Why not drop an invisible intercept item/mob. If anyone types anything, other than the caster (name is set upon temporary item/mob), then it intercepts with "Your limbs move slowly, as if time were standing still..." Only problem I see with it is two wizards simoultaniously casting timesto...

I don't think I was meaning a dead magic area, or even a wild zone. Just a way to prevent scrying. From what I remember, there was a spell to prevent it (though the name escapes me...). However, it was a personal spell. Seeing as how things are coded in the game, rooms are flagged no_scry, not peopl...

What Rhy is meaning is this: Every class has it's own skill sets. These are used to (makes the quote marks with his fingers) "force" people to act the way their class would. 3e D&D rules allow for more multi-class flexability, but I don't think we're heading that way. Mages read and st...

Dear anti-scry'ers Set up an ambush. Your lord and master, --Cyric Addendum: I don't see the abuse in this situation. First, you assume how much of an impact your encounter made upon this particular character. Second, spell memorization time, spell components (both time & money), spell memorizat...

Nono, s'coo. Better to ask than to get a "what the heck were you thinking..?" later on =P As per my faith : Basically, Glim was asking this in referance to Cyric's faith because of a very strong belief that Cyric is the. only. god. As a result, any follower of Cyric views a member of any o...

Each skill / spell has a learn rate. Coders are constantly tweaking it in order to find optimal levels, but they are also working on other projects as well. Basically, let's say second attack would have a learn rate of 3 Take that logrithmic calc you had, multiply the end number by 3, and you have ,...

I really feel that, just because it's IC for an evil to do something like this, OOCly it's a really nasty thing to do. It's one thing to be mischievious and move the pet like Mele said, it's another thing to steal it or kill it. That's just being inconsiderate OOC and it never ends well, I don't th...

Sacrifice is still in effect, but it was tweeked. It is level based, and therefore a level 50 can't go to Howling Peaks and raze the place in order to fill their favor. Likewise, players have started being penalized whom suddenly lose 10-15 levels immediatly after gaining a deity. The penalties diff...

Blocking something with a stave would fall into parry, I believe, as the description for the OP's suggestion is blocking via, "grabbing a person's wrist, blocking with a forearm", etc. is a bit more complex and a bit more high stakes than simply parrying. A parry involves 4 feet of steel g...

An addition: Whomever said flying made you completely silent while entering and exiting an area? I'd have to look that up in my PHB (which is at home ><), but I'm unsure Flying grants complete stealth. I'm pretty sure a Boeing 747 is able to take flight, but if one is 10 feet away from it, by god, t...

When they are implemented, there will be an announcement. Just as there were announcements for new races.

Technically, there are about 3 or 4 feats to enable dual wield at it's maximum capacity. The game enables it on different levels due to skill points. Example: If you are 25 dual wield, it is as if you have devoted 4 skill points to the various feats. If anything, I would like to see single wielding ...

So wait.... Let me get this straight: You do not group with thieves for their chaotic actions (such as stealing) Yet, you are denying them any option to further their roleplay into combat? I don't understand why you say that a thieves "groupability" is fine but the reason you don't group w...

I agree that fighters, in addition to being damage takers, have also always been the highest damage dealers, and that has pretty much always been the design in D&D from early on.... Fighters have always had the best hit table... Correct. But those are hit die, meaning their ability to hit the m...

Tank is a term for meatshield. Basically, someone that has both defense and the hitpoints, and would be considered the ideal canidate to take the hits. That way, priests aren't ineffiecently pumping mana into cureative spells on classes with high hp and low def, or scurrying to heal low hp character...

Technically, if you have a help file in the game, it is assumed that anything contained within that help file is common knowledge to most educated individuals. So, most High Priests or Lords of the Keep (etc) would be well known. Tells are hard to classify, as I really don't remember reading anythin...

Keep in mind thieves aren't supposed to be able to best a fighter; in melee combat there is none better than a fighter. Thieves are not supposed to be a purely offensive class, they are more RP-oriented and their skills lie elsewhere, with many more non-combat skills than a fighter While I agree th...

Timing is a big factor. You must type the spell in before the opposing character can finish theirs. Spellcraft is essential for this. However, for the dexterically challanged, there is a way to overcome adversity (if I spelled that all right....). Syntax: auto counterspell auto on This should automa...

Unsure which classes (if any) get this, but there is a spell resistance to drain spells.

Syntax: cast resilience <target>

This spell grants the target resistance to draining attacks. It can be
cast on others.

Does it say "no effect"? Or does it say "Your spell fizzels as...-yadda-yadda".

Fizzel = Concentration check lost.

Resists = I'd have to ask the coders what's goin down.