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What happens if magical transport is prevented by something like AntiMagic or a Forbiddance in the target zone? Does your Teleport just fizzle, like Teleport Without Error does if you make an error, or do you get shunted to a nearby available space? Or something else?

JoeGKushner's review thread got me to thinking about how I interpret online reviews (and reviewers); it also got me to thinking about this one specific issue: Though a Freeport fan, I put off buying Black Sails because of mediocre reviews here (3 at 3.33). Yet, I see that Black Sails not...

I'm in LA for a bit; where should I check out in terms of game stores? Preferably near the airport, but all suggestions are welcome.

Does your group declare each Move Action and then execute it in its entirety? Or are your Moves more fluid, involving Spot and Listen checks and the discovery of new information? For instance, my group has been very fluid; "I move 5 feet to the corner and keep looking for monsters. Then I...

I could have sworn that there was some sort of item or spell called "Telepathic Bond" that let two PCs communicate freely. I couldn't find it in 3E. Then I looked in 1E and couldn't find it there either. Hrm. So, have I mis-remembered the name? Or have I totally imagined the whole thing?

I enjoyed seeing the threads from players and DMs of Sunless Citadel and Forge of Fury. I'm running Chaos Rising (Necromancer) right now and would be curious if anyone has experience with it. [SPOILERS] Avert your eyes if you are planning on playing this. Did anyone's party shy...

Magic Jar seems to require a bunch of rulings; here are a couple of things I would like opinions on: 1) When you Jar someone you get to keep your WIS, CHA and INT. What happens if I cast Fox's Cunning on myself before I Jar my opponent? Do I get to keep the +4 INT or is that spell associated...

One of my players pointed out that Invisibility does not say anything about supressing it's own magical emanations; he wanted to be able to "see" magically Invisible creatures by using his permenant Detect Magic. This seems to violate the spirit of the spell, but is it legal in 3.5E...

I am preparing to run some aerial combats and I am trying to understand the rules for them. Six questions, broken up by topic: 1) As far as I can tell, the subject is only covered in the DMG on p20 (Tactical Aerial Movement)? 2) What is Maximum Turn? Is it the sum of Turn and Turn in Place...

Do Rays take the same penalties for Firing Into Melee that a mundane ranged weapon does? For instance, can I accidentally Disintegrate my friends with careless ray'ing? If not, do Rays take other mundane penalties, such as versus prone or covered opponents? If so, is there an equivalent...

The Ring of Invisibility says that "By activating this simple silver ring, the wearer can benefit from invisibility, as the spell." In 1E the ring just made you invisible for as long as you wished. Is this still true or does the wording "as the spell" imply that it has a finite duration? If...

What are people using these days to generate/track 3.5E characters? I used PCGen under 3.0E, I've tried Redblade3.5E and HeroBuilder under 3.5E. Each one of them has some significant drawbacks (PCGen, java=slow, 3.5E compatibility=slow ; Redblade, many bugs ; HeroBuilder, 5MB character size...

So, what are the limits of the Gaseous Form spell? The spell description implies that you can deform your Gaseous Form -- "It can pass through small holes or narrow openings, even mere cracks, with all it was wearing or holding in its hands, as long as the spell persists. " Can I voluntarily...

An unattended object gets no saving throw, so I'd expect that an Iron Door Disintegrated by a 12th level caster would take 24d6 of damage (which may or may not actually destroy it.) But the second paragraph of Disintegrate says "When used against an object, the ray simply disintegrates as much...

So, searching for traps should be one of the Rogues major functions, but it seems that the mechanics of the rules make this too time consuming to be useful. "I search this 5x5 area as a full round action. Now I search that one. In about 30 minutes I'll have worked my way down this...

I notice that Hezrou has the Improved Grab ability but, unlike a Dire Lion for instance, he has no follow-up attack (like Rake or Constrict). I may be missing something tactical in the Grapple rules, but I don't see why he would use this ability in regular combat. If he wanted a prisoner I can...

OK, so I understand the odds that something...odd...will happen to someone, somewhere if enough "random" packs are opened. But I've opened three DragonEye packs and gotten 3 Carrion Crawlers as my Rare. Additionally, I bought a Carrion Crawler as a single a while back -- someone else locally...

So, how is the secondary market for D&D minis these days? I've found one place in the SF Bay Area that sells single miniatures; my thanks go to the person who recommended Legends in Cupertino. (I picked up a Carrion Crawler and a Blue Wyrmling last week.) Has anyone else run across a local...

I was just looking in my 3.5E DMG for the 3.0E "Spotting Distance" table and I see it's no longer there. Did it get replaced with something else in some other part of the book?? Or is Spotting Distance somehow obsolete? It seems like a strange omission.

Has anyone found a shop in the Bay Area selling singles of the new WotC miniatures yet? None of my regular haunts have them. Are most people buying online?