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Actually, I might disagree that the head is designed for close combat... thick and strong to protect against blows, but not evolved for head butting with. But, it could easily be argued that a martial artist's skull could be so designed, by thickening the bone. In any case, I don't care whether...

To chime in on the "designed for combat" issue, not that I know a whole lot about these things, unarmed strikes by a martial artist (read monk) are indeed "designed" for combat use. The body weapons used by martial artists are indeed carefully crafted, often requiring a fair amount of skill...

Just to be troublesome, don't forget that if you allow him the 5' step off the ledge he would be wise to step 5' along a daigonal forward and down, lessening the drop by 5'....

Just to clear up some confusion... the Theory of Relativity works in all situations, if it is indeed true (which we have become pretty sure of due to many experiments). As you approach the speed of light parts of the equations of relativity approach zero, and if other numbers are being divided...

Unfortunately, Turanil, these are not new realizations (though they are pretty cool). I myself had these thoughs a few years ago and discussed them with my physics professor last semester. Just to add some more weirdness into the mix, as my prof pionted out: things that move fast get shorter...

You ruled correctly. A way to look at it is that he had taken 18 points of damage already. The CON loss reduced his HP from 24 to 8. He still has 18 points of damage, taking him to -10 and death.

John Carter of Mars is the main hero of Edgar Ric Burrough's Mars series (ERB also created Tarzan, among others). He is originally an earthling who is mysteriously transported to Mars. Because the gravity of Mars is smaller than Earth, he has super strenght and basically trashes all comers and...

Saw it this weekend, don't see a thread up yet. Anyone care to comment? Personally, I loved it. Miyazaki makes the most mundane things (walking, cleaning) extraordinary, and when he takes on more impressive events, like battles, the results are amazing. I highly recommend seeing it. Like all of...

I think I'm close to winning this contest (or losing it, depending on your viewpoint) as I wort a part time job where no more than 10% of my time is spent working. I run a computer program at my University to run some tests. I have to save the data and change the test type after every run...

If you want to work a little bit with your DM to work up an epic lasher Prc, then it might be useful to go 10 rogue/20 lasher. Plenty of PrCs shown at epic levels on thw wizards website, generally the way it's done is the abilities that increase in level continue to do so, no new abilities are...

Well, nix my comments about the Reconcilitary Sophists. In that case, what are the new followers of Saizhan referred to? I guess I will one day have to go back and reread the SH. I wonder what sort of in game benefits there are to practicing Saizhan, if any? it says Eadric meditates a lot...

It's amazing actually how even the smallest magics would completely change the world. Create water, at 2 gallons per level, will revolutionize arid societies and enable people to travel through deserts with ease. Teach it to all the farmers, and suddenly agriculture is fundamentally different...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to recall the Urgic Mystics as being the oddball hermits (Zen inspired, it would seem) that Tramst trained with prior to becoming the Sela. If so, I don't think they have anything to do with arcane magic; they may not even have any clerical powers. Sep once...

A Bump for this great thread. Anyone feel like taking a shot at writing up an epic paladin, see what kind of damage can be done in two shots? Eadric has Pal 15/ Divine (Agent? Disciple?) 5/ A few levels to up him to half celestial/ a few levels I'm probably missing. Might be fun, if I had the...

My very first campaign was much like this. The dragons weren't common creatures or in charge per say, but I loved using them and pitted the characters against them frequently. Each dragon usually had a pack of servitor humanoids, lizardfolk for the black dragon in the swamp, orcs for the big...

Mystic Theruge and Eldritch Knight... I can't believe anything so flavorless qualifies as a prestige class. I also lean towards believing that these are unbalanced, despite many good arguments on the boards to the contrary. Honestly when the MT was put up on Wizard's site I hoped and prayed it...

Add in some power attack, up to +20 (or more), probably divine might for the cha boost to damage, maybe +10 or more (he is half celestial now, I'm sure his cha is crazy), throw in double damage to evil from his sunblade (do they still do that? Is that to undead only?) and some bonus damage from...

Yay! And yay not just because I find your writing fun and inspirational, but because you are a talented writer, and I love it when talented people get to do what they're good at. Yay! And tleilaxu, I'm pretty sure he was referring to the new Queen of the Wyre as Ort's new face, not the boy....

Sorry for the vagueness earlier. In the said story, I don't believe that the int boosting spell chain was 0 DC (Though I don't think it was too high, either, as the spells were developed quickly in the story). Take 3 epic casters, one a druid. Each spell boosts everyone's int. Each spell does...

Just a quick note on Epic spells: It's actually very easy to insert enough mitigating factors into a spell to reduce it's craft DC to 0. At this point, the spell takes no time or money to create, and the caster should have a million of these. Epic spells also provide a very flexible way to give...