do you mean, "going to get killed?" Haven't you already died at least once? My players are 7th level (7 of them now) and all but 2 have died at least once (the cleric has died twice). And they've only gotten as far as the Earth Temple. They're moving in on...

Heh-heh, now that would be amusing. Well, to me, but not to the PCs. :) The limit is only for scrolls with multiple spells. As you point out, spells of higher than 4th level simply have to be on their own scrolls (well, 4th level if you're figuring some classes; even lower for other classes)...

Good rules, overall. *yank*! I'm not sure this makes sense, though. Holding your breath, by definition, means not expelling any air. How can you cast verbal spells without expelling air? If my players are holding their breath, I'm not going to allow verbal spells to be cast. They can...

In addition, having multiple spells on a single scroll is a real pain when the character who was just teleported/gated/shifted away has the only scroll with teleport/gate/plane shift on it. Of course, it's on there 6 TIMES, but there's only one scroll. I've hinted to my players that they're...