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I hate when people pronounce Drow to rhyme with either crow OR cow. It's "Umbragen" now. HAH!

"Memorizing" a spell is an apt term, and one that characters are likely to use in-game. After all, you have to commit the spell to memory through the process of preparation. Mispronunciations, though, are just errors in common English that I find myself correcting my fellow players on all the...

Along the same lines, if you have Cleave, and you drop an opponent with a Sneak Attack - you don't get Sneak Attack damage on the guy standing next to him, even if he'd be eligible (flatfooted, etc). It's pretty much spelled out that Sneak Attack only applies to one damage roll. With regards...

A Lawful Good town is one that's well-ordered and the primary purpose is the well-being of its citizens. People cooperate to help each other out because it's the right thing to do. Taxes are paid and civil duties are performed for the good of all. A Neutral Good town is similar, but with less...

One of the tactics I've implemented is an index card for each player to have with squares for AC, To-Hit, each stat, and anything else a buff could apply to. Write the standard bonus in each square. Use pennies to track bonuses, that way it's easy to remember. Flip them heads-up for +1, tails-up...

If a character with the dimension leap ability (or other use of a dimension door effect as a spell-like ability) were tied up, could they conceivably use their ability to just jump to another location and leave the ropes behind? Using it to escape a grapple would more than likely provoke an...

Aaargh. The whole "true name" thing is the bar-none hands-down WORST idea ever to come out of fantasy. It basically reduces all of existence to a cosmic database, which just breaks everything. But if you're bound and determined to use it - it depends on how important such a thing is. With...

WIS drains are the bane of monks everywhere. Spells like Bane, Doom, Ray of Enfeeblement, and the like work excellently. As well, Hold Person on a Large character turns them into a 10x10 roadblock, good for bottlenecking a party into a corner if they're trying to hide behind the monk.

I provided technical advice to Jeph Loeb, who directed Firestorm. Firestorm starred Howie Long, who was in Broken Arrow with Christian Slater. Christian Slater was in Murder In The First with Kevin Bacon.

Exactly. You associate the hobby with the people you've met who share it. But without that personal experience, people tend to fall back on the stereotype. My personal view is that, to eliminate a stereotype, you not only have to have people act in different ways against type (as in, not fit...

In my opinion, and this is just my two cents, a lot of the D&D stigma is well-earned. In any hobby, the extremes become the stereotype. If you think of model train afficionados, the mental image you get is inevitably the 40-something man with the thick glasses, button-up shirt, and high-waisted...

Used to be, about five years back. Grew up in Loomis/Rocklin. If you want to find a good gaming group locally, try some of the local comic book stores that have a bulletin board. I remember there being a pretty big gaming community there back in the day.

But I think that a party composed entirely of warforged artificers could cover the same bases: ...What more do they need? Someone with GOOD hit points, who can actually fight? It'd be like having a party of all bards - you can do everything, but nothing very well.

Balor? Isn't that just something that was made up to avoid getting sued by Tolkien's estate? As such, it might be pronounced "Napolean Bonaparte" for all I know (though I've always pronounced it "Bah'-lore"). EDIT: Just found a reference to Balor in Irish mythology, but no pronunciation...

Pronunciation's always been easy for me. Drow - Ow! How now, brown drow? Rhymes with "prow", not "grow". Paladin - I can't believe people used to have problems with this. PAL-a-din. Like "Saladin", the historic king. Not "pa-LAH-din", for crying out loud. Shield bash yourself if you...

I use "EHB-uh-ron". Or "EB'ron", since I'm in Virginia and all.

For grenadelike weapons, I'd possibly allow a Weapon Focus (helps you throw them better), but not Specialization or Improved Critical, because nothing you can do affects their damage - it's independent of any STR bonus. Improved Critical with a weapon that hits everything in its square seems to...

Clerics with an Elemental domain (Earth, Air, Water, Fire) can turn elementals of the opposing domain, right? At high enough levels, or with an amazing check, they can be destroyed. Does that count elementals that are bound to items, or things like - an airship? Something tells me that...

Not necessarily. Start as a fighter, take the monk class, then take Monastic Training (Paladin) or Knightly Training (Monk) and you can freely multiclass between the two. Says so in the feat description.

I ran it the other weekend with three first-level characters: a human artificer and her two warforged companions (a polearm-wielding barbarian and a greatsword/adamantine body fighter). The MVP of the group? The blasted goblin guide! "Can anyone use a rapier? No? We'll give it to the goblin...