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Okay, forget trying to use snappy analogies. The point is: There is a demand for PDFs of D&D books. There was some copyright infringement going on, and WOTC's response was to make it so the demand could ONLY be fulfilled via copyright infringement. Am I the only one who sees this as a poor...

Bad poll. I use and care about PDFs, but I don't buy or use WOTC 4.0 PDFs in my (3.5) gaming. I'm rather perplexed by WOTC's petulant reaction to their PDFs appearing on file sharing networks, though. Some people are infringing WOTC's copyright by downloading 'em for free from elsewhere...

Thanks for the ideas, guys. I'll post an update after the next game session.

I think you misunderstand, Nightson - I'm the DM in this game, not a lost PC trying to game my way out of needing to make a Survival check. Besides, knowing which way is north doesn't help you if you don't recognize any landmarks.

I was running my 3.5 Eberron game tonight, and the party ended up getting lost in the Talenta Plains. They had a crude map showing Gatherhold and a cave where they could find some monsters to smite, and they struck off into the plains. Not bothering to hire a guide, of course. Three days (and...

I forget the exact wording, but in context, it was pretty clear that the sales drone meant that you'd physically break the hard drive if you installed XP instead of Vista.

I'd be cautious about buying computers from Best Buy. My wife and I were browsing laptops there last year, and when I asked about "downgrading" a laptop from Vista to XP (i.e. improving the computer!), the sales clerk said that you ran the risk of breaking the computer by doing that! I was...

It goes back a lot further than that, IIRC. Some English writers were decrying the "Pyrates" as early as the 1700s. Blasted nasty thing to do, too, skewing discussion on one thing (infringing someone's copy privileges) by putting something viscerally unpleasant (theft and violence) in mind...

If I thought there was anything worthwhile there, I'd probably cheerfully pirate the 4.0 books. Since I don't, I haven't.

Huh. Someone likes 4e and puts up some nifty power cards to help make the game run more smoothly for people. In response to this enthusiasm on the part of their customers, WOTC slaps 'em with a C&D, in effect saying "BAD fan! You're not allowed to add to the fun!" Way to go, guys.

Short answer: Do whatever you like. Long answer: The simplest way to handle it is to just treat it like a regular attack roll, but if you don't like that, go ahead and roll against AC without the armor. Treating it like a regular attack has the nice advantage of being faster - you don't have...

Still vaporware.

I saw a funny thing today. While I was checking my gmail, the following appeared in the "Web Clips" line near the top of the screen: Dungeons & Dragons News - EN World - D&D / Dungeons & Dragons / RPGs - D&D 4E, D&D 3.5, and older editions news, reviews, community and more Too bad I already...

I'm not sure that warlock info is what he needs for a warforged character...

Um, the auto-TPK scenario comes up anytime there are two demons, one of whom has Blasphemy at will. It could be a Balor and a Dretch just as easily as it could be two Balors. As for the politics, they wouldn't come up until after the battle - the second Balor is a summoned creature at that...

Um. Balors have Blasphemy as an at-will spell-like ability. Blasphemy causes anything up to 20 HD to lose its actions for the turn. Therefore, 1 Balor plus any demonic or ranged ally = TPK. The Balor gets into range of all PCs and casts Blasphemy, and his ally chips away at the dazed PCs one...

What exactly is a 'wizardly theurge'? A character with levels in both Wizard and Mystic Theurge from the DMG? Or is it a different class altogether?

Technically, D) +6/+6/+6 - Prayer was active, too :)

So, we had a little disagreement about the effects of TWF + Haste in my game tonight. The TWF fighter had +8 with a Scimitar or +4/+4 with dual scimitars. Wizard casts Haste and says "Okay, your attack sequence will be +8/+4/+4" (get an extra attack at your highest possible bonus). I...

Delta, you haven't read about Microlite, have you? This seems like a similar effort. http://microlite20.net/