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When I looked thru the Ritual section last night (Source C&G in Minnesota has a preview set of the books), each ritual had an associated skill; a lot of them seemed to require Arcana, though the Cure Disease ritual required Heal and I think the rest require Religion. I believe you have to have...

Ah! A random thing I spotted and just remembered; in the Epic Tier, there's a Weapon Mastery feat for each major weapon group. They change a crit to 19-20. *edit* And one last thing before I hit the sack -- this one goes out to all the Power Name critics: Dragon Tail Strike *is* in the PHB...

They have a single set of prerelease books, kept behind the counter. Must browse them AT the counter, but for as long as ya want. I skimmed the DMG and MM, but the PHB is what really drew me in.

Browsed the PHB at the Source this evening. Specifically looked at rituals (among other things). Tenser's Floating Disc -- ritual. Scales with level as far as how much it can carry, lasts 24 hours. Phantom Steed -- ritual. 8 horses, lasts 24 hours or until horse takes damage. Enchant Magic...

So, what you're saying is that your monitor is a Minion?

Scene: An inn. Dragonborn paladin accidentally coughs and fries several nearby bar patrons. Sensing the awkwardness of the moment, the halfling rogue pops up and offers the paladin.... MENTOS! Everyone in the bar starts to laugh (except for the poor fellows smoldering on the floor, but...

I'd allow it, despite the 3 int of the skeleton; animated undead like skeletons and zombies, imo, simply lack any concept of self-preservation or survival instinct. While it's theoretically smart enough to know that taking the shot at the warlock is not in its best interests, its purpose as an...

Oddly enough, I haven't run into this sorta problem. Last tower I had my party go clear out got leveled. Iron Construct + Enlarge + High-damage crit to something while fighting on the 4th floor equals DM going, "Umm, guys? Remember how I said this tower is 100,000 or so years old? The floor...

For the elf, sorry, I'll have to see your Eve Miles and raise you a Shirley Manson.... ;)

Collateral damage is never pointless; it's where things get fun!

Yeah, right, I'll take that under advisement. That only works if you plan out each and every encounter in advance, along with detailed preset notes on where each item is. Me, I work from a very rough mental outline of what needs to happen in each session based on the last and wing everything...

With the parcel system, it seems only appropriate to "shift parcels on the fly" so that the appropriate amount of cash/items is found by the party over the course of a level. However, it should be done in such a way that it "feels" to the players that the items in question were there all along...

Might I point out that even in 3.5 the Magic Item section in the DMG stated something along the lines that around 50% of items by default communicated their properties to their user in some manner, be it runes, inscription or an odd imprinting of "this is what I do" in the mind of whoever picks...

And then they're left wondering if the sword has a curse that's only invoked when the blade comes into contact with written representations of numbers.... and why.

The insta-identify thing also helps out another group -- the League of Absent-Minded DMs (LAMDMs for short) of which I'm a long-standing (I think; not entirely sure when I joined) member. Inevitably my players will go thru their list of "glowy items of unknown goodness" during downtime and ask...

You win the "understatement of the year" award. Have a :close: with it!

My groups have never been nearly so formal and uptight about splitting things up. They track the gold amount and divvy it up when it seems reasonable, but magic items are dealt with separately. Typically, whoever can make the best use of something gets it; it helps that I try to tailor the...

I'm probably gonna have a random table at hand in regards to that travelling merchant. d10 roll: 1-2: "Ahh, sorry lads, but ye just missed him. Think he was headed towards [next town]." 3-5: "Aye, he's here, but ye'll have to wait a bit. Word is he got into a bit o'carousin' last night and...

Funny thing is, the single most popular cache of treasure I've ever put in an adventure for my group was a room full of casks of exotic liquors and ales....

Heh, sorta hope paladins get something like this -- would be a good RP hook for my future Paladin of the Raven Queen (who will have becoming her consort his goal). Scene: Raven Queen's Castle -- RQ: My, you're back again. Weren't you here just yesterday? Pal: The minions of Orcus are a...