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True facts: Every Christmas for the past few years, I've run a one-shot for my dad and brothers. Mom doesn't join in, but she likes to watch or listen in from the next room. Fun times all around, and it's a source of lots of good memories.

Personally, I'd have the player make a Perform (Stringed Instruments) check to determine quality/complexity of the work. Just feels more flavorful to me. The lyre does masterful work when played more masterfully.

The BAB isn't just good for getting that fourth attack by level 20. A binder's role in combat is mainly that of a secondary beater, and they can be pretty good at it too. (I've tried playing it as an arcane caster sort of role, and even with an obscure feat to get UMD as a class skill it was...

Arrows of Baleful Polymorph would be funny. Arrows that turn enemies into squirrels! Or, for that matter, along the lines of buffing arrows, arrows of regular Polymorph. Shoot your ally in the back, turn him into a hydra! Battlefield control effects like Solid Fog or Black Tentacles would also...

Test Firing the Railgun Now, let's look at the output of the Railgun's signature attack at various levels. The calculations here assume our Railgun is a human with starting ability scores of 12 Str, 16 Dex, 14 Con, 16 Wis, 10 Int, and 8 Cha, as noted above, and cannot use Str-boosting items to...

This is a build I've been working on the past few days just for giggles. It turned out to be both interesting and surprisingly effective, so I figured I may as well share it. I must admit, I shamelessly based this build on a character from an anime. Namely, this one: This is Misaka Mikoto...

Even if Leadership were allowed (I never bothered to check), I probably wouldn't take it for this character anyway. Kind of hard to justify having a horde of loyal followers when you've spent most of your life keeping your head down so the mage's guild doesn't find you and lynch you for using...

Well, I already have a Bluff bonus of +26 before adding vestige abilities or whatever circumstance bonuses I might get from flaunting my fake spellbook, stereotypical wizard garb, superfluous spell component pouch, and forged wizard academy diploma. Skill Focus just strikes me as a tad...

The main issue with that is that KotSS wouldn't really give me all that much of value, since the campaign will probably end before I hit any of the abilities that are particularly relevant to my style of play. I'd probably only get up to third level or so in the PrC before the campaign ends...

We just hit level 12 in the campaign I'm currently playing in, and I'm having trouble deciding on a good feat for my character. I'm playing a binder, but one who pretends to be a wizard and is extremely paranoid about being found out for what he really is. He didn't exactly get a very warm...

Many months ago I posted some stuff here about a campaign focused on exploring a forest distorted by fey magic. The BBEG is an entity known as the Elvenking, an ancient fey lord of near-godlike power that is in the process of awakening after aeons of dormancy and wants to rewrite the world in...

Actually, that's the limit for nonmagical item creation. Magic items have no stated cap, but instead eat an amount of XP equal to 5000 + 2x the normal XP cost to craft the item. So if you're casting the spell you *could* wish for a Ring of Three Wishes...if you feel like burning 36836 XP. Of...

But nymphs don't pupate...

Technically speaking, any XP and costly material components/foci of a spell are already accounted for with a scroll. If he were casting the spell himself then that would definitely apply, but in the case of a scroll (assuming it's a standard scroll of Wish from the SRD) he has an automatic...

Sure thing. http://www.mediafire.com/view/?3hc5gddjldv0wbf

The others in the thread have more or less covered all the main points, but I just want to pitch in my two cents: I can definitely sympathize with your complaints, but I see it as a necessary evil for the sake of making the game more fair for a broader spectrum of players. Handling things like...

Pardon the thread necromancy, but I just happened to stumble across an answer to this question in an official source book (albeit a setting-specific one). Dangerous Denizens, a bestiary for the Kingdoms of Kalamar setting, has an appendix at the back for mundane animals, including a list of...

It's worth noting that according to MIC, horses have all the same body slots that humans do except rings. So any item that would be useful for a humanoid PC (eg, Cloak of Resistance, various stat-boosting items, etc.) can be had for your mount. Might need a little refluffing (eg, a cloak would...

You may not be able to be both a druid and a paladin, but you can still have a comparable setup with an animal companion using a Paladin going into the beastmaster PrC. The prereqs for Devoted Tracker don't require you to be a ranger, just that you have Track (a feat with no prerequisites)...

Well, it is worth noting that if you're stacking the benefits of the paladin's mount and the druid's animal companion onto the same creature, it's going to be pretty strong -- even stronger than if you were using the Devoted Tracker feat to get a companion mount. Remember that a companion mount...