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The vast majority of gamers I know are great people, but there have been a few individual I've met locally that I had bad gut feelings about almost immediately. One of those people was later convicted on possession/distribution of child pornography. Others, I later learned more about them and...

I used to be more willing to game with strangers (I met my wife by joining a Shadowrun game full of strangers), but now that I'm older with kids of my own, I only game with friends or friends-of-friends. There were enough truely creepy people I met gaming with strangers (the type that I don't...

"Sum of the squares" method? I haven't heard of that one. I'm assuming you square and total each of the PCs character level, and then do the same for the enemies, looking to get them close?

Unfortunately that doesn't work with base 1HD Humanoids. Because they have no original HD once you start adding class levels, you end up with a the first level of an NPC class being associated by that guideline, so there would be no difference between adding levels of fighter or warrior, or...

Just bumping since I hadn't heard anything in a while, is Lore of the Gods out yet?

Ahh. I had read it in the mathematical sense, where the tilde denotes equivalence. I tend to map exclamation points to negation (!Sean) as a side effect of the languages I code in. I guess I learn something new every day on EnWorld. :D

Given that kreynolds sig is "~Sean", that really isn't that big of a stretch. EDIT: Although Google-fu shows that it would be an incorrect stretch. http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=25795

I'd have to disagree with you there. Ogres are listed as advancing "by character class". I read that section as "if the monster advances by character class, first give them equipment for their class levels, then give them treasure according to their MM entry". If they were only intended to...

Yeah, I noticed that too. DMG, Ch. 2, Treasure section: MM, Ch. 4, Monsters and Class Levels: So now not only are there inconsistancies between how PC and NPC classes are treated (CR vs ECL gear amount), but there are also inconsistancies between how monsters with class levels are treated...

I was working on adapting a published adventure to fit my current party and stumbled into a mess in the rules. The party is a bit large (7 players), so I was going to bump up some of the NPCs by a level or two. I went to the books to find out what their new gear value should be, and that's...

Here are the full numbers. The bigger the die, the better the benefit compared to (HD/2)+1. But then again, (HD/2)+1 benefits smaller dice more than larger. It looks to me like rolling twice has a more even benefit than (HD/2)+1 (+25% to +30.30% instead of +7.69% to +20%). D4 1 = 1 in 16...

I would treat the whip at having +10' reach. So for a medium creature with a reach of 5', that would be 15'. For a large Balor with base 10' reach, that would be 20'. For a huge Balor with a base of 15', that would be 25'. The only counterarguement coming to mind is that all of the other...

I had a player in my game recently ask almost the exact same question, except it was Lizardfolk instead of Minotaur. Comparing Minotaur and Half-Dragon may look close, but I think that is more coincidence than design. If you allowed the player to not take the racial HD, then Bugbears become a...

There is a similar debate going on in an MMO that I play, the sonic attacks are currently a translucent white, but the specific implementation gives some people migranes and are hard to see, so they are changing it. The new graphics are orange/gold. Someone asked the devs why they chose...

Well, it would do no damage on absorbtion, but I've had players ask about the same tactic. The key is in what is left after the holy water is absorbed: (emphesis mine) So the idea is to absorb 100 gallons of holy water, then throw the pellet at an undead, which will cause the pellet to break...

A little Google-fu shows that this is from the Dragonlance fan site "Dragonlance Nexus", and was submitted by Brandon Clark. Here is the page: http://www.dlnexus.com/fan/rules/15808.aspx

At the end of the round do we get to look up the result on a table?

I've seen one of these in use in one of my games (by a Dervish with Improved Crit(scimitar) no less), she had a +1 holy shocking scimitar and a +1 prismatic burst scimitar, the prismatic burst really didn't outshine the holy shocking scimitar at all. A lot of targets are immune or resistant to...

Players in my campaign roll their hit points, and they can choose to have me reroll for them, but then they are stuck with what I roll. Last time they leveled, the warmage rolled a 2 on his 1d6, had me reroll, got a 1 instead.

I think it's funny that people are saying that being able to walk into a store and buy whatever magic item you want is like shopping at a Walmart. IMX, whenever I go into a Walmart looking for something in particular, it is nowhere to be found, but I do find lots of other things to spend my...