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  1. just__al

    Divine Haste?

    That's why it's expensive :)
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    Do you read non-RPG fantasy novels?

    Waaaay back in the day I read a couple of Gord the Rogue books and I suppose the dragonlance books count. Beyond that, I don't read RPG-related novels.
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    How long do your gaming sessions last?

    I play in 3 campaigns right now One never goes over 4 hours and sometimes barely manages to break 3, we play that (presumably) weekly One usually falls just short of 4 hours but will occasionally break 4 we play first, third and 5th (if there is a fifth) wednesdays One Runs somewhere in...
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    Divine Haste?

    Yeah, if you want to make it "expensive" add extra turning for a pre req.
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    Order of the Stick?

    The site is getting hammered by well-wishers and people trying to get his status. The last time I could get on the forums there, he had come home from the hospital and was prescribed a few days of bed rest. He said he was going to try to get friday's comic out anyway if he could do it from bed...
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    If my character were level 100, I would...

    Be very upset the programmers only setup two digits for level. How did I get to be level ZERO? WHAT THE #$$@
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    Help a DM engage the players in his campaigns arc.

    30 pages of background material is a bit much for most players (I'd eat it up because I could get more out of the DM as far as a little extra spotlight time and I'd be more immersed). You should have all this detail but let details come to the players during the game instead of giving them...
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    House Rules You Don't Realize You Have

    We play that meele attacking into a grapple has an equal chance to hit each person involved in the grapple. Apparently that is only supposed to be for Shooting into a grapple
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    House Rules You Don't Realize You Have

    How do the rogues feel about that? How do characters with uncanny dodge feel about that?
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    DMs - Do you ask for your players character sheets?

    Like, I suspect, many other DMs I ask for the sheets. I do this so I can refer to them when planning the next session or 3. I like to have a balance of encounters/challenges that.. a) everybody can help b) one or two people shine and everybody else isn't particularly bad off c) one or two...
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    Best/Favorite rogue special ability

    It's not on my radar as a possible choice, I'd rather have a feat because my reflex save is disgusting and I can live with failing about 6% of my reflex saves.
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    Best/Favorite rogue special ability

    Yup, dwarven rogue. Fights with an urgosh to alternate between twf and power attacks. Crippling strike just seems too juicy. I'll probably go with skill mastery at rogue13 unless I take it now and then take crippling strike then.
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    Best/Favorite rogue special ability

    I'm trying to pick one for my fighter2/Rogue10 and thought I'd get some opinons
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    D&D 4E Suppose 4e is released, do you buy it?

    I didn't want to go from 2 to 3. I had (have) TONS of 2e material. I bought the PHB though and I really liked the paradigm shifts so I went with it, eventually (although it was a little while). With 3.5 they got most of what they got wrong, right, so I went with it. Mostly though what kicked...
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    World's Largest Dungeon in actual play [Spoilers!]

    Hey, just thinking ahead a bit... Where does everbody think a good place to work in... a beholder? some mind flayers? other random non-srd monsters from the monster manual? I'm currently running a group through for a longish (about 7-9 hours) session every month and the DM of my...
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    AD&D 1E Holdover rules from 1e/2e

    I keep finding myself using rules that haven't carried over without deliberately choosing the old rule over the new rule. Not a good thing because I really don't like departing from RAW without deliberate forethought. I don't have time to playtest everything, I leave that to the game designers...
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    Best Base class from WotC books outside the Core 11?

    I voted for Hexblade despite it being one of the weakest classes in the pole. I played a Hexblade who's backstory included being disowned for "givin' everybody the evil eye" and spent a lot of time intimidating people wherever he went because "the gods hate me" and "everybody is afraid of me...
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    Need a PrC for a warrior that fights with a reach weapon.

    Go with an exotic reach weapon and then take exotic weapon master from Complete Warrior, all kinds of neat tricks there.
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    DMG II: Buying?

    I'm probably going to get flamed for this, but I will wait until the book finds it's way onto a binaries newsgroup and download a PDF of it. If I like it, I'll buy it, and if not I'll dump the PDF.
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    World's Largest Dungeon in actual play [Spoilers!]

    I just sent the Region K pdf to James. I would expect it to be posted shortly. Guess I'll start on Region L next.
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