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Even if the RAW would suggest that a one is an auto-fail and a 20 is an auto-success for opposed roles, I would strongly suggest house ruling it otherwise. Otherwise you can end up with the exceedingly ridiculous situation of a pixie trying to trip a storm giant and having a 10% chance of...

Ok, here's a bag of worms for you. By the RAW reading of the power, does this not allow you to take a full attack action during a surprise round? You can only make one attack, or one move, but a charge and attack IS allowed...and by this power's wording, you should be able to get in all your...

I remember when this thread came around the first time, and again I've got to side with the smurf. Not only does it make sense from a RAW perspective, it even follows with the often maligned "realistic" perspective. That being: If you have a very balanced sword (masterwork) that has an...

Ok, I'm probably going to whup my players this week. I just want to make sure I whup them legally. They are a group of 5 10-11th with a paladin, a cleric, a rogue and a psion/wizard/cleric and a bard/fighter. I'm sending them up against a BBEG 11th level wizard. He's got himself a lesser rod...

You know, I never thought of that before, but yeah. A +2 defender has a +2 magical enhancement bonus to attack and damage, and a +1 physical enhancement bonus that do not stack with each other. The +1 is due to the masterwork construction of the weapon, a purely physical quality involving the...

Yeah, I just needed a "way out" for a potentially returning BBEG. The problem is, he's not that BIG of a BBEG and couldn't really do the quickened invisibilty to get out of there. And the 35000gp price tag is a bit out of his range (and FAR too expensive to fall into the hands of my PCs)

Alright, if you are sneak attacking with a volley against multiple opponents who are all denyed DEX, do you get the sneak attack damage against ALL of them or only the first in the round? If you were to stab them all with a knife, you would definately get sneak attack damage on every hit, but...

How would you guys price a one time only (ala potion) version of a lesser rod of empower, or maximizing, or quickening? Something that was applicable to any spell of a certain level, but not restricted to a SPECIFIC spell, like a metamagiked scroll would be.

Ok, just wondering... using the prepare function of this spell, do you lose a fourth level spell slot from day one to gain 3 spell levels in day two? How exactly does that work and why wouldn't someone use up all their 4th level spell slots the day before a big adventure, and then heap on the...

Oh... and the "similarly shaped object" thing only works in an airless environment. Case in point: an apple and an orange of the same volume and shape would fall at roughly the same speed, but a bowling ball and a balloon have about the same volume and shape as well.

Ok, the acceleration due to gravity is 9.81 m/s squared, or 32 ft/s/s for the americans. The force of gravity ALWAYS acts to accelerate you towards the ground, it's just that at a certain point the force of air resistance slowing you down (which increases with velocity) balances you out and you...

Thanks to everyone, especially Bront. Can't figure why that would be propriatary.

This might be the stupidest question asked, but I'm away from my books and I only have access to the SRD. Where is XP per CR and XP/level located? I can figure out the XP/level thing pretty well, but the xp/cr thing is stumping me. Any clue where I can find this online? Thanks

Ok, from what I'm gettinge here is that my lovely black dragon should have absolutely no problems completely wiping up the floor with the unfortunate party. SO... what can the poor saps do about it? I mean, if they do their research like good little peons, what tactics and tricks can these...

Alright, I don't know if this should go here or elsewhere... I'm going to be running my very first dragon encounter since I started playing almost 20 years ago. They are a bit different than other encounters and I could use some help. The dragon in question is a CR 14 Adult Black, and the...

Actually, as a DM, I'd do my best to try and knock at least one of the characters overboard. The armor check penalties for swimming are there for a reason, and if a player is dumb enough to wear his full plate armor on a sailing ship he deserves a good old trip to the briny deep. By eliminating...

Scharlata and Werk, sorry, meant Storm Giant, not cloud. 19HD, not 17. And the desecrate spell CL2 allows you to create up to 4HD a level in it's effect. Adds +1hp/HD as well. Oh well, guess I'm not going to keep bringing my buddy back to life... but whoever kicked HIS butt... well, I'm due...

All right, I've got a quick question here about the spell animate dead. Yup, plain old boring 3rd level animate dead. If my 5th level Cleric of super-evil-bad has both desecrate and animate dead, and happens to come across a recently deceased Cloud Giant, he can animate it as a skeleton (19hd)...

A lot of the fun of being a spellcaster comes from these sorts of decisions. One of my mages finest moments came from when the headstrong (annoyingly) halfling rogue dived into a throng of enemies and got himself WAY over his head. The best thing I could think of to do... target my fireball...