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Ranger REG is right that the redesign of the weapon size rules is incomplete, since it doesn't address the effects of size on range and reach. Then again, I can understand why: players of Small PCs would cry bloody murder that WotC was further penalising their choice to play small characters...

I just wanted to pick up on something bloodymage said: Well, let me see, I say so! ;) When I set aside time to role-play, I like to feel that my time at table was well spent, that it was worth my coming along, rather than being merely a decoration. In other words, I want my character to be...

Ummm... isn't one of the main reasons that magic items became so important that the D&D magic system skews character power towards the spellcasters (notably Sorcerer and Wizard)? In other words magic items give other classes a chance to keep up with the spellcasters (e.g. by being able to become...

I just wanted to say, Kolvar, that you have the core of a very clever and nice game tool for the DM. Just running it gave me ideas for my campaign! Keep up the good work!

Crothian, I think it's important to remember that there are some people (and beings) who simply cannot be swayed to serve the character's wishes. They personally might sympathise with them, but they are not acting alone. People who are part of organisations especially might be respectful of the...

Aha! That makes sense. Thanks NB! Don't suppose anyone knows the URL of an image of one?

Drusus? Sorry for breaking into this discussion, but whilst we are discussing Roman swords, perhaps the clever people of ENWorld can help me. I have seen several references elsewhere to the Drusus, e.g. Arms & Equipment Guide wherein it says 'treat it as a masterwork shortsword'. But what...

That's certainaly an interesting comparison you make, MerricB. I never used to use a battle map before I played D&D3, relying on scrappy bits of paper and my own interpretation. But since starting to play 3rd ed I have come to greatly prefer this method - it saves so much time in being...

A Bane weapon is considered to be an extra +2 to attack and damage against the object of its Bane power, so it does +2d6+2 points more damage than normal. An aerage of 9 points, which is just about enough to overcome a DR of 10. Bane perhaps needs recasting in light of the Damage Resistance...

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Bravo Hong! Nicely said, Sir! Personally I have no problem with godless Clerics (indeed my entire setting, the Shattered World is predicated on there being no Gods). People's difficulties with the notion seem broadly to be that they cannot imagine a way for the genuinely 'godless' to touch...

When did the red box set come out? Quite a few have mentioned it, and I wonder if that was the impetus? LOL!! I knew what a Keep was but I recall treating it as 'just another dungeon' to be defeated and robbed! I suspect I wasn't alone in that. ;)

An 'Other' here: Back in 1981 I was injured and had to miss sports. I got chatting with a guy in my class who I'd never really talked to before, and he mentioned this thing called 'Dungeons and Dragons' which he gamed from time to time. Now I read fantasy and SF, so it seemed kinda...

By the rules, the answer is simply 'Yes'. One day is the minimum amount of time taken to make any magic item. Consider a caster level 1 scroll of a cantrip or orison. It may only have a market value of 12gp 5sp, but it will still take 1 days' work to produce. Some DMs don't like that feel...

I ahve been tempted to go from the gold to the silver standard for my Shattered World campaign, but so far I haven't found the energy to sort through everything to amend stuff. What I did do at the start was modify the universality of money. I developed a few currenices that were considered to...

BU, you have tried to organise the party in D&D haven't you? ;) It takes 15 minutes to agree that we're going to break camp, and another 45 to decide in what direction we go afterwards! Getting a group of role-players actually 'organised' is kinda like expecing a sack of ferrets to be peaceful...

From the way you speak, it sounds like your friend really would rather be playing D&D3e than the game you were playing before, and basically you've let him pull the sphere of the game in that direction. And that's making you unhappy - you are finding yourself constrained by a ruleset you don't...

Like you, I've broadly kept the D&D3 system and dropped the idea of a Common tongue. Instead I've got three lingua francas, depending on where you are. Each is based on the expansion of a power, whether militarily, commercially or as colonists. A character can normally find, in a large town...

Funnily enough, so do I! I guess that as I request the PCs to roll their HPs then the least I can do is roll them for the monsters too.

No fair Hong! You can't just go through this board requoting what other people have said! Okay, you can... In fact, you do... Hmmmm.... I'll leave now, shall I?