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Let's talk about the merchant for a minute. Let's make him a pretty high level merchant, with magical items to boost his skill check and all. Say, he has Profession (magical item fence) at +20. He should be making a profit of about 15gp per week at this, on average (half of his profession...

That's a very good point. The rule also screws up the wealth per level thing pretty much because if the DM follows guidelines for treasure per encounter, then you will gain just as much loot value as necessary to keep you at the "right" wealth for your level. However, if that loot is randomly...

Assuming you are referring to Numion's statement, that's not what he said. He said : It doesn't mean : Player : "Does my spell work to do X ?" DM : "I don't think it's supposed to, but yes sure whatever !" It means : Player : "Does my spell work to do X ?" DM : *checks* *isn't sure* "Ah hell...

IMO, it would then be a Transmutation spell. We could call it Animate Object or something like that. :)

Or, you could ask "Are mounted knights so weak that they need to be twinked ?" :D It all depends on your point of view.

I know that's the rule*. I was just sharing how I do it. I would do this because a CR 10 couatl needs its spellcasting to be a challenge and the CR 19 couatl will too, but 9th level spellcasting is just not going to cut it. But adding sorcerer levels makes sense too. I'd have to look at the two...

Hear, hear ! It took me a looooong time to realize that. :)

I don't think the rules cover this at all, but what I always do is give those types of monsters one level of spellcasting per +1 to their CR. So since a normal 9HD couatl is CR 10 and a 27 HD couatl is CR 19, I'd say it casts as a (9+9) = 18th level cleric.

That table is really weird. Why would higher HD races have a higher ECL adjustment from getting a half-celestial template ? Unless of course the hit dice dependent half celestial abilities depended only on racial HD, but the MM half-celestial counts all hit dice, including class levels. :\...

Makes sense. But then maybe they shouldn't be using invisibility technology and auto-targetting lasers. :D We had a talk about this at Nothingland a few weeks ago. The Predator in Predator 2 seemed much more willing to test his skills than the one in the first movie. There was an Alien spoof...

I've always wondered what was up with that ? Wouldn't it make more sense for hunters to kill those, really ? Culling the herd and all that ?

No kidding. Once, we came upon a fire elemental and our cleric had a magic circle on, so we decided that he'd block the doorway while the rest of the party plinked at it with arrows. The DM said "okay, but you are not in any danger, so you will not get any XP for this combat". So the rest of...

I just remove the charisma penalty from half orcs and replaced it with a circumstance penalty to charisma-based skill checks in some circumstances. But, really, the main problem with the half orc, IMO, is that they are boring, not useless. Stats-wise, they make nice barbarians, for sure. Not so...

That is exactly right. Locked doors are not about suspense (i.e whether or not the party can open the door), they are about how much time you're going to waste.

You keep using bad analogies. It's more akin to borrowing a friend's copy, then photocopying the whole book at *your* expense using *your* time. Funny, I'm usually on the pro-RIAA side in those debates. :)

Am I the only one who sees a huge inconsistency in those two statements ? :)

Personally, I think that Spell Turning is mostly fine as it is, but that it should also turn ranged touch spells. But not melee touch or area spells.

If it wasn't true, it wouldn't hurt, Wormwood. :D

No problemo, d00d. :cool:

Well, the dragon is never going to be powerful but it can certainly be useful. For one, it can spot invisible creatures and warn its 'owner'. That's worth one feat right there. It can also speak with animals 3/day. (a 2nd level spell-like ability) If there's ever an object you need to recover...