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hong's alive, in fact (checks bottom of other browser window), he's reading rpg.net right now. I've seen him posting there quite a bit recently.

That is not the intent of the rules in Grim Tales. However, it seems like a perfectly reasonable house rule to me, though I might specify that it's a point of subdual damage if the attack was lethal, and no point if the attack was subdual.

Shouldn't be a problem. The black powder weapons from the DMG are mechanically a little better than crossbows, and quite a bit worse than d20 modern firearms (which don't take a standard action to reload after every shot). In our d20 modern game, when combat breaks out, the guy using a chain...

Cause he looked like that for the whole run of Party of Five and liked it.

You're just wrong, there. 60' is only a -6 penalty to a spot check, and there was a whole party standing there involved in the negotiations, plus all the goblins. They should all have received a spot check opposed by the guy's hide. Since you disallowed that, you screwed them over by DM fiat...

Yes. I encourage it. Heck, I'll let one PC have the feat in question, another cast the spells necessary for enchantment, and still a third provide the XP; like if a wizard has craft magical arms and armor, the cleric provides the flame blade spell to make the weapon flaming, and the fighter...

Hey, let me know if you like it, I can lend you the sequel, "What If? 2" (something like that).

He's playing a ranger, and wants to focus on a quarterstaff, but doesn't want to play a dual-wielder? He's nuts, not worth helping out :) More seriously, we had a long discussion on this kind of topic a while back, that I don't have a link handy to at the moment. The gist was, if you're...

Bull Rush is too occasionally useful to be worth the feat. Go with something else on the power attack tree, like improved sunder. Half or better of your opponents will wield weapons, very few of your fights will involve things you can push people into. In the situations where it is useful...

How did it end? I tried to watch this a while back, and was so bored that I turned it off after 45 minutes, but I'm curious.

If you make your reflex save vs a fireball, you had the presence of mind to close your eyes, turn your head, shield your face, and not inhale the superheated hot gas that would do horrible things to your throat and lungs. The fireball doesn't ignite anything, so most of the flash is felt on...

As an aside, buh? I see lizardfolk get a +5 NA, what gets a +6? I had never thought about using this spell as a combat-enhancer, though it's fun for disguises and such.

Probably not. Wizards cancelled it because they had no intention of providing needless alternatives to d20, since that was their focus RPG. Also, it really wasn't doing that well, from Wizard's POV. Wolfgang Baur and I think a couple of other authors tried to license DarkMatter so they could...

Mistaken identity.

But it doesn't require them to be a fighter/thief/druid to get in, it requires bard/thief/druid. So I don't see the direct connection you do, I guess.

Does everyone think that it's intentional for the class to reuquire levels in three separate classes to enter that PrC? The book talks about it being a class for druid/bards, I don't remember a mention of rogues at all. It seems to me more like the author thought bards got evasion and they...

In Unearthed Arcana, that's listed as a use of an action point. I don't think it's included in Eberron or d20 modern, though.

First, I assume you've seen the action point rules in Unearthed Arcana, that list a bunch of ways to use action points to improve your use of feats? It might give you ideas, or it might convince you to scrap it since it's already been done. Anyway, it depends on how over-the-top you want your...

Yeah, I'm right there with you. I still think SUVs are the worst vehicles on the road, but I really want one of the big fuzzy monsters. Not sure my back yard is big enough, though.

We use the entire pool as per-session points. This hasn't really been a problem for us, and few people use their entire pool in one session, so it seems to be about the right balance for our group.