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"Sequel to the DMG" <snerk> Man, but the character development... just wasn't as good in the sequel. Finished up the cliffhanger in the first one, though.

Bows: tons of PrCs that give you extra damage to keep up with the power-attacking melee monster. Thrown weapons: tons of PrCs that fill in fundamental holes in the mechanics (the halfling get-'em-back-right-away, Master Thrower). Thrown weapons are weaker than bows, and WotC's been working on...

I shouldn't... A quick note about rent. Everyone has monthly costs. Even if you flat-out own the space, there's utility taxes, property taxes, inventory taxes, salaries (about 2x what the person gets in cash after all of the federal and state stuff), your food... Nobody can afford to lose...

It is all about the money, and we can't pretend it's anything other than that. The local store charges $10 more for a book that I could mailorder. To me, $10 is worth the ability to drop in and purchase a single die, the ability to flip through the racks of miniatures, and the ability to leaf...

Amusingly, the Minis HB ability goes well out of its way to say "as if you sneak attacked" or something like that; not "you sneak attack". You can read that to mean that it's xd6 damage, but _not_ a SA. I'd go with a weapon enchantment. I find it amusing that +1 gets you Ghost Touch, and +2...

Do a search on the Wizards boards; I think the function's down, but Google makes a good substitute ("site:boards1.wizards.com invisible blade prerequisites" should work). In short, the contributing author originally had a 10-level melee/ranged class, and WoTC turned it into a 5-level melee...

Take a look at the spring attack tree. The entire idea is to get in, slice their throat, and get out. As for impossible... not particularly, just difficult at low-mid levels. If you're going toe-to-toe you need to make them miss you. Given the way the rules work, that means either sky-high AC...

Deific Intervention ROCKS. Though we upped it to level%... My monk went and grappled the BBEG cleric. Oops, but hey... one Word of Recall later, he's about to be sacrificed. RTToEE, BTW... would have been kinda icky. He prays, I roll a 05... and his god shows up. Saves my monk, evil clerics...

Mmm skill-monkey builds. You can get weapons further enhanced; in general, you pay the difference between the new cost and old cost. YDMMV (your DM may vary) :) So, taking a +1 dagger to a +1 flaming dagger would cost (8000 - 2000) = 6000 gold. Note that the +1 equivalents add up; it'll get...

Definitely check out Invisible Blade, as it removes the necessity to flank. Also, if you can hide effectively, you can do all sorts of nasty. As for base damage... heh. I have a character who currently does 1d3-1 base damage (19-20/x2 crit). We use a crit variant where if you keep threatening...

Easiest way would be to open the machine. Big circuit board in the middle -- motherboard. Along the back edge there will be a row of connectors that line up (ish, offset ~1/2 an inch) with openings along the back of the case (might be covered). There should also be expansion cards already...

Fighters already have horrible reflex saves, no need to make 'em worse. 'sides, that full plate might provide a spot of cover. And max dex to AC is just that; the maximum amount of your dexterity bonus you can apply to AC. You still apply your full DEX to saves, skill checks (though that ACP is...

I've always been amused with the skill bonus pricing. Why pick Skill Focus (+3) when you can have a +3 item for 900gp, much less +5 for 2500 or +10 for 10k? 10k is cheap at mid-levels, and it means you pretty much whomp up on any opposed check. "Sorry, old chap, I'm at 10 higher than you because...

I haven't seen the trailer or even looked into the movie in any way. Though I did see the movie poster yesterday when I went to see Batman. Sigh.... sorry, the "Fantastic (Looking) Four" isn't my mental model of the FF. I'll stick with the Incredibles.

Unless Ra's was the actual Ra's, and now Batman only _thinks_ that Ducard was Ra's.... :) I thought it was amusing that while Wayne burned down Ra's' house, carried Ducard out, and made sure he would be cared for, Ducard just burned down the house. On the other hand, my wife did note that...

I liked it. It was a fun movie, and I didn't have time to spend analyzing it in the middle. As a friend noted afterwards, they even pulled off the pseudo-science that normally annoys the heck out of us. My only two real faults with the movie are 1) the action shots (ugh, shaky-cam). The LoS...

I'm going to weigh in on the side of "it was probably an accident". In our apartment building we have ~4 networks that I can see; mine, which is MAC-limited and doesn't broadcast the name, the neighbor's (I know from the network name) which is open but doesn't use the default name; and two...

A bit of a hijack.. "I'm.... Batthumb!" And man do I need to see this movie...

That the second spell overrides the first instead of stacking. Polymorph a human into an Imp: previously human, now outsider. Polymorph that Imp into an Erinyes: previously outsider, loses the old PaO, now human; gains PaO, now outsider.

You know, the 20-20-20 instakill rule (as opposed to 20-20) is mechanically equivalent to the 20-20-MDS. Since if they roll a 1, they fail :) So it's (1 in 20)^3 either way. We use the cumulative crit system -- if you keep threatening, you keep multiplying the crit. So for a x2 weapon it's x2...