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Hey guys, I really like this thread, but I wanted to use PCGen to try to create the "real" prices for these items. I expected that most could be filed under "command-word items that used Prestidigitation" to power them. As a zero-level spell, I assumed that the "official" costs would be close...

I have tons of house rules for my 3.5 edition campaigns. I post them into a forum over the course of my games, and revise as needed. Every now & then I drop a few that don't work out or seem to be more trouble than they're worth. Overall, I'd say I have many house rules. I've learned that if...

For me, I just don't like what happened with 4th edition, so I'm keeping my distance. What that amounts to is that I'll play but not invest myself to the level of DMing. And in fact I mostly don't even play either. I live in Silicon Valley -- homeland of the geek. There are 30 3.5 edition...

I haven't quite read the responses, although I skimmed a bit. I wanted to try to write what I'd do without being influenced by other posts. Basically, if I think an 8th level wizard has blown his intimidate against a low-level merchant, I'm going to take it one of two ways. Either the...

Dire Bear defended JohnRTroy as "knowing his stuff" to which you replied that LoneWolfDevel has been corrected repeatedly. However, since you're talking about a different guy, it's kinda not related. Does that make sense? He's taking the same position a bunch of people have -- that the...

Here is another guy who filed an errant DMCA takedown notice. I think it's amusing that a guy who wrongly used the DMCA to try to shut down bad publicity for himself was ordered as part of the settlement to make a video about it and give it to the defendant so he could post it online: YouTube...

Perhaps a more accurate parallel is this. If you were a native citizen of the USA and knew the DMCA law well because you had to deal with it regularly, would you take offense when you saw an amateur botch it? What if that amateur specifically disclaimed knowledge of the law and then got upset...

Well, this isn't in line with getting lots of props and such, but I have to admit that I enjoyed this PDF: Book of Taverns - Necromancer | RPGNow.com It's a book... of taverns. It has descriptions and NPCs for about a dozen different taverns. Each has about 2 to 4 pages of exposition, and...

As far as I can tell, you got many things horribly, horribly wrong -- and not just from a "you were a douchbag" level, as Morrus intimated, but also from a legal level. Here is some stuff to run by that IP attorney of yours. First, your email to PP invokes the DMCA to protect your trademark...

Right. What I mean is this. A rogue needs to advance 30' down a shadowy hallway. I say, "shadows grant concealment -- you may hide as you advance the entire length." So player uses a move action to move 15' (half his normal rate). Just as you suggested, as part of that move, he makes a hide...

Thank you guys for all the advice. I would take more if anyone else wants to chime in. Also, I have an extra question. I have a player who says that I'm doing the hide skill wrong. I ask for a roll with each action. So for example, if he wants to hide behind a tree, hide check. On the next...

My players have opted to get into the 3.5 edition module, Trouble at Durbenford. I've owned it for a while but not read much of it, so aside from telling them that the prince wanted Nanoc and would pay 5,000 gold for it (which I made up and may be very far off from what the module offers), they...

I ran a sandbox game that was too sandboxy. The players could go anywhere and do anything -- including fighting great dragons at level one, if they were that stupid. I had wandering monster tables that were not level adjusted. The characters were supposed to be willing to run, if they needed...

I'm pretty sure rat bones are not going to be strong enough to manipulate the tumblers of a lock. Maybe if someone cast iron bones one them first, I guess. When the PCs in my game were locked up, they surprised me with a zero-level spell -- Acid splash. I told them that the acid would indeed...

The good news is, the rest of the world doesn't seem to need to meet your standards. I'm just fine with the stuff you don't feel is good enough, and I've got a crowd of people coming with me. So even if you opt out, there's traction there from the rest of us.

HeroForge has "enough" scope (most of the official splatbooks) that it works fine as a near-DDI tool for 3.5 edition (for me). And PCGen works great for core-only 3.5 games, and is super-friendly for 3PP -- just tons & tons of stuff from third party publishers, most of it official & blessed. I...

Leonard: Sheldon, don't make that noise, it's disrespectful. Sheldon: I should hope so, it was a snort of derision!

Most of what I'm about to suggest isn't normal "buffs" but rather good ways to react to bad things. The good news is that they don't require you to plan for what might happen ahead of time. I like the Close Wounds spell. It's immediate, so you can use it even when it's not your turn, and it...

So this is the thing. We're saying that the luck domain doesn't have anything to do with luck feats, and thus for example it does not contribute a "luck reroll" to your pool of luck feats, and yet the other part of this story is that if the luck domain is not connected to the luck feats, then...

As a few observant people might have noticed, I'm pretty much uninterested in 4E and quite a big 3E purist. I'm still actively buying up 3.5 edition products on Drive Thru RPG. So I understand, Louis, that you could be pissed by Goodman's about-face. I'm on the OGL side of the equation...