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BINGO! That's exactly my point! We played up to the point that the damage had been done. What else was expected? I agree with the reply that pointed out that "friends don't let friends lay unconscious in the enemy's stronghold." I'm trying to start a dialog with a couple of the players to...

Heh-heh, thanks. But I wouldn't tell a player to "shut up" until I was sure. So I've added the Listen check clarification to our "house rules" thread on my personal gaming forum. :) It's true that it's fairly powerful. When I read about it on the other board, I decided that I would use it...

Excellent idea -- I'd forgotten about the "push/pull" numbers and only remembered the "load" numbers. And as the push/pull numbers more accurately reflect what a trip is trying to accomplish, that works great. Thanks. :)

The description for Trip says, What do you, as a GM, consider the "more stable" phrase to mean? I had a situation recently in which a player tried to trip a large creature with a huge weight advantage. We're talking a 5,000 lb giant vs. a 250 lb Medium-sized human. Would that qualify as...

I appreciate your viewpoint. And I agree that other options are valid. Heck, there are probably dozens of options! Trap the soul was not one of them, though -- that spell is an 8th level arcane spell and the BBEG is a cleric and not that high a level. And when a cleric needs to take out a...

I have decided that I agree completely with this approach. Someone with reach who sticks their arm through but not their body, can make a Reflex save. I'm going to say it's half damage, none if saved. And I would allow the use of evasion and similar feats, of course. I'm reducing the damage...

I was avoiding getting into too much detail as there may be players here that are going through this module. But suffice to say that the ethereal jaunt wasn't needed to escape per se, but only to get around the blade barrier and the forcecage that were blocking her exit. Once she got to...

We responded in parallel, so you haven't seen my last post. The BBEG saw two unconscious characters on the ground. One was a bound party member and the other was an unbound traitor (an ex-cult member). There was plenty of motivation for the BBEG to want to take out the traitor; the party...

Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear. The BBEG was going to flee and did so using ethereal jaunt. The party mage Spellcraft'd it and in the same round cast see invisible, noting (out loud to the rest of the party) that the BBEG was nowhere within sight. END OF ROUND. The BBEG saw one of the party...

Wow, those replies were quick. Thank you. I suppose that's the case. Further, telling a player that a dangerous encounter is coming up -- and hinting at it in-game -- isn't likely to be taken too seriously the first time. But when you get to the level of spells that are save-or-die (mostly...

My players are upset with the way I ruled a few things tonight. I'd like some input from the hivemind regarding how I should've handled this. 1A. My BBEG cleric cast blade barrier. I ruled that it took an entire 5-foot square along a line of squares (one side of the room to another). To...

That is why I allow a Will save for anyone entering the area of effect of the silence spell. (Debating that ruling has already been done in another thread. Search for it if you're interested.) Here's one I used in RttToEE. (I've removed some of the details about the module.) An evil druid...

It may be that they won't run XP, but I'll bet they will run Linux (or will very shortly after the hardware hits the streets)! And that means you can install a virtualization solution and run XP inside that. :) (Free virtualization choices include VMware, VirtualBox, QEmu, and others.)

I bought a MacBook Pro last August. It was expensive -- I'm not sure I would do it again. Having said that, I really love the machine. :) It's very thin and light, and because it doesn't have a fan it's also very quiet. The 17" LCD is pretty nice (my last Compaq AMD64 also had a 17"...

The format of the image on disk doesn't really matter, except that the Java libraries are optimized for reading/writing JPEG and PNG. For the sake of argument, say your image is 4000x4000 -- it's going to take the same amount of memory to manage and display regardless of whether the disk format...

In RttToEE there is an effect that Monte describes as, phantasmal compulsion. That's a first, AFAICT. :)

This came up in our RttToEE campaign last Sunday. One of the PCs was hit with insanity (permanent confusion effect) and protection from evil was cast on the PC. After a quick look at the description, it was pretty clear that PfE wouldn't have any effect. I don't know that it really...

The dialog that Trevor is referring to is on the Window menu, at the bottom, IIRC.

This is usually a version mismatch, but you said you had already checked that. Hmm. There was another problem in which some network cards had firmware to calculate packet checksums and that was failing for some reason. Going into the driver for the network card and turning off the checksums...

My wife has recently built a web site for her bicycle club. She chose to use MS Publisher because she knows the tool. She chose a template off the File menu and went to town with it. She now has a (somewhat) pretty 3-4 page site, but knows nothing about good site design, such as building...