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That's not how it works. XP requirements are based on character level, not class level.

I've played this combination for a while, and while it's cool for visual effect to play an armored melee fighter with (nearly) full spellcasting, it isn't all that. MAD is a problem; you need Strength (or Dexterity) and Intelligence, possibly a good Wisdom depending on which cleric spells you...

I'm coming around to this second interpretation, which makes the wording clear. The extra 3 days is meant as a disincentive, a punishment if you will, for skipping out on your downtime obligations. After all, if you're not putting the time in to get downtime benefits, then you're bypassing the...

How many times can I laugh at a single post? :p

If that's how it's supposed to work, then an easier way to calculate the construction time would be: Quadruple all the construction times. Every day the PC is present counts as four days of construction work.

Actually, this is the clearest demonstration of bounded accuracy we've ever seen. Save DCs and attack bonuses don't scale with level... much (theoretically), while damage and hit points do.

Agreed!

Ooh, that sounds like fun!

In the last game I played, two 1st-level PCs faced one ghoul (the party was split, and the rest were elsewhere fighting zombies), and I can tell you we were pretty damn worried when one of the PCs was paralyzed right off, and it only got worse when he failed his first save. That ghoul could've...

First, we don't know what is actually written. The note about balancing the eladrin's 2nd-level spell ability implies that there was more detail about tradeoffs before this excerpt. And ECL involved a whole lot of winging it, and often wasn't that helpful in balancing things. That's not really...

That's weird. I've just been planning a sea-based campaign, and the night before this thread was started, hit upon the idea for the starting adventure: PCs defend a settlement from pirates in a ship that became separated from its fleet, after which they have a ship they can use to leave their...

Before the PHB came out, and warlock features were just rumors and hints, I was thinking that the warlock with a gen familiar would be the best fit for a sha'ir. After seeing the warlock, I changed my mind. For one, the gen is an integral part of the sha'ir theme, but a warlock doesn't get a...

Good find! That's a substantial change to the encounter-building rules.

Actually, what the spell scroll used to say was: This was interpreted by most to mean that anyone could cast the spell with a successful Arcana check. The addition of "Otherwise, the scroll is unintelligible." to the current version makes it clear that you need it on your spell list to make...

Don't start that up again!

Could I interest you in a vorpal folding boat, flame tongue?

With respect to the DM's wish to ban use of the character's warlock class ability on the fly, on this we agree. It sounded sloppy and potentially vindictive.

Can you elaborate? How would one not deal with class/rules/story elements? How did the DM in this case not deal with class/rules/story elements? I posit that DMs imposing such conditions deal with class/rules/story elements by treating the impacts to particular characters as acceptable in the...

Sure, and the very first line of the condensed, simplified definition describes clever as "intelligent and able to learn things quickly". And the first part of that definition? "Mentally quick and original; bright". I said: And there we have it, as demonstrated by Merriam-Webster and...

I've run (and played in) games where characters started with no equipment, or had everything taken from them; so have plenty of other people. Many others have run games in which healing/resting rules were tweaked for one reason or another (usually to make healing more difficult, I'd wager). Does...