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"I believe there's something there, but I'm not spotting it." Sariel says. "I know of a ritual that might help, but I don't have it in my book. It's not very complex, though; someone in town might know it. I'll ask at the temple. Does anyone want to come with me?"

It was to start with every class that has ever been a base class in the first player's book of any edition of D&D, not every base class, period (which would have included dozens of classes from 3.5 and 4e). Which was unfortunate in my book, because the swordmage / duskblade / arcane warrior type...

I don't suppose there's a handy low-level ritual book emporium in Fallcrest? (or even if that would actually help, as we may not actually be looking for a secret/hidden door and I don't know if you'd rule it 'close enough' if we're not...)

I'd be shocked if anyone from Hasbro views the OGL and d20 SRD as anything other than a terrible idea than has hamstrung all post-3e versions of D&D by allowing 3.x and anything that can be reverse-engineered from it (which clearly includes 1e via OSRIC and probably includes 4e and anything that...

The other cats give Tatter the location of an abandoned warehouse they've followed the familiar to. Nothing seems excepitonal in the guards bodies, beyond the existence of dead guards. Their uniforms are correct save for damage that might be expected from a street fight, and there's no...

Sariel wonders if there might be clues to where the secret door is between the style of the runes, and the architecture of the building... trying to aid with a history check. Also wondering if it's too late to add Detect Secret Doors to Sariel's ritual book; without Knowledge Checks' Althous, we...

Written by a freelancer is not equivalent to 'written by some schmuck'. Owen Stephens and Rodney Tomphson were the lead authors of Star Wars Saga; Rodney joined WotC later. And we all know who Ari Marnell, Richard Baker, Robin Laws, Robert Schwalb, Rich Burlew, and Steve Kenson are. That they...

Late 3.5 consisted of the second run of splatbooks, Eberron setting books, and a bunch of a combination of testing thigns out for 4e and throwing experimental stuff against the wall and hoping it stuck (PH2, Incarnum, Dragon Magic, Tome of Magic, Tome of Battle, Heroes of X books). All of which...

All of them were driven by WotC (or TSR, in 3e's case) having already done every book that could reasonably be expected to sell well -- splatbooks for the core races and classes, the psionics book, a handful of core rulebooks for settings, and maybe a splatbook or two with new races and/or...

looking at my notes for everyone's skill checks... I hope Heise has the skill power that lets him use streetwise instead of perception....

Sariel, LG eladrin warlord 12 (battle captain) I expected that, but figured it was worth a shot trying for Arcana due to really high Arcana bonus Sariel relays what she learned to the others, then asks if he has any ideas on where the key might be.

"Still I thought you liked it when I played." Heise had, of course, been the benificiary of a traveler's chant before. It occured to her that her flute was burried somewhere in her bag of holding; the dwarf wouldn't know she had it -- or if she was any good. Sariel followed, her curiousity...

It's not cheaper than buying one (just like making magic items with Enchant an Item isn't cheaper than buying them); the advantage of a ritual scroll is that you don't need to be a ritual caster to use it and it's faster (casting time is half the normal casting time of the ritual), but the...

Wizards has never kept a tabletop RPG in print for five years without a new edition.

Also worth noting is how badly the changeover to 3.5 hurt third-party publishers; most that managed to stay in business started concentrating on their own house systems at that point.

"I spent a lot of time trying to convince my parents of that," Sariel says. "But in my advanced years..." said a sun elf who might perhaps be as old as thirty, and who would live for centuries if she did not meet a violent end "... if I can speed a trip up with a ritual or two without spending...

I was kidding. Sariel doesn't actually have enough cash to create a ritual scroll of an 8th-level ritual right now; if she dies, she's just going to have to hope the other two can figure something out ...

/Sariel hastily scribes a copy of raise dead on to a ritual scroll ...

off the top of my head, major changes from 2e to 3e that were retained in 4e - fixed ability modifiers - fort/ref/will saves/defenses - increasing BAB - increasing AC - feats exist - skills exist - non-vancian casters exist in the core rules - bards can heal - interrupting casting is very...

Which kind? I'd think one of the controller builds -- original PH2 or Heroes of the Feywild Protector -- would help fill more gaps than a Heroes of the Forgotten Kingdoms Sentinel, which is a leader -- and a wild shaped PH2 druid has some at-wills that can be used as a melee basic attack and...