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Ok. I got the book now and I am VERY pleased. There are over 30 pages on the ebb and flow of the Last War, filled with battles and shifting alliances. There is info on the war machines, military units of all the Galifar successor states, and war battlefields. There are a few new spells, plenty...

In the sense that any bonus at all does increase your chance, then yes. However it is still unlikely you will spot anything with any real skill at hiding unless you have actual ranks of spot to back it up. By 5th level, a halfling rogue can easily be at +15 to hide and +13 to move silently with...

That assumes some fore-knowledge on the part of the PCs to know that a fight is coming and to cast the spells. 1rnd/lvl and 1 min/lvl spells will almost never be cast before a fight unless you know the fight is coming. In my experience, wizards (and sorcerers) survive by not advertising...

Finally, there is a preview up on the WotC site. Now I am pleased. :) Tzarevitch

Anyone know what's up with this product? Is it due to be released on time? WotC produced a mere peep about it and that is starting to become disconcerting, especially since it is due out in about a week. I have really been looking foreward to the book. The silence about it from WoTC however has...

No offense, this entire argument is nonsense. The problem here is everyone is happily tossing "power gamer" about without even bothering to make sure there is a basic agreement on what this term means for the purposes of the argument. Camp 1 (self-described "non-powergamers") defines...

I recommend in order of most useful on down. 1) Five Nations - decent background on the post-Galifar nations of Khorvaire. It is very short on detail but it is still very useful in figuring out how the post-Galifar nations operate. It is pretty much a must if your campaign is based anywhere in...

Most groups I have run or played with will re-destribute cash to help out someone who lost something critical to item-destruction. After all, if the fighter is the party tank it is in the whole party's best interest to have him do a good job. In the immediate fight however, loss of a critical...

And in my game, those are precisely the beings who WILL sunder weapons. My PCs have not yet encountered the rakshasa zakya (fighter-type rakshasa from the Eberron book) in my campaign, with Improved Sunder and an adamantine Shatterspike from the DMG. He also learned enough psionics to take the...

Here are some possibilities for the assault. 1. Weather control: Low clouds are what you need. Ground fog is even better. You need to reduce visibility so that airborne mages aren't a problem. Wind works too as long as debris can be kicked up to obscure visibility. Rain is bad. It cuts the...

I play with powergamers and I am a bit of one myself. There are simple tricks you can use to up the challenge without making the opposition too powerful for the non-powergamer in your group. 1. You can't hit what you can't see: Enemies should make use of spells, effects and terrain that obscure...

I agree with you on this. I used intelligent Teratomorphs (MMII or FF) and Chaos Beasts instead in my last Planescape game. The Teratomorphs always remind me of Yog-sothoth from Call of Cthulu. :) Tzarevitch

Ok, people have got to stop reacting like the sky is falling every time someone mentions the words "Frenzied Berserker". The class is not that bad. I have played FBs, I have run FBs, I have played against FBs. You just have to fight them unconventionally. Movement impediments: slow, web...

Amen brother. Tzarevitch

Here are some: Prismatic Spray - Hit point totals have become much larger but the spell doesn't scale. It is a total waste now. Power Word: anything - Same as above. They get left behind too easily as HP climb. Darkness/Deeper Darkness - They don't even make it dark anymore, just kinda dim...

How small are you talking? Do you mean small like some of those little rocky fishing harbors on the Italian coast or something you see in a pirate movie? If so that is a cove or an inlet not a harbor. 120' is about the size of a carrack. It would be dangerous to enter a little rocky cove like...

And how precisely how do its combat auras and piddly fire-breathing administer to the tribe's religious needs? The class is a misnomer. It is some sort of strange half-dragon Marshall thing. It has more in common with the Marshall class than it does with any of the ways the game portrays...

My entire group thought the class was a piece of cr@p so I have never had a reason to deal with it. I thought about it for the Seren barbarians in my Eberron game, but the class is so lousy I can't bring myself to inflict it even on Seren npcs. I did use it to make dragonkin minions of a dragon...

I didn't intend to start a discussion on so-called powergaming. That never goes anywhere. Either you are ok with it or you aren't. Arguing it never convinces anyone. I am just suggesting that your search is likely to be futile because you two are operating at cross purposes. He is looking to...

Maybe I missed something, but you don't want to give him treasure that improves something he is weak in . . . but you also don't want to give him treasure that improves something that he is strong in? What do you want to give him exactly? Something that improves something he is mediocre in or...