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There's a problem here: big creatures. Strength alone is enough to qualify for Power Attack - and that's OK because it represents an absolute measure of your striking capability - and it is perfectly OK for all the large creatures to be able to do that. TWF, OTOH, is different. The amount of...

But it's clear to me that hit points do change. And it's clear to Skip Williams and Andy Collins as well - so I don't know why we are even still having a conversation. After all, your "system" requires us to disregard the table on page 8 of the PHB, and yet it can't handle odd additions or...

Mistdale has a population of 27,807. The current leader of the Riders is an expert 6/Fighter 2. He is an administrator, not a warrior at all. FRCS, page 133. However, if these guys went by the DMG rules pertaining to having 3000 fighters (which they don't), then the highest level guy would be...

But this is the Forgotten Realms. There actually are Epic level dudes on both sides of any major conflict. The fact that the DMG says that there should be a 22nd level Fighter in a group of 3,000+ Fighters is merely reinforcing what we already know: This is Faerun and there is an Epic Level...

I'm not sure I like Resounding Blow. If a Paladin is running around with a Keen Scimitar, he'll get people to make a save with 30% of his hits. The same Paladin with a Keen Pick would only force a save with 10% of his hits. Those two weapons do equivalent average damage per hit and are...

Huh? That's exactly the same. If you selected the highest level guy and worked down, you'd still have to "select" a 22nd level highest level guy if you wanted to get a number of Fighters between 2048 and 4094. Since the total number is fixed - the highest level guy is also fixed. If you knew...

When you are prone, nothing stops you from jumping. The DC is 10 if you don't get a running start, it doesn't provoke an attack of opportunity and you land on your feet at the end. Yes, the skill to avoid getting smacked when you stand up is Jump, by a literal reading of the rules. It's kind...

That's not true. When you run out of temporary hit points from false life, the spell is discharged. Therefore it very much is subtracting from False Life. And that's why it is different from Bull's Strength and Scorpion Venom. Bull's Strength does not discharge when you run out of extra...

Unfortunately, yes: Ouch. As described, that means that the highest level character in a group of 3000 fighters is about fifteen hundredth level. However, while they do say "half level" which implies that 8th level goes to 4th level, the example actually describes "half power" in which CR...

Skip Williams once said that when you had more than one copy of Protection from Fire up and got hit with a fire attack, you reduced both copies of Protection from Fire. That's pretty much exactly the same idea as temporary hit points. So if you buy Skip's reasoning (which is, btw, "because I...

I think that the point is that even evil people do some decent stuff from time to time. Hitler did some nice water colors, and even while he was out slaughtering 13 million of his own people he was with the other hand feeding the poor and clothing the sick. If you're a paladin you should be...

You still haven't come up with a plausible, rules based answer for what happens in your system when you have a Constitution of 12 and Polymorph into a creature with a Constitution of 19. And then take 1 point of Constitution damage. Your constitution has not changed enough to change the...

Yes. Lawful people follow rules. Yes. Good people do good things. Clerics of Lolth have the same evil aura that demons and other fiends do. Letting one go is not OK. Letting one live is not OK. No paladin is going to stand there and let a Cleric of Lolth live - not if she's chained up. Not if...

Not at all. You just say: Fine 1 Diminutive 5 Tiny 10 Small 15 Medium 20 Large 30 Huge 45 Gargantuan 60 Colossal 80 Or something like that. Just a chart, like the Death From Massive Damage chart - only more rounded so that Titans aren't instant killing each other every time they hit each...

Too cumbersome? No. Too cumbersome is when you have to keep track of more than one complete Constitution value simultaneously as Thanee suggested. Keeping a list of all your hit die rolls just makes sense from a book keeping situation. How many times has someone in your group forgotten whether...

Golem Magical Immunity works like infinite spell resistance. In 3rd ediiton, Golem Immunity worked like spell immunity which is in turn like infinite Spell Resistance. In 3.5: -Frank

I think Greatcleave really depends upon your play style. If you play in a "dungeon" environment, where all enemies are magically within 2 CRs of your level, it sucks. If you play in a more "realistic" environment, where enemies come in a variety of power levels Greatcleave is one of the best...

And yet it would take 20 points of damage for a cat to knock back a rat. More importantly, it would take 20 points of damage for an Ogre to knock back a human, and only 20 points of damage for a Titan to knock back an Ogre. But while 20 points is nearly a stretch for an ogre - a Titan is...

The Flesh Golem can voluntarily lower its spell resistance and be petrified. Then it is a lump of stone - not a stone golem. But nice try, all the same. As to the Basilisk, it inflicts the Petrified condition, which doesn't actually mention whether it includes equipment or not. Standardly...

Since you don't have a readied action, it must come from the action for the next time you'd go. There's no difference between things at the end of this round and the beginning of next round - it's just a time continuum. So yeah, when it says "takes the place of your regular action for the...