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I'm building a subtle assassin to harrass my pcs. The task is to make a character that appears prefectly harmless, and is specialized in killing opponents before they realize otherwise. An assasin type not really meant for combat, but rather for quiet and quick assassination. Here is a...

i tend to stay out of house rule debates, but I'm confused about something: Why does any one object to a high level fighter doing more damage than a fireball? Are they doing the math right? Are they counting the total damage done to all targets? Thought that this was the balance between...

same high level gnome cleric. ELC 18-20 1, While sleeping off a bender, party is randomly attacked in their hotel by gnoll bandits. Gnome summoned 2 greater earth elementals. those suckers weigh a few dozen tones or more each. party was on the upper floor of a stone and wood building party...

In the first room of the dungeon, My GM Gave to me Some kobolds; 1 d3. (I think we can alternated gold, magic, and cur'sid rings when we get to five)

Oh, come on guys... You can do better than this. Pile it on! Let's see exactly how GEEKY we can make this tread! SO, should the platerpus have a confusion ability? " Mage!, I've come to cleave your head from you....What the *Beeb* is THAT ---> _thing_ on your shoulder?????" Should it...

they are a hybrid race. some elves in forgotten relms consroted with some demons.....got exiled/went into hiding for a few generations.....the result was a true breeding hybrid colony. this is an unique situation. The features of the gene pool are "set".

I need the stats for a duckbilled plyaterpuss. The sorc in my game has taken some wisdom damage and now wants one as his falmilar I'm also going to need stats for a kiwi. (both the fruit and the bird) As a throw away line I had a street vender offer the cleric one, and he went and bought it...

if you wnat the dnd feel, use the dnd classes. If you wnat the B5 feel, use the b5 classes. (change class skills) if you wnat a hybrid feel, use both, but use the b5 leveling rules. 0-2 hp gained per level. A single crossbow bolt CAN kill you. It may me nice having telepaths, psions, and...

What is everyones' Thanksgiving themed encounters? Thursday I ran my colleger group though one. Ever notice the size difference between baby and adult Ostriches? The party, after a failed knowledge nature check starts chaseing a "turkey" though the woods. Right back to mama axebeak...

When I have to run a party member NPC I try to follow a few general rules: 1: I try to fill a need that he party has. If the party has no healer.... 2: I try to make it in at least some small way a burden as well as an accet. She is a Adept, inept at combat, with eneimies 3: I try to keep...

Ask the complaining player "Are you having fun?" If he says yes, then tell him that he is worring about the "game rules" and not the game itself. The goal of the game is to have fun, not for everyone to gain XP in the same way. Or you can argue that the multi personality character is...

It depends on which campaigne I'm running and the style that I want. If I'm running an "old style" game based on classic modules, then its "no warlocks, no warforged". If I want "bunch of Joe's out adventureing" Then the rule is "if it can't walk into the tavern..." meaning nothing that...

Be careful of using combat to force pcs together, particually the "getting run out of town sort". Some times a player will unexpectedly turn sourpuss over being put in a no win situation for the purposes of plot. For example, I needed to add two new pcs to a running 2 month old campaine...

It depends on which game. The Friday night newbi game with the kids? Yeah, I fudge. And I let them know that I am doing it by only using the GM screen for that damage roll after asking "How many hp do you have left?" They know it is the "kids game". The Thursday night game with the college...

The most important thing to remember is that it is HER character, and that character already has a history. respect those things beyond all else, other wise the character loses it's definition. Right now, the character has 2 defining characteristics. A: A strong connection to dragons. This...

Marbles, jacks, jump ropes, gnomish roller skates.... the halfling sized shadow that aimed the cross bow at you that you just killed with Magic Missile.....you notice that the paladin has a perfectly normal sucksion cup toy bolt sticking dead heart center on his breast plate....no, you _don't_...

Let's phrase that a different way: Why should being an egg protect you in anyway from being magically transformed into an omlet?

Summon Monster. If you take the high level version of it you get to summon multiple firends into combat pretty much whereever you want too, and they stick around for a long time. sometimes haveing 1d4+1 buddies from the list 2 levels below are better than 1d3 from the list below or the 1 biggy...

Bad for the PC, Nice for the GM and for common sense. There is no logical reason why training as a fighter would increase your resistance to magic.....Of for that matter, why training in two different arcane classes that use the same spells would nessicarly make you any better at resisting...

I tend to run alot of older modules for 3.x players and I have many old monster books. Usually I convert on the fly, or just plug in the new monster write ups. Sometimes however, this just isn't feesable. Either the monsters haven't been converted, or the new save types just don't make sense...