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    Time to Brag - We whupped the main villain 13 levels too soon!

    Just curious what was the AC of Donovan???? I ask, because it seems like you were hitting him quite a bit. I would think that he would have an AC up in high 30s to Low 40s Meaning that you would need to roll 17s, 18s and 19s to hit..... (assuming +7 BAB, +4 Strength and +1 Weapon)
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    Does LARP freak anyone else out?

    For me it falls clearly in the "Not that there is anything wrong with it" catagory. I do not begrude anyone from playing, but I have zero personal desire to participate - mostly from a percieved "wrongness" to it and avoid all offers to play. Hmmmm, mabye this is insight into how greater...
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    What should a cavedwelling druid be reincarnated as?

    Yea, I agree that an elemental would require quite a bit of work... The Shifter class is interesting - I am playing one right now and you gain an amazing amount of flexability for a moderate drop-off in power. I am concentrating on pumping skill points into disguide, bluff and diplomacy - and...
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    What should a cavedwelling druid be reincarnated as?

    What level Druid were/are you????? Wildshape sort of makes original forms mean a little bit less. However, I would approach it from either the animal standpoint (Badger, Mole or burrowing insect) or elemental. The opportunity to play something as alien as an Earth Elemental would provide some...
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    Inequality of Skills

    Stalker0 - exactly what I was trying to suggest - not that any of the skills are bad - its that some are more equal than others. I would like to see some type of game mechanics motivation to be the best Intuit Direction person in the world - as it stands now - there really is none - but being...
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    Inequality of Skills

    Actually the way I read Seans comments (and I may be misreading them) is that you can not take 20 on subsequent checks, but that you can on the first one of the day.
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    Inequality of Skills

    While I certainly do not disagree that the DM has a certain amount of control over the usefullness of skills - I also feel that the skills themselves lead toward preferential pickings. After all, what realistic motivation do I have to put more than 1 skill point into Intuite direction???? (and...
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    Inequality of Skills

    One of the things that has recently started to bother me is the rather dramatic differences in the usefullness of skills. It almost seems to me that the designeds did not apply thier feat rule "if there is a feat that is so good everyone would take it, it needs to be toned down." to skills...
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    Common Tongue

    Another interesting method of solving this was how Champions solved this. IRC, it used the idea of multiple levels of literacy and the concept of language group. So, the farther you moved from your language group, the less literate you were. Foe example, your PC spoke english - they would be...
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    Common Tongue

    I would approach this differently and ask - why is there Elvish or Dwarvish???? It would make more sense from a linguistical sense to have regional language sets as opposed to racial. Afterall, one race will have developed language first - and it is MUCH easier to copy than to invent your own...
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    Cascade City: a Mutants and Masterminds Campaign.

    ..........and????? One can only hold thier breath for so long. Looking forward to your update Teflon Billy (BTW, have enjoyed it thus far!)
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    [Dragon] Differences Now and Then?

    This thread reminds me of many of the discussions that friends and I have - Remember when Saturday Night Live was funny..... I do not think that SNL is any less funny now than it was back in the 70s - it is just that we remember the good stuff and forget the bad. The same seems to be the case...
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    Help with beholder non-combat encounter!

    I think that we need to know why you want this encounter and what you expect the outcome to be..... Afterall interaction could be as simple as hmmm, I smell gold on you, I think that would be a nice bit of dessert to something as complicated as RangerWickets mirror idea.
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    Attn everyone: Fantasy world arms race experiment!

    1) For the short durations that we are talking I see two primary uses for summoned monsters. The first is formation disruption. One fo the keys to anchient warfare was the ability to keep formation - most casualties occured after a formation borke - so if you could drop a couple of dire...
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    [OT] Baby Troubles

    Like so many have said, my wishes and prayers are with you and your family.
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    Confused About 3.5

    Actually, based off of the news today, that this is the one and only planned upgrade between 3 and 4 makes 3.5 as good as any other number......... The bottom line is that other than the errata that has been release, this is the first revised edition.
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    Wondering how important computers are to D&D [rant]

    Slightly off topic, but educational none-the-less. The whole First vs. Second, vs Third demarcation is a relic of the Cold War. First World Nations were those of the West (i.e. the good guys) NATO A-NZ, Japan and a couple others. Second world was in effect the Warsaw Pact and others...
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    [OT] Naming a child Arwen

    Re: Re: [OT] Naming a child Arwen As Kajamba Lion indicated both are Gaelic in origin - and are actual names - just not common. That being said we are noticing a rather market increase in the number of Aidens that we run into - I suspect that the character on Sex and the City had something to...
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    [OT] Naming a child Arwen

    Actually no, I had no clue that there was a Swedish newspaper with the name - the process was pretty simple, we picked names out the various books and wrote down the names we liked. After my wife got done crossing all my names off :) we were left with Afton as a girl and Duncan as a boy.........
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    The more I read about D&D 3.5. the more...

    I do not think that they have to - however, they will have every motiviation to do so. After all, 3.0 is going to wither and eventually go away, whereas 3.5 is the future. What would be trouble some for them is the next 6 months - do they pretend like nothing is happening and release away -...
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