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How are you planning on storing the spell? Do the gauntlets have the spell storing property, do you have access to a spell that does this, or what? Details, please!

This maneuver is so badly written it makes us cry. For starters it should always have been a counter so that you could use it in place of a saving throw as per Moment of Perfect Mind . Try something like this: IRON HEART SURGE Iron Heart (Counter) Level : Warblade 3 Prerequisite : One Iron Heart Man...

Are you sure about that Frank? The only bit I can find is: Saving Throws and Illusions (Disbelief) Creatures encountering an illusion usually do not receive saving throws to recognize it as illusory until they study it carefully or interact with it in some fashion. A successful saving throw against ...

I'll try to dig up the 5-minute microwave chocolate cupcake recipe, but apart from that and scones I don't really do baking. I don't have a sweet tooth you see; recipes for all manner of savoury dishes I could give you, but not cake-type things! Somewhat selfishly, because they don't really appeal t...

Whether or not that restores any magical properties is up for grabs though. RAW, probably not: Aurorum: This luminous steel gleams with varying hues of pink and indigo. An aurorum weapon, shield, or suit of armor that has been sundered can be reformed by bringing together its fragments (a full-round...

Only being able to handle 8 of something that barely qualifies as a pebble in the road, much less an actual speed bump indicates a very weak party. So does having to 'go all out' vs an encounter that's only a little over routine, aka 1, maybe 2 levels higher than routine instead of just using a bet...

Um... I have no idea what you mean about the party not handling Easy Mode that well. What are you referring to?

I've found this thread interesting, because I've never really noticed the 15-minute workday being an issue. Strictly discussing D&D for now, I honestly believe that the problem isn't the magic system, the hp system or anything else systemic, but - as suggested by others here - the design of a ty...

On the how-to-crit-the-uncrittable-critters front, you'd pretty much have to make Knowledge (whatever) a class skill for everyone, but I for one don't have a problem with that. It has always bugged me that corporeal undead are not susceptible to crits/sneaks... I mean, a bloody skeleton has its vuln...

Sundering is, mostly, a bad idea. Sometimes it is not a bad idea. If you're facing an Exotic Weapon Master doing his trip-monkey thing with a spiked chain, then cutting it in half may well not be a stupid thing to do, depending on your party makeup. If you're facing a bad guy with a Staff of Arbitra...

Whut? A Paladin and his allies are getting beaten on with a Weapon of Darkness Intrinsicate and he *refrains* from breaking it because he won't get the sale value if he does? Um. Seriously, if his church are into rewarding their Paladins for destroying Evil items (and why not?) then what are they go...

But that all goes hand-in-hand with their low-quality output, lack of testing and complete failure to maintain internal consistency with their own damn sources. They'd hever have ended up with their products competing with 3rd-party sourcebooks if the products had sold themselves with an obviously-s...

I was going to say much the same. In *theory* it'd be a useful tactic in 4E, but actually how the hell can you tell? What exactly would the game effect be of sundering a Fire Giant's sword, even if you could? Nobody knows...

I honestly and sincerely believe that most of the drastic slash-and-burn that took place in 4E was due to a management diktat to make a product deliberately unlike 3E. Not because it was appropriate to do so from a game-design perspective, but because WotC higher-ups were feeling like the product wa...

Yeah, but Wizards aren't exactly renowned for their robust and forward-looking approach to business models. Do you suppose for an instant that now they've issued 'cease and desists' to all their legit PDF distributors, their hard-copy sales will make up the lost revenue? I friggin' doubt it; it's pr...

Murtak wrote:What does your friend want to do that couldn't be done with a straight Rogue?

Gay sex?

Wind Walk is out (too high level). Whutwhut? It's Cleric 6, and I thought we were dealing with an 11th-level Cleric, aren't we? That's a 6th-level spell and a bonus per day... or are you saying that it's too high a level to bother with, rather than too high to cast? Plane Shift + Wind Walk for all-...

This DM of yours has statted himself up straight out of the Complete Arse supplement and should be beaten to death with a spade for his own good. If that's not a viable option - and I can see how it might not be, what with there being "laws" and stuff in most places these days - then I'd s...

I *hate* critical fumbles; they are dumb, dumb, dumb and should have no place in anybody's game. When was the last time you saw somebody trained in the handling and use of a weapon drop the damn thing unless they were forcibly disarmed? Or even have it break on them? In twelve years of mediaeval re-...

Of course, it's not quite true that there are no situational or enemy modifiers; there is a big fat flag attached to creature types that says "Crit/No Crit", although you could readily argue that it isn't a "modifier" so much as a "switch". However, that just makes the ...

You can understand the spoken words of creatures or read otherwise incomprehensible written messages. In either case, you must touch the creature or the writing. The ability to read does not necessarily impart insight into the material, merely its literal meaning. So... for my money, if you're writ...

[*]if you do things that are good in a story or become well known you are more likely to become an Ascendant. Sort of like Typhoid Mary becoming Goddess of Disease, or Sun Tzu becoming Adviser of High House War.[/list] Finally, a use for Bards! Doesn't matter how kick-ass you think your 17th-level ...

No comparisons with what might be loosely called the "real world" are safe. A Universe where "gods" actually walk around actually stabbing each other in the actual face may well have different definitions of "belief" and "faith". Personally, I run every world ...

The encounter power isn't terrible, but neither does it seem to compensate for the difference in attacks and defenses. You're right that I shouldn't ignore the ongoing damage. It would have been far better to have discussed absolute damage done rather than notional damage per attack in the first pla...

The Soldiers-Are-Just- Better theme carries on up the levels. Comparing a Level 15 Brute (Azer Rager) with a Level 15 Soldier (Rakshasa Warrior) is another no-contest bout. Initiative +9 Senses Perception +9 Warding Flame (Fire) Any enemy adjacent to two or more azers at the start of its turn takes ...