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I think I can handle 4 megs. Could you add rlkoppenhaver at ameritech dot net to the next batch you send, pretty please?

Andy Collins posted that the designers had considered making Improved Critical work with all weapons of a type (slashing, piercing, bludgeoning), but had decided against it. He recommended that people try it out as a house rule.

Re: No, don't change it I'd be curious to know where you heard that, Sean. The comments that I've seen from Andy Collins on the matter seem to boil down to "critical hits should be special and exciting, therefore critical hits should be rare." I think that's a reasonable design goal, but...

My calculations were done with the assumption that burst weapons do their critical +1d10 in addition to the standard +1d6, but aside from that, I concur with those numbers. I'm afraid you've lost me there. If you hit on a 10, then: Out of 400 possiblities for 2d20: 1-9,[any] (9 * 20 = 180...

Addendum: Here's a few more data points. +1 K SB Greatsword 13.5 +1 K SB Falchion 13.9 +2 SB Greatsword 14.1 +2 SB Falchion 14.1 +1 K F S Greatsword 15.0 +1 K F S Falchion 15.2 +2 F S Falchion 15.7 +2 F S Greatsword 15.8

With a 16 strength and improved critical, a character with a +1 Keen Shocking Burst Falchion, (assuming he hits on a 10 or better), does an average of 11.0 points of damage per primary attack. Comparatively, a character with 16 strength, improved critical, and a +1 Keen Shocking Burst...

Yes, it is. The source archive contains cgi and console front ends, and there's a seperate download for the Windows front end.

Another vote for the Sword of Truth series, here. I actually started reading in the middle of the series, with Temple of the Winds, which I thought was tolerable, but not great. The next book in the series that I read was Faith of the Fallen. Oh. My. God. I've read books with political...

http://www.aarg.net/~minam/npc.cgi has a link to the source code. (It's written in C.) That said, it'd still be a good idea to contact him for explicit permission to distribute the updated program.

Yay, indeed!

No, no, the save isn't charisma based, the save DC is charisma based: 10 plus the spell level, plus the Osyluth's Cha modifier. That's the way it is now, except the current rules specify this by saying "as a 12th level sorceror".

If you like that, you might also be interested in a couple of his short stories published on salon.com: Liberation Spectrum and 0wnz0red

Excellent idea. A massive army of elite 1st level kobold Wizards with greater slaying arrrows and wands of true strike. Too low level to be worth any experience, of course. And for treasure, how about every single item from DMG pp 231-235?

Glad you like the ideas! Manual of the Planes, page 13-14. Dead Magic is basically just an always on antimagic field. Limited Magic is the same, but only affects selected spells. Impeded magic requires a Spellcraft check (DC 15+spell level) to cast selected spells.

They're so gonna accuse you of ripping off Piratecat. :p Of course, you can then reply that you were going to put a series of big treasure vaults in the dungeon, but since they don't want this to be like PC's game.... You could give some parts of the dungeon the "dead magic" trait, so the...

The Silmarillion, maybe? The elven smith Eöl forged the swords Anguirel and Anglachel out of meteoric iron.

Axiomatic get resistance to fire, cold, electricity, and sonic; the amount varies by level. Anarchic creatures get fire, cold, acid, electricity, and sonic resistance 5.

What's the save DC? I'm assuming it's ridiculously high. Did you use the standard "natural 20 always succeeds" rule?

Well, as long as we're posing questions that the Defenders don't know the answer to, Why are the Modrons marching early?

Nah, it's The Tempest.