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I really like Craft (reagents)! Necropsy is probably accurate, but reagents rings better. But, if you don't want to add additional skills, you could always use Craft (alchemy).

We ran the ENWorld conversion of ToH a few years ago when we first got into 3.0. We rolled up characters of a lofty 12th level, which were godly and strangely powerful to us at that point. Keep in mind we were all new-ish to the game, having been away from D&D for many years. One of the...

Hi all, I'm at work and do not have access to my rulebooks, but something has been chewing on the back of my brain I'd love some outside opinions on. You're getting ready for combat and you draw up a map. It's not square - it has round towers or angled alleys or crates or wheelbarrows or...

For some strange reason, Craft (taxidermy) drives me up the wall. The idea of the skill is fine, but the name strikes me as jarring. Can anyone come up with a better synonym or replacement name?

Here's what I implemented. Keep in mind that Power of Faerun had an interesting mini-chapter on Leadership and Leadership checks (1d20+Lvl+Cha mod+cohort mods) If the PC wants a bland cohort (fighter 6, fighter 3/rogue 3, etc), they can have it. The DM picks the initial feats and skill...

I don't mind having more treasure - I too hear the lamentation of players who fight multiple beasts with nothing to show for it. I don't think filling a selection of pickle jars is very heroic. I'm thinking UA was too pricey, and a bit too specific. I'm looking to build a broader list based...

I created a metamagic feat to get back the 3.0 durations. I don't recall what I called it, but it worked better than Extend Spell, making rounds into minutes, minutes into 10 minutes, and 10 minutes and otherwise extending the time of a spell by 10x, at a metamagic increase of +2 levels.

Something interesting to note. When Unearthed Arcana came out, they had crazy lists of expensive optional material components, most of which added a metamagic feat to a spell. As well, in Book of Vile Darkness or Book of Exalted Deeds, there are a few material components that have an X%...

I've got to be honest, I'm not a big fan of them. They water down the base classes too much, of which there are too many. That being said, if one of my players really wanted an alternate class feature, I'd suggest to build a feat based on that feature, and I'd probably be just fine with that.

Here's a partial list ... Familiar Source AL / Type / Subtype Arcane Caster Level / Prereq Flying snake FRRF Neutral 3rd Krenshar CW 100 Neeutral 3rd, base attack bonus +3 Lizard, spitting crawler FRRF Neutral 3rd Lynx FRRF Neutral 3rd Worg CW 100 Neutral Evil 3rd, base attack bonus +3...

That would be the one I know. He used to be a FLGS owner in Kitchener-Waterloo.

Hey! I'm more interested in James Nicoll's livejournal, if it's the same James Nicoll I've known many years ago. Can you send me a link to his LJ?

Here's what I have used and am preparing to use ...

Hi all, I'm thinking of toying with Tumble in my campaign, and run it this way: Tumble: to tumble past an opponent, make an opposed skill check against their chance to hit. If you fail, they receive an Attack of Opportunity. Subsequent opponents in the same maneuver get +2 to hit. Tumbling...

I'm always very interested in this sort of thing. Just FYI, the most recent Monster Manual IV has this sort of thing for variant summoned creatures (you must have X ranks in Knowledge the Planes and use 50 gp of ruby dust, etc). I also vaguely recall some extra material components in Complete...

Hi all, I'm looking at building a CR 15 Minotaur for my players to face, so he'll be a Barbarian 1 / Fighter 9 / Thayan Gladiator 2 That gives me 11 feats (1,3,6,9,12,15 HD and 8 fighter bonus feats). I need to take Improved Toughness and Weapon Focus (gore) for his prestige class requisites...

I believe the street date is this Friday.

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Manual of the Planes has a spellcasting prestige class that gets to grow a demiplane as the capstone ability.

I'll ususally have an 'inciting incident' such as opening a door or jumping out of hiding start the surprise round. I then have everyone not surprised roll initiative and lay out their initiative counters on the chart (http://www.dmtools.org/docs/sheets/InitiativeChart.zip). At the end of the...