Min/Max Boards

My wife worked in a routing center for a couple years, she said the same thing.

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You know what I was just thinking? You can't beat someone to death with an ebook. As ebooks become more prominent, I think "novelty" doorstopper books will probably soar in value -- particularly among the poorly educated. They will then take their rightful place beside the baseball bat as the most common murder weapon.


--Dither

Makes me chuckle.  You're right, of course - and you can't stop the table wobbling by stuffing a PDF underneath its one short leg.  I predict three legged tables in the future...

Inspire Confidence:
As Blood Runs Black - The Brighter Side Of Suffering
Mortal Treason A Call to the Martyrs
Bruthal 6 - covers Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit
Marilyn Manson - The Fight Song

DFI:
dragonforce through the fire and flames
Dethklok - I Ejaculate Fire

Inspire Competence (Which is much more useful in this case, but still, boosting out of combat abilities):
Hatebreed - Perseverance
Black Sabbath(band) - Black Sabbath(song) - Black Sabbath(album)
Metallica - Master Of Puppets

Pyro show (basically, a 'Lesser Orb of Fire'... possibly several. Not much damage, but passable):
Flight of the Bumblebee at 1300 BPM (Skip ahead to about 6:30)
Rammstein - Ich tu dir weh (These guys are known for their pyro (at live shows))

Rez:
Mudvayne - Dig
White Zombie covers Black Sabbath - Children of the Grave

"pull someone out of what is basically Frenzied Berserker Frenzy."  (um hrm?)
Bert and Ernie
Vlad - Elektronik Supersonik
Aaralyn and Izzy "Zombie Skin"

Other recommendations, because i'm wating on my B-spec GT5 race to end and ya:
Dethklok- Awaken (MustaKrakish)
Slipknot - New Abortion
Static-X - I'm With Stupid
Nirvana - Tourette's

Edit: and one more

That's a pretty cool list.  I've not listened to music like that for years.  If your party has a cleric I can't see them being too pleased when they hear the Marilyn Manson Fight song...

XKCD has a strip about howThe Art Of Letter Writing Is Fast Dying Out

Aye.  See reply #16.  Mind you - this article is so good, it deserves being linked to twice in the same thread.

From the player side, it really sucks when you make a Grappler and everything suddenly shuts you down.

If the player really has created a one-trick-pony, then they're going to be frustrated on that occasion when they meet something that is good against their trick.  It's one of the reasons why PCs hang around in parties to pool their skills.  They need a plan B, even if it's a pretty rubbish plan B.

I'd say yes too - there is nothing wrong with your NPC organisations learning from doing things wrong.  The PCs should really expect that kind of behaviour.  The question then is only the degree they go to for countering grapple specialists.  If they're run by smart people, or those with plenty of resources available, they may counter grapple better than if they don't.  And if they're not so smart, they may expose new weaknesses in other ways if they go all out to counter a grapple attack.

If the arrow is caught, it hasn't exactly missed. Semantics!

it says 'The projectile is destroyed even if it misses its target.'  - so the arrow is destroyed.  It doesn't say destroyed only if it hits or misses the target.

Ahh if only.  Let me just reach for my DM's hat a moment...

Right.  My understanding is that the 'splitting' quality means that any arrow fired from the bow is split into two and each part then goes on to do normal damage for the arrow if it hits - it's a property that allows you to do double damage with your missile weapon.  The problem here is the 'split into two parts'.  What you effectively do is have two half-an-arrows that hit and do normal damage each.

if you were to cast a platinum arrow and attempt to fire it from such a bow (apart from the physical problems with firing a heavy metal arrow in the first place), you would then end up with two half-an-arrows when it landed.  In fact, if it were my game you were trying to do this in, I'd just let you know that the two parts produced contained very slightly less platinum than you started with due to loss during the splitting process.  On, and I'd tell you missed because the arrow was too heavy and only flew about a foot before landing on the floor with a loud clang.

Looking at this from a wider perspective, if you can duplicate your precious metals this way, then you wouldn't be the only one to be able to do this.  Very few would actually have the capability, but it wouldn't need many people producing unlimited platinum to make platinum worthless as it would be so abundant.

[newtangent]Does this mean you can't recover spells / get new "uses/day" of abilities?[/tangent]

edit: This is a serious question, I actually have no idea.

I suppose it does - if the Astral Plane behaves as described above in this thread, i.e. that there really is no passage of time, despite what you experience while there, then none of those things would behave normally.

I agree with that - it's the 'casts upon herself' bit that ruins it for me - you don't cast a potion upon yourself, you drink it.

Fast Healing is an Extraordinary Ability.  It's not a 'spell like effect', as per that description.  I read it as an improved version of the natural ability.  If natural healing doesn't take place then Fast Healing doesn't either.

As stated above, the 'Except for what is noted here, fast healing is like natural healing' is pretty clear.  That section makes no note of the Astral Plane.