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SR4A pg. 145 has an example of someone delaying their shot until their ally is out of "threat range" of an enemy to avoid friendly fire. This implies that shooting into a melee is harder and/or risky than at an isolated target. However, the actual combat rules do not seem to support this at...

This one goes out to all of you rules lawyers: under RAW, is it possible to reverse psionic blast's area of effect to have the wide end of the cone adjacent to the manifester? I get this idea from the power's statblock which gives as the spell's AoE a "30' cone-shaped burst" and as its range...

Compared to some other problems this spell causes, this possibly seems trivial and easy to solve, but here it is anyway: When my character polymorphs, in what manner do his ability scores change? Does he get the exact scores listed in the monster's enty or are the monster's ability modifiers...

Over the years, two issues have become immanent to me that might be main reasons for caster/non-caster discrepancy: - the "I win button". Magic often just works as intended. Wizards are able to perfectly aim their fireballs so that they hit only enemies, if that is geometrically possible...

The whole "What I want from 5e" and recent Legends & Lore discussion revolved a lot around player challenges vs. character challenges. Some folks believe that characters are but a proxy or a puppet that inhabits the game world in their stead, while others try to make the game all about the...

This would be forked from the 'Toughness Feat Alternatives' thread, if I'd only found the right button. That is something I had never thought about. I guess it makes sense from a balancing POV, but in terms of game design in general, I find the idea just horrible. Tell me if I am missing...

I was looking at the Dalelands map on pg. 117 FRCS and realized it is much more detailed than the corresponding section from the fold-out. Is there a complete map of the Realms that has this kind of detail?

I know all of this has been discussed a million times, but I'd like some informed opinions on the following: how do you counter the nasty "take-five-foot-step-then-cast" strategy? I also know that this point is moot after level 5 or so, when defensive casting nearly always succeeds, but I'd like...

In a wacky case of life imitating art, I’m about to write a treatise on this, which will mimic my character’s initiation thesis. Currently I’m in the research phase, and the books (4th Ed., 20th Anniversary, and Street Magic) leave so much ambiguity, I’m curious as to how you guys handle the...

Hello fellow EnWorlders, During tonight's session a question on how a sorcerer casts his spells came up. The player of our group's sorcerer (level 10) argued that he could cast fireball 17 times a day, which is his spell capacity from 3rd-5th level + a ridiculous amount of bonus spells from...

I'd like to buy a notebook that has an ULV (ultra-low voltage) CPU. The one thing that worries me is that the CPU in question (Intel SU4100) is only clocked at 1,3 GHz. Since I'd like to play Dragon Age, I'm worried that I won't meet its requirements (1,6 GHz for Vista). Now, I've heard several...

So ch. 4 first presents you the five NPC classes and then gives you detailed stats for NPCs per level, but only for the eleven player classes? Am I missing something here? Or are NPC classes supposed to be so simple that DMs should be able to stat them on the fly?

Is it possible to augment psi-like abilities like powers when your manifester level goes up and you have a reserve of power points? My gut feeling says no, as PLAs don't work with power points, but daily uses. However, since your manifester level for PLAs goes up every two class levels, and...

I've wanted to play a githzerai character for some time, but was always put off by their Level Adjustment (+2). The PGtF introduced me to the concept of "lesser" races, i.e. stripped-down variants of powerful races that have no LA. In the process of converting the githzerai, I've run into some...

Hoping that it will fix some of the issue with high-level play in 3.x (notably the exacerbating gaps between high and low attack/save progressions), I adopted the level-modifier for my house rules. It works as follows: Level-Modifier = character level/2 (round down). Add the level-modifier to...

To all the sneaky characters out there (or simply anyone who has the tactics down): Using the errata'd PHB stealth rules, how do become hidden in the midst of battle as often as possible? [I ask because the original wording required (regular) cover or concealment to make a check, implying that...

While looking at the different spells, it occurred to me that most had very distinct ranges, durations, and areas of effect. Sometimes these would scale with caster level, sometimes not. I decided to simplify the process and reduce the number of possibilities for each category. Along with this...

There's got to be a neat table for this somewhere. I can't find it though. Any pointers? Thanks very much in advance!

Is there a Forgotten Realms sourcebook that details Toril's Outer Planes? If not, are there any good online resources that compile canonic information?

It has come to it at last, our group's wizard is hellbent on researching cure-spells and I as the GM cannot come up with a believable reason why he shouldn't be allowed to. I mean, in AD&D it was fairly easy as I recall, as the rule went "Arcane spells cannot restore lost HP or cure detrimental...