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Story I read a while ago had a flesh-shaper who was warping humans into animal-like forms - the one that stuck with me as an especially creepy one was the "deer" man: his hands were cut off and reattached to his head as "antlers", then the bones of his forearms lengthened and shaped into "hooved...

Dragon Half! or Dragon Pink for the Hentacle crowd... Must ... quote ... Megatokyo ... Largo: "So, these 'magical grrls', are they a force of ultimate 3vil?" Junpei: "No, l33t master, not 3vil... Ninja live by code of honor. Magical girl live by code of love. This lead to many disaster and...

The text is a bit unclear, but based on the text under Blood Wind Ricochet (where it says you "lose the use of one Iron Heart strike" even though you are making multiple attacks as part of the action), it appears that the intent was that expending one maneuver would allow you to do the returning...

The dowager Queen Mother is totally unaware of the current plotting? Really? Unless her time as Queen was so stressful that she wants to flee to the country and forget it all, it seems unlikely. (Makes a nice cover story, though.) Have you read the Foreigner series by CJ Cherryh? Ilisidi...

Interesting that in both polls, more people picked "centaur" than "drider"... ...even though a lot of the drider's abilities are based on old 1stEd drow abilities that 3.x drow no longer have... As a big centaur fan, I'm wondering why people voted for it. What did you find unsatisfactory...

I can think of one minor disadvantage right off, and that's that the Permanency will be easier to dispell, since it would use the cohort's caster level which will always be lower than the PC's level. Since PCs often face foes of about the same level as themselves, this implies most spellcasters...

It's a tough choice. Athach - It's a hill giant with an extra arm. Woo hoo. I ended up voting for this one because I keep wanting to use these guys but as written they just aren't particularly memorable or exciting, so I'm hoping a makeover might make them more intriguing. Bodak - "Death gaze...

Here you go. They seem to be pretty much the same scale, once you adjust for the fact that the Dreamblade bases are thicker.

With or without pipes? This is 8 levels of bard plus the base satyr? Or a CR 8 satyr ( = pipes + 4 levels of Bard, or no pipes + 6 levels of Bard)? I would recommend the "with pipes" option. Make Cha his highest stat (to power his pipes DC and Perform checks) and Dex his second highest (to...

Not quite. You can't do both an immediate action and a swift action on the same turn. So he couldn't use the wall of blades after initiating the Mongoose.

Debasing Dreamblade Well, I bought a starter pack ($30, ouch!) just to see what the minis were like. The minis seem to be made of the same bendy black plastic as DDM, with a square base 1 + 1/8 inch across. This is then inserted into a larger (2 inch) base made from a harder, colored...

A 7-PC party, all "at least level 9"? For such a group, an 11th-level druid would be an "average" encounter. Your 9th-lvl druid will indeed be a pushover, even with the home field advantage he will have a tough time even surviving, much less defeating the party. After the first round or three...

Bought 17 boxes - 12 through Amazon, 5 through various FLGS. Haven't finished sorting them all, but I got both Bahamut and Tiamat. Hearsay has it that boxes with the Nightmare artwork always have Uncommon huges, never Rare ones. So far my experience bears this out - of 5 Nightmare boxes none...

In SCA sword-and-board combat there's a thing called a "wrap strike", where you deliberately strike past the opponent's helm/shield, then whack them in the back of the head/upper shield-arm on the return pull. It's a weaker blow, but it can take an opponent by surprise. If this is a viable...

Some other things to consider: If the monster advances by level, the problem can be solved simply by giving it levels of cleric/druid/favored soul/whatever. So we should ignore "advance by class" monsters when counting up the number of "no buff" monsters. Many "advance by HD" monsters are of...

Not quite. Acrobatic Charge allows you to charge even if there are allies or areas of difficult terrain between you and the target (which normally would disallow a charge). If traversing the terrain in question would require a skill check (such as Jump, Tumble, or Balance) you still have to...

The pearl effectively lets you "re-memorize" the spell as if you hadn't cast it for the day, so I'd say the spell bases off your caster level, just as if you had memorized and cast the spell normally.