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Thank you--"relative darkness" clarifies my feelings on this and why I don't think night qualifies even though it's in the "shadow" of the planet. I see the shadowdancer as being about moving between those areas of relative darkness. Otherwise it's just sneaking around in the dark, you don't...

One thing I have always done: You don't die in any round (defined by your initiative--being the last to act doesn't mean you can't get help) that you receive magical healing, regardless of anything (short of a deity) that would otherwise mean death. Mortals simply don't have the power to...

I disagree. A shadow must be cast on something. The night side of the world is the back of the object casting the shadow, it's not in shadow itself. The only nighttime shadow you might get is a lunar eclipse.

Agreed. There's almost no magic item that's truly unacceptable. It's just what's the cost.

The thing is players correctly evaluate the magic item as vastly superior to permanency in most cases. The magic item could suffer physical destruction but that's very unlikely if it's neither a weapon nor armor. Very few monsters can destroy any other magic item and no spell can until...

Well, the party rather liked the defective item I gave out once: Longsword +3 (when there was IIRC only one +2 weapon in the group.) Intelligent but much more friendly than intelligent items typically are. It had an absolute hatred for level-drainers, though, and would force combat with them...

?? I'm saying if your position is going out on a limb it's not going very far out on one. The more perfect the fit between available items and your character design the more powerful your character even if you didn't increase the power of the items at all.

And I'll say that's a *VERY* short limb.

That cat is clearly defending a "kitten"--the toddler. Note how the attacks stop as soon as she was driven far enough away, then resume when she returns.

Yeah, that makes more sense than the original. Cats only attack when they can't run away or they are defending kittens.

No, because the price is just what you get when you put the 5 rings together into a single item and people aren't saying the individual rings are overpriced. What this actually reflects is that not all energy types are equal threats.

People buy +5 weapons and armor when they can afford it. People don't buy most of the items because they're too expensive for the benefit other than in niche situations. Things are properly balanced when you see PCs making a variety of choices. When they consistently make one choice either...

Very uncommon = doesn't provide enough benefit for it's cost.

Exactly my thought. If there is some item players choose in preference to the big six then they went too far. If players choose a variety of items that includes the big six item then they did their job right.

Except that what they are doing is boosting the value of the items that are rarely used because they were a bad deal compared to the big six items. It's not power creep when you boost things people aren't using.

I'd have no problem with any of these castings. It's just you get a torch worth of light, cast it on something too big and the light will dim accordingly. I doubt a scientist could figure out that you cast it on the world.

There's a modern-day example of a house floored in pennies. It was cheap (albeit quite labor intensive) flooring.

She doesn't get to choose who she hits. The first encounter is a little bit iffy but in a metagame sense it's fair warning--PCs usually don't have encounters far below level and so such an encounter should be figured to be part of something larger. The second time around is utter...

A plane where everything is dimensionally locked other than consecrated (or the evil version, I forget what it's called) ground.

I never realized it was two-way. Yeah, that's nasty although I would be inclined to rule that you can't exit but you're deposited back there anyway when the spell runs out.