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We've gotten experience points for bypassing challenges Just not as much as if we had actually defeated them. Even if we had gotten full experience points awards we'd still be done the loot, eh. Because, after all, money does a fighter good.

6 PCs and a whooole lotta magic items My group has been playing this run for months now (since October?) and we're just about at the end. The group started at 9th or 10th and has advanced up through 13th with some characters very near 14th. We started with wealth and magic in excess of that...

Nice work, Neuro. That helper will indeed see much use. Thanks!

Sounds like my character's moonblade. I'm playing in a FR campaign. My character found a moonblade to which he belongs (with an Ego like the sword has it is definitely a swords-owns-wielder sort of situation) and the GM and I worked out a schedule for activating the runes. Standard rules say...

this guy is looking forward to playing this character? I look at the baseline here. 4 or even 6 skill points/level minus INT mod = unh uh, wouldn't be prudent. I could see playing a class with 2 skill points/level (min'd out to 1/level by that INT mod), but playing a class that has skill...

present the option to your players I presented the following option to my players: (1) roll it and live with it, same goes for bad guys (2) use average (round up), same goes for bad guys (3) take max for hit die, same goes for main bad guys They went with option (3). I'm happy they did...

Ring Gates are cool! Take the Ring Gates! We played a tournament-style module series over XMAS break and my 11th level Sorcerer, on a random roll, got Ring Gates as his primary item. At first I was like, "booooring", but boy-howdy was I wrong. Having my familiar fly around with a one Ring while...

My gamer friends, oh how they love to point and laugh I ritualistically purge myself of older possessions from time to time. This presents my somewhat-baffled gamer buds with an opportunity to smirk, shake their heads, and snicker whenever I announce my intent to... RENEW. So, yeah, I plan on...

track:wilderness lore::trap sense:search I think it should be Feat'd like Track. Anybody can pick it Trap Sense, but it comes as a first level feature of the Rogue class. I like modular things like that. If I were to run a game that's how I'd handle it. Search ranks still required. Just like...

Cool! I like it! And good to hear that others have actual playtest experience with this rule in use (thanks, Spazman). Marauder-dude, given that 3.5 is doing away with facing do you think you can envision a non-flatfooted shield-bearer spinning just-in-time to bring that shield to plink both...

yup, go strongheart and THEN consider Cosmopolitan to pick up a skill that would normally be denied to your (rather expansive) Rogue skill list. Something magick-y. Yeah. Educated & Cosmopolitan to start. This will allow you to throw in a mix of Knowledge skill ranks (Educated) and ... maybe...

Yes! Asashoryu! Let's hear it for the little fella! Little? Well, about as little as they come in the Sumo world and he's still a good 100 pounds more massive than me (and I'm no small fry!). I've really liked Asashoryu ever since he first showed up on Sumo Digest. He has totally earned each...

Monk-y prediction Ki Strike will no longer scale up as "+1, +2, +3" but instead as "trumps DR 5/*, 10/*, 15/*" Doesn't (unnecessarily) increase their damage output, yet still keeps them in the damage-dealing game. They'll probably still get them too late, but hey, there's gotta be a reason to...

Monk-y prediction! Wanna take any bets that Ki Strike no longer stages up as +1/+2/+3 but rather "defeats DR 5/*, 10/*, 15/*"? 3:2 odds? 5:3?

Re: Re: ooh, flexing those aged gaming muscles :D In the 70s "fire-giant-demon-dude" summed up our roleplaying depth quite well. :p

ooh, flexing those aged gaming muscles 1977 or so. My cousin had a friend that had this boxset and, well, my days of innocence were over soon thereafter. My first book was the Dungeon Master's Guide with the chick being held by the fire-giant-demon-dude. And the wizard with the pointy hat...

PCs know about the lair? That would depend on whether or not there's a rogue that's willing to scout it out or a 'caster willing to do that Scry thing, no? I wanna see the play-by-play after it goes down. :D

Dude! Save your teeth! I can't *wait* to be a gamin' oldie! Just think of all the money we'll save using our rotted out teeth instead of WotC minis! YES! It's a fine thing, by crackey. :D

Why play? I need someplace to hide out from all the supermodels that are stalking me. They'll never think to look for me in the game room! :D

wait, what precisely is it that's being objected to again? Is it the cost of the mats & minis or the time-intensive nature of tracking combat with that degree of granularity or the lack of mini use in 3.0? The first point I wouldn't argue. We have the mats, but we often end up using dice or...