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Well, it sounds like in this case, the DM is using the check to keep the PCs awake to their detriment, so - for this specific case - yes, it does mean you wake up. Of course, I'd probably let the PCs decide not to use their ranks (if any) in Listen if they didn't want to... nothing says someone...

Eternal Wand? What book is that from?

Honestly, I think that's a little low, but not staggeringly so. I think the potion is way OVER priced. Like, way way way way way over priced. Way. But that's neither here nor there. Is it an error? Hard to tell. One of the tenets of the MIC is that they were re-evaluating prices on items...

Meh. For any campaign not run by a computer, it's not a problem. No PCs are going to be running around with dozens of them because you can't just pick them out of thin air. I have one in a campaign and was thinking about selling it. We're like 10th-ish level, and 22k is still a boatload of...

Plane Sailing - that's not in the rules, but it's a common house rule. It's fine for a gritty game, but I think for most D&D games, I don't want the 10th level barbarian, who is being a good doobie and doing non-lethal to the misguided 1st level peasants attacking him, to accidentally kill one...

To be honest, a full fledged battle right next to you is going to wake you up even with earplugs... they're just not *that* effective. Hey... here's a thought... why not just have Blindness/Deafness cast on you (choosing deafness of course), and then remove blindness/deafness when the situation...

Meh, what are they supposed to say, "your weapon falls to the surface on which you're standing, unless the material on which you're standing is a liquid or gas and is less dense than the dropped weapon, in which case the weapon falls through the liquid or gas until it encounters a solid or a...

To put it succinctly, if you don't know the rules, don't mess with them. Give a little credit to WoTC and try them out as is. You can always modify them later. The best thing to do would be to work with the player in question and make sure that he makes a character whose abilities are in line...

Are Stone Dragon maneuvers so powerful that we have to restrict them from being used in buildings or on boats? No, of course not, the "on the ground" restriction is for flavor purposes. I'm with Luke on this one - if you have two feet planted on a solid surface, whether it be a boat, wagon...

Just talk to your DM and make up some rules. Honestly, wax earplugs shouldn't make ou deaf and therefore shouldn't make you immune to sonic attacks, either. Every been to a concert and worn earplugs? I would say -6 to listen checks is fairly appropriate, but you should definitely not...

What he said. It gets better now, and stacks with other BAB (none of that really ridiculously stupid stuff from 3.0). Monks still miss a lot, but they have neat abilities, so as long as players realize they're not playing a barbarian or fighter, they'll be ok. -Nate

I say go for it. As others have said, any adventure that *requires* teleport (and doesn't provide it), is broken. What if you don't have a mage? What if he doesn't know teleport? Same goes for fly, though there are a lot more substitutions for that spell. It's hard to *require* improved...

I think as long as you don't *try* to break them and work in the spirit of the rules, they're fine as is. If you try to rules lawyer and see different behaviors in the wording of abilities and do stuff that any sane DM wouldn't let you do, then sure, they can be broken. If you never try to...

Well, is he? He gave me the post, that doesn't mean the people under me will follow me like they would someone who had taken leadership. I know, it's something to discuss with the DM, but I think taking leadership would be a good indication the character is trying to focus on being a good...

The reason most people don't play straight core is not due to power level, it's due to interest level. We've all played fighters, rogues, monks, clerics, etc etc. But a lot of people haven't played warblades or psions or whatever else is in these alternate books. It's not that I want to play...

Ok, so leadership doesn't really having anything to do with power attack. And in fact, this thread has almost nothing to do with rules at all, except that most people will realize what the feat Leadership does and what it can potentially mean to a character. My character (fightery type)...

I answered 20-50% on the assumption it was "purposely using maneuvers that as a side effect, draw an attack of opportunity" as opposed to "using maneuvers whose primary goal is expending an opponent's AoO". Do I charge by crappy skeletons to hit the necromancer, and draw 4 AoO? All the time...

I'm with Jasin, con is retroactive, int is not. The obvious choice is int, if you're planning on raising the 13 to a 14 with a stat increase regardless. Sure, you're stuck with a +1 con bonus until at least 4th level, but you already have d12 instead of d10, so it's kind of a wash. -Nate

I have no idea about Dragonlance... I don't own any of those books. Yes, I did pretty much specifically steal the class idea and some of the abilities from Legendary Leader in Heroes of Battle. I liked the idea of the class but there were a couple things I didn't like about how it was...

(in order) He's rogue 2, fighter 2, swash 3, fighter 2, Dervish 1. Yes, dervish is most recent. The reason I was talking about losing the rogue levels were for roleplaying reasons. yes, if all I wanted to do was undo the most recent past, I'd probably remove the last two levels of fighter and...