The Gaming Den

The time shepherd seems very Terry Pratchett to me. I might have to use it if I ever want to play the Sweeper.

I am not directly familiar with the WLD myself, but people say that it has the most amazing hard on for warrior types. Like having around 15 encounters until you can rest. This is then used to justify the fact that fighters are not weak because the wizard ran out of spells six fights ago. If you can...

A thread on the WotC boards noted the fact that grappling has been updated. Looks like they are going for the monsters with natural attacks get attacks based on their BAB ruling. They still have it inconsistent in that this article says that an animal can attack with all its natural attacks in a gra...

[br] There's still a problem with this acid flask creation technique.[br][br]Okay ... you use Minor Creation to create acid in say, a pre-existing glass container or a natural rock depression (that won't leak).[br][br]Now ... what are the rules for the UMD-using Halfling Rogue to use to actually get...

The barb and ranger ACFs look good to me. If I understand it correctly, the ranger gives up a track (which can be gotten back with a feat) for the rogue's key class ability trap finding. That is pretty good if you wanted a ranger who is a more competent skill monkey. The barb's ACF also lets you fin...

As an addendum: The persons I play with play the game for fun and to have interesting, flavorful characters (without a care about their relative power. Power levels mean fvck all to us), not to show off their "l33t p0wers". [br][br]If that were true, then you would not have mentioned some...

FrankTrollman wrote:Marshalls are proficient with all simple and Marshall weapons...

A pun?

Someguy wrote:Only time I've seen the figther do poorly in this game is when someone plays a evoker and ruins the fun for everyone else.

I think we are really playing a different game. If your game is breaking any time someone rolls up an evoker I have to assume your power level is very low indeed.

I prefer this [counturl=47]one.[/counturl]

The True Priest of Wee Jas [br][br]Roll up a cleric with the ghost template(plus 5 la). Max out his charisma. Then make him old for more cha. Heck, make him venerable for all it matters. Put all your money in charisma boosters. Say that they were your cherished items or that you died wearing them. ...

Speaking of how shades works, what happens when you put your foe in a forcecage that is eighty percent real?

I have never played with a DM who uses WotC's rules. My current DM makes skills really good without being overpowering, but she pretty much makes up everything on the spot.[br][br][br] [br]I know that the Diplomacy rules are supposed to be justified like "it's the character who is suave and agr...

You know, the rune knight should be really easy to build. First make it a PRC and make it a wizard PRC that increases your caster level at every level because Celes was a magic user. Give her Runic ability a level appropriate chance to absorb incoming spells. You can keep it as a move action, becaus...

[br] Obviously they have minions who cast most of the spells; and the spells not cast by minions come from scrolls the minions acquire. I mean, Duh! [br][br]I always thought this was the new style of dragon hoard. I mean, they can't lay around on piles of gold anymore, but they can hang out in a cav...

Good stuff, I don't suppose you would like to do something like this for clerics and druids?

Isn't doing anything with the diplomacy rules just broken already? First of all there are those weird builds that can make a DC 100 diplomacy check to turn your worst enemy into your bestest buddy. If you don't want to take it that far, the DC to make a character move from hostile to unfriendly is o...

Rules Compendium...?

*Feels so much rage*

My thoughts on the spell schools.[br][br]Conjuration[br][br]The "I can do everything school." Offers a wide selection of crowd control, direct damage, save or suck, save or suck but you still suck even if you make that save, and don't bother saving, just suck spells. Also the school with a...

The way I figure it, a halfling rogue with 20 dex and 11 ranks in hide will have a 21 if he rolls a one. The fighter, if he has absolutely nothing in spot at all and no wisdom bonus, can have a 20 at the highest, which is lower than the rogues minimum roll. However, the rogue also has to be the figh...

[br] [br]Nah, it's not that. The point isn't that fighters don't have the points to spend on listen, spot and sense motive. The point is that they really shouldn't have to at all. Asking every PC to spend points to detect sneaking people at a power level equivalent to their character level is asking...

Player: I want to use the dangling rope to swing across the pit.

DM: I can't find any rules for that. Let me ask the sage.

Sage: Make it a feat.

One of the problems that my Shadowrun group has run into is the problem of how much money we should make. On one hand, shadowrunning is extremely dangerous and should pay much more than low risk crimes; stealing cars for example. On the other hand, many of the game's players (must notably myself the...

I love how the knight, the rogue, and grease all work together.[br][br]If an enemy makes his save against the grease spell, he is flatfooted (unless he has 5 ranks in balance). This means that a knight cannot attack him, but a rogue can sneak attack him.[br][br]If an enemy has failed to make his sav...

[br] [br]Though, I'm a bit curious that you don't think that you should use edge to bluff guards or pick locks. That seems like the perfect time to use them; it's way more efficient in Shadowrun to avoid encounters rather than instigate them [br][br]My objection is more based on how I see edge rathe...

If you do the whole climb up the tree and shoot arrows thing, you have won. The dire wolf will eventually run off so there's a good chance you will ot kill the thing, but once it has retreated it is not coming back. It has learned you are a painful creature that it cannot retaliate against. It is no...