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Sounds good to me. Surely you don't need a rule here. If the player fails to roll the DC, you just tell him a tall one. Or invoke the penalties-for-failure mechanic. If he fails by more than 5, you could tell him something that would get him into serious trouble, were he to act on the basis of...

How many times can I be wrong in one thread?

Good call. I can't give you any more XP at the mo' though.:p

This almost spherical ball one has a core of cork beneath layers of tightly wound string. All of this is covered by a leather outer layer that has a raised sewn seam running along a great circle. This leather layer is constructed from four pieces. The seam comprises six rows of stitching. The...

You could argue that it's a different spell, where energy is a placeholder for the permutations of energy type. The example given is for different polymorph effects (which does make sense). I had forgotten that rule, however, and I have to agree that your interpretation sounds like what they...

The PHB doesn't go much further than the SRD. All I can add is that, I seem to remember reading adventures in Dungeon where bardic knowledge rolls would often substitute for a specific knowledge skill check with a DC 2 higher than the relevant knowledge skill check. That's almost exclusively the...

As xigbar guessed, Cityscape has a wealth of stuff on cities: political systems and governments, housing, patronage, guilds, organisations, churches encounters, laws, race relations, taxes, jobs, crime, and so on. DMG II is another good source: some guidance on city design (not as much detail as...

Bad advice expunged. See below. Thanks, Patryn.

I would love to be able to recommend a good hotel in Greenwich Village but I've never stayed in one. Last time I went to New York, my girlfriend and I stayed here and it was fantastic. It's especially handy if you do want easy access to touristy stuff. It looks like they've renovated recently...

The words 'topic' and 'off' spring to mind. Meanwhile... I remember a player years ago who joined a friend's game. He came to the table with a fighter character that had a Strength of 18/00. The DM asked, sceptically, "Did you really roll that?" "I knew you'd ask," said the player, "so I...

I have a mix of optimisers and others in my game. I don't mind optimisers when they're doing it to make their characters as effective as possible. Neither does the rest of the group, as far as I know. I've had more problems with players who forget the rules when it suits them. I have known OCD...

First ,there is the issue of whether someone with the Leadership feat would be looking for 'an apprenticeship, employment or a leader they can look up to'. The higher the level of your PC, the less of an issue this becomes, of course. However, your DM would have to either design such an NPC or...

Mine's an old Alfa Spider, left-hand drive, five-speed, with the original Milan plates still on it. It costs more to run every year than it did to buy and the flat four engine's exploded and been replaced a couple of times. I've restored it to its former glory +5, giving it new alloys...

Lock jaws in attack position... Fancy - Star Wars? Heroes & Villains Cookie Cutters You know you want them.

It can do. Certainly, that is the goal of order. Efficiency is, however, not necessarily the inevitable outcome. In the days of the Soviet Union, a highly ordered society, there was a factory that made doors. It had a quota to meet. It had to make so many tons of doors every year. Inefficiency...

As you're already implying, at some level order is maintained by bureaucracy. Getting weapons peace-bonded might take days of filling out forms in triplicate. You can put players in Catch 22 situations where in order to get form A signed, they must have a valid form B but they can't get a form B...

Didn't know that, thanks.

Am I broken? Are mods mocking me for taking nine years to become a community supporter? Or have I joined an elite cadre of supporters++? I ask, because I've noticed that, when I post, the words 'COMMUNITY SUPPORTER' appear beneath my name not once, but twice. I'm all for - belatedly -...

Sorry for the tangent but are you by chance a fan of Frank Zappa? I've been using Unearthed Arcana's excellent incantations (ritual) rules for years and they're excellent for, among other things, cultist villagers.

I agree that anecdotal evidence is all we're likely to see here. In my experience, 1e combat could be quite long-winded, if all the rules were followed (which I rarely saw). 3e combat is a little more long-winded (until high level, where it varies between extremes). OD&D is pretty quick. 4e...