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The Revolution will be televised.

I for one love that direction. I'm more than a little fed up with the God-syndrome for whoever is behind the screen. I don't think flat out getting rid of the DM is really a feasible option at this point, or anytime in the foreseeable future. But I'm for reducing the burden on the DM and...

The context is voluntary choice of caster level (if you were trying to pull punches with a damage spell?). I suppose you could rule that the limitation extends to involuntary choice as well.

I know there is the limit where you have to have Casting Attribute of 10+Spell level. But I don't remember seeing the limit you are giving. Do you have a rule reference?

That thought occured to me, but caster level adjustments aren't suppose to be used to adjust the number of spells known or spells/day that you cast.

If you take the Mage Slayer and it reduces your casterlevel to zero or even lower, what happens with spell than don't depend on caster level in a meaningful way? And what happens with spell that do. For example Acid Arrow with a caster level -3, do you get 1 + (-1) = zero arrows at a range of...

The "penalty" of Sudden Smurf feats is the per/day limit. Increased casting time is not mentioned anywhere in conjunction with Sudden Smurf feats. So yes that means Sudden Quicken is actually meaningful to spontaneous casters, unlike Quicken Spell. (or a "frickin' bone" if you'd like to call it...

And in any event that sort of bonus can stay behind the GM screen if need be.

How exactly do you come to the conclusion that "drop" implies "dropping your opponent below 0 hp"? The text reads that "dropping your opponent below 0 hp" is -one- way of achieving the "drop", but since there are other ways "drop" is not limited to that. EDIT: Unless you are mixing in slang...

Ya, we generally do this as well. It can be thought of as a blanket declare. There is a cavet though, that being to have it work like RAW you must have already had one action in the combat, and the attacker in question had to be known to you at that time.

Umm, he needs a second die anyway. Unless you assume your dice isn't going to get checked, so you don't have to palm the bad-boy while the legit one of the set gets checked out. Not that they don't need some good magician skills to pull it off. They have to make the dice move fast so they aren't...

What? 90 posts and still noone has mentioned the one thing BAB handles that THAC0 never attempted to account for in a meaningful way? One word; Multiclass. 3e was the first version that attempted to handle PCs with multiple classes in a meaningful way. Prior to 3e multiclass rules were a wierd...

Shellman, regarding #3 that is a rough calculation of terminal velocity. In the first round they'd only go about 1/2 as far starting from zero velocity (when they were dropped). Thus the 500' is a decent number for the first round of falling.

Wasn't there some goofy weapons in Sword & Fist that were hollowed out and then partially filled with a dense liquid (mercury I think). Mercurial or something I think was the name. This sticks with me because the reasoning behind their increased damage was nonsensical, and this really bugged a...

Well at least part of the job is done to keep you from bringing up mistakes that have little to no bearing on the topic at hand. Spelling and grammar, check! Poor wording that suggest faulty logic but where the rest of the post has a different meaning and the error does not invalidate the point...

Yes, sorry that was poor word choice on my part. I'll go change that text. But my intention was to provide the 3rd possibility, not proof that #2 was wrong. You'll see that I did suggest he go find something better, not that he was definately wrong. :) EDIT: If you you hate pointing out the...

I'd hate to be that guy too if i was bringing up Begging the Question in situations where didn't apply. ;) I was providing a third option showing the False Dilemma in Hypersmurf's argument. So, the list so far is: 1) the spell immediately fails after taking effect because the target becomes...

Unfortunately a completely flawed example in that any of this new magicalisity (i love making up words :cool: EDIT: why? so if people can't say i misspelled the word ) of the weapon is the direct intended effect of the spell, and is assumed to occur on each and every casting (that is...

Come on. At the very least using a weapon to knock out someone with nonlethal damage should activate the Cleave feat. A spell storing weapon activating and getting the kill might be pushing it, depending on which spell. But then again what about Fire/Ice/etc. Bursting weapons. If that extra...

EDIT: Doh, you are suppose to subtract 10, not 20, to get through. Hmm, that means he needs only 3 successes (on a 25 or 26 he moves 15') not the 4 for ripping away the webs. Unless the scrag has been burned by webs before, that would be the way to go.