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    WotBS WotBS Soundtrack

    "Burning Sky" by Porcupine Tree is a must-include :-). Besides the appropriateness of the title, it's a long, atmospheric instrumental, which is just what the doctor ordered for this sort of thing. Also, it'll appeal to the metal fans without actually being metal in any way, shape or form...
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    War of the Burning Sky for PF

    PF PCs are noticeably more powerful than 3.5 ones, at least at low levels. Partly because of this (though a larger than usual group and my own fix for the one thing PF should have fixed and didn't - hit points - also contributed), I found the first adventure too easy when I ran it last summer...
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    Tougher minions

    My "tough minions" that I have occasionally used go like this (this has a few small but important differences from the earlier suggestions here) A tough minion is bloodied by any attack that hits; an unbloodied tough minion takes no damage from attacks that miss, unless one of the bullet points...
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    Oots #751 (?!)

    More specifically, .
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    Pathfinder 1E D&D and Pathfinder tied for first place on ICv2 Q3 RPG sales list

    Do you have a specific reason for thinking that all the WotC employees over the years who have, repeatedly and consistently, said Hasbro is extremely hands off are being untruthful? Because I'd just as soon not assume that people I respect are systematically lying without some kind of proof. (To...
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    Character Builder: Multiple Weapons

    Just want to note (bumping this very useful thread in the process) that this text flow issue still seems to exist. I'm printing out five characters for a playtest and one of them has this text flow issue (only in the Class Features section; his racial abilities and feats are fine). Guess what...
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    HP, Armor and Surges by role?

    So 19 classes out of 25 fit this pattern: Controller: Low Striker, Leader: Medium Defender: High And of the six exceptions, four are accounted for by this rule (though it also arguably creates one new one): Primal power source: Raise to the next higher category (use Very High if necessary)...
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    TSR, WotC and Electronic Support: a loveless marriage

    The problem with that is that in recent years, they have shown consistently poor judgment in choosing partners. Exhibit A: Whoever is in charge of their forums now. Exhibit B: Infogrammes. (Umbran's point that videogames are a separate thing is not without merit, but I do think it's symptomatic...
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    Which Basic?

    I said Mentzer, but it was actually the Mentzer basic followed closely by the Cook expert. I think you can nail down when I started to within a few months based on that.
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    Why *Dont* you like Forgotten Realms?

    Have you looked at any of the FR products specifically dedicated to the deities? Faiths & Avatars and its two sequels (for 2E) in particular just seem obviously to be best-of-breed, at least to me. I can't imagine giving those a read and still calling FR deities "underdeveloped". (Especially...
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    Why *Dont* you like Forgotten Realms?

    The crunch, and even some of the stuff that's a mix of interdependent crunch and fluff (prime example: the 2E deity books), is general-purpose enough that I can import it into other settings with few problems. So I do own a number of FR books, such as the aforementioned 2E deity trilogy and the...
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    How to search

    :o My bad.
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    How to search

    I can search for particular users' posts, and I can search thread titles (though the latter takes a very long time). However, when I do a search for a keyword and don't choose to search thread titles only, or a tag search, I more often than not get the error: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of...
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    How to search

    Unlike the OP, I have seen this and understand and accept search being limited to community supporters. However, it does raise the question of why search is so flaky for those of us who do pay for (among other things) access to that functionality. I can't remember the last time I had a search...
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    Save or Die: Yea or Nay?

    I explain the result as DMs feeling worse about killing characters than the players of those characters feel about losing them. In some cases, the DM sees how much work the player has put in while the player, while also conscious of that, has half a dozen other ideas s/he'd be equally interested...
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    Classics of Fantasy

    I'm necroing this thread again to ask if anyone has current, working links to these columns. All the ones above just take me to the general novels page, which makes no mention of this column ever having existed, and an admittedly quick look through the (unforgivably, non-searchable) archives...
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    Oots 0730

    Those aren't the only ones; Redcloak brought in all sorts of non-core characters trying to get information from O-Chull. (He goes so far as to mention Incarnum at one point.)
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    Where'd the buttons go?

    Missed that - and I am slightly less embarrassed about this than I would otherwise be since someone else apparently did too. It's certainly not as prominent as we have become accustomed to. No biggie, of course, given that the change is temporary and presumably for a good reason.
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    Wayfarer's Step (3.5)

    I see - so the original intention was for it to be self or ally, any time within the next minute, but this was deemed too powerful or otherwise problematic and later changed to self only, right away? (And what ended up being printed in the Player's Guide apparently has bits of both versions.)...
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    Wayfarer's Step (3.5)

    How is Wayfarer's Step supposed to work in 3.5? From the description, it seems like a simple spell for teleporting yourself short distances, but the stat block is very much at odds with that, and also seems internally contradictory. (I am using page 15 of the 3.5 Player's Guide as my sole...
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