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  1. SolitonMan

    Help Me Write Up A power: Empathic Transfer

    Not sure who moved this from the general forum, but if it's a request for a 3.5 rule, probably shouldn't be in the 4e fan creation forum... In any case, I'm not sure how one would go about creating this specific power, but I'd suggest a name change since Empathic Transfer is already a psionic...
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    Need tips for the effective use of illusions

    +1 for the Rules of the Game articles. They provide a lot of useful insight. Also would recommend a review of the description of the illusion school in the PHB or from the SRD Spell Descriptions :: d20srd.org. Those things will provide good mechanical descriptions of illusions. Using...
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    What are you playing that is NOT D&D?

    Then the logic is too simplistic, and the test should consider how many words are all capped before resorting to lower casing. One word - let it go. Two or more - lowercase. As a starting point.
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    What are you playing that is NOT D&D?

    GURPS Tried to answer with that word alone, but the forum keeps lower-casing the "URPS" - WTF?
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    Serenity: Why am I GMing this?

    QFT. I think that watching the show helps to provide the flavor of the setting, but because of its very limitations, it's just a taste, not the whole meat and potatoes...which leaves an imaginative person in a good position. There are plenty of threads of plot that can be addressed in a game...
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    Psychic Healer with Core Rules

    Empathic transfer does allow the psion to remove disease and poison from the target, as well as ability damage (but not drain). Blindness and deafness I dunno about... I believe that you have a basically good list, the problem with psionic healing is that if it's your focus as a psion, you're...
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    Fight for the Lost - The Mass Effect 2 Thread

    I'm in the midst of my second playthrough now, started on Hardcore I think it was, but I was getting too frustrated with the dying, and went back to casual for some fights, upping the difficulty in some areas and lowering it back in others. I can tell you right now it's unlikely I'll ever play...
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    Recommend Me Some Diabolically Appropriate Music

    You may want to check out Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield, I believe it was the theme music for The Exorcist.
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    You're the Head of WOTC. Now What?

    So many good ideas here (and a few, hmm, let's say "over the top" ;)). The only thing I'd add that I haven't seen explicitly so far is that I'd leverage the IP from the acquisition of Last Unicorn Games and have the design team create a campaign setting based on the card game Heresy: Kingdom Come.
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    WotBS Hi Morrus, whatever happened to bonus items from WotBS 3.5 pre-orders?

    Wanted to give this a bump, see if there's anything new.
  11. SolitonMan

    Good cleric summoning evil?

    Gate. I know you're not high enough level just yet to cast it yourself, but read the spell description, it should handle the situation as you wish. But get soemone else to cast it since it takes on the [Evil] descriptor when calling an evil creature. Of course, your target may not have the...
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    Fight for the Lost - The Mass Effect 2 Thread

    I also think that actually making the resources useful was a brilliant idea. :) And I played enough ME1 to get tired of driving the same routes over the same planets time and again. But that was tiresome over the course of many playthroughs, whereas scanning got tiresome by like the 6th time...
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    Fight for the Lost - The Mass Effect 2 Thread

    I'm ambivalent about this title so far. I've played it through once, and honestly the planet scanning was so jarringly boring and ill-implemented that I'm dreading going through another playthrough (which sucks, since I played through ME1 at least seven times). It's kind of like a kick in the...
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    Rope trick and bag of holding? What to do?!?

    You might find this article on carrying things of interest. In it Skip Williams basically says that you should just ignore any interactions between bags of holding/portable holes and rope tricks/magnificent mansions. Not worth the bother to add that kind of worrisomeness to the game. Unless...
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    OoTS 703 is up

    *chuckle* Hope I can write this without ruffling feathers, but in any case, what I see in this thread was humorous (more than the latest Oots, unfortunately). The whole tone is like, "This thing sucks. Give us more!!!! NOW!!!" So awesome. :)
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    Has the horse left the barn?

    No interest in 4E. I keep coming back to the relative weakness of the game, in my experience. I played for a few months (which translated into a handful of combats) in a PbP 4E game running a drow warlock. At the same time I've been running a 3.5 warlock in a RL game. The differences were...
  17. SolitonMan

    Earth Elemental Familiar- Earthglide yes or no?

    Thanks! After reviewing this and considering the other costs/benefits, I'd argue in favor of the familiar possessing earth glide. I know it has the potential for abuse, but as with any situation where power becomes abusive, once the abuse begins your enemies will eventually get wind of it and...
  18. SolitonMan

    Earth Elemental Familiar- Earthglide yes or no?

    Sorry to be so ignorant but what book? :) I looked up the Improved Familiar feat in the online SRD at d20srd.org, but when I clicked the link to the small earth elemental it simply referred me to the standard entry for one of its kind. To which book are you referring, if you don't mind me...
  19. SolitonMan

    Sagiro's Story Hour: The FINAL Adventures of Abernathy's Company (FINISHED 7/3/14)

    Hard to believe that I've caught up to the end of this thread! Awesome work everyone, thanks so much for sharing! :) I started in on this Story Hour back around Thanksgiving I think it was, reading the pdfs (thanks, StevenAC!) and finally today catching up to the current postings. Really...
  20. SolitonMan

    What's happening with 3e?? Open Design, Necromancer Games, Sinister Adventures, Monte

    Agreed. Here's to IMMORTALITY!! :) (after all, how ELSE will there ever be enough time to play all this stuff?)
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