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We don't; upon teleporting in, everyone on both sides rolls initiative and we go from there. Mostly this is to help blunt the effectiveness of Scry-Buff-Teleport tactics...in fact, we got the idea from reading (contact)'s Liberation of Tenh story hour, where he made a side comment to that...

...I guess you'd have to have someone else cast Tenser's Floating Disk, then. That way you could ride on it without any trouble. ;) I might let a guy with a nice cabin on a ship (or an airship, I guess) set it up for crafting. A small crafter in a big wagon, maybe, if the roads are good...

Yeah, especially considering the circumstances here. If the party recognizes the BBEG, odds are the BBEG recognizes the party. And if he recognizes them, he has to know they're his enemies, right? I mean, on some level, he has to know that they didn't come just to sing him a song. If it's...

Nope. I'd just treat it like its base spell: Continual Flame. If you need it to go out, you can negate it with dispel magic, or you can take it into an area of magical darkness or deeper darkness, or you can put it in an antimagic field or a dead magic zone. Maybe hit it with a Disjunction...

I'm with Thanee on this; being stunned means you don't get to take any actions, and that definitely includes delaying an action and refocusing your initiative. If your GM is peeved about that, feel free to gently remind him that this cuts both ways, and the next time he stuns a PC, no one's...

Not in AD&D2, they didn't. This was a high school game, and while I'm flattered that you'd think I'm young enough to have been in high school when 3rd edition came out, I'm afraid that's not the case. ;) More to the point, I looked through the rulebook later and discovered that, in the...

We have a pickup hack-and-slash game we occasionally go back to: this is, of course, almost entirely centered around combat and other obstacles. Everyone in our gaming group has a character, but generally we only play this when some people are out of town and we can't play one of our regular...

True enough, although most people actually SAY "I could care less" with a distinctly sarcastic tone in their voice, which is pretty much the same thing as saying "I couldn't care less" in a more serious manner. But that, of course, has nothing to do with the topic. ;) Me, I'd say Red Viper's...

Interesting. What I've always wondered is why rules on selling things always seems to assume that it's difficult to get full market value for a magic item. Because honestly, I think it's really weird; unless your gameworld has magic item shops, where merchants are looking to buy items at...

Oh, I like your players. Not only did they catch a mistake and exploit it perfectly, but they knew the best way to celebrate it and make you eat your liver for the rest of the session. I wouldn't say that ruined a whole campaign at all; it just sidestepped the big climactic fight you were...

If it's always overcast and windy there, then it's always a good place for Call Lightning, because the spell description is just asking for clouds and wind, not where the clouds and the wind came from, whether it's common or rare for that area, or anything like that; it only cares about whether...

Like JDragon, we have an understanding in our group that familiars who get into combat are fair game; keep them out of combat and out of your enemies' faces, and no one is actively going to hunt them down. But back when I was in high school, playing our ridiculous AD&D game, I saw our GM...

Well, look at it from the perspective of the two less-than-enthused players: one of their characters has a GODDAMN EYE ON HIS HAND, and the other has A TENTACLE INSTEAD OF AN ARM. In other words, in most settings, they are terrifying and hideous freaks. Is that what they signed up for? Is...

Unless you're a rogue who wants to go into melee, that is. Rogues who want to go into melee should always seriously consider investing in two-weapon fighting. That extra chance to deal sneak attack damage is genuinely worth it, and the +2 from flanking (because, of course, you're going to take...

Banewarrens is nifty, easily customizable (our GM rewrote some factions and some backstory and stuck it into the Scarred Lands, and if he hadn't told us he did it I don't think any of us would have noticed), and has a lot of interesting things in it. We had a blast with this one, and I'd...

Maybe so. But you guys ARE aware that Pass Without Trace masks your scent, too, right? It says so right in the spell's description. So unless a worg is looking right at you and sniffing and wondering why you don't smell like anything at all, you're clear. And if your disguise or Change Self...

There's always Pass Without Trace (Drd1, Rgr1). Beyond that, the best advice is to stay away from where the Worgs go, and go FAST; the less time you spend there, the less likely you are to be recognized as infiltrators. -- but you knew that already ryan

I'll agree that Greater Invisibility and Dimension Door are about as close to essential spells as you can get. Greater Invisibility wins by a huge margin over Dim. Door, I think, but I doubt there's a single wizard out there who wouldn't want both of them in his book. I also eventually gave...

The answer to the first question seems to be a definitive "no." The spell says that the Reflex save is repeated on your turn (you being the caster) on each round that someone is in the affected area. The monk isn't going to have to make another Reflex save if, on his turn, he makes the...

We have the person coming into the game write up a magic item wish list, including the market price of each item. Then the GM looks at the list, looks at the stuff held by the rest of the party, and decides what to allow in. In some games, it's all of the list. In others, it's anywhere from...