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Traditions are important for the very reason that they ignore the day-to-day ups and downs of the world. Love or loathe the particulars of their implementation, they are a constant, a fixed position, around which the ocean of everyday events swell and sag. Now if half the regular posters came...

I think I would have been most satisfied with a 4e that had taken 3.5 and shoved it through the same sausage-making process that Star Wars Saga Edition came out of, instead of starting from first principles and rebuilding everything from the ground up.

The question of how to calculate the expected result of rolling a d20 twice and choosing the best result came up a couple of times before, and here's what I worked out. At first I thought it was 75% of the die, but when trying to work out the probabilities again I realized that this is...

I, too, wondered why exactly V was casting light on the creature's nethers, but then came to the conclusion that it was probably cone of cold. Cue obvious joke in 3... 2... 1...

Not to my knowledge, Shroomy.

Interesting, and good to know. I predict more errata from WotC next month! ;)

If you're playing a 3.5 game and you've got access to Tome of Battle, then a crusader is pretty darn survivable. It gives you a delayed damage pool, and the ability to mitigate some of that damage with the right feats, access to stances that heal someone a little bit with every hit, and strikes...

Just to be clear, while the latest errata toned down Skill Challenge and Disease target DCs, it didn't touch those associated with the traps at all, so it's not surprising that this article doesn't either.

Twenty-one! ;) I'm quite happy Pathfinder is chugging away and trying to throw new ideas into the 3.5 mix, if only to show that 3.5 development hasn't totally ground to a halt with the release of 4e. EDIT: But this beta is only a beta, and one with a print run to go along with it as well, so...

There are a couple of places in KotS where my DM made things harder by deliberately misreading what was written. The encounter with Irontooth, for one. We allowed one of the kobolds outside the lair to return to it and warn the inhabitants. At which point the DM surmised that it was illogical...

I think you could add, "those qualities of a game which remind you of elements usually found in a video game." For example, all editions of D&D to some degree have usually tailored challenges around the party level. As level went up, so did the challenges. The lower level challenges still...

14) Geek the wight first. Dangit, but that thing was a pain...

The common word "quality" is one with a definition that is very hard to pin down--what does it mean, exactly, if I say I have quality furniture in my home, that it's expensive? well-made? old? ergonomic? not in need of replacement?--but that doesn't stop people from using the word and, more...

You could always pretend it was your familiar! /rimshot

Darn it, where are the frelling batteries!?! /me squints to read Mostrum_Ridcully's fine print. I too am taking a bit of a break. The last few weeks, it's been difficult to get to EN World without first sitting through multiple timeouts and the like, my last few months messing around with this...

Many an excellent plan of mine has been foiled by that simple little detail!

As a DM, I don't think I'd allow a 3rd level spell this much power. I'd simply rule that the encasement process was slow enough that the target could easily step out of it or disrupt it, so long as they weren't helpless. For reference, the 5th level spell wall of stone allows you to do what...

Well, first of all, stone shape is a touch spell, and if you're able to touch the ceiling, you probably would have been better off trying to grapple the derro!

I thought that "Red Hand of Doom" was the cat's meow when I ran it, but some of my players felt it was a touch on the difficult side at times. I also thought "Of Sound Mind" was particularly clever and entertaining as well. My absolute fave adventure that I've played in was the old Necromancer...

My group ran into Irontooth a few weeks back, and while it was very close (I could count the total amount of hp of the party members on my fingers) it was not quite a TPK. Our problem wasn't Irontooth, as it happened, who went down before actually doing much. As the sole goblin in what was...