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  1. DrSpunj

    Your opinion on Light and Darkness interaction?

    I asked similar questions after 3.0 was released and got similar answers, so I've been ruling this way as well. BUT...I never got a satisfactory answer on this last part you bring up. Haste & Slow have Ranges of Close, while Light, Darkness Daylight and Deeper Darkness all have a Range of...
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    DrSpunj's Class Balance Spreadsheet

    Not at all. The more the merrier! I haven't really been advertising this all that much. There's a link in my sig and sometimes closely related threads pop up here in the House Rules where I'll post a remark about what I/we've been working on here. I honestly don't know if U_K has seen the thread...
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    DrSpunj's Class Balance Spreadsheet

    This sounds like Fafaf to me, as I expect Meeshka would have received some help from Grennen. :) Oh, sure. Blame it on the newborn! :p Seriously, it sounds like those are pretty minor problems overall. I'm glad it went relatively smoothly. Still, I know these three to all be pretty familiar...
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    Dispelling a Harpy's Song

    Well, the problem you presented wasn't the real question, IMO. ;) As the player involved, I didn't know it was a harpy's song (and therefore a supernatural effect) until the session was over and Nail started spilling the (mechanical) beans about our foes. At the time I thought two of our party...
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    New Server Drive - donation and prize thread (Final total: $13,310!)

    Ditto that for me! (via PayPal) I avidly visit the site on average 3-4 times daily. With as much as I spend a month on the hobby, and how much I spend reading stuff at EN World, I'll be more than happy to skip a book here and there for the next few months to help keep EN World going and...
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    Figment magic

    Alright, then how much of a bonus do you think is reasonable? +2? +4? Based on how much you beat the Spellcraft DC? That's fine, but I would think/expect a caster like Tieran would ask for one a disbelief check after a reactive "No action" Spellcraft check gave him an odd result: "It must be a...
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    DrSpunj's Class Balance Spreadsheet

    Sounds cool & fun! Good luck with it. I'm not quite sure I understand your question. I *think* you're asking if heightening a spell on the fly bumps it's _readied_ level by 1, and the answer to that question is no. The only thing that matters to the "slot" is how much power the spell had. With...
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    DrSpunj's Class Balance Spreadsheet

    I'll check out the sheet when I have some time. And I agree that you are the most likely to stray from what's physically written down. ;) And you didn't respond to this part: I'm very much curious what each person came up with. I was going to type their gestalt names here but I honestly...
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    Figment magic

    Alright, Nail, then to take this back to another thread/discussion, let's bring Spellcraft back into it. The RAW for Spellcraft says this: Since we disagreed on what Spellcraft gains you when looking at an Illusion spell already in place, what if we incorporated the Standard Action for the...
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    Mac Users Identify Yourselves!

    I'll have to look into that as well, then. I haven't been looking for a Photoshop type program but if it's solid and free I'll definitely take a closer look! Those look great! While I did buy Office 2004 with the G5 (which is here and I'm nearly done with the time consuming process of copying...
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    DrSpunj's Class Balance Spreadsheet

    Fair enough; point taken. Still, I think the tough part is going to be when to actually change the system itself vs just leaving it up to the DM. Recognizing the difference is going to take some work. We struggled with that a bit when coming up with your character/feats, ouini. Cool! So is it...
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    Bullrushing & AoOs... It's not the question you think it is.

    Right! So can anyone explain to me why no similar rule is applied to melee attacking someone involved in a grapple? I mean, if you have a 25% chance of hitting your ally while he pushes this orc more or less in one expected direction, why do you have zero chance of hitting your buddy when he's...
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    Mac Users Identify Yourselves!

    I'm glad I keep dropping by this thread from time to time. Good stuff! :) I've been using Mac Canvas 8 to create customized Character Sheets & Initiative Cards for my games. That's my only foray into the world of DTP-type software since my limited experience with PageMaker back in college about...
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    DrSpunj's Class Balance Spreadsheet

    Thanks for the kind words, ouini! Honestly I'm very happy with how things have turned out. I was very nervous about scaring away more than one of the players in the group but everyone (alright, nearly everyone ;)) seems really taken with it. I'm anxious to get to some higher levels and see what...
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    Did you get a community supporter account during last year's donation drive?

    That was FAST! I found this thread pretty quickly this morning when I came to the site, found my name on the list and figured my account would expire at the end of month. I then tried to do a search and got the "You can't do that" gray box. It was then I noticed my custom title was gone and I...
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    DrSpunj's Class Balance Spreadsheet

    Hey! Long time no post, eh? We have our second playing session tonight (Wednesday). Character creation went very smoothly though there were a couple issues that required some minor tweaking. (I should upload the latest set of Classless Documents.) I did have an intro session before our first...
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    Attack rolls vs. Defense Rolls

    I'm doing the same thing (Defense Roll, DC 12+Monster's AB). I chose 12 for similar reasons. In the Core system the active player always wins ties (you have to equal or exceed the DC to beat it), and since the player's are now making the Defense rolls, they're the active players. We're doing...
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    Figments of my Imagination

    Sure, but it's not unreasonable, IMO, given that only those who have some expertise in the area (ie. have taken ranks of Spellcraft) get the second chance. Right! And amazingly enough, it's much harder to fool people who know (or are at least familiar with) your tricks! :) Thanks. DrSpunj
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    Figments of my Imagination

    I don't think it "needlessly neuters" Minor Image at all. It's 2nd level for crying out loud. That puts the Spellcraft DC at 22 if you're just seeing the effects; that's not easily overcome! First, Spellcraft is Trained Only, so most PCs aren't even going to get the chance to figure it out...
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    Any gamers in the Cedar Rapids area?

    I just found this thread because of the link in Zepherus Bane's sig. I'm a player in Nail's biweekly game and DM my own down in the Coralville area once a month (which Videssian plays in). I don't really have time to participate in any more games (though I'd really like to! ;) ) but I wanted to...
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