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    Can vampires go swimming in lakes and oceans unharmed?

    Actually, what I am arguing is essentially that the rules DO define what "running water" is, it is "flowing water", and flowing water has a clear and specific definition within the rules.
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    Could Mirage Arcana be used to cause someone to drown themselves?

    Slow movement might be a give away or they might think some other effect is happening in the cave, but I suspect the biggest giveaway will be seeing stuff like their hair floating, etc. As I recall the illusion can't change creatures within the area. Again, depending on how observant the PCs...
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    Could Mirage Arcana be used to cause someone to drown themselves?

    Will save of course, but I do not believe you get more than one will save per illusion. Once you fail, you fail. There isn't a new saver per interaction, so it doesn't matter how many, unless, as stated in the Illusion section: "If any viewer successfully disbelieves an illusion and communicates...
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    Can vampires go swimming in lakes and oceans unharmed?

    The problem with that logic is that oceans are constantly moving with substantial and incredibly powerful waves and currents... and by the rules they are clearly defined as "non-flowing". Having been born on an island and grown up along the ocean, I'll vouch for its dynamic nature. But yet, the...
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    Could Mirage Arcana be used to cause someone to drown themselves?

    I'll disagree completely on that... if done on an aquatic area, the real effect is the drowning, not breathing. So we simply default to its true nature, water, thus drowning. The illusion causes no damage at all, its the assumption of the creatures within that thus... as it says, it provides no...
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    Could Mirage Arcana be used to cause someone to drown themselves?

    A friend and I have been discussing this issue and we're both under the impression that you could probably fool creatures into taking a breath with it, but they would know what is up by the coughing as their lungs fill with water. If this is the way it would work, would the creature immediately...
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    Can vampires go swimming in lakes and oceans unharmed?

    My question is simply this: Can vampires cross and be unharmed by immersion in lakes and oceans? I'm not referring to vampires from literature, but vampires simply as written by the RAW for D&D. Under the vampire it states the following: "Vampires are also unable to cross running water...
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    Could Mirage Arcana be used to cause someone to drown themselves?

    I'm prepping an aboleth encounter I'm looking over Mirage Arcana (a power an Aboleth can use at will), I noticed the following: "The illusion includes audible, visual, tactile, and olfactory elements." Could you use the spell to illusion an underwater cave to seem to be air filled? Of course...
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    D&D Economics: Tech level and resource scarcity

    I'm glad you've enjoyed it kallisti23, let me know if you have any suggestions or opinions on it. I'm actually surprised no one has commented on my change to casters, from spells per day to spells per week...
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    D&D Economics: Tech level and resource scarcity

    Thanks for the positive feedback Treebore and Haffrung! It took quite a bit of work to put together. I wanted a book that the players could refer to without going to any other book, all the feats, classes, and such being included in one source. I've been very reluctant to post it, and this is...
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    D&D Economics: Tech level and resource scarcity

    Your lucky day? For about two years I ran a late stone age, early bronze age campaign :). It is somewhat like Dark Sun, but extremely low magic and no psionics. Endless Desert DM's Guide It has quite a few things you might find handy such slightly modified craft rules (p11), to allow for a...
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    Making a Potion out of a Ray and other esoteric things...

    The text of the spell itself does though: "You must succeed on a ranged touch attack with the ray to deal damage to a target."
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    Making a Potion out of a Ray and other esoteric things...

    I understand that to put a spell into a potion it must have a target, as per the SRD "You can create a potion of any 3rd-level or lower spell that you know and that targets one or more creatures." This would allow me to cast a spell such as Cure Light Wounds into a potion. What if I were to...
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    Greatest Moment While DMing

    Our four year campaign was coming to a close, the party finally reached epic a few months before, and had gathered an army of allies and mercenaries to take on the seemingly overwhelming forces of their enemy. The players were nervous, they had spent most of the campaign only worried about...
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    Drow Eyes Wide Shut?

    Wow guys, these are great ideas! Amazing stuff. I'll be working on compiling this part of the game today, thanks!!! Well, the players are drow themselves and will be attending the party, but I think that would still work, hehe.
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    Drow Eyes Wide Shut?

    Great suggestions guys, very much appreciated. I'm also looking for suggestions that aren't sexual as well, like the boxing already mentioned, perhaps some strange foods, etc. Rechan: I don't actually think the drow would use masks... too much paranoia in their society I would think.
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    Drow Eyes Wide Shut?

    I'm running a Menzoberranzan campaign, wherein some of the players are of minor noble houses. In doing research on drow culture and the city itself, I came across an interesting practice. It seems that young single drow from houses that are allied (or might be allied) will get together at what...
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    Propane tanks and lightning...

    The tank is alone, free standing. My grill is a smaller portable one that I keep in the garage, the tank is the standard 20 lbs one. I'd keep the tank in the garage, but the instructions specifically state not to store indoors.
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    Propane tanks and lightning...

    For most of my life I've been city dweller, but that has changed recently. Now I'm a domesticated home owner out in the "country", and of course with that comes something I've never had before... a gas-grill. I treat it very carefully since, to be honest, I find it more than a bit intimidating...
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    Vampires and Disintegrate, does it destroy it? + Libris Mortis question

    Ahh... what irony, for you see although I'm the main DM, we round-robyn DM from time to time, and its my character that's the vampire! Horror of horrors. (It's a 9th level campaign set in Menzoberranzan... most of the players are drow, except for my character and my wife's. We are both playing...
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