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  1. Marius Delphus

    A few Castle Ravenloft (boardgame) questions...

    As I like to say, Villains *are* Monsters, except when they're not. We're considering permanently instituting a house rule that they grant something resembling XP (automatic level-up? not sure) and grants Treasure draws to all players upon being defeated, though. :)
  2. Marius Delphus

    Question about MM3 fire elemental

    That's how I read it as well. Not Immediate, therefore no limit per round.
  3. Marius Delphus

    Dungeons & Dragons Does Not Exist: Meditations on Brand Dilution

    "Dilution" has a very specific legal meaning with regard to trademark law that I don't think is the one being addressed here. So without addressing it myself, let me posit the following: If the question is, "Does the brand name DUNGEONS & DRAGONS® apply to a vast array of products?" then I...
  4. Marius Delphus

    A few Castle Ravenloft (boardgame) questions...

    Oh, heavens yes. TTBOMK, by the RAW, only Villains activate on every player's turn, with the caveat (as amply stated above) that Monsters also activate whenever a duplicate Monster is activated. Many's the time we made win-or-lose tactical decisions based on the fact that a trap, or a flaming...
  5. Marius Delphus

    A few Castle Ravenloft (boardgame) questions...

    Pretty sure, but obviously drawing fewer Monster Cards is going to make success (and happy kids) more likely. :) And our "Neutral Dietosser" player also loves the ranger's auto-damage.
  6. Marius Delphus

    Need help with graphic editing

    I'm sorry, but something about this sounds very strange. You have permission from Chris Glenn, artist responsible for creating Tron Evolution concept art (http://www.cglenn.com/#642135/Tron-Evolution), to modify his images, but he can't/won't provide you with anything higher in resolution than...
  7. Marius Delphus

    A few Castle Ravenloft (boardgame) questions...

    We have had a lot of fun with this game on many nights (it is just short of being a "D&D fix" without actually being D&D), and I would say our win rate is roughly 50-60%. (I'm counting as losses those times when we actually lose the game but continue on to "win" by spending healing surges we...
  8. Marius Delphus

    A few Castle Ravenloft (boardgame) questions...

    I think it's mostly by implication (see pages 5, 7, and 9), but adjacent squares include those diagonally adjacent. Adjacent tiles do not (a tile that is diagonally adjacent to your tile is 2 tiles distant; see page 9). Because the rules point out that this is different from how you handle...
  9. Marius Delphus

    WotBS WotBS Images

    TTBOMR, it's protected against changes (pages moved around, deleted, inserted, etc.)
  10. Marius Delphus

    Castle Ravenloft boardgame questions ...

    One rule that's worked fairly well for us so far is, "Villains are Monsters, except when they're not." Villains aren't activated like Monsters; they have their own step in the Villain Phase. (We rule that they aren't actually "controlled" by any single player, as regards card effects.) However...
  11. Marius Delphus

    First Thread!

    Why is the rum *always* gone?
  12. Marius Delphus

    "Delve" Format and Page Flipping: Convenient or a Pain?

    I thought I'd plug in to the groupthink for a second here and ask this question, because it's on my mind of late. What do we think of the split, in 4E products (which was birthed in some late-3.5 products) between story text and encounter pages? Would we prefer to go "back" to a format that...
  13. Marius Delphus

    Rules Compendium

    And somehow they managed to make it nicer looking without significantly retooling the interior page design. Nice bonus, that.
  14. Marius Delphus

    Tile Mapping Software

    Dundjinni? Dundjinni Mapping Software - Bring Your Game To Life
  15. Marius Delphus

    I'm looking for two feats.

    I vaguely remember something along the same lines... a character wielding a weapon that wound up doing infinite damage "by the rules" because of some funky trick involving a d2, exploding damage on a max roll, and rerolls on a min roll. But I can't find a reference to the specific build. Either...
  16. Marius Delphus

    I'm looking for two feats.

    And the point? I mean seriously, right there in the OP is the word "abused." I guess I should also ask, are you a player or a DM?
  17. Marius Delphus

    WotBS Tell me about WotBS

    The hardback contains all the errata that had, to that point, been identified in the 3.5 adventures. Of course, no published product is ever perfect.
  18. Marius Delphus

    WotBS Tell me about WotBS

    The hardback includes everything, including the free PDFs and stuff that was never (TTBOMK) released elsewhere. The only difference between the color book and the B&W book (other than the lack of pretty colors) is the Maps appendix in the color version (each map in the book is enlarged and...
  19. Marius Delphus

    WotBS Tell me about WotBS

    And it just *looks* swell, too, I mean aesthetically. ;)
  20. Marius Delphus

    Metamorphic Transfer for the Unbodied?

    Do pardon my ignorance. I've been having that kind of day. :) Metamorphosis doesn't *allow* you to assume an incorporeal form, so you'll have to decide how cheeky you feel like being. :) Bummer of a LA on the unbodied, though... 8 levels and only 4 HD....
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