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Question: Do the rules currently say anywhere how far a Bard's voice can be heard when raised in song?

Off the top of my head? Your suggested items seem okay. DMG Items for Bards: Circlet of Persuasion - Lot's of good stuff for the price. Pipes of Pain - Be careful with these, since they affect allies as well as enemies. Pipes of the Sewers - Think of it as Summon Distraction. Chime of Opening...

Here's one I've used more than once, with different groups. Harvest festival. PCs, being well known heroes, are invited to officiate at various games. There are brewing competitions, an archery competition, tests/demonstrations of strength like team tug-o-war for the sailor types, caber toss...

I once wrote a module for a game tournament. The goal of the adventure was to retrieve the "Book of Lies". It's powers were tied to illusions, and it had been stolen by a powerful wizard and taken to his home in a "Plane of Twilight". When the party arrived on the plane they saw a castle...

For those unfamiliar, in 1st Edition Clerics weren't allowed to use edged weapons, so the mace was the weapon of the day. And for those who don't know the original melody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaUyJyPekJE

Wrote this a few years ago. Okay, more than afew, like when we played AD&D. (To the tune of Billy Joel's Piano Man) It's five o'clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in. There's a young man sitting next to me, doesn't know all the trouble he's in. I Said "Somebody roll me...

Handle the contra-case by not handling it? Okay. As for your last line, the need to "handle" INT loss only exists in games that use your rule, or something similar. If changes in INT don't affect the current skill base then there's nothing to handle.

Accepting this in the spirit in which it was given: There are no truly "permanent" stat losses in D&D, other than the possible loss of a CON point if a 1st level PC is raised from the dead. All of the others can be recovered, as far as I know. <Correction: If a character loses a level due...

How odd. I did let it go. E.D. said he wouldn't respond to me any more, and I said that was fine. I'm not the one who couldn't walk away. I dread turning this into an edition war, but I have to ask: Which edition do you prefer?

To be fair, I did clarify that "Realism" in a magic/fantasy setting was almost a joke. What we mean when we talk about realism is more like "consistent with the internal logic of the setting". When many people talk about "realism", they often mean "Believable". (All within the framework of...

I thought we were done. Okay. You keep asking "Do you understand yet". Many people dismiss critics with "You just don't understand", as if anyone who truly understood their position would agree with it. It's quite possible to fully understand another person's position and reasoning, and...

As you choose.

Re-reading, I see that I once again missed things. You suggested that INT bonuses don't apply immediately. I see what you mean, but I disagree. They apply as soon as the situation where they can apply comes to pass. Presume the Fighter reading a Manual of Gainful Exercise (or whatever it's...

I must have missed that. Who decides which skills get docked? Most computerized character generators/character sheets are based on spreadsheets, either directly as premade templates, or indirectly as emulations. None that I've seen keep good track of when ability scores or classes change...

I started to pick your summary apart (not that hard), and point out the mischaracterizations you included, but you said something that I realized was true. I was being a troll, responding before I'd fully read your posts, and generally letting my adrenal system do my thinking for me. I'm...

I'll reply, but I'm going to try and reduce the volume. We're both pretty long winded. Okay. Your Mage gets a bump in STRength. Will he heft his greatsword and go charging into melee? Or a Longsword? A Battle Axe? A Rapier? A Staple-remover? Not if you want the character to live. It...

I just reread my recent long post, and I realized that I mis-stated something. STR bonuses apply immediately to melee combat, if your character is a melee combatant. Not everyone is. CON bonuses apply immediately to Fort Saves and HP for everyone. Dex bonuses apply immediately to Init...

Odd tangent: Should a sudden increase in wealth allow a character to retroactively buy magic or needed supplies? Or is that money only useful in the future? :)

I think I'll dissect this one piece by piece. A point you left off: Can you suddenly become a boyer (bow maker) or blacksmith, even if you've never even fired a bow nor taken time at a forge? (Trust me, there's a lot more to making a bow than just carving up a likely looking piece of wood.)...

I looked in my physical copy of the 3.5 PHB. The Lizard reference is there, so I'm going to stick to my guns on this one. Keeping track of when INT modifiers apply is pretty easy, actually: You gain a new level, figure out your skill points using current, permanent stats. That means you...