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Thanks to all the well wishers! Mom and baby are doing well, and hopefully we'll get to come home tomorrow.

Would it surprise you to know that we finally finished the Annotated Small Beginnings? Now I know we can't really afford to print this thing out and bind it up real nice for everyone (you've got to win otherwise pointless contests around here for that sort of thing - and yes, they are at the...

Would it surprise you to know that we finally finished the Annotated Small Beginnings? Now I know we can't really afford to print this thing out and bind it up real nice for everyone (you've got to win otherwise pointless contests around here for that sort of thing - and yes, they are at the...

I'd be tempted to let anyone use a polearm as an improvised non-reach weapon (with the requisite penalties). Switching between the two would be a move-equivelent action, or possibly the equivelent of drawing/readying a weapon (though that would make quick draw that much more powerful - something...

Which means that, according to the "heal works better than restoration" school" that Heal is suddenly more powerful than Greater Restoration. While some have no problem with a lower level spell having a more powerful effect than a higher level spell when the two provide the same type of benefit...

No damage on the second grapple (the pin). The only way this would have even been a good tactic in the first place (even assuming that moving in to complete a grapple is not imperitive - by the way I'm glad that I've now seen some evidence that it is, even if that evidence isn't direct) would...

You were getting ready to tell me I was wrong, weren't you? :p

If that were all I wanted, I'd simply touch (succeed), grapple (win), pin (win), and drop the grapple (no contest).

How about changing the sub-forums listing under each main heading from a list style to a true bulleted style?

OK so far we've got the two positions that I expected (and indeed used myself before posting): BAB reduces for the purposes of the hold (something that I agree with, but that my DM does not - this is partially an exercise to show why it needs to reduce), and that Step for is not an option. Its...

Re-read steps 3 and 4. If you succeed in the grapple check, you do inflict damage equal to an unarmed strike (1d10+4 in this case). Hence my problem.

OK, so I've been going over the benefits of grappling in the SRD and ran across a troubling though. Let's start with the SRD text about initiating and completeing a grapple. OK let's look at this, using, say, a monk of 11th level (BAB +8), with Improved Grapple and a Strength of 18. We'll call...

Which brings us back to the question, "how does Greater Restoration fit into this"

Have, over the course of their adventures, left anyone alive? Or have any of their enemies escaped to fight another day? If so, then take advantage of the fact that you have a person who knows their MO and can build opposition to take advantage of their weaknesses. Some specific ideas: 1...

Yet they have overlapping and identical effects, only one of which is halved (and the one that is higher level too boot)? This is a hard sell.

Yet Greater Restoration is a higher level spell - I think there comes a time when you have to begin taking relative spell level into account when comparing like effects.

So, assuming that this is true, how does Greater Restoration fit into this?

Hmmm. So Adamantine/Mithral Body is the wrench in the works. I vaguely recall the 3.0 Sacred Fist getting many of the monkish abilities while in light armor - did that carry over to 3.5?

OK, with our 4 year campaign getting ready for wrap up over the next few months, I'm looking at all sorts of characters, some more run of the mill than others. But this latest idea isn't (for me) old hat, and I'd like to get some opinions about how some of the abilites jive. First off, some...

Brute force is always an answer. Not necessarly the correct one, mind you, but still.