Troll Lord Games

serleran wrote: Yes, because, ordinarily, there is no save (or SR) for sleep... elfs and half-elfs break that rule. It's now clear in my mind how I would apply these rules. But was it really the game designers' intent to make sleep immune to SR? The PHB description says that SR is a defense against...

Thanks for clarifying that SR is a "fixed" value, unaffected by the caster level or level of the spell. Having looked over some higher HD creatures in M&T, I see now that adding caster level would make SR rather meaningless for them. CB wrote: RLW - thanks for your examples, but having...

<t>Mmm, this PDF copy of the PHB makes searching easy.<br/> <br/> p. 34: Elves get +10 to their SR<br/> <br/> p. 35: Half-elves, +2 or +4 (depending on lineage)<br/> <br/> p. 46, 50: SR is characterized as a "special ability," hence not universal to all creatures. It is separate from but additional ...

<t>I will probably be lampooned and lambasted for saying it, but I've been content with what Windows XP lets me do. My brother keeps encouraging me to install all this 3rd-party open source stuff, but he's a tech geek and would think nothing of spending hours analyzing registry codes. I just want to...

Foxroe wrote: Ego laudo veritati! (pardon my Latin... it's been a few years ) Euge! Although technically the accusative is regular with laudare-- Ego laudo veritatem! I would be tickled pink to own a "collector's set" of reconstructed Roman dice. Getting used to a d20 with letters on it w...

Hey, it's still cheaper than buying all the books for 3.x!

<t>The link is interesting! Maybe the best definition of libram should be "a spellbook of Vancian magic." If libram has no existence outside of the FRPG community, it probably is of recent vintage; that gives me some consolation about never having seen it in classical and medieval Latin.<br/> <br/> ...

<t>Yes, "libram" in that phrase isn't just related to Libra (the scales) -- it is libra, just in the accusative case! Per aes et libram describes a certain type of transaction. Literally it means "by means of copper and scales" and it just indicates that proper protocol was followed. Apologies if I'...

Omote wrote: As serleran says, look for Casey Christopherson's Black Librem of Nartarus book due out sometime for the Hanuted Highlands setting... if that is indeed what the book is still called. -O If Mr. Christopherson does publish such a book, would you please prevail upon him to use "liber...

<t>The WOTC tiles are nice. Just the right thickness of cardstock, durable, attractive--even atmospheric, I'd say. Plus there double-sided, so there's no waste! A parent of one of the boys in the gaming group at my school works for WOTC. She arranged to give the school a donation of several sets alo...

<t>Serleran:<br/> <br/> Thanks for the list of warnings -- that's what I did ask for. There is a difference in my book between "simplicity" and "simplistic." I want a "simple" system of tactics, by which I mean something that gives players flexibility in how they attack and defend without requring a...

Matthew wrote: It would probably work fine. It kind of depends on how many points you allow and whether they come from the 'to hit bonus'. That was my initial thought - i.e. that your 'to hit bonus' would be converted into your pool of points. That way, if a player puts all his points into attack, ...

<t>To make a long story short, I'm a recent returnee to RPG's after over a decade hiatus. The people I'm playing with use 3.5e, but I'm dissatisfied both with the overspecified complexity of the game and the munchkin / power-gamer element in it. I haven't bought C&C yet, but what I've read about...