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My original hope for 3+ was 4 base classes, Fighter, Rogue, Cleric and Wizard, and everything else was a PrC off of that. Paladin would have a BAB and divine spell prereqs, to make Fighter/Cleric the fastest path to it, and so on. But alas, it was not to be. Alas.

Can lycanthropes not cast in Hybrid form? I'll admit this has never come up before in my game (I guess I don't use enough lycanthropes), but if the hybrid forms have hands and are capable of speech, it seems like they should be able to cast. If they can't (either from a specific ruling I'm not...

Of my group, I tend to be the anti-dungeon GM, so every so often I'll play against type and run a straight-ahead, 1e-style dungeon crawl, complete with deadly traps. The Grimtooth books are great for that, and a lot of those traps were reprinted in the Traps & Treachery books, so when my FLGS...

Another vote for the Unfettered from AE. I like all the AE classes; Warmains, Totem Warriors (Shark esp) and Champions (most notably Freedom, Dark and Death) for a pirate game, but the Unfettered is the one class that just screams PIRATE to me. Everytime I watch PotC I think, "Man, I got to...

Would the caption have been better phrased, "The paladin must choose between destroying evil and honoring hot, wet slippery [expletive] in the [expletive]"? Because I could see that going either way. ANYway, if mind flayers are asexual, I'm not sure they can be lesbians. I'm not sure what...

Wasn't the headless horseman in the original short story a prank? So wouldn't it be a regular guy with a Disguise skill? (Which is funny in its own way, "He's immune to Turning! My God is powerless against this fiend!" I've always enjoyed playing panicky priests.)

Well, there are a couple of special abilities and spells that allow one to apply Sneak Attack damage to undead, so it might come in handy to be able to Feint them. While I get the reasoning behind not Feinting non-intelligent creatures, I can argue the other side a little. Feinting is...

Well, you can already do it, its just a little fidgety. Instead of casting Darkness spells to blanket the party, you cast them on the party's magical light sources to cancel them out, leaving the area bathed in normal darkness and giving the half orcs, dwarves and goblins et al a distinct...

You could probably make a quarterstaff out of metal and just use a lot less of it; it would probably have a honeycomb shape on the inside. And it would probably stat out just like a regular wooden quarterstaff. (How you would make it is another matter entirely.) On a mostly unrelated note...

All good questions. I don't really have any answers for you, but I did glance over the spell and I have a few more questions: The spell description states that it can swing: "the tide of a battle in your favor by raising fallen allies to continue fighting." Does the use of the term "raising"...

As a general rule of thumb, I'm inclined to treat outdoors, plenty of moonlight as shadowy illumination, or a 20% miss chance for normal vision and no miss chance for low-light. I've never really considered the max range one can see, but its around however big the battlemat is. Though I see...

I just can't wrap my brain around a medusa and a mind flayer. A medusa and a yuan-ti, natch. A mind flayer and an aboleth... well that's a little weird but I can still see it. But a medusa and a mind flayer? Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but I don't get it. It's a little like putting the...

Yeah, if you haven't killed the crazy guy and his pet panther in the first session, you're just not trying. ...Course I think that about everything.

We don't use the tiles, but a guy in the group has a bunch of the minis and we use those a fair amount. I'd rate them as a step down in quality from the DDM's, but still good minis on the whole and you can find some odder stuff than you ca in the DDM line. I've picked up a few booster packs...

It seems like the discussion of which is more limited, a D&D game or a computer game seems to actually be a discussion of the limitations of say, a specific computer game versus a specific GM. Not that its a bad discussion, just that there's no such thing as a generic video game or a generic...

When I statted out Thundarr the Barbarian, I did it as part of my D&D/AE Masters of the Universe/Thundercats crossover. While the Masters were built on a level 20 power scale, the Thundercats were built at around 16th level and Thundarr was built at 10th. My reasoning for this, well ah-ha! I...

Heat and Dehydration get their close up in Sandstorm.

On the one hand, it gives a 1st level cleric a 3rd level spell ability. On the other, it ain't exactly Fireball, you know. I don't think its unbalancing, though a good measure might be if you had an evil cleric in the party, where would his x number of free animates a day become annoying?

I dug out my old bootleg copy of the Breakfast Club this morning, and watching it I was struck by how much like an adventuring party they are. You see us as you want to see us... In the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions... a brain... an athlete... a basket case... a...

Taking a moment to spearate ranks from total bonus: I think of ranks in a skill as formal training, and bonuses from stats, feats, and synergies as natural aptitude.