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Unbalanced compared to what? If all the PCs can do that kind of thing, then they're balanced with each other, and they don't have to be balanced with the NPCs at all. NPCs exist to be walk-ons or opponents or love interests or whatever in the PCs' stories. Yeah, there are, I've seen a...

In a surprise round, only people who can act roll initiative. This gives you some, but not all, of the information which would make it necessary to decide this. The following assumes you can act in the surprise round, obviously: If you roll a high initiative, you can take your surprise-round...

I did, in post 24. If you delay from a surprise round into a regular round, you're essentially taking that moment that you might be able to act in the surprise round to take stock of the situation and get the jump on your opponents. You delay into the regular round, and then can take a full...

"Acting normally" within a non-surprise round gets a full action, not a standard action.

Yes.

That is creative. Nice thinking.

Using the normal stat distribution (15,14,13,12,10,8) a fighter-type will typically have a 14 or 15 in strength at low levels. A typical one-handed, martial weapon will deal 1d8 damage, average 4.5. A typical two-handed martial weapon deals 2d6 or 1d6, average 7 or 6.5. So at low levels...

Amusingly enough, I think there's a typo in the code for Haley in #251. ...or I'd still be thinking with my Trouser Titan. Oze ktpp ja asf...: You're just a mean... other people like crap. Afw xzpd dtod dsf kyjfd.: ...you're going to have to drag us there in chains. Ofts!: Cipher: A T B C D...

It's ok. She'll stop feeling bad when they kill her.

Which part of that did you have a question about?

She tried to kill them. When someone tries to kill you, you try to kill them right back. So it is in Firefly, so it is in D&D. She's getting off lightly with just a chewing-out.

The "Dart" in the PHB is the equivalent of the small spears/arrows thrown by an atlatl. I would suggest treating the atlatl as a thrown weapon (5 range incremements max, str applies to damage), but double its range increment (to 40') and increase the critical to x3 to represent the greater...

It is obvious that something is wrong. It's only a DC 15 sense motive check to notice it. Dominate isn't subtle. It can't even give instructions that the dominated person be subtle. The PC did exactly what he should have.

They should never have gone along with her in the first place. Thrash the bitch soundly and send her away (it's not raining now). Then go have a talk with Lord Shojo, thrash him soundly, and send him away. They didn't commit any crimes, and aren't subject to any lord's judgement.

Duh. If you want to encourage it, give a bonus to his roll, or maybe award him an action point that he can use now or save for later. If you want to discourage it, require a lot of skill checks. But that would be stupid, because you just said you want to reward creativity. Look, if you make...

That's just description. When an attacker successfully disarms someone, say the sword flies out of their hand and sticks in the wall. You don't need a rule for that. Note everyone's touch AC and regular AC. If an attack beats their touch AC but not their regular AC, it was "blocked"- that...

In addition to stuff mentioned earlier: Alter self: good for getting natural armor (lizardman or troglodyte), aquatic mobility (merfolk or locanth), disguise, and even flight (avarial if nothing else, I can't remember what humanoids have wings at the moment). Later on, Polymorph is good for...

I think the university really started emphasizing it when they had trademark issues a couple of years ago with OU over athletic gear with school logos on it. A damn stupid thing for two universities to get in a spat about, overall. OSU started pointing out the "The" in its ads and literature...

I think I got it, but there's no way to be sure since only two letters repeat. The trick is the contraction, which has two letters after the apostrophe. There aren't many words in english that are like that. Spoiler:

Actually, the two maps on that website ARE the maps from the CoG box set, as near as I can remember. The shapes of the buildings look right, for instance, as do the tunnels and stuff in the undercity map. My copy is at my parents' house so I can't check more closely, but you shouldn't need...