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Sigs are a little thing, so I'm with the "you need big items or many items" crowd. Brainstorming here - please don't squash ideas too harshly! ... I used to work for pogo.com, basically a free-games-website which discovered that the "way forward" was subscription plus plus; for us, "plus...

Hmm. Our DM had an NPC steal something of extreme value from us, and lock it in a vault recently. He made it much scarier by making the location of the vault an un-scryable zone. We have a planeshifter, our plan was for her to teleport in, grab the item, and teleport out, but not being able to...

That's hilarious - so he killed the minion, what, several times over? :D I think D&D "physics" get a little bit broken when you start playing in three dimensions - bursts wind up cubic instead of spherical; ranged weapons have a range much longer if fired to the diagonal and uphill than they...

Okay, I get that that's the FAQ response to the way Charge is worded .. What I'm wondering is, what's "broken" if I'm allowed to Charge and then still do a Free Action on my turn? What's the nastiest, gnarliest exploit you can come up with, using only Free Actions ... but that doesn't work if...

Ran my version of this on Saturday. I adjusted the Bugbear Strangler into a Level 4 Ghoul Strangler to fit the undead theme of the current adventuring locale, and had the strangler target the torchbearer, plunging the rest of the party into near-darkness as they fought the rest of the ghouls...

Hmm .. I suppose I alternate between "not very" and "extremely". In general, my theory is "make the players feel like their character is awesome!" That manifests in different ways, of course. "Want to Jump as part of a Move and Grab a creature at the apex of the jump?" Awesome! Let's roll...

Heh. I don't vividly recall it: it was a summer vacation to visit relatives when I was eight, and my cousins had a copy of Basic D&D, which we played .. apparently I enjoyed it, though I don't remember much of it. For my ninth birthday, at the end of the summer, my parents gave me my own Basic...

Had a DM do this oh-so-very-well a number of years ago. Before arriving to the first session, he'd sent us an e-mail about the world, and said, "You will be part of a caravan traveling from X to Y; please e-mail me back to describe your character (for minis) and tell me why you're with the...

Enough so that she is completely out of reach of anybody save the upper nobility and absolute elite. Enough to inspire gossip about "what could she possibly do that could be worth that much?" Probably around the level of a magic item of her level. The book Maia by Richard Adams (1984)...

The RAW for each of the skill checks indicates exactly what type of creature you can use the skill check to gain Monster Knowledge for. Some creatures may fall under two types. Personally, in my game world, "undead" precludes "natural", so Nature checks give you only a sense of just how...

Hmmm, I guess I tend to play the monsters much as I described my monsters reacting to the players, too. In other words, the monster applies the "Marked" condition, and the player knows they're marked ... but if the monster has a special attack it can do if its Marked target ignores it, the...

Yes - and there are classes and builds that don't fly and are much weaker with ranged attacks than melee attacks. So you need to have them have something to do while the bad guy is flying around the roof of the cave, or whatever. We went with something around the lines of, "DM adjudicated on...

Yeah .. I'm a little bummed because I enjoyed haunting Rules and House Rules as places that focused on the games mechanics without going through a "race poll tournament" every two weeks or so. I fully understand why you guys brought that out of G.D., P-cat, I'm just annoyed that now its in my...

Yeah, we had a tumbling Monk in 3.5e, so I can see why you thought it would still be possible, but the mechanics have been changed. There should still be plenty of ways to shift through, around, etc, with your Monk powers as you level up. It doesn't have to break your character concept - just...

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Gruns, yeah that is where it gets a little ambiguous; I was posting the quote mostly for the OP, who'd asked for the page number, etc. Regarding the fighter's mark: - Arguing for the monster, you could say its just like the paladin's sanction, and covered by the same quote on p57. - Arguing...

The RAW seems pretty unambiguous to me:

Yeah, sorry, my bad on the paraphrase there. (Smacks own wrist) However, I'd say this is a case of the specific trumping the general. "No actions, unless you spend an action point", is pretty specific: you can use a free action to spend an action point, and thus gain another action ... but...

Had an absolutely brilliant moment of this today. The ranger with the triple-headed flail went Twin Strike versus his Hunter's Quarry ... hit once, missed once, okay ... then rolls a one for both his flail and the Quarry die ... yes, it was a net of five HP of damage to a creature which had had...

Either "never" or "all the time", I'm not sure how to answer this. For example, one of today's monsters was a Level 4 Ghoul Strangler, which was a modification of the Level 6 Bugbear Strangler, reduced in level, made undead, and tweaked sufficiently that if it weren't for the strangling you...