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My party has amnesia every week. As in "where are we, why are we here, what are we doing again?". Seriously, I could pull this kind of scenario on them at any time, and they'd actually think the PCs got onto the barge at the end of the previous session, and the extra levels were because I'd...

Aye, there's the rub. The fundamental problem that we are facing is that the game designers have attached a series of mechanical effects to a condition or status applied to a creature in the game, the condition or status to which they have attached a label which is misleading in a reasonable...

Frostcheese no longer as yummy In all this talk of the relative merits of fire specialisation vs. cold specialisation, there is continued reference to "frostcheese". My understanding is that "frostcheese" refers to the combination of the Wintertouched feat and the Lasting Frost feat. I feel I...

Agreed. For a "random home game", one doesn't or shouldn't assume anything. Hence, my recommendation for the DM-player discussion. Even though I suspect that the majority of posters on ENWorld are DMs (or are usually DMs), I do see "player entitlement" arguments on these boards relatively...

I agree completely with WalterKovacs' assessment that the kinds of effects that a power has, and the defence it targets, is correlated with its keyword/s. This correlation of effect, defence and keyword is not wholly complete across all powers; but there is a correlation nonetheless. What we...

82. A rot grub. 83. A rough ball composed of an unidentifiable putty-like substance (roll 1d8 for colour: 1-2 brown; 3-4 black; 5 white; 6 grey; 7 fuschia; 8 combination of two rolls). 84. A quill pen made from a cocktrice feather. 85. 1d4+1 glass marbles. On close examination of the marbles...

On the basis of your breakdown of the manual calculation, it appears you're using inherent bonuses to defences, in which case you're not using magical armour - only non-magical chainmail (which cannot be masterwork). Now I'm confused as to why "ah you forgot the masterwork armour bonus" is the...

I ran this adventure last year, albeit slightly modified for my own campaign and PCs. My notes on the adventure and encounters are attached. I didn't use any of the horror elements that others have commented on, and ran it pretty much as an investigative -> dungeon crawl adventure, which was...

Hairy armpits? When I first read the title of this thread, I read "No, Hirsute Arts. Just... no". Immediately, I had a mental image of a bunch of drawing students gathered in a semi-cirle around a male, well, "life model", who hadn't, well, waxed... And I could well understand why the OP was...

I ran a brain-in-a-jar fight just last week. I had the same concern as you - how to make the brain resistant enough to certain attacks to make it a challenging opponent. Fortunately, as I worked on the encounter location - an "operating theatre" full of hanging chains with manacles and spikes...

One of my 9-year-old sons expressed interest in playing D&D with me some months ago, after I got all my miniatures out of compartmentalised boxes and stuck them on a shelf in my office. It's amazing how imaginative kids are when they see little men and monsters in plastic - I guess it's always...

No, they're not hurt. They are no worse off than they were before the new expertise feats. Being relatively less well off does not mean they are hurt. Adam and Ben like watching HD-DVDs, but do not have plasma TVs. Adam buys a plasma TV. Ben is not hurt by Adam's purchase. Ben might be...

Nope, IMC, it transforms the dragon into a frog...hemoth. Which then dismembers your buddies' corpses with its tentacles while swallowing you whole. BWAH HA HA HA.

Hmm, multi-headed solos that tear themselves apart when bloodied seems to be a bit of a theme... I threw the below at my party of six 11th level PCs a couple of weeks ago: Wellspring fused horror Level 13 Solo Controller Large aberrant beast XP 4000 HP 635; Bloodied 317; see also bloodied...

Thanks Thanks all, I thought that might be the case, but just wanted to check. Cheers, Al'Kelhar

Hi guys, The archer ranger in my campaign has just reached 11th level and has taken the Battlefield Archer paragon path. The paragon path has the following class feature: Battlefield Experience (11th level): You can designate more than one creature as your quarry at a time, up to a number...

Ain't no need to look at the mantlepiece while stokin' the fire. Just sayin'.

Mike Mearls Never forget what he wrecked! Damn him! <shakes fist aimlessly>

Lego for TEH WIN! "Monopoly's rules are stuffed". "Monopoly teaches kids evil capitalism". "Monopoly, blah blah blah". Focus, people! Lego is #1. Always was, always will be. With Lego I can make a friggin' Monopoly set. Lego killed Monopoly and took its stuff. Dammit, Lego makes better...

Hi, my name on these boards is Al'Kelhar, and I: - enjoyed playing 2E more than any other version of D&D; - powergame; - railroad my players; - say "no" to my players; - do not consider it my duty as DM to know all the rules applicable to a player's character. I'm a bad, bad man, and I seek...