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Ahh, the Worm that Walks. Lovely beast, isn't it? Tiny CR increase, but it was in the Epic Level Handbook. Is it fair? Well, no, but many things at high levels aren't fair. A flat 100 damage is actually pretty small at that point - think of a maximized flame strike (ooh, fun) or a...

It hasn't come up, but my initial bent is to have them be disabled/killed, but not to rise. Though you could have some fun with "'forged of Kyuss".

For the record: the FR feat is "Dreadful Wrath", Player's Guide to Faerun. Gives you a variant of Intimidating Presence (will save or be shaken). The Draconomicon feat is similar, with the explicit mention that the fear only affects things with fewer Hit Dice than you. This makes it kinda...

He's a Swordsage, actually. As an experiment we're running a Cha-based Swordsage instead of Wisdom based... working out pretty well so far. Thanks for the replies! I was hoping to find a swift action thingie, since "make an attack" probably means "don't use one of those tasty maneuvers". But...

I'm playing a fighter with a high Charisma - and that screams "Take Intimidate!". So I am. Thing is, the basic Intimidate rules are pretty useless. Use my action to (possibly) make one opponent shaken for one round - I'd rather hit him with a big sharp object. Does anyone know of a feat that...

I looked at that and said "Cool! Fighters are so getting that!". But then again, I have an agenda - I want fighters to be cool. I like the concept of the big mauler who can beat you with anything - sword, spear, club, tankard, the Clue-By-Four... so yeah, I've houseruled that fighters can swap...

That's the way we've played it as well - so the formula is (base cost + materials) * size + enchantments ... and man was that full plate for the size Large PC expensive. Adamantine spear, too.

Many of the exotic weapons in the Completes have a clause of "can be treated like unexotic version for purposes of feats". That doesn't really help here, though. As said, the PHB2 has retraining rules that could be applied. Finally, the Eberron campaign setting (particularly Races of...

I really like my Canon inkjet, but I agree with the above post - get a laser printer for pdfs. The ink will be cheaper overall, it prints quicker, and will probably look better. If you need color though and can't shell out for a color laser, go Canon. Individual tanks, clear plastic so you can...

Ask yourself: As an adventurer, do I really want to be running around with some guy who can stub his toe, freak out, and kill me? The answer (for me, at least) is HECK NO. That's the thing - FB doesn't make a good PC class because the other PCs should be scattering to the four winds as soon...

DM, but correlated (not causation). I spend a lot on miniatures, and I pick up books when they look interesting. One friends of mine picks up books. The others play. I'm GMing a campaign, and the book friend is GMing a campaign. If we were players, we'd still be spending the money. We both...

We had a Flavored Soul in the party. They were fun, but started running into problems with the "status-reversing" spells. Remove Paralysis, Remove Curse, Remove Blindness... Their spells known aren't enough for them to cover all of the "get this guy better" spells. You can hit the Cures pretty...

Amen. Fairness involves two parties playing by a set of rules, where the point is for one of the parties to win. The rules give you a system to keep the two parties equal, so that the winner can feel good about it. The point of my D&D campaign is not GM vs. players. It's for the players to...

Agreed. If you don't like the skill reliance, then remove the skill boost items from the game and set the DC to scale by a factor of 1 instead of 2. Personally, that's what I'd do... but then I'm not a fan of skill boost items in general.

I don't mind the DC calculation at all. First, it assumes you have access to skill boosting items - and if you don't, drop the DCs and remove the items from the game. The alternative is to assume that nobody has an item, and then if the items exist the entire system breaks down. Personally...

Resurrecting an old topic... One of the earlier complaints was that DCs either remained static, and thus high-level PCs auto-succeeded, or they scaled and became unrealistic. Then there was an example of the high-level rogue picking a lock behind his back while debating with his captors...

I got to run that one last night. That was brutal. The creature was Gargantuan (I normally have 6 players... though one couldn't make it). No HD advancement. Round 1: Dwarf fighter wins initiative, charges and ends right in front of the creature. Froghemoth - Full attack, bringing him to -2...

Well, any PrC that requires Skill Focus to enter. Archmage springs to mind, as does the Initiate of the Sevenfold Veil (Woo... greater spell focus abjuration!). More seriously, any full caster progression class, epecially arcane, can _only_ be balanced through skills and feats. It's not like...

Like others have said, the no-save part is huge. We recently finished up Paizo's Shackled City campaign. Not to spoil much, but the BBEG had enormous saves - and we knew it going in. So my mage was packing exclusively no-save spells, or spells where the secondary effect was good enough. (Side...

Morden over Bester. Morden was just plain evil. He sold out his crew, his friends (if he had any), and his soul. You never even heard what he was getting in return. Now Bester? He just wanted the best for his people. So his methods were a bit iffy, and he was willing to deal a little... but...