The Gaming Den

Swamps, marshes and wetlands aren't just shallow muddy puddles, they are vast bodies of water, plenty of deep wide and broad expanses of water can and should exist amongst any serious swamp. [br][br]Plenty of swamps are basically muddy lakes, lagoons or rivers with trees and rafts of moss growing in...

A) Being under water invalidates being shot with arrows by some guy in the sky. So hydra swim speed on its own invalidates the tactic, hide or not. [br][br]B) It lives in swamps, probably ugly monster infested zombie movie swamps. I call 100% cover while submerged by means of mud, murk, pond weed an...

And also quickly...[br][br] Also, caverns don't necessarily have to have a ceiling too low to fly well, though they usually do as a point of Metagaming on the part of the DM. [br][br]You've never actually been in a natural cave have you? [br][br]If a DM makes it so a human or even half human size ca...

I'd like to have a brief go at a few entries on that list that Murtak apparently just conceded.[br][br]Achaierai- Lives in hell, does have a hide bonus, and an odd dark cloud thing.[br]Animated Object - This is SO an ambush monster, you don't just find animated tables roaming in the wild.[br]Assassi...

That's for terrain conditions, not for abilities. [br][br]Oddly the only given example is of orcs dropping rocks on players from hangliders.[br][br]Nothing about terrain, admittedly nothing about character abilities but indeed an awful lot about flying.[br][br]It doesn't specifically rule out the s...

The vast overestimation of the value of flight, even oberoni's 'flight lite' on the basis of terrain being utterly vital in all combats is really rather silly.[br][br]I mean if terrain really is that important then flight, even real flight and the primary tactic of using real flight to lob arrows at...

Unless you are willing to model those monsters after the level abilities of other races, you shouldn't play them. Beholders can't be 1st level and still have any at-will eye rays or flight or an AMF eye. Trolls can't be 1st level and still have regeneration. To be balanced for their level, monsters...

RC regardless that you clearly VASTLY over value flight the fact remains it IS currently available at minimal cost to normal 5th level characters.[br][br]So if your special racial ability at 5th level is to trade even a portion of, let alone a large portion of your character wealth and thus pay a gr...

I've never seen a monster PC played in such a way that was balanced; monsters are based on glass jaws and laser beams and are not balanced. Monster players want all the monster's abilities as per the MM glass jaws and all. [br][br]Maybe you haven't seen them played in a balanced way is because the ...

As to why there is no setting that includes them at this time, I have no clue as I don't write settings for WotC. [br][br]Existing D&D settings have plenty of existing precedent for cat people.[br][br]There are already various humanoid/animal hybrid races of a wide variety in exsitance, many cr...

Ok, so you want to fly. Thats an ability that no other character can get regularly until 5th or 6th level when the Wizards and Sorcerers get the spell Fly, and its an abilty that basically makes you immune to melee attacks meaning that its an auto-win vs a good number of low-level monsters and some...

I hate new races in general, because they just don't fit in anywhere.[br][br]If you want to make a new PC race, then by all means they should come with a new setting of some kind. If you have cat people, then there needs to be cat people cities and shit in your campaign world. [br][br]So in other w...

The reason that people hate monater-players is simply because monster players will not play monsters for roleplaying purposes. [br][br]No. Thats not at all correct. The reason "people" or rather nerf loving parranoid "real role playas" FEAR monster characters is because they eve...

Connan WAS pretty much immune to everything, failing anything else because it was basically foretold that he was going to become emperor of the known world one day and he really wasn't going to do that if he was killed by some nameless chump on the battle field. And if him being the son of a mighty ...

I like the basic vague underlying idea of the feat in the form of the whole customizable class feature thingy.[br][br]But as long as they are as diverse and moderately useless as they currently are we should probably give them out like free candy.[br][br]Player: "Can I have some candy?"[br...

If I may, I propose more than one different reason for cat folk ignoring.[br][br]1) Lord of the fvcking Rings.[br][br]Its dumb, its boring, its archaic, but as evident by arguments seen even here abouts some people worship it and its lame ass characters as the be all and end all of the template for ...

Some posts here seem to be working towards a sort of, "heck why not just drop prestige class requirements and let people take the prestige classes from level one".[br][br]Well in response to that I say this, I thought of doing it as an experimental house rule once upon a time. [br][br]I de...

I'm pretty much in for mostly just doing away with it.[br][br]Though one idea I had for a replacement for alignment, mechanically that is, was to take it all the way to entirely subjective and switch all the spells that target alignments to spells that target "hostile" targets.[br][br]&quo...

I knew there was a better superhero counterpart to Legolas than Cyclops (though it ruins my X-Men line up as the Fellowship of the ring thing). I'd totally forgotten about those lame arrow wielding heroes. [br][br]This is why someone with better comic knowledge needs to point out that the only diffe...

Conan is the Incredible Hulk. Except he never turns back into Bruce Banner.[br][br]Gandalf is professor Xavier, Aragorn is Wolverine, Legolas is Cyclops, Gimli is Beast. [br][br]Frodo and Sam are Batman and Robin (its the obvious sexual sub text that they share) while Gollum (did I spell that right?...

And he doesn't have to be wearing good camoflauge to do this. He can be naked in the middle of a field waving a neon banner ON FIRE and you're still not able to see him. All he has to do is say, "I'm hiding and my Hide 0wnz0rz your Spot, n00b." [br][br]This, like most of your post is real...

[br] The goal shouldn't be that all classes should have the same powers. If that were true, then why have different classes at all? [br][br]Lets just ignore that its utterly stupid that no two classes could share SOME abilities (hell even most).[br][br]But right there you are proposing a system wher...

Aragorn couldn't chop straight through a 10' stone wall in a single blow. [br][br]Even pretending Aragorn is the total useless cripple you constantly make him out to be.[br][br]Just because a specific card board cut out cripple from one story can't do ONE thing not only can no other character in al...

I thought it had been long since pointed out that Aragon and Conan, who you never cease to go on about since apparently they are the only two characters to ever fit your view of how fantasy warriors should play out, actually do not fit your view of how fantasy warriors should play out.[br][br]Conan ...

And so on. Skills are failures. Feats are failures. Just give people fixed class features that are automatically scaled to your level and vaguely decent. Anything else is just another way to pour syrup on non-magical characters. [br][br][br] Well I'm certainly for your idea of getting rid of skills...