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I've never bought Hyp's argument that a weapon being used in one hand can get 1.5 times STR just because it's usually used in two hands. It's just silly. It doesn't really matter to me what one reading of the rules says. To me, it's just odd to say that you can dual wield lances and get a...

Right, but if the spellcasters are all progressing normally, and you have nerfed all the non-spellcasters, how do you do that? Do you start to use only monsters that can hurt your now-even-more-uber spellcasters while not hurting your handicaped fighter-types? It seems silly to throw...

I’m playing in a fairly low magic game right now, and let me tell you; as the front line fighter, it sucks. Tanks NEED healing and magic items. At low levels a non-spellcasting-PC (NSPC) stands in front of the bad guys and trades blows. The Spellcasters (SC) lob magic from the back row. At later...

I like it! It's a good bit of role-playing. I think the wizard in my game would have just poly’ed into an umber hulk and dug his way in roughly the right direction. I like your way better, -Tatsu

Well since it automatically scores a crit, it smells like a Coup De Gras to me. I would say only one hit. But then again, this is one of those powers that make me disallow Psionics in my game. As a result, I really don't know much about Psionics... ;-( -Tatsu

Of course, over here in Japan, she's " Rosu " (sounds like RO from Ross and SU from Suzan). I know that ain't right! -Tatsu

Remember that charm is mind-effecting magic. Perhaps our model should look at other mind effecting things. So, maybe charming is like getting a person drunk. I’m sure there are plenty of people out there who have done something odd/strange/wrong because “it seemed like a good idea at the time”...

Well, in my DnD game, the existance of the gods is debated. The people using divine spells cast them via a set of ancient runes. The religious claim the runes come from a god, the non-religious think it's just like arcane magic. I had a lot of fun watching the Paladin in the group try to...

One more way, you can have someone else supply the spell. But as has been said, your CL doesn't effect anything (or at least shouldn't). There is a fairly large battle raging over this very issue (minimum required caster levels) between various developers. Some say the CL listed in the DMG IS...

Two more I have used. . . A group of ships (sea, space, air, tunneling, whatever) explores a new area, facing horrors unknown to the civilized areas they left behind. Small scout and special tactics groups are sent out constantly, and they find adventure (plus loot!). [Think Startrek Voyager]...

Huh, are you comparing a Medium (made for a human) long bow with a Small (made for a halfling) short bow? Oh, are we talking 3.0? Anyway, I just let things scale. I think it's silly for a high STR PC to do more damage with a sling than with a long bow. -Tatsu

We use a Crystal Castle mat, and it does indeed suck for the majority of markers. You just have to keep trying different brands of marker. We use "Vis-a-Vis" brand markers, and they work ok. Just don't leave the ink on the mat too long or it will stain. Once that happens, you're SOL. For...

Well how about just saying that these undead are a little different? Maybe there's a big shrine to (god/goddess of death) in the town, so any undead made there act like constructs rather than undead. If they leave the area, they revert to acting like constructs. IIRC, constructs will just...

I'm not following, how was he trying to do it? Was he just using a diplomacy check, or was he using the "mass suggestion" bard ability? If it's the latter, then the DM is right. The Bard entry says the ability is a compulsion ability, and Protection from X blocks those for as long as the spell...

Well, our last session was only a battle. It was a long fight with lots of 3D movement and spells. By the end our wizard* was down to a wand, the archer was low on arrows, the bard was down to using his long bow and my paladin /cleric was at 0 hp, 0 turn attempts, 0 Lay on hands points, 0...

Someone said it before, in short, UMD lets you act as though you had a class feature. It doesn't actually let you use that feature. A PC can pretend to have fireball on his spell list, but he can't actually cast fireball. If the chalice just requires you to be able to turn undead, UMD will...

If you have honed the ability to pretend to be a cleric and use a cleric item, why not just pretend to be a congo-line of different clerics? Maybe in the example given Lidda has to put on some glasses and claim to be a different person after 3 times? :D Although, I must say there is some...

Huh? Anyway... I see this guy as approaching his faith from both wisdom and intelligence. He probably has some logical reason he thinks his god is better than others, but he’s just not that able to articulate this to others. His mind and spirit are whirling energies, but he can’t get other...

When we were playing 3.0 I had my BBEG go hunting trolls once in a while. He always brought a group of 3 orcs with him, who always died. All they did was set the party level low and get the BBEG more Exp. I even called them the Crimson Guard (because of their um, "crimson" shirts)... Of course...

But is the wizard doesn't get it, he won't have all the stuff! Then how will he WIN DnD??? ... oh, wait. It's a group. Maybe the sorcerer could point out that he'd be a lot more helpful to the group if he had some gear? Personally, in the last game I played we had a system. We totaled up...