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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 6140226" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Issue 320: June 2004part 8/8Dungeoncraft: While Johnn and Mike's advice is both interesting and different, Monte has another reset to the most basic of characterisation advice. Give your NPC's easily distinguishable physical and personality traits, and act them out, so the PC's can identify them easily if they show up more than once. I think that's one that we can pretty much recite by rote, and there's no particularly different spin to liven things up here. Zzzzzz. Sage advice has to squeeze itself into all manner of oddly shaped pages this month. This means Skip will get through fewer questions than usual. Skip hopes this isn't going to lead to hard times. No matter. The Eternal Sage will get through this by whatever means needed, just as Skip did with the dark times under Lorraine. How often can a monk attack using flurry of blows with a weapon. (If it's a special monk weapon, the normal amount. If it's any other weapon, you can't use it at all.) What do you mean there's no such thing as of hand blows for unarmed monks (Exactly that. You can use whatever flavour descriptions you like, attacking with hands, feet, head, knees, elbows, even crotch, and you'll still do the same amount of damage. This is why they're forced to be celibate. Don't worry laydees. Skip won't hurt you unless you want Skip too. )Can you use a mirror to see round a corner and cast spells (Another recycled question? Skip isn't even going to dignify this one with an insult to your intelligence.)What AC should someone with +3 bracers of armor and +3 leather armor be. (14, unless someone uses incorporeal attacks, in which case it's 13. Just skip the armour. It'll feel much nicer.)Will reach let you make an AoO against opponents using spring attack (not for their movement. If they get sloppy and act like a doof inside your threat range, you're free to skewer them.) If your mount tramples someone and doesn't have hooves, can it use another attack (Whatever it has for feet, dude. Claws will help quite a bit.)Can you wear more than 2 rings if you have more than 2 limbs. (No. The energy chakras have been biped standardized as part of the 3rd edition conventions, along with summoning cascades and all those other broken tricks from previous editions. This is what happens when humans and their gods rule the universe. If you want to escape that, you're free to go to the far realm and spend your time drinking the drool of a 100 eyed monstrosity and making magic necklaces to put on it's eyestalks in return. ) What are the rules for mounted charges (same as normal. Size is not relevant to acceleration, in another humancentric convention completely ignoring real world physics.)When you do a mounted charge, do you have to stop when you hit the enemy (Unless you have ride-by attack, yes. Otherwise, you may fall off your mount if you try it. Remember kids, wear a safety belt, whatever vehicle or animal you're riding.)Nodwick looks over how things have changed in 30 years. The basics are still all there. The themed section is pretty good this year, and the fact that they're planning some changes piques my interest, but there is still some seriously formulaic and basic stuff that I wish I could just skip. As usual, I have to resign myself to the fact that they do need to repeat themselves for their not so regular readers, and wonder what theme next month will bring. Another planar one? Well, those are usually good, because the theme is too broad for rehash even if they've done the topic multiple times. I think I can muster the energy to go on for a while longer.</blockquote>

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