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Is our Frank Trollman the same guy referenced as a founder of the Handelman school of magic?

Reference: http://classicdojo.org/school/SoM54.html

Whoa, PhoneLobster is back with more rage stories. Awesome!

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I've heard the term tossed around, but have no idea what it could actually mean, aside from "a rogue who primarily attacks through throwing flasks of acid", with the hint that you apply Sneak Attack damage to the attacks. Is that right? If so, would someone explain to me: 1. a. How a low-l...

One that I could join? I was thinking it'd be fun to blow off some steam playing a Conduit.

Yes, that part I get. The part I didn't understand was how Escobar tells the party that invaders are setting fire to the mill, and then the wizard asks how they're having trouble setting fire to the mill.

Thanks for posting, these were fun to read. One thing tripped me up though: So, we are approached by Pablo Escobar, who tells us that the invaders are apparently setting fire to the mill, which is full of a very valuable white powder. The wizard questioned how somebody is having trouble setting a mi...

Modifiers are bigger than scores, thats kind of nice, as I'm for going away from 3-18 and moving to -5 to 4. Are we looking at the same sheet? Because I see 16 Str and a +3 mod (+5 after class/whatever bonus). After your sentence I was hoping to see 8 Str and +16 mod or something, which would be ni...

Roll a d20. 1-19 the creature is a bit stronger- multiplies its own HD by 1d4+1 and rerolls to get extra powers using that HD. And then of course it commences the killing rampage. Sure, getting 5x HD might be bad, but as things go... I'll take it. On a 20 roll however. Um. Well time to quote block ...

2: There's a lot of D&D spell effects (or even mundane movement rules) that explicitly bypass complex plot threads to deliver the party to the interesting conflicts as soon as they want to get there. Agreed, and I'll always remember a funny example of this: One PFS module requires entering a te...

Neat story so far. It sounds like the players are getting into it. If your players still aren't RPing much, I'd say what you're doing is this: Archer starts talking about how he's sitting their eating his gruel, to which I say "and everyone looks at you and wonders where the hell you got gruel ...

Isn't this just "equip or unequip the item every round, depending on whether you want to use its powers or your own?" I was assuming there was some attunement time involved. I don't think official dnd has any rules like that. Cursed weapons. You can't remove them*, so if they change your ...

Two things that really opened my mind and made me think things I never thought before: 1. Theoretical D&D 3.5, played by reading and replying to posts about optimization on the GiantITP forums. Before I started reading handbooks, in-jokes, polarizing personalities, etc. I had no idea D&D was...

In general: I like the melee debuffer approach. The D10 HD is nice. Why base everything off Charisma? I always felt that was a terrible decision by Wizards because it forces MAD. Lesser Curses: What's the purpose of Ailing? It's outclassed by Malady in combat and stealth, and Torment everywhere exce...

One of the things I came away with from this was not just that aspect X or Y was broken in 3.x, but moreso that there is a threshold that every RPG will reach where past that point you have enough options that completely broken builds and power loops and shit become inevitable. That's funny, becaus...

If you aren't familiar, the build is here: http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/The_Wish_a ... r_Build%29

I just realized this would be a good place to ask the question. I've read it might've been Frank here, but no one was sure about it.

The point is not that no possible situation could exist that would make pounce not give a full attack. It is precisely these questions: 1) Do you have a problem with not being able to full attack often enough. 2) If so, would using a bow or pouncing be sufficient. 1. Yes. 2. No. "Use pounce&qu...

Just to double-check, I opened the Tomes and found full attacks listed under full-round actions. Why that changed to a standard action? Is this a house rule that not enough people use? Just to review why this matters: -At 6th level a sorcerer can cast his newest trick (3rd level spells) as a standar...

That wording for Step Into Darkness looks good, and I've added it with minor editing to sound more like the rogue's other abilities. So while you probably can't deal with any possible wizard at 15, you have a few viable builds to deal with (or successfully flee from) quite a lot of them. Thanks for ...

"When the mobster opens the door, I smash it in his face to knock him unconscious, rolling a... 5 on Kill Things ." "It's 2030 and you're in a retro hippie weed cafe in Oregon. Until you clear your head, you don't really want to kill things at all." I like it. I like it a lot. I...

Just followed that Cards Against Humanity link and it looks awesome. And the Apples against Humanity rule seems like an interesting mechanic for the game.

I think it's SGT stuff has dropped a bit actually, given the large drop in SP and the removal of the "miss me and I get to move" ability. Good point. I forgot to mention in my last post that "that version" was before I made the changes that dropped SP after level 6, outright rem...

Ooh, I really like Tarkus's "everyone picks a major goal for someone else" idea. I like the idea that I could make another player's goal "become king" and someone else might make my character's goal "kill the player whose goal I wrote" just to be a dick, and someone els...

Can this work for any kind of game story? To prevent this becoming a cooperative (read: boring) storytelling event, I imagine there would have to be some sort of competition, eg. the person who strikes the finishing blow on the dragon gets a trophy that also grants a wish or something, and that woul...