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The fact remains that grapplefu operates by a nearly entirely seperate mechanic from regular combat. Whenever you have two seperate mechanics, one of which a character may excel in, it behooves a combatant to force the combat into a mode in which the combatant holds the largest advantage: For...

I've been thinking about the Arcane Spell Failure thing, and have come to the conclusion that it is, quite frankly, silly and makes little or no sense. First, a look at the underlying premise, that armor impedes the motions needed to cast spells. In most cases, armor is designed to impede...

An old rule, which I don't recall where it came from, was something like a -2 penalty to ranged attacks due to loss of depth perception. This may not even be current in 3E, since I don't recall having seen this passage. On the other hand, depth perception is only meaningful when depth is...

I did, in fact, mention this effect: This is why it's the MIDLEVEL monsters which people have difficulty remembering. The monsters at the extreme ends of the spectrum are memorable precisely because they ARE at the extreme ends of the monster spectrum. That runs smack into the face of the fact...

You DO have a number of better options: AMF can temporarily suppress all buffs. Of course, yours will be similarly suppressed, but now you don't have any. Greater Dispelling can target the opposing wizard's buffs without destroying your only source of magic goodies, and Disintegrate is quite...

Is that the one with the slaver-pirates and the island that's about to get nuked?

I think that the preference for stat methodology, pointbuy vs. random rolls, is not a linear evolution at all, but one which is circular: Players start at one point, use it for awhile, become disaffected by its idiosyncracies, and become proponents of the other. Eventually, they become...

That's a really STUPID idea. Now that all of your stuff is toast, you're going to go and toast all of their stuff, meaning, your loot, as well? The alternative being that your opponent has no lootables, and therefore, there's not much of a point to trying to destroy something which doesn't...

If there are rogues around, then you're grappling with those rogues. The reason grapple-fu works so well is because of the denial-of-service mode of operation and the fact that it's unconventional: It forces the opponent to operate out of his preferred mode of fighting, which is generally...

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I'm a kobold fan. I've always been a kobold fan, simply because they're so mean, that properly used, they inspire surprise, terror, fear, and loathing amongst even high level characters. Their small size, agility, and general evilness allows them to attack from places that player characters...

He hits the deck. Fireballs fortunately lack a concussive effect. making this somewhat easier. The really interesting thing is that he's allowed to simply remain standing, without having to expend a move to get up. Personally, I always ran the game so that anyone attempting such a save *DID*, in...

The interesting thing is that, in cases of a known monster, I.E., something equivalent to something documented in a monster manual, a PLAYER can very quickly learn a great deal about a monster....and surely you're not saying that players of games are high-level people with many ranks in...

Sorry, Chief, but don't think that actually works. Cosmopolitan, IIRC, is NOT on the list of fighter bonus feats. That, unfortunately, means a fighter CAN'T take them as fighter bonus feats, although if he's a human, he can take two using his standard and racial feats at first level....which is...

Yes, but when an assassin attacks a sleeping warrior with a death attack, that's a Fort save. A fort save requires absolutely no reaction from the person attempting the save: A character can resist poison, disease, and trauma just as well, if not better, while asleep, as he can while awake and...

The other issue, once again, is the "noise effect" of skill checks vs. DCs. The concept of a "knowledge" skill seems to fall apart when random numbers are thrown into the matter of whether you do or do not know something. I seem to recall that knowledge was a case where take-10 doesn't apply. I...

That's strange. I would have expected you to be a gnome barbarian.

LE Dwarf Rogue Str: 13 Dex: 17 Con: 17 Int: 18/14 Wis: 18 Chr: 8 This thing is pretty damn impressive. It's got me pegged pretty well, including the fact that I can walk around heavily encumbered, lugging about a pack of 80 pounds of equipment without being bothered at all, yet am not...

This all looks very lawful evil to me. I'd know, I've tested as rather lawful evil, and I can see doing things like that. And I can definitely agree with the idea of making a kingdom that includes undead. After all, as we all know, the undead always pay their bills in full.

Frank has some interesting ideas of what makes a balanced fighter. A bonus feat every level. Wow. Incidentally, that'd make it a great multiclass choice, too, since every level you take gets you modest skillpoints, good hitpoints, +1 BAB, and a FREE FEAT. If you figure that feats have a point...