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I don't think 3.0 deflect arrows allowed more than 1 deflection per round, either.

Aasimars and Tieflings don't advance by type hit dice, but by class. I'd only give them stuff from their type if it isn't something that would normally be determined by their class. For instance, they'd get the darkvision 60' (which is mentioned in * As Characters anyway), and they get the...

I think it's fairly common in chess for someone to resign when they recognize they have (effectively) lost, even though actually losing could take quite a few more moves by both players.

OK, so make it work like combat. You start off with X game hit points (pick a value of X, which will depend on how long you want this to take). Probably no initiative, since going first is a negligable advantage. A round is of indeterminate length, and represents an exchange of several turns...

Complete Adventurer introduces that rule (I call it weapon similarity, they don't really name it), but it doesn't mention any elven lightblade type weapons. Are the thinblades from Complete Warrior? CAdv has a list of "similarity" weapons from CW, and thinblade isn't on it. It lists: Blowgun...

Hey, that's cool. I always wondered where those came from, and just figured they thought monks needed a piercing weapon :)

Ah, um, (looks at the post date). I blame the new guy. Bringing up a two year old thread. Heh. :o VBulletin should archive threads after some non-posted-in duration, and make them unpostable without a moderator unlocking them or something. This seems to happen somewhat often, and generally...

From 3.0 to 3.5 they were trying to simplify combat somewhat. Changing Deflect Arrows to just work, once per round, took a roll out of the action-resolution phase. And it was a reasonable approximation of the old rule: monks that have deflect arrows also have massive reflex saves, and never...

The best fix for it is probably to make it a standard action instead of a swift action. Then, like True Strike, it's good in some circumstances but not ALL circumstances.

The problem I've run into is that there aren't all that many actions available in any given combat. If my EK buffs himself when he knows combat is coming, then he can go in swinging or use his bow during combat, and I'm getting use out of both his spells and his fighter level and good BAB. If...

Yes, for some reason they never have The Dragon #1 in stock, and can't seem to get it from distributers. :P

Ravenstone, Soldiery, and the Guard Tower all have board games, rpgs, and miniatures of all kinds. Comic Town has RPGs, comics (obviously), MtG type CCGs, and I believe I've seen D&D minis there, but no general pewter grab-and-paint type minis. The Soldiery tends to have a ton of out-of-print...

If you have three dingos, you're going to need way more than 1 baby.

It didn't add facing. It clarified that it works like all cover, which works based on lines or shapes of covering objects on the battle grid. Chill out. And the FAQ can alter or add any rules its authors want; officialness is much less relevant to the game than usefulness, and the rulings in...

Yes. Don't think of it as the fighter planting it on the ground and hiding behind it. He's devoting all his attention to keeping that big plank of lumber between him and everything dangerous, which includes moving it around a lot to block.

So you've got epic talent trees, epic advanced classes, that kind of thing? How supernatural are these epic abilities? Like, there's an epic feat for D&D that lets you shoot your bow at everyone within 30', and another that grants fast healing. Anything like that?

Had no problems, all morning, using the url, and I first checked the site about 9:15 or so EST. But you could get on using the IP. That would probably make it a DNS problem somewhere (and not a routing thing, since that would stop IP access too), but not everywhere... I wonder if there are DNS...

How much of the PHB do you really use in a game? If you're playing a wizard, skip most of the classes, most of the combat chapter, and most of the spells. If you're playing a fighter, skip all of the spells. With other books, you'll tend to use even less at any one time - a feat here, a...

Aren't you the guy that had a 110th level wizard of some sort? I wouldn't think oddly-built characters using variant rules would be a concept you'd find all that ruffling. Gestalt characters are a campaign option. Like, if you want to run a Shaolin Soccer kinda game, you have everyone gestalt...

The way that cursed items normally work, "possession" of the item can only be lost with a remove curse spell. So you've basically made a magical item that lets you cast two spells into it, and then nothing else, until you unleash them from the spell-storing and cast something else into it...