Search results

I once had an ice devil die to an empowered fireball. Oops!

I had a player load up two crossbows, run and dive into a T-intersection and fire in both directions simulatenously. Normally, you would only get one attack for having moved, but I gave him two for the effort. He rolled complete garbage and laid on the floor while the monsters charged and...

Inflict light wounds series is Will save for half. Cause Fear is Will partial. Actually all inflict spells are Will save half and all fear spells in the core have a Will partial. Phatasmal killer only has an effect if you fail the Will save, so you are fine if you make it regardless of...

How about using gestalt rules for both characters? It will allow them to cover more bases, and to have more power. I would also consider being a little generous in the stat department. Most NPCs are built of 25 point buy, so if you characters are 32-point or more, they will probably fair...

I like the two feats every three levels thing. Makes the first four levels the same while giving out power later. I'm not sure about the every 3rd level bonuses, they seem either very limited and weak, or very powerful. I've found the that Thug variant from Unearthed Arcana has made fighter a...

I don't know many groups where one guy can have stats of 15,14,13,12,10,8 and another guy have 22,20,18,18,16,16 with some kind of long-term negative ramification, especially if both are playing barbarians. If anything, it would make balancing encounters very tricky to keep the standard array...

Interesting, my players were quite a bit more paranoid than that. The combat types stood guard at key points around the room while the others discussed tactics. And even those guys were ready. I think the exchange went DM: "you hear a creeking board up stairs", Cleric: "I stand up and cast...

I used to use lowest level in the party minus one, minimum XP. But that could put someone behind almost two levels. Now I use minimum XP in the party minus 100xp per character level. Puts you about one encounter behind the low end guy.

Thanks. I can't pronouse in-in-OT-dar without an awkward stop, and it sounds too much like "in and out door". I'm probably going to have to butcher it to keep a straight face. We were saying Rah-GAY-zhi-ah, but we considered the barbaric RAGE-see-ah. We said "shah-HAH-less-tee"...

First level, five chars, with pretty high stats. (We rolled: one guy rolled two 18s; another rolled nothing under 14. The rest are just simply above average for 4d6 drop 1.) If I had to run the fight over again, I would have the thugs downstairs break in automatically after one round or have...

Perhaps it is just my players, but I tried that and I got one character who was 28pt buy, one that was 32pt buy, one that was about 70pt buy, and one that had a couple of 22's and a 20. So we switched to a different method.

Another funny things it that the players think .

Cool! (Or should I say Hot!) By the way, how do you pronounce Innenotdar. Pronouncing both the t and d is creates a very awkward stop midword: In-ne-not-dar. So I've been making the t silent and going for in-nen-o-dar. Actually a pronounciation guide would be cool. I'm sure not everyone...

Oh and one more thing. The armbands has produced their own subplot. The fire-domain wizard reads ignan, so knows the armbands say "murderers" and wants to investigate when there is time.

Thanks! I've updated the post.

Our First Game Here are the spoiler details of our first game: We spent a bunch of time building characters, and talking to Torrent. The characters didn't ask any of the questions in the adventure, and they were noticeably short on the required skills, so she gave them a few bones. Amazing...

We've been having a blast. Anyone else playing?

In the 15th-17th level campaign I just quit running, every character died at least once. There were about twenty deaths resulting in about half a dozen retirements.

I think I failed a spot check. 'Uh, we are right here'. I failed a listen check too.

Absurdly powerful. A feat that gives out weapons one size larger would be taken by nearly everyone interested in dealing damage. It is monkey grip minus the to hit penalty. Then you thrown in reach. Wow! Reach at -2 would be extremely good. Right now your feat is a no brainer. Every 3rd...