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Fwiw, by casting a spell into an item, you are declaring it's name (since the name is part of the verbal). In general, the scroll text supersedes the rulebook, but it could be worth clarifying with ARC which is intended.

In the long-long-ago, the rules used to allow for one of four possibilities on your roll: success, flawed success, failure (with no result), or backlash. It was, at that time, possible to increase the odds of flawed successes in the hopes of getting something super-beneficial out of it ("All...

There is no clear, hard-and-fast rule on "what does 'I search your shoes' mean, exactly". Different people have different expectations and different ways of dealing with it. The simplest way to deal with a generic "I search your shoes" is to take off your shoes and dump them out with a really...

What about non-predawn hours? Have any of your plotsters created scenes of "put some people in a remote location to guard a thing"? If you have, how have you gone about balancing keeping the players entertained while potentially subjecting the characters to "aaaand, nothing happened for X...

Some good points made here. I know I've run this well, and run it badly. What is your flow as a plot person? What do you do as a PC to keep it interesting?

I think Mike forgot to mention the idea (though it was in Todd's lovely story) that not being the correct monster type makes you immune. ("Squinting in the poor light, Sasha sees that the creature she attacked appears to be some sort of green humanoid. She drops the axe and pulls out a hammer...

From the ritual text: "The wielder of the Monster Slayer weapon must be sure that the target monster is truly of the race the weapon is targeted against in order to invoke the extra damage." Historically, I've seen this played as "The character has to know for sure". The intention of Monster...

Here's the thing - the stuff you will likely do in teaching real-world combat skills will probably violate the combat rules of Alliance. For instance, teaching someone to close in on their opponent in order to remove their ability to strike effectively is against the combat rules of Alliance...

In general, it needs to look like a bow. You should not be carrying a looping series of tubes that take up as much space as a bowl of day-old pudding and throwing packets for long bow damage. The intent of wylderkin is to be a different animal. While a Neanderthal is definitely not a...

There's not a particularly distinct reason your "lizardkin" can't walk around claiming to be a "dinosaurkin". From a makeup perspective, there are plenty of non-extinct variants that will cover most classic conceptions of dinosaurs (feathery killer chicken velociraptors notwithstanding), and...

Challenge tournament. As players clear out layers of GigantoDungeon, they earn auction chits, which may be used to bid on bundles of weekend loot.

Agreed w/ Evan.

How would you resolve the issue? Not asking to be snarky, actually interested. What would be a better way to identify the general rule (two hands on two handed weapons for attacking and blocking) while also denoting the exception (you can block with only one hand on a bow or staff, and as a...

So, I really like new ways to physrep stuff, but my issue with a projected CoP is that the rules call for an actual in-game physical object be used to establish the circle. This physrep must be tangible and manipulable. If Beasty of Dragon Magic walks in and DMs it, putting up a new circle...

The exception for staff is meant to be similar to the exception for bows (another two-handed weapon that may be used in one hand for blocking, and so used in conjunction with a second weapon). As you note, to attack with a staff, you need both hands on the weapon as described on page 94. To...

Can you cite which line on pg 94 indicates you cannot use Staff with a short weapon?

Yes, all PTD skills should be called with their appropriate carrier. A creature only affected by Silver would call "No effect" to the "PTD Eviscerate".

Similarly, a Bind, Web or Confine force your hands down, so those would break a Desecrate as well, even if you can Rip from them.

Psh, no one will ever get that high in level. This is the rulebook I originally started under, too.

Wands are your bow. Your "arrows" come from within yourself.