The Gaming Den

I wasn't aware that you ever needed to make a check with Sleight of Hand to draw a concealed weapon.

I'm trying to figure out how you guys are saying quick draw is available to anyone with even a single rank in Sleight of Hand. There's an actual DC to lifting an object from a person (DC 20), which is independent of the fact that people get a Spot check to notice your attempt, and doing so as a free...

That's why you cut off their head and stick the open throat into the water jug, duh

Not really, the core setting holds several elements of Planescape, where almost everything was infinite.

1178115196[/unixtime]][br]I never actually understood planar currency. Why do people even want it? I mean it seems to me something like the Eberron dragonshards, everyone seems to want them, but they don't actually do much of anything worth having. [br][br]The reason why people want planar currency...

Ordo Dracul's expressed purpose as a group is to rise above the inherent weaknesses of vampirism without having to be nice, but to literally retain their power and ignore the flaws of their condition. Quite literally, they want 'godmode'. It's founded on the principles of the original Vlad the Impal...

The AC is being slightly felt here. The light armor people in my party all have an AC of about 21, which is close to a 50% miss rate for the CR 6 stuff. The heavy armor guy, well, he's pretty much a 'check for natural 20s' guy (AC 29, 31 buffed) for virtually anyone I would reasonably throw at them ...

Let's see...[br][br]Round 0 (surprise): The cleric knew they were coming due to Status on a couple of the guards ("Hmm, his current condition is 'horrifically killed', maybe someone's coming"). So he had used a potion of greater magic fang potion, cast freedom of movement, animated the hyd...

Nah, definitely not through the vacuum plane will the electricity travel. Vaccuum is about the best conductor you could possible have. The lightning would like travel from salt-water-steam.

I love crazy strategies, I'm going to have to try out WC3 again...

Finished the adventure this evening, and they kicked its butt, even though they were missing the orc knight (RL prevented him).[br][br] I was using a pre-made adventure for expediency, and they were going to fight a level 7 cleric lizardman and two level 1 fighter lizardfolk. The design for the cler...

Oh, I'm sure it is, but he's level 5 right now; which means he has three spells at once a day each, and is otherwise a decent hitpoint guy with immunity to fire and full BaB.

I'm aware of the rule of him having to hit with that 12+ before he can roll to confirm. It just makes it so that if he hits, he likely threatens (not much will be higher than AC 22 unless it's a classed druid or something).[br][br]My biggest concern is the player that chose to be a True Fiend. As hi...

And that's what he shoots for with the kusari-gama, a reach weapon to deliver poison and sneak attack. Since it's a light weapon mechanically, he can dual-wield it, and the jester class allows him to use it without penalty despite the fact it's an exotic weapon. As for visual appearance, probably so...

Frequently, yes. The difference is that I know people that are almost solely gamists. They truly play and consider their characters like we would play Final Fantasy or World of Warcraft. When it comes to non-combat situations, they clam up. When it comes to battle, they pay attention well enough to ...

That seems more a problem with the people that advocate the categories, not the actual idea behind GNS itself. I don't see where there is all this vaguery with it...[br][br]Gamist - Engrossed in seeing your character advance, with little "in character" thought[br]Narrativist - Engrossed in...

Well, now I'm getting confused here. I'm reading the primary GNS article as we speak, and I'm hearing almost directly contradictory opinions as to what gamist/narrativist/simulationist (especially simulation) mean to you people. My prior post pretty much sums up what they mean; so I'm confused how t...

Last I checked, HOW you get to your goal actually makes a difference. "Getting there is half the fun" is an appropriate turn of phrase here.[br][br]Gamists maintain a notable sense of detachment with their characters. They play the game in a manner not dissimilar to World of Warcraft or Fi...

Does the multi-arm fiend feat come with the ability to increase the number of actions per round? Aka, what happens were an archer to take that extra arm feat?

Now the real question if I continue this game is when I should allow the party to enter the Wish economy, which, as far as I can tell, would mean everyone gets decked out in 15k items and +5 to all stats...

The Summon ability of the True Fiend; how many times per day? How long does it last when you do summon something? How much control do you exert over the summoned fiend?

Minor change to the party set-up, instead of a grappling barbarian, we have an archer with full levels in True Fiend.[br][br]We assumed the jester just had an effectively limitless box of pre-cast fire traps, explosive runes, glyphs of warding, etc.[br][br]In the first session, the following fights ...

I'm going to try out something for my players. They will start the game as nobles and are taking up the family practice. Because their parents/uncles/whatever are awesome, they got to be mentored, and thus all start at level 5. And because they're mentored by real adventurers in the Wish economy, th...

Are the special abilities of the fire mage scaling with character level or class level? I'm wondering what would happen with a character that was four levels of Knight and one level of fire mage.

I think being able to turn into any CR-3 creature you want is perfectly fine and level-appropriate, because you turn into the right kind of creature for that level.[br][br]Why? Because you can turn into the perfect opponent for the challenge in front of you. It's a fact that many monsters have their...