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  1. HeapThaumaturgist

    Grim Tales SRD Offline Edition?

    My GT book seems to be in the bookshelf at the other house, so I don't have it to hand. Additionally, the website for the GTSRD seems to have ... died. And quite a while back (seems like it has been down for 6 months or so?). Did anybody save off the HTML or RTF files or whatever to something...
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    Melee Weapon Mastery

    So a buddy of mine had a question: Does Melee Weapon Master stack with Weapon Focus and Weapon Specialization? Here's the text: "When you select this feat, choose bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing. You must have Weapon Focus and Weapon Specialization with a melee weapon that deals this type...
  3. HeapThaumaturgist

    Leadership, UH, What is it good for?

    So the characters in the AoW game I'm in hit 15th level last night, and we've got a feat selection to make. And I'm torn ... At this point, most of the higher-level "interesting" melee feats have long lists of prereqs that my character, not being a Fighter, does not have ... I could pick up...
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    Looking for an AoE (Force) spell

    I'm putting together a Force specialist Sorcerer and I'd like to find him a Force-descriptor AoE type spell. Even if the dice are small, it would be a little more fitting to the theme to have a Force AoE instead of, say, Fireball. --fje
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    Practical Metamagic, worth it?

    In Races of the Dragon there is a feat called "Practical Metamagic". Essentially, you take the feat and apply it to a metamagic feat you already know: Now that metamagic feat requires one level lower spell slot to use. So Empower Spell, for instance, takes up a slot one level higher instead...
  6. HeapThaumaturgist

    Armor Effects for Non-Armored Characters

    Can you enchant regular clothing like armor so that it can accept armor special qualities? Like a +1 Shirt of Etherealness or Robe of Light Fortification? --fje
  7. HeapThaumaturgist

    Riding another PC

    Are there any rules for one character "riding" another character? Particularly I'm thinking of a Tiny PC riding around on the shoulder of a regular Medium PC or hanging out in their backpack. --fje
  8. HeapThaumaturgist

    What happens when they die?

    So the flavor text I can find, D&D creatures with souls go to the plane correct for their alignment "when they die". What, exactly, does that mean? What do they become there? Where is this detailed? It came up the other night when a PC died and when we went to Raise him the player said...
  9. HeapThaumaturgist

    Dispel Magic: Probability for the English Grad Student

    Okay ... here's my question: What's the math look like for the probabilities on a spell like Dispel Magic. Let's take a character with 8 spells, cast by a 13th level caster, active on his person. He gets hit with a 10th-level Targeted Dispel Magic. The Dispeller needs a 14+ to hit a spell...
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    Spire of Long Shadows Spoilers - Tanglefoot+Silence and WoStone Beatdown

    What would everybody think the effect would be of casting Silence on a Tanglefoot bag and using the TFB to either pelt a spellcaster or just splop sticky-bomb style on a ceiling or pillar? What about casting Silence on a single grain of sand and plopping it in a bottle of sand and shaking it...
  11. HeapThaumaturgist

    Spell Resistance Armor: Ever Worth It?

    Is it me or is the spell resistance granted by items WAY too low to ever be of much real use? It seems that about the time you can reasonably afford to buy it an equal-level caster is going to blow through it on anything other than a 1. Not long after, you're going to find that the SR never...
  12. HeapThaumaturgist

    20 gallon drums of lamp oil

    So there are rules for 1pt flasks of lamp oil being used as weapons. But what about dropping half a dozen 20gal barrels of the stuff out of bags of holding from 200ft up into a 20'x30' room with a few corridors off of it and following with an alchemist's fire? They'd all be coming through a...
  13. HeapThaumaturgist

    Non-Buff Spells For Melee Clerics

    Well, I need some spells for my melee cleric to cast that aren't buffs. I find myself the target of upwards of 6-10 dispel magics a combat ... bursts, targets, Spell-Like Abilities, spells, etc. It's become totally obvious there's no way to avoid having every single spell active on my...
  14. HeapThaumaturgist

    Ring of Counterspelling: Targeted Only?

    Does Ring of Counterspelling counterspell, say, Fireball when cast with you within the radius or is it only useful when loaded with Targeted type spells? The ring description says: "As the counterspell action" which can counter any type of spell but the text also says: "should that spell...
  15. HeapThaumaturgist

    Obscuring Mist: Breaks LoS?

    So I have a question: The inference is, from the text of Obscuring Mist, that it breaks Line Of Sight for creatures on either side of the cloud, correct? I.E. ....A XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX ....B In that instance A and B, neither of which are in the cloud, do not have Line Of Sight to one...
  16. HeapThaumaturgist

    Strength Domain Power: Any way to make it better?

    So I've got a 13th level cleric with the Strength domain ... and I find I RARELY use my granted power. It's a 1round 1/day ability that ... it could be pretty cool, but it doesn't happen very often that I need to, say, break down a door or some other 1-round strength-based "thing". Usually...
  17. HeapThaumaturgist

    Point Buy: How Much Are Points Worth?

    So I've been funking around with a new race for a product ... "design" tells me it should be LA+1, but "playability" tells me LA is usually rather blah and that early-levels implementing anything with LA involves starting the PCs above 1st (and the LA guy gets dangerously few HP) and at higher...
  18. HeapThaumaturgist

    Powerful Build: OGC?

    Pretty straightforward. Does anyone know if or where the Powerful Build racial ability may have been made Open Game Content by WotC? --fje
  19. HeapThaumaturgist

    d20 Modern: Chlorine Gas

    Quick question, is there a source out there, preferably OGL, which has listed the effects of Chlorine gas when used as a weaponized agent/poison? --fje
  20. HeapThaumaturgist

    Saves, SR, Caster Level Checks

    Now, the rules state that a character who is targeted by a spell can volunteer to fail the saving throw, if they wish. And that a character who has spell resistance can choose to lower their spell resistance to be affected by spells if they wish. Now, the question is, can a character who casts...
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