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    For the first time ever, I've banned a player class from my table

    I agree with Aelryinth's calculation that the damage in this case should have been 30d6, not 36d6 or 52d6. And that's assuming that Twin Spell applies to Scorching Ray, which, as Claudio mentioned, is arguable. I asked Keith Baker about Metamagic Item on the Ask Keith Baker thread over at...
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    WotC's Head to head monster match! Vote for your favorite!

    Wow. I'm shocked Mr. T was able to pull it out. And it wasn't even that close. Now we have an over-used symbol of the Realms with a twist vs. an over-used symbol of Eberron with a twist. Interesting. I'm going to say lich-face will take it, with < 60% of the vote.
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    For the first time ever, I've banned a player class from my table

    Sorry, I slightly misread your last post. The Metamagic Item infusion doesn't need to be used in tandem with the Metamagic Spell Trigger ability. At 5th and 6th level, it allows the artificer to combine metamagic with wands, at 7th level and above he can do so without the infusion and still...
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    Five Nations thread (merged)

    What is the Bone Knight's role? Is it leading the Karrnathi undead? It doesn't really seem to fit with the idea of undead troops being segregated from the living.
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    For the first time ever, I've banned a player class from my table

    Page 32, under the heading "Metamagic Spell Trigger (Su)." It's not true that there is no extra cost for adding metamagic to wands. The infusion description may be a bit vague, but given the obviously broken results of interpreting it the way your player did, I think the intention is pretty...
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    For the first time ever, I've banned a player class from my table

    The infusion "Metamagic Item" does NOT allow you to bypass the extra charge cost for applying metamagic to a wand. It says nothing about that in the description. The point of "Metamagic Item" is much like the point of most infusions -- to aid the artificer's comrades. It allows others to use...
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    Tower Shields and Lightning Bolts

    But what's the definition of a barrier? Why would a tower shield potentially stop the bolt when an ogre in plate mail wouldn't? Could a gelantinous cube stop it?
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    Magic of Incarnum... hmm...

    You don't have the right to criticize a book if you haven't read it....
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    WotC's Head to head monster match! Vote for your favorite!

    So Meepo advances to the second round (which is as far as he'll go, poor little guy...). Not to toot my own horn, but I was 8 for 8 in Round 1. Which brings us to the first match of Round 2, by far the most difficult to predict so far -- Tarrasque vs. Marilith Dervish. I'd like to see the...
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    Magic of Incarnum... hmm...

    Fair enough...I meant to say that the term first appeared in 3e D&D in Bastion by Bruce Cordell.
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    Magic of Incarnum... hmm...

    Simmer down, folks...there's NO WAY this book is going to deal with fetuses and unborn babies and such. The term "unborn soul" was coined by Bruce Cordell in his WotC adventure Bastion of Broken Souls. The gist is that all souls are created on the Positive Energy Plane and then migrate to the...
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    More examples from Weapons of Legacy

    Finally, an Excerpt of Legacy. ;)
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    Baby girl weighs in at 14 lbs.

    I was a little over 10 lbs. at birth. That said, I was something like 2-3 weeks overdue. I went on to be considered underweight from 1-20 years of age; no serious health problems.
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    WotC's Head to head monster match! Vote for your favorite!

    Hey, it's been five years since Sunless Citadel came out; in that time, Meepo could have gained 20 levels of Expert or something...he could be one dangerous Kobold. ;)
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    WotC's Head to head monster match! Vote for your favorite!

    You can conjure an infinite amount of celestial badgers with Summon Monster, but there's only one Meepo. The little Keeper of Dragons will advance.
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    WotC's Head to head monster match! Vote for your favorite!

    He's got a certain je ne sais quois...he's got personality. You have to play (or run) The Sunless Citadel to get it. Otherwise he's just a kobold with a funny name.
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    WotC's Head to head monster match! Vote for your favorite!

    Stone giant pounds unicorn, as expected. The succubus paladin has got it all -- the looks, the ride, the dichotomy in the backstory (perhaps succubus paladin will become the new CG drow...). She will go far in the tournament. "Shuluth" is featured in "the worst excerpt EVAR" by WotC (see my...
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    Tenser's Transformation

    Wow, this thread just keeps on going, doesn't it? Wait...damn! I just contributed to its longevity....
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    Coffee?

    "You know you're thinking about D&D too much when...." ;)
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    WotC -- Worst Excerpt EVAR!

    Weapons of Legacy Excerpt
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