Search results

Thog is full of amusing contradictions ...

Thanks for the input guys -- it was cruel and unusual, but it gave me some ideas on how to handle it! ;) I agree that the wish is over-reaching that of a standard, and there will be repercussions, but I'm not going to make the player character unplayable. It's a fine balancing act, to be...

Well, the Efreeti is evil, but the heavy high price is going to be "the whisper of his wings". I've come up with something especially nefarious and long lasting. My main question is how to handle his new form without being unbalanced. It's a done deal - he's going to end up a medium size...

Hey all, So, my players in my heavily-warped version of SCAP travelled to the Elemental Plane of Fire, and came across an efreeti merchant willing to barter wishes. In exchange for "the whisper of his wings", one of my players wished "to be a young adult copper dragon". He's already a...

Hi all, It's likely my group of 14th-15th level PCs will be travelling to the Elemental Plane of Fire to seek out some villains and slay them. As a side adventure, I was thinking of having them run into an Efreeti merchant from the City of Brass. It strikes me that an Efreeti merchant might...

Not the actual sheet, but I built a custom one based on that absolutely great boxed set. http://www.dmtools.org/docs/charsheets/D3E%20Character%20Sheet%203-3%20Kids.doc

I think people are thinking of familiars simply as stat blocks. You can leave your familiar at home as an alarm system to tell you someone broke in. You gain the equivalent of a feat by taking a familiar (Toughness, Lightning Reflexes, Skill Focus, etc. You gain a scout with a huge Hide bonus...

It's hardly perfect, but .... pasted from my DM screen document ... Appraise (INT) Appraise common/well-known objects (100%/2d6+3x10%) 12 PHB 67 Appraise a rare object (100%/unknown) 15 PHB 67 Appraise an exotic object (100%/unknown) 20 PHB 67 Detect magic in an object 50 ELH ?? Balance...

I tend to describe most blows as glancing hits, small cuts, the target straining itself to dive out of the way, etc., until it reaches it's last 10-20 hit points, at which point I break out the descriptions of blood, cracking bones, and screams of pain ...

In my current campaign, I don't reduce XP, but they have gone to 14th level over a period of a year and a half of campaign time. The solution I used is requiring 'down time' between levels. When my players' characters get enough xp to go up a level, I give them a 'positive level', which is the...

In a once-in-a-while game I'm playing a dwarf cleric of Vergadain, the dwarven god of luck and merchants (and thieves in a not-evil way). So here's what I learned. 1) Don't multiclass - you can get some good thievery abilities by taking the Trickery Domain which gives you Bluff, Disguise, and...

Really?? Our group almost never uses true strike, unless it's of the quickened variety.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one looking at this spell saying "whuuuuh?!" :confused: I think the simplest solution is make these 2nd-level spells not reduce the Int (or whatever) below 1. It *is* a second-level spell after all. Allowing the damage to stack isn't horrible, and it is a more...

Hi all, One of my players had me take a close look at the spell Ray of Stupidity in the Spell Compendium. It's a 2nd-level wizard spell that does Intelligence damage, and doesn't allow a save. Unlike Ray of Enfeeblement, it's ability damage, so multiple castings stack. As well, unlike ray of...

You mean Hail of Stone - and I believe it's better than magic missile. It's got a 5-foot burst, so you can catch more than one target, it does 1d4 per level of the caster (to a maxmimum of 5d4), so it scales up nicely until you can cast fireball or the like, and it doesn't require a hit roll or...

Hey, if Common isn't the equivalent of English, I want Command: Kvetch and Command: Schadenfreude!

Funny you should mention that - back in high school playing AD&D we had a rather undecided player - couldn't make a decision to save his life. I was DMing, he cast Command on a bugbear, and I asked what the command was ... he hummed and hawed for a couple of minutes before screwing up his face...

Okay, how about this so far: Cower: The subject is shaken for 1 round. Die: The subject drops to the ground and is stunned for 1 round. Disrobe: ??? Kneel: On its turn, the subject kneels (which is the equivalent of the prone condition) Retch: The subject is sickened for 1 round. Silence: The...

I'd allow more uses of command than the 3.5 menu - I'd probably add to the list of available commands as requested, rather than give carte blanche - what are some (reasonable!) commands? Collapse (as fall) Die (as sleep) Kneel (as fall) Retch - sickened for 1 round? Silence - cannot speak for 1...

Well, here's something that might fire your imagination - http://crpp0001.uqtr.ca/w4/campagne/Downloads/Downloads_WotC/Elite%20Opponents%20Kobolds.htm