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You at least need Hide modifiers for equipment and certain actions. If I'm juggling flaming torches while singing the Star Spangled Banner, it has to be harder to hide than if I'm actively trying to avoid attention.[br][br]The only other option is to say you can't use the Hide skill if you do anythi...

1107975830[/unixtime]]Every feudal government is a Junta government at every level from the top man down to the lowliest serf. If you don't personally kick ass, you'd better be able to convince the rest of the people who do kick ass that you make a good front man for whatever reason. [br][br]Of cou...

1107924900[/unixtime]]A Baron is only Baron on threat of Swording. That's really it. A King is only King because of threat of Swording. If you hypothesize that people aren't afraid of swording, or have modern-ish attitudes towards coercive government - then there won't be any kings. [br][br]I don't...

Wrenfield, is it too late to send your resume to Hasbro? I'd like that book, too.

I'm just looking forward to the count of how many times the DMG II contradicts the core rules, and says it's a "clarification."

What?[br][br]OK, first you have the problem of playing a "true" feudal game, "realistic" in that there isn't any such thing as cash and everybody only cares about land and sheep. So if you become a badass, and kill the king, and become king, you barely have enough cash to buy a s...

Have to agree, I always liked the campaign setting for SR. AFAIK, everybody does.[br][br]I'll have to check it out. Maybe I can sell Kirstin on it, although it'll be tough. She swore never to play SR again after she spent 2 hours building an Elf Mage under SR 2nd edition who died in 1 shot before sh...

I think it's a very solid companion volume to the original DMG, full of both rules material for handling in-game situations that come up. . . . [br][br]Is it just me, or does "rules material for handling in-game situations" sound like . . . rules? The sort of stuff that should be in, say,...

Are your players good enough to keep that many oars going? It sounds like they're playing enough attention. If so, then yeah, that sounds awesome. If not, then it's just going to seem like a lot of random stuff is happening, which is fun but probably not worth it and I'd play it straight.[br][br]How...

1107790934[/unixtime]]3.0 hide had a modifier where you could hide while charging . [br][br]You make it sound like a -20 modifier isn't enough to show how difficult that is. Ever see Spiderman 2? [br][br]Spidey swoops in on a line outta nowhere and knocks guys flat at least 3 times. That's definite...

The very first Conan story starts w/ him running away from a few wolves. Ok, they're not rats, but still, I don't want to play a fantasy that makes me worry about a bunch of unruly, amped up basset hounds. And then he fights a skeleton that almost takes him out. Weeeeeeeeee.[br][br]Aragorn kicks a t...

Why is option 3 the worst? Their used to be special rules for high-powered campaigns, and other special rules for low-powered campaigns. There were whole sourcebooks for playing in "realistic," low-magic campaigns. Not saying I liked them, but it's not that much more work to make a good so...

RC, unplayable characters are part of the game. It's part of the attraction of D&D, for me and lots of peeps. It's really fun to try to make a Bard that rocks, or at least doesn't suck ass, or a low-strength fighter, and so on.[br][br]The point is to avoid things that, by definition, suck, no ma...

Well, we could go the other way and say all of those things that aren't based on magic are essentially the same - somebody doesn't know you're there. So lets take all bazillion hide mechanisms you've proposed, and rename them "Being Sneaky." We can throw in Move Silently, too. We'll do thi...

I read that in the paper this morning and almost choked. I love Get Fuzzy.

Arioch, you're my hero. Hilarious site.

1107388449[/unixtime]]In a game set in what is basically the modern world, it's totally OK for people to be totally helpless if they don't have a complete team. That's fine, because people have sattelite phones.[br][br]In a game that i basically iron age - that's not OK. Sure, having a diverse team...

Vlad Taltos, anyone?[br][br]Seriously, RC, even if you're right, and it's absostinkinglutely impossible to just stand 5' away from someone, in an empty room, and hide from that person just b/c you're really, really good at hiding, why can't you do it in D&D?[br][br]Here's a list of non-magical i...

The problem w/ Sundering isn't the mechanics as much as the game effects you've talked about. A PC that sunders a lot only ends up w/ half as much loot as a PC that just kills things. Using Sunder a lot is pretty much teh same thing as using a power that gives a permanant negative level or two to th...

You can see how wacked out the size bonuses are if you try to make a campain based on a smaller or larger size and shift the bonuses up or down. For example. Make your campaign Halfling-based. Make Small the standard, no bonus/minus size, and now Tiny gets the small mods, Medium gets the large mobs,...

That makes sense. I'll try that for a while.

Maybe they read the WotC boards, where peeps are always complaining about how Hiding to get SA damage is overpowered, and peeps used to complaing about Bluff working on Fighters. And stuff.

I like the Oberoni approach. But sometimes that leads to arguments, which isn't fun. It's never fun to have to explain to somebody why their pet strategy (say, casting Spiritual Weapon every round) just sucks.

She's already got the natural attack, but . . . the problem is that you need to use a Full Attack action to use it, and it's another -5 attack that does, IIRC, 1d6 w/o any magic mods. That's a toy.[br][br]She was going to do Dervish, but that's just a little tiny bit of help. As written, she's still...

I suggested that, but Rogue sneak-attack goodness is out, she just doesn't want that. She's a shifter fighter/ranger/barbarian/warshaper sort of thing, so I'm trying to make that worthwhile.[br][br]Giving off-hand iterative attacks is such a no-brainer I didn't even mention that, but that's happenin...

Kirstin is dedicated to making a character using the double-bladed scimitar in our campaign, and we just reached the point where that's really going to start to suck (5th level). Any ideas on making TWF work in a core 3.5 campaign, without drastically changing how things work?[br][br]So far, I'm thi...