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  1. mattdm

    Temporary Hit Points...

    Presumably until you successfully save at the end of your turn to shake off their effect.
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    Preorderers: How much did the giftset REALLY cost?

    Amazon always pushes back the estimated shipping if you pick the free option. I chose to pay $4 and mine says shipping June 6th. If this weren't such a popular item, I think it's possible the free option might actually ship earlier, since this isn't a particularly busy time of year. But then...
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    WotC Official PDF versions - would you buy them?

    No, not necessarily. Copyright isn't absolute. Intellectual property owners' copyrights are balanced by end-users' fair use rights, and making that archive copy can indeed be fair use. Obviously the media sellers (and particularly the middleman companies) want you to believe otherwise, but there...
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    WotC Official PDF versions - would you buy them?

    Which was the concern? That people might give them money for legitimate PDF versions of the book rather than just getting them from a filesharing system completely for free? (Because if their plan is that magically there won't be easily available pirated PDFs no matter what they do, uh, time to...
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    Rolling for Initiative

    I'm with you on the 10+ thing, but I must counter your link with another: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dd/20060901a
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    When do you think Amazon will deliver?

    That's the deal with the free shipping — not only do they use the cheapest means of actually getting it to you, they also don't stress about getting it into the box quickly. With June 7th being on a weekend, and presuming they really do ship the (non-free-shipping) orders the previous day, I'm...
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    Rules Database vs. Core Rulebooks

    They've made various mumblings but I haven't heard anything definite about either price or availability. I'm hoping for a very reasonable discount for people who purchased the hardcopy books. I'm not terribly interested in D&DI, but find digital copies of the stuff I own indispensible at DM...
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    Map-making Tools

    Is it a going concern, though? The last news on the website is from Februrary 2005, where it's said that development on the Borland Delphi version is stopped in favor of a port to wxWidgets. (Which would be good, but a lot of work.) Then, on the sourceforge site, development discussion sorta...
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    Thoughts on Complete Scoundrel?

    Oooh, now the game is broken.
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    So, who has played a Warlock?

    I played a warlock for a little while, and I felt like I was getting more than my share of the spotlight. The class basically plays like you're a superhero, and becomes particularly strong when party resources are strained. Basically, I think I'd only really enjoy it in an all-warlock game. But...
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    Is there a better thought out book than Savage Species?

    Look at the "magic rating" on page 136 of Unearthed Arcana. This makes caster level work sort of like BAB -- every class gets some, but the classes more focused on magic get more. Choose the appropriate progression for your monster HD. And I'd go a step further and also grant spells known and...
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    PHB II - Beguiler

    (never mind.)
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    Druids and advanced animals

    Where does either polymorph or wild shape say that you can't advance an animal to match your HD limit? The HD limit is the only thing mentioned, and that serves to keep the balance, as does the fact that creatures themselves have a limit to their advancements. What's so special about the bottom...
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