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I don't have my MM in front of me to check the roper's reach, but one tactic I expect to start seeing a lot from my players is taking advantage of splitting moves along with the fact that spells only need to be in range the moment they are cast. So if you start 45' away from a roper and have...

Because that is the style of game the player likes? Some people play to just have fun playing, not to worry about elaborate character motivations or long term plots. As a player, I enjoy exploration, discovery, and combat far more than intrigue and melodrama. My characters go into dungeons...

I think the OP's issue is that you can only spend gold to grow a character's power in ways tangential to the pluses on the character sheet, there is no option to spend the money on more direct benefits like magical gizmos or fantastic ships. So for someone that doesn't want to spend the money...

A player in one of my 3e campaigns took the leadership feat to get a gnome illusionist follower purely for the buff spells. By the time the were up around level 15, my wife's rogue/ranger spent many encounters with cat's grace, fly, improved invisibility, and mass haste. She was nicknamed the...

Just as not everyone wants to be President or a CEO, not every adventurer wants to be a ruler. Some may long to be like Batman, spending their money on a utility belt of cool gizmos they can use to bring wrongdoers to justice, or spend it on a magical ship to allow them to explore the world in...

Add me to the list of people tired of constantly saving the world. It reminds me of Mr. Incredible from The Incredibles: I do like the Savage Worlds plot point style campaign. An overarching plot, but with lots of freedom for the players and episodes for the GM to use to advance the larger...

And PCs get a saving throw every round too. I find this change to be a very good thing. I remember playing in 3.x sessions where I got hit with a Hold Person and failed the save. Check to see if anyone has Remove Paralysis or Dispel Magic prepped, and if not, go home because it will be a long...

The spell description for 3.5e is self-contradictory. The very first sentence is "the charm makes a humanoid creature regard you as its trusted friend and ally (treat the target's attitude as friendly, see Influencing NPC Attitudes, p.xx)." Friendly is a defined attitude in 3.5e (and 3.5e...

I pulled both my 2e and 3.5e PHBs, neither one said anything about the target not being aware that they had been charmed. In fact, the 2e version explicitly states that the target retains full memory of what they did when charmed. When the charm wears off, they will at least know something was...

Not finding fault with your reasoning, just thought I'd point out this place as a counterpoint: Foreign Cars Italia. They are currently showing 15 used Ferraris sitting on the lot, along with a Lambo and a handful of Maseratis. This is in Greensboro NC, not exactly Beverly Hills or NYC...

And all it takes is one experience with a GM looking to screw the players to turn them off of attachments of any sort. I've had GM's that use backstory and attachments as bludgeons to beat their players, making sure to minimize the advantages the players can get and maximize the difficulties...

If you're willing to play alignment tricks, you can get even faster with core 3.0. Monk 18 for the 90' move, change alignment to Neutral (ex-monks keep their abilities), Barbarian 1 for fast movement +10' gets you to 100', doubled to 200' by the Boots of S&S, then Run and Haste for the x7 gets...

Using just core 3.0, a 20th level monk is base move 90', boots of Striding and Springing doubled that to 180', the Run feat increased the run multiplier to x5, being hasted gives an extra partial action you can use for a partial run (another x2 move), for a total run of x7, or 1260' per round...

There are many people who have played lawn darts, slow pitch softball, shot baskets "granny style", tossed hay bales into the back of trucks, juggled, etc. who would beg to differ that you have to lift your arms above your head to throw something upwards or in a long arc. In fact I find it...

The Mk18/Wiz1 will need the help of someone else for the Haste spell. How about Monk 14 for the +25' move, Barbarian 5 for the +10' move, and Wiz 1 for the Expeditious Retreat, along with the wood elf, Transmuter's Stone, and Mobile feat, and a friend with haste, that should get the speed up to...

I view someplace like Roll20 to be the equivalent to a group of friends sitting around a table, just without the need to drive to get there. I have no higher expectations from a GM in that environment than I do in a home game. It is frequently used by people who either can't find local groups...

I don't think I'd be a fan of xp for background. I'm don't like coming up with character backgrounds, and it would strike me as a heavy-handed carrot to get me to fit the GM's style. I don't play to explore my character's past, I play to find out what is in my characters future. I don't want...

I've seen this claim before, and I think it is grossly exaggerating to justify the sense of importance of the GM. Take a weekly 4 hour game with 4 players. The players combined are investing 16 hours of their time just by attending and participating in the game, and to be generous we'll assume...

I can't speak for Kaychsea, but for me it's pretty typical that breakfast is around 8:30am, lunch is at 11:30am, and then I don't get home from work and shuttling kids to activities until between 7:00pm and 8:00pm, so I'm not normally eating dinner until 7:30pm or later. Lately we've been...

Without ascribing any blame or motivations, one thing that is clear to me is that this is a poor fit between the player and the GM, and I think the odds of this being a successful enjoyable game with both the player and the GM are very slim. Seeing as this game is on Roll20, I think the player...