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Yeah, I think paper is vulnerable to fire, but an arrow probably not. Thinking about it in real world terms, a fire that could vaporize a arrow moving somewhere between 100-200 fps would have to be pretty freakin' hot. Of course, thinking of it in real world terms is only so useful because its...

Yeah, with the skeletal template the creature loses its Special Attacks, but not the Special Qualities that relate to attacks, though not that many creatures have SQ's that relate to attacks. Ettins and Cloud Giants are the only two I can think of. (Ettin skeletons retain Superior Two Weapon...

Yeah, if you don't have the aboleth analogue to Jabba the Hutt, you're just not trying hard enough. I must say, great ideas so far. A novel twist on the Underdark campaign.

My idea has always been to take a monster like a behir, kill it, skin it, mount its rib bones on upside down, bolt the bones to the hull of a ship, and then animate it. Use sharkskin to make the claws into flippers, and you have a tirelessly self-propelled boat who can even take a few swipes at...

"Look out-- it's dripping!" Hard to believe that line didn't make it into the D&D movie.

I've never had it come up, but I think thats a very good way to handle it. I can't think of a reason why the arrows wouldn't take the damage, unless the spell specifically mentions it doesn't damage objects. Though fire does half damage to objects, so I don't know if that would let arrows get...

You know if the owner of the FLGS went over and hired one of the GAP girls to work the counter, he'd probably double his traffic through the store. Not that anyone would buy anything necessarily.

For my group, I think it comes down to how much "better" (whatever that ends up meaning) 4e is than 3e. We made the jump to 3e because we felt it was a better system than 2e, in that it fixed some things we had been complaining about and house ruling for years. If 4e isn't a similar jump...

Is it a love of gold? If I don't make it, tell my wife I said "Hello". All I know is my gut says "Maybe". The commentary on that episide is interesting. Apparently they had tons of neutrality jokes they cut because they knew they'd only be funny to D&D players.

I'll think you'll find, Celebrim, that we're all making a series of assumptions here. Having a discussion pretty much requires it. Unless you start out by learning every single facet of the game you are critiquing, I would have to assume you're assuming something. So don't say it like its a...

We need a spell that can make figments quasi-real and be controlled by another caster. The next time someone pops Mirror Image out, the enemy could take over the images and have them dogpile the caster. That would be hilarious. Maybe a wild magic zone or a nightmare realm where figments...

Actually, back in the day, a 20 was a crit. There was a rule that if the monster needed a 20 to hit, the 20 wasn't a crit, but I can't recall a GM ever actually enforcing that rule. (And in 1e and even 2e, the line between rule, optional rule, alternate rule, and house rule was frequently...

I believe Thundarr is spelled with two R's. One of my bad habits as a player is whenever I'm taking notes and people are bandying about these fantastical names, I always stop and ask, "Conventional spelling?" As a GM, I tend to save my wackier names for my halflings and gnomes. They're...

But if the Image isn't really there, you aren't actually hitting anything. You're just moving your arm through empty air, which wouldn't discharge the spell.

What I used to do in 2e was Blur followed by MI, but I like the way you're thinking. I can't remember what Blur was in 2e (maybe an AC bonus?) because its been 7 years since I played that character, but it is likewise a miss chance these days.

My old 2e GM hated us for making fun of his names. It got to the point where he'd say the name of something and then just pause to give the group 3 seconds to ruthlessly mock it. A character named Cyleria Dragonbreast was from a sourcebook, and by the end of the session she was introduced he'd...

I have to agree. My GM recently ran a game where we were fighting Aranea who's humanoid form were drow. And when we first encountered hybrid forms the exchange went something like: GM: You see creatures that are melded forms of spiders and drow. Player 1: Drider? GM: No, not like that...

The only thing in the book I can think of is certain conditions state characters drop held items. I think Panicked is one. If Unconscious isn't, it probably should be. But its kind of a moot point since we're trying to interpret 1e encounters with 3.5 rules. My fond rememberences of the...

I played in a game one time where the GM had homebrewed his own pantheon. The god of the elves was named "Falis", which, phonetically, is very funny if you have the mentality of a teenager (which I do). Especially if you say over and over, "The elves are worshipping a giant Falis."...

As a general rule I like level-less systems. Shadowrun is a prime example, the White Wolf systems weren't bad with the right GM (but I guess that's true of anything). Karma in SR is a bit more fluid than a points-based xp system. You might get 2-3 points for a normal session, 5 or more when...