always carry a vibrator, never leave home without it.

Smrti wrote on Mar 29^th, 2014 at 3:32am:


Oh, I hope my DM doesn't understand the concept of conservation of momentum. 

As a DM, I highly recommend making sure there are a few girl gamers in your group - especially the ones that will flash their tits to reroll a bad die result. 

Bonus points if only 1 of them is your wife. 

In AD&D a couple of low-level spells were awesome, but they were changed a bit in 3E+.

Continual Light/Flame. Take a wooden handle or any cylindrical piece of wood, make a small hole in one of the ends, put a nail inside, make a wooden cap (out of the same piece of wood). Cast Continual Light on the nail - and you have an eternal flashlight. Add a specially prepared ruby/emerald, attach it to a crossbow - and you have a crude laser sight (sadly, Continual Flame doesn't really work like that in 3E, producing a flame and not a simple light source).
Get Continual Flame on your horse barding and clothes/armor - and suddenly you get Intimidation bonus 

Alter Self + Disguise Self - impersonate angels (grow wings, change appearance) to demand favors & generally mislead commoners. Silent Image to create flaming sword. Use Whispering Wind to "fortell" of your coming for extra points. Can also be used to impersonate devils/demons, especially with Continual Flame on the clothes.

Tiny Hut - great spell to protect the party from landslide/cave collapse.

Shatter - can be used on church bells or alarm bells to create distractions.

Prestidigitation - lots of small tricks such as creation of slippery items (like banana peels) on the path of a running enemies or cutting bowstrings (if your DM allows it). Lift keys and unbolt closed windows/doors.

3.5 rules

- Take Improved Sunder. The wpl table has to make sure your character will have appropriate gear progression, as does the DM to build challenges according to your group's status.

While Improved Sunder is known as lootkiller, think about this:
- items worn on body are visible, at least they aren't protected from spot checks by default. As a DM I want a clear description of the characters looks, so NPCs can act accordingly in combat. Sundering stat boosters of casters is fun (instant loss of highest spell slot, e.g.) as well as sundering weapons of monsters without natural weapons (and why would those with natural weapons use manufactured weapons anyway?)

- sundering spell component bags of caster NPCs is funny as hell.  (makes the Eschew Materials feat very attractive suddenly ;P)

Tanky Cleric/melee combo:
There is an item in the Magic Item Compendium [edit: *Retributive Amulet*], which lets the caster of a healing spell on a target heal the same amount edit: or somethign like that. Using it is an immediate action, iirc. Since the spell's target only receives half damage rounded down, you are able to heal you and the target efficently with low healing spells. this amulet is very cheap by design. Too cheap from a DM's perspective. Craft it as an additional effect on another item or craft it as a slotless item.

Now, casting Shield Other on your favorite high dps melee will give you the opportunity to heal this melee along with healing yourself 1/round. That creates almost infite melee dps and makes your group melee hard to kill.

- always boost your Initiative roll. As high level play tends to be very binary when it comes to dangerous encounters, be the 1 not 0. Casters with high initiative win usually. (Dread Commando PrC + Nerveskitter + Improved Initiative + mediocre DEX = priceless)

For DMs:
- high level dragons are fun. The most fun gave me using a high lvl. dragon with Widen Spell + Antimagic Field on himself. Neutralizing casters, gimping melees. Well, as along as the group does not have more intel than the usual MM entry, the suprise is crushing. Literally.

- Libris Mortis gives an awesome opportunity to sustain NPC undead mobs. Death Throes makes targets explode with negative energy. Create low HD mobs as an escort to bigger undead monsters. Make sure they'll die close enough to bigger monsters so they heal them. Mummy Lord Cleric/Master of Shrouds endboss ftw

Especially high initiative was fun, when I played my Dervish/Dread Commando.

Naked NPCs searching on floor for comp.s and remains of their cloting.
*sigh*, good times. We drove our DMs mad with unconventional ideas, frequently.^^

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What happend ;P?

Another one out of my experience:
Always, really always take Craft Wondrous Item and/or Magic Arms And Armor as a caster (namely Wizard).

If someone asks you to craft look up the item's price or add the price by DM standard. Let the customer pay full price by DMG, but since you only need 50% of the needed money, you can set any profit marge you want. We had such a crafter in a group and at lvl. 16 his character was as rich as a lvl. 20 character... I mean his character had cash like a whole wpl lvl. 20 entry. In return he was so rich he crafted stuff for free for us, because at some point the DM made gp weight an actual problem -.-.

The gear of the group was completely imbalanced and 4-5 levels too high in gp value compared to lvl. 16.

For DMs, be warned, CWI feat is totally imbalanced, if the party has some economical interest .

5 Foot Step wrote on Aug 31^st, 2014 at 5:00am:

Nope.

onions wrote on Aug 31^st, 2014 at 10:13am:


If you can't kill a paralyzed dragon (0 dex), then the problem isn't the dragon.

The last PnP D&D campaign I played in went sideways so fast it wasn't funny. Everyone starts at level 7, and are given 2 magical items of medium power, so naturally I rolled up a STR-based horc rogue with a ring of invisibility and a holy greatsword.

30 minutes later, the DM has crumpled up most of his campaign notes and just starts throwing Elder Sand Elementals in our path to keep us on the rails.

5 Foot Step wrote on Aug 31^st, 2014 at 9:17pm:

Right there. If you remember the creating monsters part of the MM1, you can easily deduct every monster into common or elite array stat block + individually added bonuses. Even a true dragon can be deducted into a true dragon template by dragon age. So, if you can give them common + elite array stat blocks, you can give them point buy.

Amulet of Retributive Healing. That should be it. It had *retributive* in its tile, I think. Retributive Amulet is not the droid, I was looking for. I can't verify right now, I don't have access to those books at the moment. Anyway, this amulet exists and I got me one, because I had to compensate the LA on one of my clerics somehow (lower spell level + caster level), since the group's melee took damage for which I needed Heal but couldn't use it, so I used Shield Other + this amulet, to heal him and me at the same time by using Cure Crit. Wounds.

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Invisibility + Snatch Item is funneeeeh^^. I know some DMs, who never touch Snatch Item while battling. Some kind of gentlemen's agreement. I don't care. Snatch Item while hidden is even better. Magic can't reveal you. Only Spot skill. And we all know that you never have enough skill points in 3.5.

onions wrote on Sep 15^th, 2014 at 7:51am:


Well this was already answered. To tag onto it though, your lack of ability to figure things out explains much. If your DM is custom making every mob, good luck, have fun, be bored out of your mind. As a DM I only custom made specific characters in my campaigns. Dragons were not important enough to be one of them. If your DM relies on them to the point of customizing them, well, there are other methods. Figure it out, lots of spells, there is a reason wizards are demi gods and destroy everything a higher levels.