DuckTapeal

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I'm a ruleslawyer from 3.5 D&D, but I've since branched out into many other systems. I currently play Pathfinder for the most part.

I believe that the GM's first job should be to know the rules. Games are much more fun when rules are selectively ignored or fudged, but it's important to know the implications of rules changes before making them.

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May 8	reviewed	No Action Needed How can I maximise my armour without magic items/spells?
May 8	reviewed	Reviewed How can I maximise my armour without magic items/spells?
May 6	reviewed	Leave Open Incentivizing Player Betrayal?
May 4	reviewed	Leave Open What alternatives are there to replace orcs, kobolds, and hobgoblins in low-level encounters?
May 3	awarded	Enlightened
May 3	awarded	Nice Answer
Apr 23	awarded	Nice Answer
Apr 23	answered	How can non-magical healers be useful when magic healing is available?
Apr 21	revised	My DM's ruled that all spells cast in armor are subject to Arcane Spell Failure. Can you change his mind? Removed the unrelated section from Spell Failure
Apr 20	answered	My DM's ruled that all spells cast in armor are subject to Arcane Spell Failure. Can you change his mind?
Apr 10	comment	What's the difference between “Ability to cast arcane spells” and “Arcane spellcaster”? @KRyan What cases would not work with this interpretation? I'm not trying to be argumentative, I just spent a few minutes thinking about the 3.5 stuff I knew of, and I couldn't think of any counter-examples.
Apr 9	awarded	Enlightened
Apr 9	awarded	Nice Answer
Mar 10	comment	What kind of action is rake? -1: Rakes are not made instead of normal natural attacks, they are made in addition to normal natural attacks. To quote the SRD link you give, "A creature with this special attack gains extra natural attacks when it grapples its foe....a monster with the rake ability usually gains two additional claw attacks..."
Mar 10	comment	What kind of action is rake? I disagree that the rules are situationally dependent vis-a-vis what kind of action a rake is. No matter how you do it, rake attacks are attack actions made as part of a full attack action(or standard action attack, if you have Improved Grab). There is no such thing as a "triggered action" in 3.5, only move, standard, full, swift, and immediate. Rake is none of these, it is only part of another attack action. This is just semantics, however. I only bring it up because I see the rules-lawyering tag.
Mar 9	awarded	Yearling
Feb 22	comment	It is commonly said that epic spellcasting in D&D 3.5e is broken. What are some examples of broken epic spellcasters? Also, to clarify: it's not the cube that I'd say no to, it's the epic spell requiring that many mitigators that I'd disallow.
Feb 22	comment	It is commonly said that epic spellcasting in D&D 3.5e is broken. What are some examples of broken epic spellcasters? @KRyan It has nothing to do with the construction of such a structure, and everything to do with the fact that the one guaranteed way to make epic spellcasting broken is to use a ton of low level spells as mitigators. It's the combination of "Let's get as many people in a tiny space as possible" and "I'm researching an epic spell" that make me think that a non-idiot DM would disallow this. Now if you wanted to put a whole crapton of people together with such a structure for another purpose, then go right ahead.
Feb 22	comment	It is commonly said that epic spellcasting in D&D 3.5e is broken. What are some examples of broken epic spellcasters? I'm pretty sure this is blocked by the 'DM who isn't an idiot' clause. If a player says to me "I need to build a cubical frame to hold as many people as I can" in regards to epic spellcasting, the answer is almost certainly no.
Feb 21	comment	How to mitigate glass cannon syndrome in Pathfinder? If the goal is to make it so a combatant takes many rounds of combat to beat, then making the first few rockets miss accomplishes that. I don't believe that there will be a single systemic change that will remove rocket tag without adversely affecting other sections of the game, as noted in other answers.