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I just noticed an advertisement at the bottom of a discussion thread page for something called "Article VI," which apparently is a film about faith in politics in America. I thought it an odd advertisement to see on a message board where we're forbidden to discuss religion and politics.

In my game, I use Action Points from Unearthed Arcana, with the caveat that they do not carry over when you gain a level; any unused points are lost and replaced with the new total for your new level. I keep track of action points with little colored beads; each player has a different color of...

Edit: Updated title thread to reflect my change in thought, still tweaking the system in post #5. In my game, the party has no cleric, so healing resources are spread thin. They have a wand of cure light and a healing belt, the paladin has a lesser strand of prayer beads, and they drink...

I'm trying to convert some weapon and armor special abilities to slotted magic items and need help in assigning a cost value to them. Granting the user the mobility feat adds a +1 cost to magic armor. What would be the value/cost of having this ability on a pair of magic boots? Adding 1d6...

Would the following magical weapon special abilities for melee weapons be balanced at a +1 cost? Ability 1: Once per day, resolve a melee weapon attack as a melee touch attack. Ability 2: Once per day, gain 5' reach (or add 5' reach) with this weapon for one round. I'd also appreciate help in...

I wanted to make a sacred scabbard and/or scabbard of keen edges available to the PCs in my game, but the 3 times per day is going to basically equate to "unlimited usage" in my game, meaning they'll get a much bigger bang for their magic item buck from these items. So I'm looking at limiting...

I need help in trying to figure out how someone in a D&D setting would conduct a paternity test. (Could this be the oddest request of the past few weeks?) DM's note: Like most groups, my players are really good at overcoming challenges by fighting. So I like to give them non-standard challenges...

I’m looking for a name for the living construct race in my campaign. I don’t want to use the term “warforged” because they were created at a secret military facility called “The War Forge,” so it's a bit too generic for my tastes. Plus it might be too easily confused with the facility where they...

If a character changed type from 'humanoid' to 'fey,' what in-game effects would follow? They'd be immune to hold person, and alter self gives them a completely different suite of forms to choose from. What else am I missing?

[Note: Perhaps this belongs in Off-Topic. But I figured since it deals with common RPG concepts and themes it would be appropriate in the General RPG Discussion forum with a Humor tag.] Every year, The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational asks readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter...

I'm looking for a "Cthulhu cultist" type Prestige Class to pit against my PCs, something that can scare the hell out of them. I'm thinking something along the lines of the Alienist, but for clerics rather than wizards. I've looked through Complete Divine but nothing really struck me. The...

The PCs in my game have gotten into trouble. Big trouble. They attacked a very prominent member of the city government in a very public place; they were being awarded a medal of honor by the crooked city lord in a gala ball in front of the city's social and political elite when they decided to...

I have a one-shot game coming up next weekend and need to build a 5th level character. I'm opting for an elven cleric. The rest of the party includes a wizard, a rogue and a ranger (I'm almost positive this guy is going to go the archery route). So I'm hoping I can tweak an effective combatant...

OK, so today I started playing a rogue2/ranger6 with a +1 composite longbow of seeking. I'm thinking that I have a sweet weapon ability here ("seeking") for the cost of a +1 enhancement, but I could be overestimating its utility. Just for my own edification -- I want to know if I have a saltine...

I'm about to start a new semi-regular Eberron campaign for my 12-year-old nephew and two of his friends. I'll be running the three published Eberron adventures for starters, and I want this to be a heroic campaign. These kids tend to come up with background stories along the lines of: my...

I need a bit of help here. I have a player in my game whose character has changed alignments from CN to LG by way of the balance card from a Deck of Many Things. This happened a little more than a month ago in game time. Right after he pulled the card and changed alignments, the character died...

OK, say a player in your campaign wanted to take the feat Life Leech from Unearthed Arcana. This feat allows you to gain temporary hit points from dying characters/creatures around you, and makes those dying characters/creatures lose an additional hit point each round as they bleed out. The...

For Xmas my GF was kind enough to buy me a metric buttload of Planescape material and I've been trying to absorb some of it in the past few weeks. I'm looking to introduce the characters in my 3.5 campaign (currently set in Green Ronin's Freeport) to the planes with a brief trip through Sigil...

I'm trying to breakdown the price and cost of the Breastplate of Command: The armor itself is worth 350 gp (masterwork breastplate) + 4000 gp (+2 armor) = 4350 gp. So is the Command function worth 21,050 gp? The real question: how much would it cost to create a +2 mithril shirt of command? If...

I have a player in my campaign who runs a cleric of Loki (Norse god of fire and trickery). Loki's dogma teaches followers they should play pranks and trick people, in order to promote "enlightenment." When the faithful get together, they share stories of the pranks they've pulled. Now that this...