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I was reading the Wyvern entry and got confused. How exactly do Wyverns work in 3.5? This is what confused me : A wyvern can slash with its talons only when making a flyby attack. Full Attack: Sting +10 melee (1d6+4 plus poison) and bite +8 melee (2d8+4) and 2 wings +8 melee (1d8+2) and 2 talons +8 ...

Don't bother rolling for tasks that have no obvious interesting failure mechanics. Quick dirty example: there is a locked door, party fails in lock picking a) if it is a stealth game: if a guard comes along scratch marks on the lock let the enemy know players were there b) your typical D&D dunge...

I'm reminded of one of your previous posts Frank: A thing to wrap your head around is that politics in the UK is insanely small scale and bullshit. The Mayor of London gets more votes than the Prime Minister. That's not even a joke. Sadiq Khan got 1,148,716 votes to become mayor of London, and There...

Paizo even wrote a FAQ for the lance: Power Attack: If I am using a two-handed weapon with one hand (such as a lance while mounted), do still I get the +50% damage for using a two-handed weapon? Yes. Keep in mind the pathfinder rules are oddly specific at times. The rules state that while mounted, y...

Actually... this is more complicated than you seem to think. PF power attack is tightly capped, but the point-for-point damage benefits are better, especially for one handed weapons: +2 damage for each -1. 3.5 power attacks is +1 dmaage for each -1 for one handed weapons (which is how lances are us...