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  1. Epametheus

    How to introduce villains?

    Through reputation is one way... In a city is another good way. Lots of innocent bystanders. Works best if the party doesn't actually know that the guy is their enemy, though. Are Mohj supposed to be killed on sight, or something?
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    Equipping a battlefield mage vs. a knight

    A wizard unit will annihilate the first wave. The second wave is gonna be a problem, though. The mounted "knights" will probably be in half-plate or even splint, which drastically cuts down on the costs of fielding them. Wizards probably aren't common enough to field mass units and mass...
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    Could use some help writing up an 8th level druid..

    So basically, the druid's race is irrelevant as long as the race doesn't penalize con or the mental stats. Interesting. It's a case of "go human or go for style," then. Stormsinger? Druids are one of the few classes where sticking with the base class instead of going into a prestige class is...
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    Question about Bolt of Conjuring from BoEM

    10d4 damage + a badger doesn't sound that horrible. Just say that Shield blocks it, if it's proving to be so overwhelming.
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    Conan or Elric?

    I voted Elric. I don't find Conan to be remotely interesting.
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    Could use some help writing up an 8th level druid..

    Actually, I was figuring half-orc was a bad choice simply because the two benefits the race actually gets (+2 Str, Darkvision) go by the wayside the instant any wildshaping is done. Half-orcs don't even get skill bonuses... Hmmm. Interesting site, Kirinke. But my major concern is what, not how.
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    Could use some help writing up an 8th level druid..

    The character is for a campaign that's starting up in a week or so; the campaign will be with 3.5 rules, stats are to be rolled, and the DM specifically mentioned that characters shouldn't be lawful; he wants to run a mercs campagin. Druid is a weird blend of melee fighter and summoner, and I...
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    Prep to kill a dragon

    The Brilliant Energy enchantment doesn't bypass natural armor, which makes Brilliant Energy one of the most useless enchantments ever. Why wouldn't the Ethereal Plane impinge upon the PEP? The PEP is part of the inner planes, after all. Do your fighters have a high enough AC to discourage 20...
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    Holy Blightfire Batman!

    All of them, I would hope. It's a Wish.
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    What's the coolest use you've seen for a spell?

    Using the far-too-cheap Tree Tokens to sink boats.
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    Prep to kill a dragon

    By all rights you're screwed, though being able to make the party immune to fire will prolong your lives by a couple rounds. The dragon isn't going to fail a save unless it rolls a 1 (okay, it might fail reflex saves; I hope your wizard is REALLY good), and it could smash any prepping you've...
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    Final Fantasy-like Summoning

    The games actually explain that, so it's kinda neat. In FF5 & 10, being summoned is pretty much what they exist for. In 4, they've basically made a pact with Rydia to fight her enemies, but the FF4 summons were weird. In 11, you're summoning an avatar of the being, not the being itself. In...
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    Final Fantasy-like Summoning

    First off, you win cool points for having Lu Bu as your avatar. (Edit: or maybe geek points -- take your pick) You'd basically be using a Conjuration spell to duplicate an evocation spell; Ifrit would basically be a fireball spell, for example. I guess you'd just balance the things however the...
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    Do you want to play a non-PHB character?

    I've played standard PHB races like 3 times, ever. I voted for "a non-standard race at least once."
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    Whats your most unusual Magic Weapon

    A +1, Merciful Laser Pistol.
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    What's your 'dump stat'?

    Wisdom actually has a real penalty associated with it, so I don't feel like a munchkin when I use it as my dump stat :D
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    Player vs. Player

    PvP's effect on the group depends a lot on the players doing it. With one group I've been in, one PC attacked another PC (the characters were almost enemies, and the players didn't like each other either); we wound up taking the fight back when the player that initiated the fight lost and...
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    Bizarro World Crafting System?

    I was rather appalled when I wanted to get custom fullplate for my fighter and realized that according to the rules it'd take like 7 months to make (we had 6 months of downtime). I might be off by a few months, but mastersmiths needing the better part of a year to make a suit of armor struck me...
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    I gave a little, and now they want...

    Tel, would it be wrong to surmise that you're DMing for a group of relative strangers rather than for a group of friends? I'm all for allowing player input in my games, but I actually know my players. If the player himself is rather bad at social skills but is counting on his character's...
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    Disguise-based rogue P-class?

    I can't remember the issue #, but there was a prestige class named Herald in Dragon a while's back. Gave spontaneous casting with it's own casting progression; also had some unique spells that gave bonuses to Bluff, Diplomacy, and Spot, and a spell that gave a +20 circumstance bonus for 10...
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