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Depends on how you travel. Renting a boat or carriage to Waterdeep is hardly difficult. Eberron provides magic trains and airships. Base Greyhawk campaigns have trade caravans (comfy if you pay well, and you don't have to stand watch). And the RAW has stats for how many such area are available...

Might have been changed in 3.5, but yea. Guaranteed may be too strong a word, but it's assumed that it's there unless your DM doesn't want it to be. Availability of items were based on a flat gp rate, which was based on population. A village had about (not sure though) 400 gp. In a previous...

No, the need was to give a character using less than effective tactics a fighting chance, since he refused to budge on the matter. Per the books, the 'balance' was deliberately tweaked to make ranged combat lethal, and cover bonuses a near requirement. The creators intended for players to fear a...

Previous experience and other boards (especially WotC) would disagree with you. By the book Raising a character is rather cheap and easy. -Constant use of preservative spells can make a body last indefinitely (most DM's don't throw bad guys in while on the way home). You don't need to be a few...

Right, but those ranged weapons put out 3d8 to 4d10 hp per hit, and fire with bursts. A high roll against a low AC target could be looking at 120 pt of damage from a 1st level character (without a critical!). He had a reason to worry.

So, does anyone here have a problem with IK's version of healing and raising? With raise dead being a 9th level spell (I believe) and healing actually having the possibility of killing both healer and recipient?

Point taken.. :) Thankfully Enworld is populated with gamers that prefer a good game to playing the numbers. Unfortunately this thread isn't representive of all players. No, this means that 15% of the worlds locations will have a cleric capable of casting the spells. PC characters hae a...

There's no problem with resurrection in the game; The OP's question regarded its availablility. My problem with it is the ease with which the characters can get it. All of your examples show important elements that have far reaching effects. All require some huge effort to work (hydra was either...

There are differences though. With mine, you can improve your chances at some check or use it to prevent death. You can use it to prevent another players death, increasing the risk of your own later (yes, it's happened). You get one chance, how you use it is up to you. I prefer this to D&D's...

Much as I like a good arguement (this ceased being a debate soem time ago), we all need to back up and breathe for a bit...

Didn't know this. Thanks for the input. :)

Except that it doesn't seem to effect the aliens it's meant for. How long did the sarcophagus maintain the aliens life in the first movie? We're talking tens of thousands of years.

That wasn't me friend. Several times in three years (more by the series' timeline) is still far less often (and more story dependant) than what you see in D&D. A party can make 20th level with 3 years real time.

It isn't realism I'm after (at least not for this arguement). It's a certain involvement in the story you won't get if there's that big a safety net involved.

Sorry. Not my intention.

Don't stop now! It was getting good! :)

They were rolled into Survival. Gives the Deep Woods Sniper a bit more leway for skills.

Shouldn't balance be campaign specific?

We're using something similar called Loose Aim, based on the 3.0 Power Attack. Works well so far.

All of these are specialized circumstances that happen due to the story itself. -Conan: not really familiar with that one. -Gandalf: Demigod brought back by higher powers. -Jesus: God goes home (not going into religious debate here). -SG-1: Technology used by beings believed to be gods, with...