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:eek: :lol: :confused: So, I'm guessing the scene went like this? Player: Which one of the mercenaries is my friend in disguise? DM: You don't know, he's in disguise. Player: OK, I throw a grenade into the middle of the table, and the one whose face blows off is my friend. DM: Not...

Skill Focus for one skill gives +3, so that would be a +26. Actually, remember that even a commoner gets the once-per-four-levels stat boost, so at 20th level our mega-commoner has at least a 15 in the appropriate stat (if you assume he started with all 10's), or an 18 if you assume the...

The latter - at 6th level you pick an element and from then on you get bonuses with spells of that element. The old way required a lot of nitpicky bookkeeping, plus if the DM introduced, say, a new Earth spell, suddenly your Master of Earth was no longer a Master until he learned the new spell...

Convention/tournament game. PCs are shipwrecked on an island - naked, no equipment, etc. Bring your own PC of level X, 2nd ed. I had suspected something of the sort might happen (knowing the DM liked to do this sort of thing) so I brought along one of Stormrunner's incarnations- female...

There are some important changes. The new Alienist has Alignment: any nonlawful. (I don't really agree with this; in many Lovecraftian stories (which is what they're trying to recreate with the Alienist) it's an obsession with math or science that leads the unfortunate narrator to discover...

Um, no. No no no no no. No way. Where are you getting "applies after the fact"? You're counting the level of PrC twice there, which is generally a no-no. You're also assuming that the PrC caster level plus somehow gets applied after the feat boost. It seems clear to me that it must be the...

OK, now you're confusing me . Let's assume we've got A)rcher, B)arbarian, and C)leric vs. F)ighter, G)nolls and H)exer/Adept. We'll refer to them by their initials for brevity. It sounds (forgive me if I'm wrong) Thanee, that you're saying that if F readies an action to shoot A, and A never...

You have two goals: A) reduce the enemy's movement capability so you can catch him, and B) reduce his crew so you can capture the ship. A) is traditionally done by breaking his masts, shredding his sails/rigging, or snapping off his oars. In a D&D setting, magic is the way to go. No, you...

Since she is a humanoid, with no natural attacks and no racial special dive attack, just treat it as a charge. Eagles and other critters with a racial dive attack have specially-strengthened leg- and talon-bones to take the shock of impact without shattering. Without such built-in advantages...

My first reaction is to houserule that XP stored in the bottle is STORED, not copied. While in the bottle, it's protected, but the PC can't expend the stored XP on things like item creation or casting spells with an XP cost.

oooh, I can see all kindsa possibilities... Gingersnaps - when picked up, these cookies snap shut on the PC's fingers like a mousetrap, rendering the hand useless until the cookie can be removed (Str check?). Can also be scattered like caltrops to pinch the toesies (half Move until pried off)...

Well, if I was building this character i would rearrange the stats a little: STR 12, CON 14, WIS 16. Wisdom is important for both the ranger's skills and the druid's spells, and with the armor restrictions of both classes you need good hit points. Since this build is not a front-line tank...

Planetary? Naah. 1000 foot radius is about the size of a small asteroid. Not even dinosaur-killer size, much less planetbuster. Reminds me of the old "Hill Seeds" item from waay back.

The last few months I've been acting as assistant DM for a friend who is running a group of 8 (!) players, including an 8-yr-old girl, a couple of 14-yr-old boys, and various ages inbetween. It's interesting to see the variation in personalities. One of the kids definitely has Attention Deficit...

"Groo is coming! Run away!" Seriously, Groo is practically the archetypical Frenzied Berserker - with low Wisdom. He's dual-wielding and has an animal companion, so there's probably a level or three of ranger in there.

Actually, it's in Sword and Fist as well, thus available in 3.0. The S&F version, though, only mentions "An opponent who charges you", it doesn't say anything about your buddies.

I would allow such a sequence of actions IMC. However, remember that suggestion is just that - a suggestion, not a compulsion or domination. It can modify a creatures behavior somewhat, but not force it to go against its nature. If the bard player has seen LotR: The Two Towers , remind him...

A lot depends on the (unfortunately missing in your post) context. If the gnolls in question had just finished robbing, raping, killing, and eating a bunch of defenseless villagers, and were sleeping off the effects of their debauch, then I'd say you were justified in killing them. OTOH, if...

Well, as you might guess from my icon, I have a thing for centaurs. My campaigns also tend to include various other animal-people - lizardfolk, catfolk, aarakocra, lupins, gnolls, otterfolk, nezumi ...

Remember that these critters interact with each other as well as the PCs. (And what are those rust monsters going to eat?) Real-world, islands tend to be primarily inhabited by birds, reptiles, and insects; mammals are present only on the largest islands or where introduced by humans (rats...