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Yesterday, 03:20 PMChronos replied to a thread How long would the Earth last if the sun became a black hole? in Mad Science and Grumpy TechnologyTechnically true, I suppose, in that you could express the time for the atmosphere to freeze out as some number of hours, but it'd be a large number....25 replies | 1309 view(s)
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2024-05-12, 09:00 PMSecond-edition familiars were an entirely different thing from 3rd or 5th. In 2nd, you had huge penalties when a familiar died... but as long as...22 replies | 3276 view(s)
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2024-05-12, 07:31 AMI guess that, technically, there's a hole in the rules in that it doesn't say what would happen to the Tarrasque if something would kill it instantly...206 replies | 26402 view(s)
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2024-05-12, 07:18 AMYou probably already know this, but you can also mix and match any number of full BAB classes. One level each of fighter, barbarian, paladin,...9 replies | 1012 view(s)
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2024-05-12, 07:11 AMDon't think of the Weave as a source of power: Power has all of the same sources in Faerun as it does in any D&D world, and the outer planes and...19 replies | 1447 view(s)
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2024-05-12, 07:06 AMYeah, the two are completely different mechanics. About the only thing they have in common is that everything that used 3e concentration also uses...13 replies | 988 view(s)
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2024-05-11, 08:11 AMYou can explicitly take feats even if you only temporarily meet the requirements. In that case, you get the benefits of the feat while you have the...24 replies | 1577 view(s)
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2024-05-09, 08:01 PMWhat's a player doing reading the module, anyway? The only way a player should even be encountering that sidebar in the first place is if the DM...92 replies | 6172 view(s)
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2024-05-08, 03:02 PMCome to think of it, when I DMed for a group that had a tiefling in it (mostly in Waterdeep), I only really made race relevant twice, and both times...92 replies | 6172 view(s)
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2024-05-08, 02:48 PMIndeed, some prestige classes (from books other than Complete Warrior and Complete Arcane) disqualify themselves. Probably the worst offender is...24 replies | 1577 view(s)
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2024-05-07, 06:29 PMChronos replied to a thread Player Help Need help with a combination purely for flavor in D&D 3e/3.5e/d20Most "pirates", historically, have had the sponsorship of some government or quasi-government or another (and the hatred of all other governments and...16 replies | 1243 view(s)
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2024-05-07, 03:40 PMWeb's a great spell, no dispute there, and I probably will eventually be getting it, but my thinking is that it has some overlap with Grease, and...22 replies | 3276 view(s)
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2024-05-07, 03:18 PMWhy do the minions follow the starspawn in the first place? Do they like it? Or are they threatened into following it? Or directly mentally...10 replies | 1243 view(s)
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2024-05-07, 03:16 PMI sort of feel like, most of the time when someone plays a tiefling, it's because they want to do the whole angsty "everyone hates me because of...92 replies | 6172 view(s)
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2024-05-06, 03:38 PMChronos replied to a thread Arguments IN FAVOR of keeping hide/move silently and spot/listen/search separate? in D&D 3e/3.5e/d20As soon as you ever have any situation where vision and hearing are treated separately, the system breaks if it's not designed from the bottom up to...79 replies | 4218 view(s)
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2024-05-05, 08:54 PMMy next character will be a wizard (starting at level 3), and I'm looking at spells. Dragon's Breath looks really good, especially when cast on a...22 replies | 3276 view(s)
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2024-05-05, 08:40 PMNo, the rule we have is that a Ring of 1/Day Wish doesn't exist at all and can't be made, because it's not in any of the magic item lists in any of...31 replies | 1751 view(s)
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2024-05-05, 08:37 PMAnd even if you do pull off that mind switch thing, you now have LA --, and so can only ever earn XP by DM fiat, and so you still can't take the...24 replies | 1577 view(s)
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2024-05-05, 07:15 AMDon't forget: 6. Come up with some other way to get the information that doesn't involve this particular cultist.8 replies | 945 view(s)
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2024-05-05, 07:12 AMI like the idea of favored classes, but the problem is that, as implemented, it's just an exception to a rule that almost nobody uses in the first...38 replies | 2102 view(s)
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2024-05-05, 07:06 AMYou're assuming that a 1/day command word item of Wish is something that exists at all, and that it costs what you say it does. There's a reason...31 replies | 1751 view(s)
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2024-05-05, 07:02 AMThere might not be an explicit rule for it, but most creatures with spell resistance do seem to have it at approximately 10+CR, and as Saintheart...10 replies | 638 view(s)
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2024-05-05, 06:56 AMChronos replied to a thread Simple RAW for 3.5: 38 pages, and I still don't know how to play D&D in D&D 3e/3.5e/d20A 114: You would choose in what order to apply the two effects. In this case, since both effects are multiplications, the end result would be the...272 replies | 15988 view(s)
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2024-05-04, 09:37 AMChronos replied to a thread Speculation Not every DM loves a page worth of backstory, but I do... in D&D 5e/NextI would never use an AI to create a backstory, because to me, creating the backstory is part of the fun. Why would I want to ask a computer to have...21 replies | 2391 view(s)
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2024-05-04, 09:26 AMYeah, I think that quickly bamfing around the battlefield to each target is meant to be the fluff for how it works, and the one you end up next to is...15 replies | 2526 view(s)
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2024-05-04, 09:09 AMA while back I was DMing and wanted to add a few extra magic items to a published adventure, but it made sense for the reward at one point to be a...19 replies | 2601 view(s)
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2024-05-04, 09:01 AMChronos replied to a thread Tech Help Is wireless charging bad for phones? in Mad Science and Grumpy TechnologyI do know for sure that cheap, shoddy wired phone chargers absolutely can and will damage a phone. Some of the worst ones have a pretty decent...20 replies | 1360 view(s)
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2024-05-02, 06:40 PMTarrasque's regeneration is different there, because it specifically says that it can only be killed by a Wish. It also says how it interacts with...206 replies | 26402 view(s)
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2024-04-30, 03:23 PMYes, because the abilities themselves are all over the map. A powerful ability shouldn't be usable the same number of times as a weak ability.17 replies | 1165 view(s)
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2024-04-29, 03:38 PMIt's the major positive dominant thing, scroll up a bit on that page: Though I did fail to remember the part about the temp HP fading a minute or...17 replies | 1178 view(s)
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