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I really like the new Ogre Mage, and I plan on replacing my Shackled City villain with one of these. I also like the suggestion that a level of sorcerer gives back sleep and charm person (and a couple of other minor spells, too!) So the next question, Mike (if you're lurking about) -- what...

From the Rust Monster Lovin Thread: ================================================ Quote: Originally Posted by el-remmen For me the thing is that this re-tooling of the rust monster reinforces my problem with baseline 3.x, which is the emphasis on the importance of your stuff - which...

I think this is interesting -- how bad can the consequences be, before you are a rat-bass-curd DM? I joined another game, to get some player time. And I was shocked to hear the players whining when they took *damage*. Not a lot of damage, but 10hp at 3rd level! A mere scratch! They pouted...

If you are playing in FR, there's a prestige class in Unapproachable East called Shou Disciple (?) that concentrates on martial arts, and leaves out the aescetic aspect of the monk.

Yes, what if the caster has see invisibility going? The caster has to make attack rolls each round. I would say if they have see invisibility going, they would continue to hit the target at no penalty. Thanks for the input -- in future, I will have the spiritual weapon continue to swing at...

Hi all, We had a conundrum last session -- a character had cast spiritual weapon, and two rounds later, its target became invisible. I ruled that the line of effect was broken, and spiritual weapon returned to the caster awaiting a new target. The players argued that it should have continued...

I have also noticed the Knowledge-specific sidebars. They are a better idea, and give lots of inspirational flavor and character to monsters, but they're unwieldy spread out through Dragon magazine and the newer monster books the way they are. I wonder if MMIV will have sidebars for all the...

Hi all, We had an incident in our game recently regarding a Knowledge check vs. a monster. This led to a philisophical discussion, and some good questions about identifying beasties and their abilities. Right now, IIRC the rule to identify a creature is a Knowledge check of DC 10 + the HD of...

Well, treasure value for monster bits in this case shouldn't be so bad -- it's only for raw materials to be used in the Craft skill, reducing material cost from 1/3 to 1/6 (Complete Adventurer), so materials for a 90gp dose of poison is only really worth 15gp. (For other monster bits...

So, One of my players wants to play a druid that dabbles in vermin-poisons. I think that's fine. He wants to harvest raw materials of poisons. I've made a house rule that he can harvest materials for poisons with a Survival check equal to the Craft (poison) DC as listed in the Complete...

Hey Question, Aside from the issues of math-fu (which I would have commented on, had I come across this thread earlier), I can weigh in on either side. In Defense of the Player: No, the DM should not remove access to a belt of strength. Especially an experienced DM. If you start disallowing...

Aha! Wizard's Reach, around the cities of Taskaunt and Escalant, venturing into the Aglarond forest and Thay

Hey Brad, My game is in Hamilton, Ontario. Is anyone else interested in collaborating? Or should we take this off of the public forum? Archade/Blair

Hi all, I have been running a Forgotten Realms campaign, detailing the home city of the PCs with the guild rules out of the DMGII. Now, with the PHBII, I think affiliiations are far easier to run, and better for gradual involvement of the players, rather than "spend-a-feat, you are in or out"...

I love the bloodline feats! I've played with the idea of giving a free feat at 1st level of this, but I think I'll just leave it as a great feat choice for a sorcerer, much like Weapon Focus is for fighters (obvious, but not necessary).

Hi all, A related thread is discussing something, and it made me think -- I know a *lot* of people who give Sorcerers Eschew Materials as a bonus feat. I'm curious how pervasive this or other house rules regarding the Sorcerer are. If you have any other house rules regarding the Sorcerer...

I've been having an ongoing theoretical argument with one of my players whether the sorcerer is underpowered or not. He's running a side game that I have agreed to play a Sorcerer in to put it to the test. However, in our games, I allow Eschew Materials as a bonus feat at 1st level. Having...

I do. I've taken the Earth Bloodline feat from the Dragon Compendium vol. 1 - it gives me an extra specific spell per level (1-enlarge person, 2-shatter), in exchange for never being able to learn air spells. As well, I took the Apprentice feat from DMG2 that gives me one extra 1st level...

True. With the bonded summoner's eventual immunity to acid, I was thinking of acid fog eventually ...

I'm a long time DM scratching my itch to play -- I've never played a buffer, or a sorcerer before. I imagine most of my buff spells will go to my earth elemental, and then to me and the other party members (at 38 hp at 5th level, after I cast false life and enlarge person, it seems I may be...