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A circumstance penalty to Diplomacy or other Charisma-based skills might result, as long as the affected character has soupcrotch or egg-on-the-tie. "Oh dear, Lord Ascot is positively drenched in cream of cauliflower." "Tsk. Dreadful."

Pretty much what I do now. Archaeological survey in the summer, looking for sites in northern Canada from a boat. Hunting and fishing, learning Cree slang, and cooking caribou fajitas on a Coleman stove. In the winter, lab work, conferences and beer; the standard unholy trinity of academic life...

It depends on how you define 'dungeon'. I use villa and building floorplans, sure; sometimes they even have basements. However, during a ten-year campaign, I can count on my hands the number of times I've used catacombs, sewers, or dungeons --- I tend to run the party above ground, roleplaying...

That's 'arold, the ringleader of the bunch. The French love the little guy...

Actually, there were permanent settlements all across the Americas --- Plains Village cultures in the Missouri River basin, materially rich coastal villages in the Pacific Northwest, the cities of the Aztecs, Maya, Inca, and others. Many of these were complex and sometimes massive settlements...

There's nothing quite as funny/sad as a Canadian receiving spam advertising cheap Canadian drugs. It just makes me cry... :( Yeah, I'm pretty tired of that Cialis spam, too.

I read pretty much everything though I usually take a pass on anything that is specific to Eberron or FR. I usually only skim Sage Advice (unless a topic catches my eye) and Class Acts (which now takes up a huuuuuuge amount of the magazine).

Hmm. Teleport might benefit from a new metamagic feat: Heisenberg Compensation. ;) Problem is, the ship is both an object and a destination. An object in space becomes a destination if you can fix its position --- I think Starspawn had the right idea when it comes down to scrying or direct...

Agreed, depending on the game. In a low-magic setting, I can see it being useful. In standard high-magic settings, players might be more inclined to rely on spells or items to do the same thing.

Planescape had Tanar'ri red steel --- the equivalent of the green steel of Baator. The two sides in the Blood War had millennia to find, mine, or create metals toxic to their enemies. The ragtag armies of the Abyss would be equipped with weapons cut from the stuff, which had at least the ability...

According to the fine print on Table 7-33 (DMG 3.5, p. 285), a 0-level spell is half the value of a 1st level spell for determining price. So, 0.5 x 3000 = 1500 gp. You could knock the price down to 900 gp if the item was activated by command word ("Breaker breaker big buddy you gotcher ears on?").

The d6 wins by a narrow margin --- thanks to fireballs and bonus sneak attack damage in d20, and a heap of d6's and d12's used in Deadlands.

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Don't think it would float for long --- plus the ink would run! :lol: Hmmmm. I'll just forward that link off to our DM...

Of course, the steps one takes to learn Abyssal might be as corrupting as the language itself... hiring a teacher might involve consorting with fiends, cultists, and the like.

I was speaking from a human standpoint. It depends on how much one wishes to anthropomorphize fiends and celestials. Text is a different matter than spoken language. Agreed, logographic and hieroglyphic systems are more divorced from phonetics. A literary example of a corrupting glyph would be...

Was that because the Dark Speech was evil, because it was profane and Gandalf was a Maiar (and therefore sacred), or because the words could attract the attention of Sauron? Never really clear on that upon reading the books. I don't think it's practical for a creature to learn a language...

I've had two characters with familiars. One was the quartermaster aboard a pirate vessel (rogue/wizard), who had an ancient scabrous parrot named Budge. He left it in the rigging to spy on the crew, then report back to the captain... those handy little birds speak Common, after all. The second...

But I thought that saying positive things was a full-round action that incurred an AoO... mea culpa. ;) Where to start... 1. Ding dong, THAC0 is dead. 2. Mechanics that are more consistently applied to different activities. 3. Skills and feats, not proficiencies. The old NWP system was...

In the real world, any increase in height results in volume increasing by a cube of that change. So, (assuming the density remains the same) if you are a 6 foot tall 200 lb human and you suddenly doubled in height to 12 feet, you should weigh in at a dainty 1600 lb (2x2x2 x200). However, if...