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Watch the movie "Hero" - there's an excellent scene of an army using footbows to bombard a town. The idea of the historical footbow is it allows you to use your leg AND arm muscles to draw the bow, thus letting you draw a stronger-than-normal bow without the time cost of a crossbow.

A number of the WotC minis, especially the large ones, have obviously been cast in two or three pieces and then glued together somehow. So we know it's possible, at least. Consider limited variability - say, three different "waist up" poses and three "waist down" poses, with the join line...

Have you read Terry Pratchett's book The Wee Free Men? Take the Smurfs. Now assume they are Fey - not cartooney fey, but real-world myth-and-legend-type Fey. Give them a Celtic culture (blue skin = woad). Now you've got the Nac Mac Feegle, "the most dangerous of the Faerie races". I...

Well, the minotaur should get something that plays up his minotaur-ness. Howzabout a pair of magic horn-caps (uses helmet/headband slot) that let him make a free Bull Rush attempt whenever he hits with his horn gore attack?

Well, lvl 6 PCs shouldn't have "+3 everything". And you're finding out why. DMG, page 135, Table 5-1:Chartacter Wealth by Level. This is the suggested total wealth per character per level. That's TOTAL, including all equipment, mounts, and magic items (NOT a per-item amount as some players...

CMIIW, but don't most tonfa attacks with the long end involve flipping it out in a sideways spinning motion? As depicted, you'd be whacking them with the flat of the blade. Wouldn't it make more sense (and solve the shredded forearm problem) to have the handle stick out of the flat side...

The Savage Species table for anthro ability mods is totally wacked. They just went through the Animals list and changed their Size (Tiny or smaller -> Small, Small to Large -> Medium, Huge or larger -> Large), applying the size change modifiers as per the RAW. But, since many animals'...

They are not told directly, but there are some clues. The PCs know before going in that in the Garden it is "always summer"; that Porphorio was a powerful wizard; that he and his love "should lie together for all eternity"; and that other adventurers who entered the place "returned after a long...

(BUMP) SO ... it's been five days. Do we know who the finalists are yet? (I don't expect that I'll be one, but I am curious...)

Brainspikers? "Not hat!" (name that quote)

Fusangite, I see where you're coming from, but you seem to have a tendency to phrase your posts as "You disagree with me so you must be an idiot". This naturally raises people's hackles and makes them want to refute you. And frankly, you're making some pretty broad assumptions yourself. In...

OK, here's how it works: When the spell is cast, each critter in the area gets a Reflex save. If they fail they've been grabbed: they can't Move, take a -2 on attacks and a -4 Dex, and need to make a Concentrate(15) check to cast a spell. If they make the Reflex save they avoided the...

I'd say yes, but you lose the cloak in the process and you have to have a hiding place within 1 foot per rank in Hide, and they get a Spot check against your Hide result-10. In other words, exactly as if you used a successful Bluff to distract them. You detach the cloak, swirl it into the air...

Close, but not quite. The mast of a ship (crows nest, flowing white sails, stretching "between the sea and sky"). Yep. Most people flub that one because they've never seen an oil lamp. Ah, technological progress. :p

A point? Although the first line is a little iffy, since technically that would be "points" of light, plural, and the rest are singular. Stomrunner stumped a sphinx (and a DM) with this one: Once eagles nested in my hair, Long time I stood on land. Now only nests of crows I bear Along the...

Why are you wanting to run this campaign? As a break from the norm, right? So use it to highlight "lesser races", rarely-used settings, etc. Perhaps the fertile plains are dominated by a vast Horde of Mongol-style centaurs. Since saddles and stirrups haven't been invented yet, centaurs are...

Realistically (Aiiee! No! Not in D&D! Take it away!), a crossbow is simply an especially-Mighty shortbow mounted cross-wise on a stock. The heavy crossbow allows you to fire a bow much stronger than you could draw by hand. The main advantage of the light crossbow is that it can be kept cocked...

Ooh, that was a long time ago, and the details have gone fuzzy. The two things I still recall were taking out Horan in 2 rounds (the thief successfully backstabbed, + low hp = dead magic-user), and the TPK by the dragon (the dragon stepped on the fighter, shoving him deep into the mud, and...

Whether magic is "cheap" depends on who you are. Even a 50gp potion is a year-and-a-half's wages for an "unskilled laborer". An awful lot of DMs (and game designers!) write as if 1gp=$1, 1sp=10 cents, 1cp=1 penny. A few espouse the "silver standard", 1sp=$1. But look at the NPC hirelings...

Or extrapolate from the Aid Another rules. If Bard 2 expends a use of bardic music and makes a DC 10 Perform check, he can add +2 to Bard 1's effective bard level for bardic music effects, potentially increasing Bard 1's bonus by +1.