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Oh man...I played a game some (too many) years ago that had a similar system. Now it's gonna drive me nuts trying to remember what it was. :.-(

Yeah. I was actually addressing webrunner's question. :)

RAW allows it. DMG pg 40 says when "a power has an effect that occurs upon hitting a target--or reducing a target to 0 hit points--the power functions only when the target in question is a meaningful threat." It then goes on with the "bag of rats" example. It has nothing to say, however...

LOL! Brings back painful memories of the game store that kept all the 2e books behind the counter where you were certainly welcome to browse through them AFTER you bought them. The only difference between him and the comic book store guy on The Simpsons is that the comic book guy on The...

Ahhhhh! Gotcha! For me, the RAW are good enough in this case. But I like the way you think--empower vs punishment. 100% agreed. :)

Well wouldja looky that! Woot! :D Scrolling didn't work in Chrome either, but it does now. It's not very snappy--I think that's Silverlight bloat more than anything else--but dang finally!

FWIW I'd argue that Amazon did more to hurt game stores than the VT ever will. I'm interested in seeing what they produce, but I've been using d20 Pro for months, so it's not exactly anything I've been missing. I have a DDI subscription, but if they require my players to buy one, I can tell...

Do you mean make a Heal check to avoid the AoO, and then make another check to do the actual healing? Or are you saying to make a Heal check at a penalty, with success being they can heal without AoO, or..? Seems very meta-gamey to me, the kinda thing I didn't care for in 3.x. It's one short...

As the DM, it's completely within your rights to rule it any way that makes the most sense to you. But from a gameplay perspective, having it generate an AoO doesn't really seem to put a tick in the "fun" column imho. Your party has just had a character drop--not exactly fun, but it does...

I wouldn't house-rule a heal check to be subject to AoO. The PCs have already been penalized with the (however temporary) loss of a character, not to mention the loss of an action by the healing character. It's enough I think.

Nope, heal checks don't provoke opportunity attack.

Ever play Neverwinter Nights? It wasn't quite as fancy as an MMO-style interface, but it did allow the "DM" to create scenarios that others could play through. It was most decidedly not tabletop gaming though, and was never seen as a direct threat to tabletop roleplaying. I'd be surprised if...

Heh, poor Pathfinder, it's really taking a beating in this thread. :D And granted, I've also said I'd be willing to play but not DM, but honestly it's actually a great system. It's pretty impressive that they were able to take an essentially broken system and just through tweaks and some...

Completely agreed, the MM3 is fantastic, and the elementals are great design. The ability for a (greater?) fire elemental to "flicker" (shift) is just fantastic imagery.

Heh...I guess the white box edition is more popular than World of Warcraft if eBay is any metric. :]

omg me too. :D

So somebody paid ~$23 for your PHB on Ebay? Too bad for them, they could have gotten a brand new PHB at Amazon for the same price. Which isn't too bad when you consider these books are a couple years old. Not very many books hold that kind of value after 2 years. There's a lot of reasons...

So true. Out of my current group, and excluding myself (the DM), only one other player even has a PHB. The rest don't have any of the books.

Yes, didn't you hear? D&D went over to Pathfinder's house for what was supposed to be just a friendly game, but turned out Pathfinder was running Tomb of Horrors. D&D was stupid and jumped into the Sphere of Annihilation, so it's dead now with no possibility of rez, complete party wipe. Sell...

Ahhh but... :) The mechanics of Drunken Monkey say that the target makes an a basic attack "against one enemy of your choice," but look at the flavor text: I know flavor text isn't considered binding, but still we can how the power was intended to be used. Having said that, I could actually...