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Yeah, some things would just be better as logic statements... Here's my best shot. Can someone tell me if I'm at all right? BTW, "clear line" means "line that doesn't go through anyone else's square, etc." So, the cover rule for large creatures looks like such: if you cannot pick a corner of...

It's good to know that spellcasters can walk and chew gum with a DC 20+ concentration check :) We'll see if it's broken in one of the campaigns I play, as my mage just took the feat. On the other hand, he's VoP with a horrible CON so... that concentration DC is kinda tough. One thing the feat...

I suppose I should vote... I don't have a problem with psionics as a point-based power system, although I'm a little twitchy about the lack of components for psionic abilities. My real problem is the _names_. While I'm not running (or playing) High Fantasy by any means, the words "Ecto-"...

Thanks :) That's what I was afraid of. The Optimizing menu lets you redo the DPI of images. I suppose I could cut everything down to 30-ish (err... 150/4) to shrink 'em. Worst comes to worst, redo and re-bookmark. Which actually leads to another good question. Anyone know of a way to batch...

So I have this PDF. It's *huge*, about 100MB, and I'm trying to reduce the file size by rescaling the included images (which I figure are 600DPI color). Turns out I'm wrong... The PDF is a 36x44" document with 150DPI images. Instead of 8.5"x11" at 600DPI -- the guy who created it just screwed...

OT: Ahem. FORGE OF FURY!!!! Right?

Spells per day -- that's what a "spell slot" is.

For the whole "magic bypasses DR" bit, there's a line from Complete Adventurer... where was it. Oh, yes: -- daggerspell mage. Sigh. I've also houseruled that Rain of Stones (?, the Warmage spell) has to deal with DR. "I'm conjuring normal rocks, but they ignore DR. Really. I swear. Uh-huh."...

Yeah, trading a save for an attack roll seems pretty even to me. Just tell my wife, who _hates_ attack rolls as she always manages to miss. Even with touch ACs... As for conjuration having SR: No, I'm cool with that since SR has just gone insane. Golems in particular. The problem with the Orb...

Might not be a [Death] effect for balance reasons. For example, you can't use Raise Dead on someone who died to a [Death] effect; makes Slay Living nastier than Phantasmal Killer. And I don't see anything [Death]-y about this spell -- you're not trying to magically snuff out their life force or...

If a mage casts a spell and nobody hears it, did it make a big KABOOM? ;) So who needs to hear a verbal component? The Magic Fairy (tm) next to you? Luckily, we've never had to deal with silent counterspelling. And nobody else in my group reads Enworld. Hee hee...

We use it, but modified so that turn resistance gives a bonus to the Will save instead of reducing damage. After all, -4 damage on a 9d6 turn attempt is a little puny. However, the will-for-half will still leave mooks getting vaporized, so perhaps temporary HP is the right way to go. The...

I see Tumble as the movement version of casting defensively. In both cases they're simply denying an opponent an opening, not actively taking away something from the opponent (an AoO). This parallel offers some interesting options: Tumble is relatively static for one person at 15, while...

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Heh... the Adventure Path, AKA "Best Of Fiend Folio". Yeesh. And yeah, we got them with a level of rogue. Talk about annoying. On the other hand, they're a valid Alter Self target. Much less Polymorph. Mmmmm hide-on-the run.

We managed to nab a replacement once using Detect Evil. The rogue had been possessed (player didn't even know) and we got lucky with a Paladin sweep. That being said, the sorceress in the game also detected as evil. Thing is, it was just skin deep :p there was some bloodline thing going on...

Word. You can also go to a hardware store and get sheets of effectively dry-erase material. Check in the wall panelling section -- glossy white. That'll give you a big dry-erase board. If you lightly score lines (with straightedge and knife), dry-erase dust will get trapped in them and give you...

I'm actually playing a VoP mage. Uses XP instead of cash to learn spells and components. Probably broken, but... it's _fun_. I always saw the VoP as a way to explicitly not depend on material objects. That, at any point, you could lose _everything_ and not mind at all. It's ownership more in...

Ugh. Worm that Walks. We hit one in a near-Epic game... mage that we'd dealt with before that got a little... icky. He's invisible, we know where he is. I get the cleric to cast a True Seeing on me. GM takes me aside, shows me the picture. "OH HOLY #@$@#$!!!!" Ewwwwww... that, and the...

Actually, you can... And it gets better (I think). I'm heading into a heavily anti-undead campaign, so how's this gem: +1 armor of Ghost Ward (Libris Mortis, cheaper but more limited Ghost Touch). Then hit it with a Magic Vestment, and suddenly you have ghost armor. Do it with a shield, too...