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The setting is what kept me away from Birthright in the first place. If I run a typical D&D game (as opposed to a spelljammer or planescape game), I'd rather use my own generic world than someone else's. That's half the fun. I never picked up Birthright because I looked at it and said 'oh...

What?!?!? I always thought we were one step _up_ the evolutionary ladder from Star Wars fandom. So, I suppose that I do perceive stratum in gaming/geek culture. If someone is a gamer and a hard core Star Wars fan, I'm more likely to think they're cool than if they're just a hard core Star...

It's an NPC feat, don't let a PC touch it with a 10' pole. Unless you're just doing a one shot and don't plan to progress to the levels at which it is useless (ie, as soon as you get 2 attacks per round).

There was a set of really good reviews for them over at rpg.net in the review archive.

Touch attacks & grapples. That'll bit a kink in his style. My experience in general has been that clerics and paladins tend to have the highest AC's in D&D. Neither of those classes minds wearing the big heavy armors, and they can always supplment them with other nifty gadgets (deflection and...

Whenever there's something to smell, I just have characters make a listen check. Just like in Ghostbusters. ;) I think a smell skill is reasonable, just like listen is reasonable. It's not that your hearing/sense of smell is getting better, it's that you're getting more adept at interperting...

Hmmm...not a lot of consensus on this issue I see... Any other opinions out there? Is the garrote equipment or not? If a character were tied to a chair, and had reduce cast on him, would he shrink out of them? What if the character only had his hands tied behind his back?

What happens when a victim of a Locking Garrote (S&S) gets hit with a Reduce spell? Do they and the garrote both shrink, or does just the victim shrink, allowing them to escape. To me, this depends on whether or not the garrote counts as equipment.

BA in Economics And, having recently sold my soul, I will be beginning pursuit of a JD/LLM in the fall. Go evil!!!!

I made the biggest change imaginable... I replaced gold coins with silver! You should see how excited the players get when they actually do see gold. And if I were to ever give them platinum, I'm pretty sure they'd faint. I've got a few rules changes (spell components cost 1gp per spell...

Can't remember the full title, but I was reading it last night, and it was great and all...but... What's with all that treasure? Every single first level character is carrying a couple potions and a piece of masterwork equipment. On top of that, they keep hundreds of gold pieces in their...

I've been playing a true neutral cleric of Boccob and been having a lot of fun summoning bebeliths to do my dirty work. But watch out, if you're running with good characters their constant whining about you not summoning devils/demons can give you a headache. Solution: Cast silence on the...

I threw the party against a hydra once in the RtToEE. It was in a room with a passage it couldn't fit through and no cover. Needless to say, the party just stood back and peppered it with ranged attacks until it died. The morale of the story: hydra's don't have a ranged attack and can't fly...

Out of curiosity, am I alone in not allowing fly to make characters move silently? My players have always tried to get away with that, and as I tell them, the spell says nothing about modifying a move silent check or granting automatic silence, therefore it does neither. I know the logic is...

Step 1: Change your alignment to neutral. Step 2: Summon 1d3 bebeliths. They're worth it for the DR alone.

Screw Harm, Destruction's where it's at. :) Sure, you get a save, but my Madness Domain'd Cleric7/Divine Oracle 3/Contemplative 7 makes that save a 28. I've chewed through about half a dozen drow of greater than or equal level to my character (Greater Spell Penetration is a good thing) using...

Like it's spelled. ;)

I've been running a thieve's guild game for a while now. My advice is to watch the Sopranos. I laid the ground work for my campaign while watching the first season on a weekend binge. Also, make sure the characters understand the city laws going in. My campaign city forbids weapons other...

If you want to see truely broken tk on a weak creature, check out the githyanki. They get to use it as a 16th level caster IIRC, and have dimension door and clariaudience/voyance on top of that. All for being CR 1. Can't wait to see an ECL on those buggers.

I look at it this way. Expeditious Retreat is like having a pair of magic nikes that make you run fast, Fly is like being in a airplane. Your running speed in nikes has absolutely nothing to do with your speed in an airplane (unless it's some weird Flinstones airplane, which you move by...