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Thanks for the thoughts, all. It looks like the consensus is that just by virtue of being a familiar, this doesn't override the usual restrictions against resurrecting Outsiders? That's pretty much what I figured, that the only non-houserule way around it was the wish angle. It is awfully...

Assume you've got a character with an Imp for a familiar, through the Improved Familiar feat. The Imp is an Outsider, and so it should not be possible to return the Imp from the dead with anything short of a wish/miracle. BUT, the description of the familiar specifically says that a slain...

It would make a fun one-shot con game, but I can't see playing it out as a long term campaign.

Downtime, or the lack thereof, is a pet peeve of mine. The game is built with the assumption of downtime; certain aspects of the game in particular. In just about every game I've played in for the past 5 years or so, the campaign has consisted of a race against impossible odds to save the...

I was running...hmm. I guess it would have to have been early 2E, for my younger brother and his best firend, a modified version of the Isle of Dread module from the Basic boxed set. Generally I reined myself in, but at one point, in a moment of weakness, I gave my brother an intelligent short...

I figure the key is that you don't need to dispel the wards on the entire tower, just at the base support structures. It doesn't matter if antimagic field only effects up to 10'...if the first ten feet worth of tower blows, the rest of the tower becomes subject to beautiful, beautiful gravity...

If having a magic plot device open up and whisk them away to Baldur's Gate would ruin the feel of overland travel in FR for your group, then compromise. Give them a "free ride" to that nearby town, but not all the way to Baldur's Gate. Along the way, have them encounter a group of fire giants...

Going strictly by the rules, if you were in an acid fog, using a wand, let's say, and you got disarmed, wouldn't that wand become an unattended object? And start taking acid damage? It makes Acid Fog followed up by a quickened Grease seem like a pretty powerful spell combo. Still nothing like...

Ditto what others have said: in the right set of circumstances, these tricks can be very useful. Our group was recently in a big fight with a BBEG godlike melee monster, and both grapple and bull rush factored significantly. The BBEG was hitting regularly with 3 of his 4 iterative attacks, and...

I can't think of why platinum would be necessary, either. Are you sure they didn't mean plutonium ?

Not much of a metaplot, really. The main character has an intern-level job in the DA's office, they know about her abilities, but can't come right out and say "we know this stuff because our psychic intern told us so". There is a sub-plot developing around the youngest daughter, It's a good...

I've heard stories (on morning radio shows, so I can't really back them up) that DeNiro was so unhappy with the direction and pacing and whatnot that he actually walked out of the premiere screening. To which I can only say....ouch.

Don't have Frostburn, so I'm not familiar with the spell. Can you post some more info about it? Specifically, what's the duration? How was it devastating, exactly...were you draining the target's dex completely and paralyzing them? Since having Dex reduced to 0 paralyzes you, it's most...

Poison in Mountain Dew? Would you even notice? To respond to the post at hand, as a DM, I'm often guilty of the opposite: giving too much description about things that don't matter. Or trying to make the description of an action more cinematic, when a simple "it bites you" will suffice...

Thanks for the info, everyone. The line from Elektra that Sfounder mentioned about the Sai being an offensive killing weapon was specifically what got me thinking about it...it's good to know I was on the right track, and Hollywood got it wrong (gasp!). Of course, all discussion of real-world...

In all fairness to Minority Report, it was supposed to represent a future where people are much more de-sensitized to seemingly-arbitrary police actions like that. They weren't saying "this is how people really would react", but rather "this is how people might react, given the world they live...

OK, in general, yes, I figure you hit the other guy with it. But in specific technique, isn't the Sai supposed to be primarily a defensive weapon? I thought the hooked prongs on either side are for catching and parrying an attackers' weapon. I'll confess, this question comes from just...

2nd Edition game, and I'm playing a halfling bard, infamous among the party for his ability to cause copious amounts of trouble with whatever meagre resources are at hand. He was about 6th level, I think. We are camped in the woods, watching a huge gathering of Orcs. The disparate tribes of...

Sounds like a gret idea. I'm not sold on the Ring as an iconic symbol of a wizard's power though. Outside of Tolkien, a magic ring doesn't really scream "Hey, I belong to a wizard!" to me. The "item" that I most identify with a wizard that isn't on your list yet is the Familiar. What kind...