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If you have bracers of armor? Or (perish the thought) actual armor?

I suppose if it's going to be the "new generic world" they have no choice but to try to include everything that's in the core rulebooks. Makes things awful crowded, though - just in the MM alone there are over 130 intelligent races (Int 7+) - not counting the "semi-intelligent" critters with...

Wielder or target? If you're going by the traditional phrase "He must've been beaten with an Ugly Stick" then it should be target. I'd say 1 point temporary Cha drain per hit, with 1d4 permanent Cha damage on a crit. Love the concept. I know I've mentioned it before, but the "All-Time...

Heh. My old gaming group back in college had a player who loved to make characters with "underutilized" skills - if the party was mostly kick-in-the-door fighters, she'd be the one with high levels of Appraise, Handle Animal, and Knowledge:Engineering (or the equivalents). One game she made a...

If you want a little more hesitance about violence, IME emphasizing the gore won't do it. What you have to do is emphasize the human cost, the social connections and consequences. E.g., in a cyberpunk game once, the PCs had just hacked to death a drug dealer, a few seconds after he shot a...

As currently written, Pounce lets the critter (usually a feline of some sort) make a full attack after a charge, including two Rake attacks. It's not necessary for any of the claw/claw/bite attacks to hit for the Rake attacks to go off. On subsequent rounds, unless the big cat charges a new...

Tried to do something like this in an Iron DM contest - the ingredients included "blind psychic warrior", "black cat", and "cactus", so I ended up doing a sort of Elseworlds: Wild West Batman riff, pitting the blind psychic detective (ranger/ghostwalker/watch detective, equipped with a Cowl of...

Thought it would be interesting but was absolute crap: Ultimate Feats from Mongoose Publishing. Basically the Netbook of Feats in hardcover (=$$$), with the page count padded with gratuitous babe art. Lots of feats that do almost-the-same-thing-as-a-feat-elsewhere-in-the-book, lots of...

Seems quite legal to me. I would give it a slight penalty (say, -2) because you're pretty much lmited to ONLY sound - you can't fake a blow to the head to make him raise his shield, then stab low, or any of the other classic feints, so it cramps your options somewhat. Also, if there are any...

Because it leads to both unnecessary complications/inconsistencies, and snarky flame-posts like the one you just made. If you're measuring corner-to-corner, then in the following situation: [me][square][square][target] It would take 15' of movement for me to move into the target's square, but...

Wow. So, you're equally likely to encounter either a stirge or a great wyrm black dragon? Yeesh. I wouldn't stand for that without protest. I prefer the 1st ed lizardman picture myself. IMC lizardfolk look more like Jurassic Park raptors than the ugly pseudo-homanoid faces 3rd ed seems...

I'd allow it, especially if the PC in question was a barbarian. "With a flick of the wrist, the guard captain sends Grugnor's axe spinning into a far corner of the room. 'Ha! Yield or die, brute!' he shouts." "Snarling in fury, Grugnor rips the shield off his own arm, raises it over his head...

1) Hide in Plain Sight allows you to "fade into the shadows" even when being watched. It only negates the "can't Hide at all while under observation" - it doesn't negate the "-20 to Hide if you betray your location by attacking". However, if you fail the roll after the shot, and your target...

I'd recommend you immediately go forth and buy a few issues of Marvel's new comic, "1602" (4 issues so far, written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Andy Kubert and Richard Isanove). All the familiar Marvel characters in an alternate-history 15th-century European setting. So we have Sir...

No, no - that's what the Hulking Hurler is for. Though I do admit, when I first saw the name of that class my immediate thought was "HULK GOTTA HURL!". Let's see now - short-ranged, cone-shaped breath weapon, does acid damage plus target is nauseated unless they make a Fort save; higher levels...

Since your setup is obviously strongly character-driven, my suggestion is: Background background Background. Have each player answer a set of questions about their character. Where did they grow up? Who were their parents? Who do they love most/hate most in their life? What memorable thing...

Would that be "an arrrrrs of pirates", then? :)

Um, guys, the whole idea of "range increments" is an abstract approximation to begin with. That being the case, why can't you accept the abstract approximation of measuring center-to-center? It's quick, easy, and you don't need to engage in long pointless arguments like this one. During the...

Yep, official rule is natural attacks never, ever increase. However, this sucks for critters like, say, an awakened wolf, who would be stuck at 1 attack/round forever, even at 20th level. OTOH, you don't want munchkinizers taking an awakened dire lion character and getting 7+ attacks/round...

Agreed, the distinction seems totally arbitrary. There is some tendency to put humanoids with strong magical powers into the MH category (which I suspect is why the Derro are MH), but frex Centaurs don't fit that criteria either. Personally, IMC I class all "half-animal" races (gnolls...