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Just occurred to me that casters up against creatures with SR constantly might benefit from a feat that allowed their spells to pierce SR with more frequency. Suppose a feat gave a caster +3 to pierce SR for every level they cast the spell at higher than the usual level. For instance, one...

>human Bbn5/Ftr1 vs. ogre Ftr1: Let's make it an ogre Bbn1. >Human: 5d12+1d10 hp (avg. 37) >Ogre: 4d8+8+1d10+2 hp (avg. 33.5) Actually, Human = 12+26+5.5 = 43.5 Ogre = 18+12+5(2) = 40 After this point, the Ogre just gets better compared to the human, because of the Con...

You'll do a lot more than keep up "just barely". The +5 natural armor, reach, +10 to strength, and +4 to Con more than make up for the 5 lost levels. You won't be down on hp, you'll be up on damage, up on to-hit bonus (though slightly slightly down on BAB -- only two points) -- trust me, you'll...

I disagree. Clearly, the feat is meant to be chiefly cinematic in effect -- an effort I highly approve of. Allowing the backwards movement to trigger AoOs just seems kind of . . . well, I dunno . . . munchy.

Which, again, doesn't make sense, as there's no reason that the guy wearing armor should need to tumble better than the guy without armor (again, we're assuming no armor check penalty here) to get a benefit. And because he's wearing armor, his net benefit will always be lower than that of the...

Oh, lord, here we go again. I'm sure you've heard the joke about how winning a flame war is like getting the gold at the Special Olympics, hong . . . the POINT is that with one variant posted, you have the same AC (your Tumble check) regardless of whether you are wearing armor (i.e., a mithril...

The only enjoyment I'm going to get is if my players end up killing the NPC elves you've listed above :). *scribbles down godawful names*

What kind of moron wears mithril chainmail? I'm talking about a mithril chain shirt, of course . . .

Everyone is saying that this was an OVERWHELMING ENCOUNTER in which the party had little chance -- let's note that that's just not the case. Four 2nd level PCs against a Ghast and three Ghouls is a pretty even matchup, especially when they get to take a bunch of potshots early on. It sounds like...

It's a little odd that a tumbler gets the same AC whether he's wearing mithril chain or he's naked. I have to say, I like the "Take the check, subtract 10, add it as a Dodge bonus" idea. It double-counts the tumbler's dex bonus, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. (I would even make it so...

I gotta say . . . you know how to create those elven names . . . *shoots self in head*

It's never made sense to me that it's as easy to Tumble past (or through) a blind kobold as it is to Tumble past a Great Red Wyrm; I've also heard it argued that there should be some way for folks *with* Tumble to "counter-Tumble" in some way; I'm not sure this makes sense, but the idea that...

Back in the day, as we old-timers say, there was 2E. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say that the most infamous of the 2E supplements was the Complete Book Of Elves. Who can forget the Bladesinger? Elven Platemail? The Stapling Shot? The Double-Arrow Shot? And, of course, special elf-only...

In my opinion, unless you're playing in a campaign where everyone is walking around with flaming frost shocking acid weapons, this is not a 3rd level spell -- certainly not a 3rd level spell at 10min/level. The protection it grants against is pretty damn small. I'd probably make it 3rd level...

Re: Re: What (else) got the shaft in 3E? That's very, very true. A 3rd level Barbarian Ogre is "officially" a CR5 creature. Give him some half-decent equipment (better-than-hide armor, a greatsword) and trust me, he's more than a match for most 5th level fighters. I heard that a couple...

Which is why, for saving throws (and to-hit rolls IMHO), using the 20=30 and 1=-10 variant makes a lot of sense. In this instance the +25 Fort Save fighter would end up with a 15, which is almost certainly going to be enough to make his save against the mage's spell.

First of all, just to get under P'cat's skin, I must point out that 1E sucked, and sucked hard. After all, goblins and kobolds were thought to be of lower than average intelligence. Okay, they still are, but at least their official stats are '10' in 3E. Also, ogres did d10 points of damage...

There's a couple potential problems with this. First of all, a party of 7th level adventurers would almost never go goblin/kobold/orc hunting. Certainly, not "normal" goblin/kobold/orcs. Second of all, one or two fireballs are going to wipe out the entire tribe. I agree with giving the PCs a...

That's good to hear . . . I'll probably tweak the final version, and if I do, if anything it'll have less "snark", not more. In my opinion the snarkiest line is, unfortunately, the funniest: "But this is not the place for personal attacks. No, the place for that is the conclusion of the...

I've done this, and it's amazing how many PCs think that the solution to the problem of the battle against the cheaty adventurers is "Build More Pits". On that note, make sure that the power level of the PCs is high, as far as being extremely munched out (at least PC-level of magic items, if...