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I have. The DM was giving Ravenloft the feel of Army of Darkness.

Dire animals in 3.0 had all good saves. I'm guessing that carried over to 3.5. Size does not effect saves in any way. The 6HD dire wolf has a base save of +5 in every area, and is then getting its stat modifiers applied to that.

Oh, boy. Let's see here.. Cloud's buster sword is a weapon that'd be nigh-unusable in real life. My group statted it out for D&D as Large Exotic Slashing Weapon, 2d6 damage, 18-20/x2 threat range, 25 pound or so weight, requires a 17+ str to weild, still imposes -1 to attack rolls if you're...

In the current campaign that we started in May, the party has on average levelled once every 2 sessions (they just became 6th level). This is after we cut combat exp in half. We've made the PCs rather high-powered (action points, each PC has a unique ability, and the generation method...

Try an adult or mature adult red dragon, with just enough sorcerer levels that it knows Teleport.

I took a poll on this last month or so, actually. If I had the search feature, I'd find it and link it. As it is, I voted "other" for this one. My group does "high-side" -- roll the die, and reroll if it's below the 1/2 mark for the die. So a fighter gains 6-10 HP with each hit die before...

Wow, someone voted Dwarf. So 1 out of 329 at this point. I voted Half-orc -- I conceptually like them, but all they are is +2 Str and Darkvision, and they're pretty heavily discouraged from taking 4 different classes (wizard, paladin, bard, and sorcerer). Half-elves are at least flexible...

Automatic evasion? Do you mean it has improved evasion, or does it automatically pass reflex saves? The stat adjustments are so good that they might be worth +2 LA in of themselves. I take it the creature is aberration-typed? And we can't really give an accurate LA for it if you're not...

I don't like playing 1st level characters, and I regard 1st level as something that should be over with as quickly as possible when we do start at that level in a campaign. Merry and Pippin may have been members 8 & 9 of the Fellowship, but they were also complete liabilities until they managed...

The same way adventurers get money, for the most part -- they smite evil and loot its many lairs. Bronze dragons actually will hire themselves out as a mercenaries, according to the Draconomicon. The lawful dragons are perfectly sociable, and I don't think a bronze or a silver (especially a...

The gods are manifestitions of concepts, given thought and form (and energy). The god of Truth is not actually Truth itself, but if Truth itself could think and act, it'd be very much like the god of Truth. Basically, a diety is a powerful spirit; how powerful depends on the god's standing. If...

Would they unbalanced if they had caster level = class level, as opposed to caster level = 1/2 class level? As they are now, their spells, upon which a large bulk of their power rests by core rules, are pretty weak -- very short durations, low bonuses, and easily blotted out by dispelling. But...

If anything, Ice Storm is arguably underpowered for a 4th level spell. The only real reason to use it is that it doesn't allow a save, so it'll actually work on the classes with evasion.

DC 5 Ride check to control the mount with both hands full DC10 Ride check for both the rider and the mount to attack in one turn; only the mount gets the attack if the check fails I think the rider gets a +1 circumstance bonus to attack rolls for having high ground when attacking ground-bound...

Fireball is good, but it's not that good. Eliminating the free spells that wizards get from leveling with no compensation would be crippling -- I could easily picture a 4th or 5th level wizard with nothing but his 5 to 7 initial 1st level spells.

Whoa, sword & board is leading. My last fighter was an unarmed specialist, though he used scimitar & buckler as his back-up (or a falchion, if he really needed to cleave).

The campaign where my wizard have Brew Potion, I never actually used it. In a different campaign the cleric had Brew Potion, and it was never used either. Though in one game I'm in, the Shaman uses potions all the time. Even though he could just use a wand instead. In the campaign I'm...

Making and selling a +4 sword would more than cover the cost of researching a 9th level spell. SL wizards flat-out aren't willing to do that? The Scarred Lands must be populated with very poor wizards, unless how they get the massive amount of gold needed for scribing and researching spells is...

Actually, the anime series The 12 Kingdoms has a genetics-are-irrelevant system. Babies literally grow on trees. To be more specific, there are sacred trees throughout the 12 countries. When a legally married couple desires a child, they mark one of the branches with a scarf or something...

My dwarven kung-fu knight grappled a juvenile blue dragon at 7th level or so and survived. I kept it still while the other fighter, who actually dealt real damage, mauled it. My dwarf got mauled himself, but he lived. Two sessions later, he survived the second stupidest thing he's ever done...