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I'm going to take the contrarian view. It's important someone in the party have spellcraft, but that's typically better for the Wizard-type. INT based characters have a better bonus for the skill anyway, have more skill points to throw around, and when Spellcraft determines your ability to...

My bias is not to change my character concept and build for something like this. 10,000 gold will buy 13+ wands of Cure Light Wounds. As noted above, in-combat healing is pretty inefficient anyway, so this allows you to use your spells for other purposes. Check the various clerical buff...

Good thing you are not playing a Wizard specialized in conjurations, or a Sorcerer with mainly spells of those schools! Even with a +15 Spellcraft check. that's 20% of spells failing. The Cleric has a lot more choices. So the Cleric can't effectively use Healing spells? I guess he'll just...

Those Disney Dwarves look a lot more like gnomes, don't they? About 3' tall, not the 4' to 4'6 of the typical Dwarf, much friendlier and more outgoing.

Not sure how the 3e rogue is "trained to steal". He's trained in those skills he places skill ranks in. He may know how to Open Locks - did he learn that in the form of picking locks, or constructing locks (so all locksmiths are thieves)? Perhaps he knows Sleight of Hand - did he learn that...

It took about half an hour, however only after Often, the issue with puzzles is phrasing - if the puzzle phrasing is not sufficiently precise that the players cannot interpret them differently from the GM, the puzzle becomes unfair. Of course, the other issue with in-game puzzles is that the...

Looking at Acrobatics, "When you deliberately fall any distance, even as a result of a missed jump, a DC 15 Acrobatics skill check allows you to ignore the first 10 feet fallen, although you still end up prone if you take damage from a fall. See the falling rules for further details.", so a DC...

I think the referenced stats are intended to a draconic creature rather than the folklore creature. If you like the stats, change the head and claws to a cat, maybe sub in some cat-like abilities (claw and bite damage; a Pounce?) and get rid of the poisonous breath weapon. It could be...

Unless his build somehow gives him Arcane spellcasting abilities, I'd say his TK spell is Divine, like all of his other spells. It would still use WIS for DC's and bonus spells, too.

INT/Knowledge for Local Knowledge makes sense as well - that's the skill of knowing what's what in this locale. I don't think the players need to say they carefully study the posters, any more than Local Knowledge requires the player to state he listens carefully to nearby conversations when...

Looks like replacing the dragon's head with a cat's and making the creature quite a bit smaller would work. Or starting with the stats for a cat and a snake and assessing which traits to retain - cat attacks with can't be tripped probably does the trick. Is it supposed to be venomous? I...

I hate to give it more value than it already has, but it seems like Perception would be appropriate - how much of those wanted posters in the background did the character unconsciously take in and to what extent do they see the resemblance both sound like Perception. This is also consistent...

I can't speak from direct experience with 4e, but the big change in 3e, IMO, was that monsters followed the same rules as PC's for adding class levels to their pre-existing monster statistics. Basic/Expert (never played CMI), 1e and 2e built NPC's with races and classes, just like PC's had...

One issue for any game, to me, is consistency of tone. Will the PC's be Boy Scouts out to help the world? hard-bitten mercenaries out only for their own best interests? Machiavellian schemers who value nothing but their personal power? Having a Boy Scout Paladin in a team of hard-bitten...

Yup. "If you narrate out the complete search of the room, then you can spend your character resources on other skills than Search since you will never need to roll that skill." Can my Mage narrate skilled knife fighting to enhance his to hit and damage bonuses, or just win the combat without...

As a player around the table (which I am not), I think I'd be wondering aloud whether the character is actually a male who believes he is a female who disguises herself as a male, as that seems to be the only way my character (assuming a positive Spot check) would still be thinking the character...

The rules quote applies when you double damage twice. On the critical you note, you are doubling the damage once (15 x 2 = 30). Where are you seeing a second doubling?

While I agree with the cautions above about escalating matters into an arm's race, if you want to fight fire with fire, may as well go all the way. Which, to me, means keep the Kuo-Toans exactly as they are, except that they have a full and perfect knowledge of all of the abilities and traits...

Is it realistic when an action movie hero sails through a plate glass window with nary a scratch? Of course not - but neither is it "magic". Hero Games uses the term "cinematic realism" for its objective for the rules. It's not realistic. People do not outrun/outjump an explosion, but we see...

No, not really. What I find disingenuous is the claim that suspension of disbelief sufficient to accept fire breathing dragons, magical power that revises reality to the user's specifications, mythical Gods walking the earth, the warrior who can stand toe to toe with Giants, Hydrae and other...