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Without being completely nerfed, Archers are not uebercharacters if you actually *use* the Encounter Distance and Spotting rules in the DMG. Most encounters will start less than 100ft away, and many less than 50ft. Other things to consider are Tower Shields - they can provide 100% cover as...

One of the great advances IMHO of 3E DnD was the removal of facing, along with a sensible flanking rule. However facing was then 'sort-of' reintroduced for the 'special cases' of Tower Shield and Shield spell. In such a way that a Tower Shield can provide perfect cover in a small arc, 50% in a...

Firstly - thank you for the threads! I have now gained another SH addiction (I don't know whether a :-) or a :-( is more appropriate!) along with PC, Wulf, FU's Vietnamese SH, and Les Terres Anciennes... Can I ask a couple of character questions? How are stats done (4d6? Point buy?) and how...

How about using the hustle power? Round 1: Haste, hustle Round 2: Partial charge in (from hustle,) full attack, move out (from haste) Unless of course there's been errata to the effect that the extra partial actions don't stack - but having carefully read the two descriptions I think they do...

I have an opinion that is quite different. I think almost any amount of MCing of Core classes is OK (although I have also experimented with the combined BAB/saves it's generally more bother than it's worth.) Core Classes are the archetypes, and if to define your character's skills you need to...

Yep, the weak caster level is going to be a problem, with a greater dispelling the dragon will be unbuffed, and its dispels are very unlikely (if possible at all) to work on the party's buffs, as mentioned above. If your players have any clue, then the dragon is also going to be dimensionally...

Yep! That's the one! Thanks Aitch! (Looking forward with gleeful delight to causing the purulent death of thousands of hapless Europeans...)

I like the idea of combining the Monk and Psiwar - I agree neither has quite the flavour of a mystical disciple marrying mental and martial arts. Some brief criticisms (hopefully constructive...) Do not allow gauntlets to evade the weapon restrictions. The DnD FAQ quite deliberately sets out...

While I agree with all the posters who have pointed out that DnD is not about arena combat or one-on-one encounters with fully buffed opponents, the point has been made well on other threads that the "3-4 encounters per day" paradigm that forces wizards to be careful is somewhat lost at higher...

Perhaps it can be handled by separating the sensory and the intellectual. The opponent may know it's an illusion, but his senses are telling him there's a wall (or demon, or whatever) there. To paraphrase the 1e PHB description of Wisdom, I may know I don't need a cigarette, but equally my...

I'm not too clear on how to rule illusion (figment) spells. Simple example: the party wizard uses silent image to create a brick wall behind the party as they attempt to flee. The enemies see a brick wall appear. At this point, as I understand it, there is no save, as they have not...

Many years ago I played a vastly enjoyable game on a paper board (map of Europe with squares representing towns and lines connecting them) with counters, with each player taking the 'role' of a strain of plague. There were rules for movement and infection, and then converting infections to...

Why do people persist in abusing the poor Spikes (and its little brother Brambles) spells so? They specifically require a wooden striking surface, not a wooden edge (or wooden point - somebody was trying on another thread to argue for a lance...)

A mithril chain shirt costs roughly the same as +1 leather, for a better AC, or +1 studded leather for the same AC but superior MDB, ASF, and weight. A +1 mithril chain shirt costs about 1/2 of +2 leather (for a better AC), or less than 1/4 of the cost of +3 leather (for the same AC) or 1/2 the...

As per the topic - I don't see anybody in the campaigns I play in using any other type of armour unless they are a full-plate tank or a druid. The fact that a mithril chain shirt has no ACP, +6 Max Dex, only a 10% ASF (all as good as leather) and weighs only 12.5 lbs (better than leather)...

IMHO auto-stabilisation is *too* good. Having said that, we often end up in cliffhanger situations where half the party are negative, with the other characters desparately trying to stay alive while stabilising / healing them - maybe that's not a common experience? Pushing out the -hp window...

How about using ability damage (Str or Con) rather than subdual damage?

Rather than using percentile dice to decide the 10% stabilisation check, we roll d20, with a 19 or 20 stabilising. Which gave me the idea to have the Toughness Feat grant "+3 hit points and a +3 to stabilisation checks." A character with Toughness could still die if reduced to negative hit...

A scimitar is not a light weapon for a medium-size creature. So you would get a -4 (not -2) penalty even with Multiweapon Fighting and Multidexterity.

Thief acrobat. 'Nuff said.