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    Magical Cosmetic Surgery

    In my mind there is no doubt that almost all rich persons would have a Hat of Disguise equivalent item solely to improve their looks. Some would go to even greater effort and get permanently altered or polymorphed to achieve physical beauty. In fact I believe that if magic was real most of it...
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    Need help scaling adventure (may contain 'burning plague' spoilers!)

    Nah, the changes aren't significant for this adventure. But Klaus analysis about the Zombies is right. But I think an Ogre zombie might do to much damage considering that they will face Jakk soon after that battle. I consider the Gnoll Zombies a better idea. But much depends on the actual...
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    Need help scaling adventure (may contain 'burning plague' spoilers!)

    My advice would be the following. Saving throws: Increase the DC on saving throws (traps, disease and so on) by 1 or 2 if you want to keep them challenging for the PC’s. Skill checks: Increase the DC on most skillchecks (spot, search and so on) by 2-4 to keep them challenging for the PC’s...
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    How have you made giants more interesting?

    When I'm Dm'ing giants follow the "all power attack, all the time" frame of mind. This works for conceptually as giants then actually connect less often with their (in my minds eye) slow and ponderous attacks. But when they do hit you are in a world of hurt.
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    i'm looking for some help with my current character

    Your character already has 20 levels. Any further progression takes him (her?) into epic rules. I dont know much about those, but I think you can find the crunch (but not the fluff) here http://www.d20srd.org/
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    OotS #409

    Hinjo = A paladin played right
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    Saving Throw issue with DM

    But some of agree on the house rule he then uses, as it is vastly better than the official one :)
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    Funniest Rod of Wonder story..... ever.

    A long long time ago, back in 2ed our rather vain and full of himself used his Wand of Wonder twice in a row. The first result covered him in chocolate, the next made him switch places with the targeted creature. Landing him as a chocolatety treat in the midst of the angry monsters :) He...
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    Saving Throw issue with DM

    Sounds like the DM uses the fractional saves the same way that I do. Simply add together all class levels with good fortitude and consult the table. I assume that all you class levels grant good fortitude save progression, so thats 15 levels of good progression = +9 Fortitude. If you had any...
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    JollyDoc's Savage Tide-Updated 10/8!

    Cold blooded murdering by the PC's. The next step is the one where they turn upon each other in more preemptive strikes. This is not reluctant vigilantism or shades of grey morals, but rather full-fledged homocidal power hungry maniacs on the loose. Sorry not my kind of thing, time for me...
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    JollyDoc's Savage Tide-Updated 10/8!

    Cold blooded murdering by the PC's. The next step is the one where they turn upon each other in more preemptive strikes. Sorry not my kind of thing, time for me to bow out of reading this story.
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    Balancing the system for broke PCs

    One of the beauties of Iron Heroes is that you don't need any conversion of monsters. You can use D&D monsters as they are. Just remember that players may have more difficulties with flying and in particular incorpereal monsters. That is a fair description of the system, with the added...
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    Balancing the system for broke PCs

    Two words: Iron Heroes
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    The Doomed Bastards: Reckoning (story complete)

    He has Dimension Door memorized, so should be able to get away.
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    need undead army!

    For a PC or NPC?
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    Need help adjudicating CR and LA adjustment

    No. Anyone taking the template will have a high Str and gets the +4 bonus as well. They will be strong enough for it not to matter, especially since they wont be wearing any armor. Armor usually constitutes the majority of a characters load. As it is stands any fighter type PC who has the...
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    Giant Crocodile - Strong CR4?

    I was trying to argue for the point that one of the reasons that the giant crocodile has a low CR for its melee capabilities is that it is pretty stupid and will behave predictably. If you are swimming or walking in the water that predictability is a bad thing for you (because the croc will...
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    Giant Crocodile - Strong CR4?

    I may be explaining myself badly today, but no. My intended point was that crocodiles dont often attack boats because boats dont much resemble their usual prey (moves, looks, tastes, smells and reacts different). So even if they are hungry (=need to) they wouldn't usually attack a boat...
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    Giant Crocodile - Strong CR4?

    They are highly succesful as long as they are dealing with environment and situations that millions of years of evolution has made them good at. Throw them into something they are not used to; not so succesful at all. The vast majority of real life crocodile attacks on humans happens to...
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    Giant Crocodile - Strong CR4?

    I have two types of issues with the scene. One is the rules based one, the other a less quantifiable one. The first has been mulled over already and has to do with spot and grapple checks. It also has to do with Combat Brute types being very dangereous for their CR if you allow them to melee...
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