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I voted for the one that was just a hair away from no house rules, but at the same time, I don't really use any house rules. Sometimes the campaign world might have odd rules, like impeded spells or special materials that aren't listed in the core books. There might be a PrC or two that get...

Most players that I know want permanent magic items also, whether is be uses per day, always on, or at will. The problem I've seen with limited or single-use items is that it's very tough to tell if they are needed. Not wanting to waste them, most people I've played with hold on to their...

I think this is some good advice. Even if you don't use index cards, copying down stat blocks and stuff like that beforehand can make combat quicker. Plus you have the advantage of being able to tweak stuff that catches your fancy, maybe swap out some feats. And rolling treasure before the...

No shame in saying what you want for your army, Tyreus. If you have a tank of some sort in the works, it might be smart to give him the rings and the amulet. It seems that Dan and Zan aren't really optimized for actually getting into fights, so the AC and resistances won't do them that much...

I'm a big fan of Hellboy the comic series, and I saw the movie at a midnight preview. I wasn't incredibly impressed, but I wasn't disappointed, either. The visuals were great, and the dialogue was very smooth where it had to be, and awkward where it had to be. The thing that I kind of objected...

I would give it something like Medium range, and have it affect any number of targets within 60 feet of each other. And possibly not require line of effect to the targets. Maybe treat it like a modified Message spell.

I'd like to expand this question a bit. What about ghosts, liches, and vampires? The party can (relatively) easily reduce one of these guys to 0 hp and send them packing. But it could be much harder to permanently take them out of commission by smashing the hidden object that will bring them...

Just to throw more stuff into the mix, how do monster progressions for races with intelligence bonuses factor into this? Something like a Illithid has a significant amount of Int growth over the X levels of being an Illithid. You clearly don't start with the full intelligence. But on the other...

How do you guys wants to divvy that up? (if we divvy at all) Any of that stuff besides the Ring of Elemental resistance would work for Axorius. And he's probably the only one on our side who has a tail (or I would assume he does). If I had my pick, I'd take the Heartstone, and Tail Ring, and...

Waiting is one thing Axorius has never learned to do well. While the Skylance is far faster than any army can walk, he must continually fight the urge to leave his army behind and fight evil on his own, right away. Luckily, he has the wisdom and experience to resist these urges. He brings his...

I didn't see anything about this in my quick glance past the rules. Now that some people are getting bonus/reinforcement CR, how does that affect the baselines and what units can be recruited? And does lost CR below the baseline need to be replenished before bigger units can be purchased? If...

If you can destroy a magic item with a big giant nonmagical hammer, or a shatter spell, or some other means of physically blasting it to bits, I don't see what's so bad about a 9th level spell doing it. The real problem in my eyes is that it triggers so many saves that it becomes unwieldy, it...

I'm just afraid of the antimagic. It might make scrying impossible, it will certainly make teleportation impossible, and it will likely make portals not work, either. And who says the artifacts are portable? If they aren't portable, they're pretty useless, though. I have some wizards in my army...

I should have the command word by now, Identify only takes 1 hour to cast and gives all relevant command words. It's funny that you mention the mirror, though, since we only know of the island due to Wrahn's mirror in the first place.

Is anyone thinking what I'm thinking after seeing the lore in the IC thread? One of the artifacts can probably rid us of the dragon, but it might also be able to rid us of the Lich King. His life force is bound to an object, after all. Plus it's a giant antimagic field. That is a good thing and...

If you like the Prismatic Wall idea, maybe you could use Bigby's Forceful Hand instead of TK. It's reusable, and there's no save, just a pretty rough strength check. Plus, squishing an enemy into the wall, and then having the hand go squish someone else is just too funny....

Axorius breathes a sigh of relief, but is well aware the the dragon will return. He scans the cavern for any other enemy presence, and seeing none relaxes slightly. With a gesture and a telepathic message, he sends the remaining Lantern Archon back to the Skylance to relay what happened at...

The skyship is pretty much full, unfortunately. I could hold a few units from each army, but only the elite ones. If you decide to leave your fortress, you'll have to hoof it. The problem really lies with the enormous map. The armies are the size of a village (significantly less than 1000...

If he runs away as planned, then I get an AoO, and he doesn't know that I'm there due to the invisibility.

(with the info presented to me in the ooc thread) Cursing himself for being too slow to act, Axorius throws caution to the wind. As soon as the dragon disappears beneath the ground, Axorius Enlarges himself, then delays his action for when the dragon emerges again. After it comes out into the...