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Off topic, but check out 17 usc 1008. It reads: No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog...

Thanks. That's the sort of summary I was looking for.

I haven't played any whitewolf games in about ten years, but I keep running across info about various lines of theirs ending. Could anyone who follows their line give me a capsule summary of what's happening in-game and why the company is dismantling them in the first place? Is this some sort...

I'd agree with the people who said they'd like more D&D theory articles. For example, an article explaining what qualities an exotic weapon should have, or how to balance a weapon by raising the starting price of it (thus making it so that characters cannot afford it until higher levels). The...

I played w/the idea for a while, but couldn't come up with anything that worked really well (though part of the reason is because I went off on a huge tangent trying to build a system to let spellcasters channel spell levels through the wand for extra damage). I didn't really use the magic item...

In my last campaign, there was a barbarian named Aradavan, and a dwarven cleric named Thurin. Ardavan had a tendency to get far ahead of must slower dwarven cleric. He rarely used ranged weapons, and would frequently get so far ahead of the rest of the party that he would be surrounded and...

How about a wand projectile weapon? It could be a somewhat complicated undertaking to balance it and get the feel right. Make it a ranged weapon that does 1d6 (or even 1d4) force damage, ranged touch attack to hit. You wouldn't get the strength bonus, but then again, you could do some serious...

Glad I checked here before calling customer service. I got dragon 315 on Saturday, and still haven't received Dungeon 106 yet. Mail should arrive soon though, so maybe it'll be there today. Now if only my X-mas tree would arrive...

Probably not, depending on how you interpret the ride skill. The problem is that after using dimension door "you can't take any other actions until your next turn" (phb pg 221). Abundant step functions exactly like the dimension door spell (phb pg 42). Therefore, a monk cannot take an...

MM, pg 290, second paragraph under the heading Ability Score Arrays: "Monsters who improve by adding a template, and monsters who improve by increasing their hit die, may use any of the three arrays (standard, nonelite, or elite). Any monster unique enough to be improved could easily be...

As mentioned already, you would need to make the weapon +1 to start with. See dmg pg 223 under the Magic Weapon Special Ability Descriptions header. Also, if you look at the special weapons with non-standard abilities (sun blade, sleep arrow, etc), those also have some sort of +X in addition...

Bonuses of different types always stack. An enhancement bonus is not an armor bonus even if the enhancement is to armor. See pg 21 of the DMG. Edit: Hmmm...then again...page 216 and 217 of the DMG says "Magic armor bonuses are enhancement bonuses..[that] stack with regular armor bonuses (and...

I'm a firm believer in not diluting spellcaster levels. There's a guy in our group who can never resist the temptation to take a level or two in some other class. His most recent fiasco began with a lawful good necromancer that decided to take a level of ranger. Not only did his spellcasting...

Paizo can be a bit hard to get ahold of, but once you do, they're very good about fixing any problems you might be experiencing. I had some problems renewing my subscription to Dungeon, and wasn't getting issues. I called to say I had missed 2 issues, and they sent them out right away.

I can buy nostalgia as being a motivating factor, but it needs to be put in context. A Buck Rogers mini-game would have been nostalgia-inducing and game related. But cartoons that never had gaming analogs aren't really appropriate. Even the Days of Our Lives rpg would be more relevant (I...

I've definitely grown to appreciate Polyhedron, though I can't say that I'd be too dissapointed if it were separated out from Dungeon. However... /Rant!/ A 60 page mini-game based on Josie and the Pussycats next month? Dear god I hope that's some sort of twisted April's Fools joke that I...

Part of the reason I do like it is that it caps the number of times a character can be raised. I wouldn't necessarily cut it at 3 though, I'd just apply the venerable penalty again for the 4th time. Of course, by that point, you've taken a -9 penalty to all your physical stats. For druids, I...

Thank you! Now, this may be house rules-ish, but suppose there were a way to increase your age category (say, through the proposed change of raise dead in my first post), would there be an incentive for non-physical stats based characters (read:wizards and sorcerers) to increase their age to...

Hey all, haven't got my books on me and was wondering if someone could post the effects of aging for me. Checked the SRD already, and doesn't look like it's there. I had a brainstorm over lunch to start using the effects of aging in lieu of level loss for raise dead and such. Basically...

Re: Re: Re: Forgotten Realms novels I agree. The RA Salvatore books are pretty decent. I'm not a big fan of the first three crystal shard books, but the drow trilogy is great. And my advice to you is _not_ to read the avatars. Ask someone here to give you a 5 minute summary of what...