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Wouldn't blurry images be easier to hit by that rationale, because on the caster some of its real and some of its blur, if you hit the blur you miss. On the images, if the whole image is the blur, and hitting any part of it would cause it to blip out of existence. (A 20% Hit Chance perhaps, so...

It is a pretty cool low level defensive spell, but to get the effect of the Blurred or Displaced images, you're having to put another 2nd or 3rd level spell on top of it, so its not without cost. As I say, I get where you're coming from, I just think you're being unnecessarily limiting in your...

I think its an issue of sacrificing all actions to be defensive and getting one bonus, or taking some actions while being defensive and getting a better bonus. It's a non-choice. "Do I give up any chance to hit the enemy or make AoO's and get a bonus to my AC, or take a chance to hit the...

But if Blur is a visual effect, and MI parrots how the character looks, why wouldn't it function essentially the same? I get where you are coming from KB (and KD), but I don't mind letting spells like Blur and Displacement affect images. I don't think its unbalancing, and its one way to keep...

I use them some. Mainly for NPCs, but sometimes I'll base a pc around a concept that a PrC will tie into. Like Paladin to Blackguard or Knight-Protector, depending on which way you see the character going.

Yeah, that's the hinky part (I was trying to remember it). Expertise + Fighting Defensively gives you a better AC bonus that Full Defense. Its just kind of weird that with Expertise, you can be less defensive and get a better bonus out of it.

Plus, vampires are the sexiest of the undead. Lots of mortal hangers-on, charmed types, goths, as well as those lured in by the promises of eternal life or material wealth. Non-vamps could be stamped by the house or family that protects them, much in the same way that cattle are branded. And...

Yeah, its a little hinky because the text of Combat Expertise implies that the feat replaces fighting defensively, but the text of fighting defensively states that they can be used together.

I read a movie review in KOTD of Starship Troopers that had me howling. I don't know if it was the same guy or not. It was the repeated use of the phrase "fart fire into outerspace" that did it. I thought I was going to pass out I was laughing so hard. Sometimes things hit you just right...

Another thing to look as is players find different things fun, so two players might have totally different 20 mins of fun over the four hour session. The political players is going to be really jazzed about the party meeting with the king while the tactical player is voer there lining his dice...

I'll throw my lot in with the "I haven't the foggiest [bleeping] notion as to why Deathwatch is Evil." Although sadly, in my game, it makes perfect sense. I tie Alignment to universal forces, and Evil is Negative Energy. (I could just change the spell Detect Evil to Detect Negative Energy...

We used to do it that way in 2e, but we switched in 3e. The reason being is that the images change to look like whatever you look like, if you see a group of 6 identical guys leaping and moving together, and only one of them is Blurred (for example), then that's a clue. The best idea I've...

Seafarer's Handbook (I believe) had a terrifyingly neato monster called the Abyssal Shark. That would be a sweet encounter for an underdark sea. Perhaps there's a portal to the Abyss somewhere down there. And a great albino Kraken would probably be a good fit too. You need a good apex...

It is strange that it doesn't mention unattended objects, but its not that strange. Fireball says it affects creatures and unattended objects, but most other spells including Flame Strike and Scorching Ray just mention creatures. What I was alluding too earlier is that if every spell that...

I'm not so sure on that. The fletchings will spend so little time in the fire (1/50 of a second), that I think it would be unlikely they would combust. If we were to build a bonfire and sit around firing arrows through the flames, I guess we'd have better data. I'm not exactly sure what...

I can't go into a Warhammer store without getting a stomach ache. I was in one the other day and noticed a LOTR trebuchet in a box the size and weight of a box of cold tablets was going for $40 US. I could build a trebuchet out of basswood for approximately 30 cents. I could build a working...

The dumbest question is the one not asked. Or that one about AoO's on Cleave, its a bit of a toss up. (Kidding people! Remember, I'm on your side. Its us against the world my friends.)

Aha, the Effect line. Foolish me, reading the description hoping for a description of the Wall. According to the Wik, Opacity means visible light doesn't pass through. Which I'd say blocks line of sight, as opposed to a transparent or translucent wall, which would let all or some light...

No. But a friend of mine picked up the Greyson trailer on dvd at Dragon*Con one year and I agree, it is seriously cool. It would make a heck of a basis for a superhero campaign. There was also a behind the scenes thing on the dvd, and it really showed how the guy low teched some really...

Largely unrelated note, but... ... does anyone else use the Martian langauge for Mars Attacks to approximate kobold's voices? Harf-harf-narf-narf-harf-narf.