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And yet... the game text on those is exactly the same. If you can throw it and have it do more damage, why can't you throw it and have it be inherently Chaotic? And how on Earth are we supposed to derive the distinction when the description doesn't change between the two? You are the...

I never roll for any NPCs. I give them whatever stats I want. -Frank

1> Actual Dragon Hordes. Ugh. In 3rd edition a Great Wyrm Dragon might have as much as 10 gallons of gold in coins (about 80 thousand gp). To put that in perspective: the Great Wyrm Dragon is eighty feet long - and is thus about six thousand times the volume of his treasure horde. What happened...

That was a new rule in Dieties and Demigods though. In the Core Rules, a Save was a form of Check - and thus did not automatically fail on a 1 any more than a 20th level rogue with 23 ranks in Use Rope could fail to tie his shoes. And since it causes some incredibly bad things to happen with...

Because intent is subjective. Literal wording is objective. While there can be, and often is, ambiguity in literal wording - the fact remains that if we get into a discussion of what text "should say" as being a distinct entity from what it does say - we are caught in an endless argument. You...

How come every time you get into a rules argument with me you have to hand wave and say "the literal wording of the rules doesn't matter, only what I think the rules should have said matters." -? I mean, why even have written rules if the only important rules exist inside your head? -Frank

I think your problems here are: 1> You make money matter. 2> You have expensive stuff lying around in a world where money matters. What you are running up to is the fact that medium-to-high level characters can just go out and get however much wealth they want. That's not a problem. The...

Caliban, as usual, is completely wrong. Note that a Quickened Mgic Missile is itself a unique spell with a casting time of 1 free action. Note also that you can extend Feather Fall and not increase the casting time - because the "more time" only applies to spells with a casting time of 1...

That doesn't actually make me care. our arguments are based on nothing except personal whim. This is an argument about wording, and you continue to dismiss syntax and semantics. What the hell is left? -Frank

That's the rub, of course. If that were true, Sorcerers could use Quicken just fine. The Metamagic Time Increase is: Old Casting Time -> New Casting Time If Free Action -> Still Free Action If Standard Action -> Full Round Action (but not actually a Full Round Spell) If Full Round Spell or...

Here's the deal: * In the 3rd edition rules as written there is nothing to stop a Sorcerer form using Quicken. * In 3.5, the rules explicitly forbid characters from using Quicken as spontaneous casters. * Skip Williams maintains that the PHB in 3rd edition always said that Sorcerers could not...

I like waking up in an abandoned monastery. If you've seen Haibane (from the makers of Serial Experiments: Lain), you'll understand. The players can wake up naked on the floor with sore spots on their bodies where their mortal wounds were inflicted. There could also be other people waking up in...

Actually, I'm sort of puzzled. What exactly is the problem? He's going on adventures and getting money - isn't that what adventurers do? I mean, he's going up against fortified towns instead of caves full of orcs - but the result seems identical. Money just isn't that important, or at least...

Caliban, as long as you continue to insist that words in the present tense could just as easily refer to the past tense it is futile to even begin to discuss timing with you. The only evidence you have put forward that things work the way you say they do is that you want them to work that way...

Some classes give you "any feat" - such as the Loremaster. And that could be taken as Combat Casting - but short of that I can't think of any that give Combat Casting or Great Fortitude. Weapon Focus is easy to get. Heck, even base classes hand that out like candy. You can get it from Fighter...

The class is only one level long - after which you would just multiclass into some other class. In those five levels it doesn't look like it's all that great compared o the Ranger - as you get comparable non-magical abilities and don't get spells - which means that you can't use wands. The +4...

That WotC Custserv answer contradicts a Sage Answer on Keen. And since Keen Bows and/or Arrows appear in books such as MotW and the Epic Level Handbook - as well as published adventures and WotC website material - I think that the Sage Answer is a lot more likely to be correct than your...

I think you are looking for Righteous Might or Wildshaping - both of which make you extremely likely to win grapples - which are in turn the best way to subdue people without anyone getting hurt or killed. -Frank

There's a secondary restriction: Summoned Monsters have to be summoned by a spell which is higher level than a spell they can cast. This means that the Vrock came in at Summon Monster IX (Mass Charm) - and the Janni came in after the superior Djinn (because of its Etherealizational spell). 3.5...

Of course, noone is actually going to be unable to cast their top-end spells after being hit by Touch of Idiocy. Imagine, if you will, that you started life with a 17 in your spellcasting stat. With Gray Elves or Point Buy it can be higher - but we'll assume 17. Now you are 4th level. Your...