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I like it. It screws players over in a way which is consistent with the rules as written, so he can't rightly protest when you point this out to him. I approve. Henceforth invisible creatures shall also be automatically blinded, because the light automatically passes through their retinas and...

He would grapple the closest or most grappleable.

Yes, actually, a character with 10 ranks in spot SHOULD be able to see a medium creature at 16 miles while taking 10. This is not, however, as atrocious as it sounds: If both creatures are on the ground, the horizon distance will be less than his maximum spot distance, so the creature will gain...

You can move after readying an action: The action remains readied after your turn is over. When/if the readied action fires, you may take your readied action, but it is no longer your turn, so you may not take a move, unless your readied action was a move, or you didn't move on the turn you...

I don't think this is reasonably possible on a horse. You'd have to constantly make ride checks, and given the distraction of simultaneously attempting to write magical scribblings, I'd say this qualifies as a distraction and you shouldn't be able to take 10 on your ride check. Wizards don't...

How about this one: Every time you level, your hitpoints are rerolled: If your new total exceeds your old total, you get that as your new current hitpoints. If your old total is greater than or equal to your new total, you keep your old total, and gain 1 HP. It keeps the little randomness that...

Pah! How did I *KNOW* that Altalazar, the ENworld Necromancer/Archaeologist, would somehow be at the top of the list when I saw this old topic resurrected? The fundamental problem I see with point-buy is the way it promotes cookie-cutter characters, and all but obliterates the use of any class...

I personally think the entire 3.x thing would be much better if you could simply download all of the patches. Let's face it: As things become more and more complex, the likelyhood of needing a patch is going to continue to increase. Patches for games are here to stay, whether you like it or not...

Sharks. With lasers on their heads.

Bah! All this templation is making me ill. That has to be one of the most annoying things about 3E monsters: The mad templation, to the point where templated monsters are more common than their regular monsters. No....we can't have bears anymore, or even dire bears. They have to be half-fiendish...

I'd have to say that the elves hate the orcs and drow mostly because the latter parties attempt to kill them on sight. That's a fairly reasonable and well-founded basis for a sort of hatred. I know that if I had a group of beings that attempted to kill me on sight on a regular basis, I'd...

It's Altalazar again. Seems he's our resident archaeologist. Monte should add "Archaeologist" to the encounter table.

You'd be surprised what people can auction off for huge sums of cash without any deception whatsoever. My favorite auctions I saw include the "slightly bent nail", with picture, that wound up selling for $150+, and the "Xbox Box", which went for some $200. And the guy selling the box wrote, in...

Yeah, but you can detect him easily enough: Just lie down under the tree and spit up at him. If he's hiding in there, he'll spit back.

Well, if you're concerned about their lack of arcane magic....imprint this need into them. They'll probably take the need for a caster more seriously if you kill one of them. Death, after all, is a character-building experience.

I generally go for the "however damn many tigers I frickin' feel like" approach. If it seems at all reasonable, or even if it doesn't seem reasonable, that's the number I'd go with. Hey, some days you spank the monkey, and other days the monkey spanks you.

Actually, he's right. Animals do tend to be more "centered", because unlike with humans, there are cutoffs. When a human is stupid and weak, society expends its resources to keep him alive, trying to stop him from getting killed through warning labels and other whatnot. When an animal is stupid...

I'm not entirely sure why you would need to convert a being of effectively omnipotent power into any kind of stats: If he has any limitations, they're beyond anything which the game can comprehend. It's like that entire business of giving deities stats: It makes very little sense, because the...

Well, jet fuel burns. Wooden office dividers and tables burn. People burn. Bare steel and concrete don't, particularly when you can just seal the blast doors, and a fire will shortly go out from lack of oxygen. Then again, *I* actually think of these things and *PLAN* for them when designing a...

You know, I ran a poll on this awhile back, after encountering TOEE NPCs, and their talk of "shares" of the treasure, and the general looting....and realized that, to me, this was an entirely alien concept which I'd never encountered before in any actual play. To me, the idea that "treasure"...