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Yesterday, 03:32 PMThere are also other ways to protect against area dispels. For instance, just put a big huge pile of Magic Mouth spells on yourself (the trigger and...9 replies | 588 view(s)
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Yesterday, 03:29 PMChronos replied to a thread Evil character wielding an holy weapon for a Good purpose in D&D 3e/3.5e/d20Aside: There's a hypothetical scenario I'm fond of. A town received a prophecy that they would someday be destroyed and overrun by undead, and so...39 replies | 2171 view(s)
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Yesterday, 03:14 PMChronos replied to a thread Proposal: Uranus et. al. should no longer be called "plane-ettes". in Mad Science and Grumpy TechnologyMy reason for using the word "Luna" rather than "The Moon" was twofold: Part of it was for greater specificity, but part of it is that, despite...22 replies | 595 view(s)
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2024-03-16, 06:55 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/d20A80 elaborated: Even without Sword of the Arcane Order or the like, you can always use metamagic on ranger spells, provided that you have the...189 replies | 10381 view(s)
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2024-03-16, 06:52 AMChronos replied to a thread How long would the Earth last if the sun became a black hole? in Mad Science and Grumpy TechnologyThe most plausible scenario would be a black hole coming in at initially just over escape speed, and then getting a momentum transfer from the matter...8 replies | 232 view(s)
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2024-03-14, 03:46 PMEspecially since you can pretty much always bring a familiar with you in your pocket, but you'll often need to be separated more than that from an...7 replies | 866 view(s)
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2024-03-14, 03:34 PMChronos replied to a thread Proposal: Uranus et. al. should no longer be called "plane-ettes". in Mad Science and Grumpy TechnologyI've long favored just throwing out the term "planet" entirely, an just referring to bodies as rockballs, gasballs, or iceballs. Earth, Luna, and...22 replies | 595 view(s)
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2024-03-11, 03:43 PMIntelligent items are items, and they are creatures (of the Construct type). They can therefore get templates of either type (provided the template...5 replies | 531 view(s)
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2024-03-11, 03:24 PMChronos 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 77: There is nowhere in the 3rd edition rules that expands on that note in Rope Trick. In 2nd edition, the rules gave explicit consequences for...189 replies | 10381 view(s)
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2024-03-11, 03:21 PMI'd read it as "your normal weaponless full attack routine, but at range".2 replies | 513 view(s)
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2024-03-10, 07:20 AMChronos replied to a thread It's really hard to land on the moon.... in Mad Science and Grumpy TechnologyLanding on the Moon is really, incredibly easy, by space standards. It's so easy that 3 out of 8 recent programs managed to do it on their first...11 replies | 828 view(s)
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2024-03-08, 08:27 PMOn the 6/10 casting vs 10/10 casting question, my take is that "Text Trumps Table" is meant to address situations where a table only gives the name...83 replies | 7090 view(s)
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2024-03-07, 04:38 PMI think the answer to this one might be complementary to the answer to how warmages interact with Versatile Spellcaster. That one says that a...83 replies | 7090 view(s)
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2024-03-06, 04:51 PMCertainly you could, but I'd say that it's already a very good spell, and doesn't have any need to be any better.7 replies | 1660 view(s)
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2024-03-06, 04:45 PMChronos replied to a thread Asking for a friend... what is the original reason for druids' metal aversion? in D&D 5e/NextThose old editions where druids originated (in the game) also had clerics only being allowed to use bludgeoning weapons, nothing sharp. Why? ...34 replies | 4225 view(s)
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2024-03-05, 05:22 PMChronos replied to a thread 3rd Ed Reality check on a werebadger berserker cookie cutter build in D&D 3e/3.5e/d20So you get so angry that you turn into a badger, which makes you angry, which in turn makes you turn into a bear. I can't speak for the rest of it,...1 replies | 693 view(s)
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2024-03-05, 05:12 PMChronos 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/d20Re 71: Plenty of magic items in the DMG (such as rings of jumping, climbing, or swimming) give a +5 competence bonus to a skill for the basic...189 replies | 10381 view(s)
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2024-03-02, 08:58 AMIf you, as the DM, are having a hard time coming up with enough skills or feats for a monster, don't sweat it. A skill or feat that it never uses...13 replies | 1105 view(s)
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2024-03-02, 08:50 AMAs an illustration of how the monster CR advancement rules are just guidelines, and you should always sanity-check them, consider what happens with...16 replies | 1370 view(s)
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2024-02-29, 04:38 PMHippø bites can be very nasti. A hippø bit my sister, once.13 replies | 3282 view(s)
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2024-02-28, 05:28 PMNah, Humanoid Shape won't work. It's based on Change Shape, which means that it only gets you size, speed, and natural weapons, not other racial...10 replies | 1335 view(s)
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2024-02-26, 05:00 PMChronos replied to a thread Speculation Silly Thought Experiment: True Polymorph and Truesight in D&D 5e/NextI think that this is a case where D&D being an oral game works to its benefit. You see a 30-foot tall dragon in the 10-foot room. That's what you...21 replies | 2951 view(s)
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2024-02-26, 04:29 PMChronos 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/d20Re 62: Invocations are spell-like abilities, but unlike most spell-like abilities, they do/i] have somatic components. So your form would have to...189 replies | 10381 view(s)
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2024-02-25, 07:46 AMAny reason we're skipping over Sunbeam and Sunburst, from the PHB?11 replies | 1849 view(s)
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2024-02-25, 07:45 AMChronos replied to a thread Trying to remember a piece of cellular automaton jargon in Mad Science and Grumpy TechnologyIt's not time-independent, because time independence implies time reversibility, and Life (among others) isn't time-reversible: Given the state at...9 replies | 586 view(s)
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2024-02-24, 09:05 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 60: Absent a houserule, nothing gives you the ability to choose to fail on a dispel check. Your interpretation A is correct. A 61: Spells...189 replies | 10381 view(s)
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2024-02-23, 06:56 AMExploding dice actually aren't all that consequential. Everyone pays attention to the shiny "I can do unlimited damage with a single attack!", but...91 replies | 13366 view(s)
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2024-02-22, 04:44 PMChronos replied to a thread Optimization [Workshop] Optimising Setting Sun school in D&D 3e/3.5e/d20From the Clever Positioning one: Where do you get this rule that falling damage scales with a creature's weight?11 replies | 2054 view(s)
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