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Hi all, I've been a 3.0/3.5 player for years. When 4e came out I purchased the books, and a couple months back started a play-by-post game with some friends. My expectations for 4e were not high, but I've liked 4e more than I thought I would... until our most recent encounter in which I had a...

Hi all, I've seen many threads on ability score generation methods but don't recall seeing any on hit point generation methods (but my community supporter status seems to have expired and I can't search for past threads). Hit points seem tricky to me... As a DM I don't want to have any...

Hi all, I'm finishing Iron Council, have 30 more pages but should be done by the time that I check out this thread again. I thought it was slow to start, even more so than PSS and The Scar, but wow did it ever build momentum and pull me in by the end. The turning point for me was definitely...

I was running around Skyway City and I happened upon a Troll Lieutenant named.... Caliban. I wonder if one of the devs hang out here. Seems like to much of a coincidence. The name isn't that troll like... Or am I missing some common origin of the name? Not like Caliban is a troll or anything. ;)

(This isn't just for Barsoomcore, he just seemed to be one of the few people here who had read this series as well.) Have you read Midnight Tides yet? I'm a bit over 100 pages in. Anyway, here's an interesting thread I stumbled onto at usenet...

I'll be in LA next week for E3 and was wanting to stop into a good FLGS to splurge at low American prices. Any recommendations?

Winners are: http://www.locusmag.com/2004/News/04_NebulaWinners.html NOVEL The Speed of Dark, Elizabeth Moon (Ballantine) NOVELLA Coraline, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins) NOVELETTE "The Empire of Ice Cream", Jeffrey Ford (Sci Fiction, 26 Feb 2003) SHORT STORY "What I Didn't See", Karen Joy...

Situation: 1) A medium sized creature is wielding a glaive or other weapon with 10' reach. 2) The creature also has a natural weapon (say a bite) secondary attack which has 5' reach. If the creature takes the full attack action, does it have to take it's secondary natural attack after or...

The Crystal Ball base magic item is CL10 and has scrying as it's required spell. It's save is a will save, DC 16 (which is the exact save that would be derived from spell level 4 + ability adjustment 2). However, no activation time or duration is mentioned. Should it be the same as a 10th...

Situation: Two groups are having an intense parley, wary that hostilities could break out at any time. Someone decides it's going no where and declares intent to cast a spell (or maye a rogue quickdraws and attacks). Would you normally allow that first action to go through before anyone can do...

Something that I never realized until recently is the note 3 of table 8-6, on pg. 151 of the 3.5 PH... Which states in the case of attacking someone who is grappling: "Roll randomly to see which grappling combatant you strike. That defender loses any Dexterity bonus to AC." I never keyed into...

If Reduce Person is cast on a medium-sized humanoid, would they gain the +4 hide bonus and the -4 grapple bonus, along with other miscelleaneous modifiers for being small? On the one hand the text of the spell seems to specifically spell out the benefits of the spell, so it may not be safe to...

What are the thoughts of other DMs on Dragonhide Plate? It's only 3,300gp for a set of masterwork full plate that druids can wear (sure they need a feat, but still). When I first saw it I thought, wow, that's a nice hidden boost for druids in 3.5, but now seeing it in action I'm starting to...

I'm just wondering, Rods of Metamagic are core now, but I still see very little mention of them. Particularly two of the Rods seem like they would be extremely useful to spell casters. 1) Lesser Silent - for only 3000gp you keep the ability to: a) cast dispel magic on yourself or an object if...

I've always wanted to ask you, which library to you work at? Just wondering as I attended UVa and worked part-time shelving in Alderman for two years in the early 90's.

I've read some comments here and there from people who mentioned eliminating alignment from their D&D games. It seems like it would be difficult, as the alignment system is so ingrained and far reaching (even more so for 3.5 than 3.0 due to changes in DR) so I would be very interested to hear...

Generally, it seems to be fairly standard not to tell players what a monster's AC is, just reporting if they were successful on their to-hit rolls. But I've seen a lot of DMs give the players target DCs for saves, i.e. "Make a DC20 fortitude save" rather than "Make a fortitude save... 18? You...

Something that comes up from time to time in my campaign that I struggle with is when to stop combat, thus cutting off readied actions, and when to ask for an initiative reroll. Specifically when my group is fighting incoporeal undead, earth elementals, or similar creatures who can retreat into...

A druid in my campaign has heavy armor proficiency and the new 3.5 Dragonhide Plate. He has also bought the Wild special ability for the armor: The description says in wild shape the armor cannot be "seen". So would you agree that it is still there (and still has weight) and just can't be...

Can a creature with the Awesome Blow feat choose to knock the target through it's own threatened area thus creating an AoO opportunity for itself? Text of Awesome blow is as follows: Second question, if it is legal, is it too cheesy? This came up in tonights game... or at least I thought of...