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<blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 9219755" data-attributes="member: 6877472"><p>"As this book is the exclusive province of the DM, you must view any non-DM player possessing it as something less than worthy of honorable death."</p><p></p><p>"When an assassin reaches 9th level (assassin), he or she may opt to make a study of poisons. This decision should come from the player in the case of a player character, i.e., do not suggest it or even intimate that such a study can be undertaken."</p><p></p><p>"A MONK AT 1ST LEVEL IS CAPABLE OF STUNNING OR KILLING ONLY AN OPPONENT OF MAN-SIZE (M) OR SMALLER. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS DETERMINATION, MAN-SIZE SHALL BE:</p><p></p><p>Maximum Height: 6' 6"</p><p>Maximum Weight: 300#"</p><p></p><p>"Yet because the player character is all-important, he or she must always- or nearly always- have a chance, no matter how small, a chance of somehow escaping what otherwise would be inevitable destruction."</p><p></p><p>"Someone once sharply criticized the concept of the saving throw as ridiculous. Could a man chained to a rock, they asked, save himself from the blast of a red dragon's breath? Why not?, I replied. If you accept fire-breathing dragons, why doubt the chance to reduce the damage sustained from such a creature's attack?"</p><p></p><p>"The mechanics of combat or the details of the injury caused by some horrible weapons are <em>not</em> the key to heroic fantasy and adventure games."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Gasik, post: 9219755, member: 6877472"] "As this book is the exclusive province of the DM, you must view any non-DM player possessing it as something less than worthy of honorable death." "When an assassin reaches 9th level (assassin), he or she may opt to make a study of poisons. This decision should come from the player in the case of a player character, i.e., do not suggest it or even intimate that such a study can be undertaken." "A MONK AT 1ST LEVEL IS CAPABLE OF STUNNING OR KILLING ONLY AN OPPONENT OF MAN-SIZE (M) OR SMALLER. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS DETERMINATION, MAN-SIZE SHALL BE: Maximum Height: 6' 6" Maximum Weight: 300#" "Yet because the player character is all-important, he or she must always- or nearly always- have a chance, no matter how small, a chance of somehow escaping what otherwise would be inevitable destruction." "Someone once sharply criticized the concept of the saving throw as ridiculous. Could a man chained to a rock, they asked, save himself from the blast of a red dragon's breath? Why not?, I replied. If you accept fire-breathing dragons, why doubt the chance to reduce the damage sustained from such a creature's attack?" "The mechanics of combat or the details of the injury caused by some horrible weapons are [I]not[/I] the key to heroic fantasy and adventure games." [/QUOTE]
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