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They succeed on checks to escape grapple/resist grapple ... they have to be able to make a check to do that. Turned to Stone makes you as if Unconcious, Unconcious makes you Helpless, Helpless gives you a Dex of 0, Dex of 0 makes you Paralyzed, Paralyzed means you are unable to act. Can't...

I find it hard to say that the improved skill points and better skill selection should be hand-waived because certain stance/maneuvers require them. They're still skill points. They're still the "combat" skills that they've always been. That you have ADDITIONAL and EXPANDED uses for those...

Made it one of the most powerful 2nd-level effects known to man, though. Our GM originally wanted to go with that ruling, as well, until it resulted in an arms race to obtain Darkness-generating items and effects for ourselves so we could lock the enemy down. The in-game penalties for...

d20 Socioeconomic Devaluation and the Human Condition --fje

The issue is that, as far as we can tell, you have to make a grapple check to get out a weapon to cut yourself free from the inside of a creature, and then another to actually attack it from the inside ... where it still gets grapple modifiers ... so you can't even do that with these things...

RoAbsorb works well for dedicated casters, who usually have hands free, but doesn't really do the trick for melee types who have to have weapons and shields in hand. We've also been discussing that Mirror Image is a pretty good tactic. It's only really countered by True Seeing (sees through...

To me, logic then suggests you shouldn't be able to decide to get hit with spells through your SR. But that's just me. It's a balance consideration built into the game, which is fine. Just seems odd that you can choose to fail at some things, but not at others. --fje --fje

I put the Greatclub to simple in my own games. It's just a ... bigger stick ... I also have: Maul: 1d12, 20/x3 Bludgeoning (really big hammer) Battlehammer: 1d10, 20/x3 Bludgeoning (dwarven weapon). I've always liked the bastard-hammer for some reason. 90% of my dwarven characters are...

It's also a Greatclub, which is honestly the lowest-end of the 2-handed weapons. This way at least one person somewhere is saying: "Mmmmm, greatclub. So nice." --fje

Hrm. I forgot that one. Double-hrm, can you not ready the Dispel Magic SLA to function as the counterspell action of Dispel Magic as normal, however? I.E. not a "counterspell" but a "use dispel magic as a counterspel". Though I guess that means that, no matter what, all of those creatures...

Now, the rules state that a character who is targeted by a spell can volunteer to fail the saving throw, if they wish. And that a character who has spell resistance can choose to lower their spell resistance to be affected by spells if they wish. Now, the question is, can a character who casts...

Last combat we had five of them thrown back and forth ... course it rather sucks when the PCs have 10-12 spells up and the monsters have static effects and 1-3 spells on them. Sure you can catch the monsters with it, but most of their stuff isn't spells, where-as PCs seriously begin to depend...

I only read the first one, because I may run it. It's ... different. It actually grabbed me just fine. I"m just not sure I want to run a full AP. We're going to be coming off the AoW here in a few months and I've been wanting to run Dark*Matter for a while. The flavor of the first...

To my great and constant chagrin. My character has about 70,000gp less in magical items than the other characters in the group. Which is to no great loss when he's buffed to the gills, but a couple targeted dispells and he's somewhat less impressive. For Dispel Magic and GDM, I suggest a few...

I liked it. Good lead-up. --fje

The mini-fridge in the game room is usually filled with beer. I've discovered that Bud and Bud Light give me a headache for some whacked out reason (probably too much partying in college) so I'm usually drinking Diet Something-something Dr. Pepper. Lately it's the cherry-vanilla diet dr...

We had an all-psionics/no-magic game once. My wife played a charisma-pumped Marshal with an aura out on Will Saves (+5, I think, we had). I played an anti-psionic monk. Psionic Hole, Closed Mind, Mental Resistance. He did very very well. EDIT: I should say that the campaign was a war...

There's some stuff in B&Circuits on balloons. Don't remember seeing anything on Dirigibles themselves, though I could build one with the rules presented there ... hrm. For my part, I haven't done steampunk airships before, but I've done "flying sailing ships" and the ruleset for that was...

Does it count double if it was on purpose and you managed to arrange an "accident"? --fje

I don't know if they're collecting for a class-action, but they might be. It sounds like they think WotC has been, at best, sloppy with their royalty accounting and at worst purposefully underreporting. When an author sells a work (to a "paying" publisher recognized by SFWA) they sign a...