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I'm nerfing GMW. I'm going to make GMW affect one weapon, like Magic Weapon. No more enchanting 50 arrows. Second, in order to not completely castrate archers, I'm making magic arrows come in quivers of 500, not 50. So a stack of 500 arrows +1 would cost 2,000 gps. This has the effect of...

Everyone saying that the melee characters in my specific campaign are ineffective and the archers are effective due to player and/or DM error is acting on incorrect assumptions. (Which I understand is partly my fault for not being entirely accurate or precise. Also, we all have different...

Actually, they do about the same amount of damage without us. I know because the Fighter/Rogue archer single-handedly cleared out a huge part of the Speaker in Dreams. (We are only halfway through it, so I don't know how relatively large this particular part of the module really is.) Anyway, I...

Okay then, I go away for a bit and the thread explodes. Not that I mind, of course... *grin* Anyway, I'm not going to comment on all of the counter-archer posts. I understand how to counter archers. All of the suggestions listed are viable ways of making archers completely ineffective. That's...

Yeah, but they generally were mummified or petrified. They weren't fleshy at all...

The one's I like: Double Stab (Dagger only, can't be combined with TWF) Experienced Slinger Mighty Chucker Experienced Glaiver Trippy Flourish Flailing Manuevers Tridentius Chargus Defensus Halbredier Agile Poker Nunchaku Master Routine Reloading Pretty much all of the ones that make crappy...

Currently, my brother-in-law is an EQ addict. He is 21, lives at home, doesn't attend school, have a job or any real-life friends besides his girlfriend of 5 years. He plays EQ for at least 10 hours a day, 7 days a week. (Which he has done for the past year.) I understand that he has...

I am the master of words; words are not the masters of me. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . How's that for pretentiousness? ;) (Yes, I'm allowed to plagiarize a random caterpillar.)

Weird. I have been playing this game since it came out. I am privy to information from 7 different games (two I am currently in) with about 20 different players. Not a single wizard has ever specialized. (And we do have quite a number of wizards.) In one game, there are two L16 wizards out of...

Okay then, I'd go with a +5 impact (PsiHB) keen weapon. It is an all-purpose weapon that is not effected by energy resistance (which all creaures tend to possess a measure of.) Also, the extra enhancement bonus to hit is for iterative attacks, not the main attack. I'd rather have all of my...

I'd play a L10 Ranger/L10 Shadow Scout (From OA) This equates to: Eight favored enemies at +7/+6/+6/+5/+4/+3/+2/+1 with the Extra Favored Enemy feat from MotW. Get a weapon of Hunting from MotW, which doubles your FE bonus to damage. You can Smite favored enemies, detect favored enemies at...

My bad. Just read the FAQ and pg. 150 of the PHB. That's nice to know for the next time I DM. ;)

So you want me to "join 'em" as per the saying: "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em." [B] Yes, we are ambushed. Yes, we have encounters where we talk first, then attack. But really, those are not the meat and potatoes encounters of DnD. Most of the time: you see beholders, you attack. You see...

[B] Regardless of the classes taken by the characters, the archer out-damages the melee guy because of the very nature of the bow being a ranged attack and all of the stackable features of DnD archery. The melee guy often cannot employ the full attack action due to the distance between him and...

Yeah, I know. I guess I'm a fan of heroic fantasy. I can't see Conan or Arthur being overshadowed by some random archer. I like the idea of dueling melees. (No wonder I don't like Real-World time period RPGs.) . . . I was thinking of a house rule where GMW only effected one arrow. Also...

Okay. I have been playing this game since I was twelve. As a player, the wonder of caring about the additional properties of magic items has worn off. As a DM, I'm not going to keep track of every magic item on every PC in the entire stinking game. I already do that for the NPCs (which outnumber...

Okay, I've seen them from both sides of the DM/player fence, in multiple games. I've used concealment, spells, sundering, grappling, disarm, cover and every other archer-counter in the book. I still think they are too powerful. And this is coming from a Munchkin (me). As an example: in the...

I have seen many different ways to handle this, ranging from the strict book interpretation to a plethora of house rules. The one common thread that I have seen is: Control Freak DMs prefer the strict PHB rules and Fly-By-The-Seat-Of-Your-Pants DMs prefer to house rule. The first type of DM...

I guess I'm boring when it comes to weapon abilities. I'd just get any old +7 enhancement bonus weapon; prefering either a Longsword +7 or a Greatsword +7. IMHO, of course.

1) I am slightly pretentious. 2) I dig the ramifications of combining "concrete" (a hard, static, real-world substance) with "Buddha" (an otherworldly, abstract, dynamic, enlightened one). 3) It sounds good as an email address. ;)