Zachiel

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D&D 3.5 and 4e DM, D&D Next playtester DM.

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1d	comment	How wealthy can a d20 Modern character be? And here I tought Pun-Pun was bad.
May 20	comment	May magic missile be energy substituted @Catlord I think "one type of energy (list)" can be easily read as "one of those types of energy". I'm editing the question to encompass both interpretations.
May 19	comment	How do I learn to become a good GM? About common sense: be sure the rule is really not working before changing it in a definitive way.
May 19	comment	How much to bend “the rules” about populating a world? +1 this. Someone tried to talk down about my DM knowledge because I ran Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil as it was written - blue dragon in a swamp area and all, with no deserts anywhere around. But -1 for encouraging bad talk against his player.
May 19	comment	How do I make skill checks more than just sequences of die chucking? @boriscallens: this is arguably done to avoid smarter players from winning all challenges and dumber ones from losing them outright (you still play the challenge, even in front of good ideas) but more so for avoiding a DM that uses challenges as a "roll stealth once more (till you fail)" railroading. Upon a set numeber of wins, you get the objective.
May 18	comment	D&D 4 - does it suffer as much drift / house-ruling as previous versions? (Primarily 3 and 2) @C.Ross or, things were already thrown off by the rules themselves in 3.x so there was no risk of ruining the non-existant balance.
May 18	comment	Why does (A)D&D change so much between editions? Not enough "good" subjective to be the real answer, but it's different games by different people using the same brand and some sacred cows for marketing reasons. I feel like 4e would bw a lot more appreciated if they didn't sell it as "D&D".
May 17	comment	How do I interpret “add +1/3 to natural armor bonus”? Translations are evil. In the Italian one the paladin uses the surges of his targets when he lays on hands.
May 16	comment	May magic missile be energy substituted I tried looking for metamagic tricks like flash frost spell to add a descriptor to the missile but I found nothing. They might exist.
May 14	comment	What is the LA when only the ECL is listed? While everything in D&D 3.5 is DM discretion, by the rules any creature with LA is buildable as a PC (most DM will have a limited selection of races for their campaign or a maximum LA limit for character creation) and creatures with LA "-" (which is different from LA 0) are banned. Since it's D&D, any willing DM can create new player races from scratch or from monster races. Since this is not a forum but a Q&A site I invite you to come to the chat if you want to further discuss things that are outside of the scope of the question.
May 14	comment	What is the LA when only the ECL is listed? Anything without a LA is not meant for player use. A Drow elf has a LA af 2, it is supposed to be as powerful as a character with 2 more HD. An Earth Elemental has a LA of -, it can't be used by players, unless the DM decides a LA and overrides the monster's statblock.
May 13	comment	How big a creature can you entangle with entangling breath? @KRyan: fixed :)
May 11	comment	Calculating attack bonuses when fighting with two rapiers I would suggest the Oversized 2 Weapon Fighting feat to get rid of the -2 penalty from the non-light weapon. @vsz the character has probably all his feats set on rapiers.
May 7	comment	How does two weapon fighting calculate the offhand attack? Fixed, thank you @Starwed
May 7	comment	What is a good system to play LOTR? But it never happens to our heroes, unless it's needed for some story to progress. (Aaaand, not Skyrim, I guess)
May 7	comment	What is a good system to play LOTR? Want to risk your head lopped by a random orc? Go for criticals, but they don't make for a really LOTR experience. Boromir was killed by the biggest uruk-hai in the loot, it wouldn't have been so heroic otherwise.
May 2	comment	How many natural weapon attacks would I get? Oh, as a fluff thing only. Because +20/+20/+15/+10/+5/+0 is different from +20/+20/+15/+15/+10/+10
May 1	comment	What is the cost for the upkeep of gear? Such repairs are usually needed after an item gets destroyed by sundering it during a combat, by destroying it while unattended, by killing it while animated or when something able to damage equipment is on a character who critically fails the save.
May 1	comment	How many natural weapon attacks would I get? Well that's exactly what it does not do. It either gives 2 to 4 extra attacks with one of your two same-name natural attacks (but then who would choose 2?) or it gives two extra attacks with one of your two same-mane natural attacks but limits the total natural attacks to no more than four. In any case it's crystal clear that the extra attacks must be done with the same weapon. (Which is why I want to give this a try instead of following Kryan's answer)
Apr 30	comment	How many natural weapon attacks would I get? I'm unsure after re-reading the feat. Is the 5 maximum attacks related to the first claw or to all you natural weapons? Any official reading?