Maybe it’s an initiative roll.

The trick is to leave them permanently petrified instead of killing them.

Why would you kill the lich? Just cast Stone to Flesh and leave them petrified forever. If you really want to be thorough, you can trap them in a demiplane just before casting Private Sanctum for the 365th time permanently blocking it from interplanar travel.

And sometimes the official stats suck. The 2014 Tarrasque was just sad. And if Tabaxis get Cat’s Claws, Cat’s Talent, Feline Agility, and Darkvision, cats should have those too. Along with a jump height of more than -1 feet.

Fantasy hero: Slay the dragon

Donkey: Lay the dragon

Minecraft speedrunner: Yes

I’ve been reading it on Deviantart.

I was thinking of that as a house rule for Mutants and Masterminds (which has a similar system, but is much more generous with the reroll). I think it’s better if you don’t feel like you wasted the Hero Point because you rolled low.

That said, it works best if it’s a success/fail type thing. I understand pathfinder has a lot of things with critical success and critical failure. I guess you get it back if you don’t score better?

It depends. Did I learn Gentle Repose, and is that staff worth more than 2,500 gp?

I see no reason it wouldn’t. It’s not casting or concentrating on a spell. My question: does it take the damage instead before or after your damage resistance is applied?

While mounted on it, you can make any spell you cast that targets only you also target the mount.

It doesn’t say “targets self”. It says “targets only you”.

It’s already a celestial, a fey, or a fiend rhino. Given that, having wings isn’t surprising.

That sounds entirely reasonable. Why the meme?

Edit: Does “targets you only” mean it has to have a target of self, or just that in this casting it is only targeting you? I’m thinking cast Dragon’s Breath on yourself and share it with your steed, and now both of you get a breath weapon.

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Can I sell the swords and shortbows? And their endless supply of arrows? Or maybe I have the skeletons shoot at me, but they hit a slime block on a piston that bounces the arrows up and down and keeps them from despawning and then I can launch all of them at an invader at once.

Does Animate Dead give them a sword and bow? And arrows?

And isn’t there The Tarasque who is basically a you fucking loose statblock

Mostly. They really bungled it in the 2014 statblock. Other editions gave it some combination of ranged attacks, regeneration, a way to cancel flight, and a burrow speed. In 2014, it had none of these. A level 5 Wizard could borrow a Repeating heavy crossbow from an Artificer, repeatedly cast Phantom Steed to stay out of its range, and take it down on its own. Or instead of a wizard, use an Aarakocra from Elemental Evil Player’s Companion with 2 levels in Rogue (so it can learn Cunning Action), and it will be able to fly faster than the Tarrasque. Unless you use Chase rules.

In 2024, they have a ranged attack and a burrow speed, and they’re significantly faster. It’s hard to just attack from a safe distance and they can always just head underground. But if you can get 150 feet in the air, you’re at an impasse where neither can hurt the other. And a high-level party has a lot of crazy tools at their disposal.

The problem isn’t enemies that are too hard or too easy. The problem is the GM not knowing ahead of time which it will be.

Did someone make alternate dice rules? Those are insane. Nine pages of rules, and it’s effectively impossible to figure out your odds of success.

I forgot to add, it needs to be free. I did download GURPS Lite a while ago. I can’t remember exactly why I didn’t like it, but one problem I see is that it has a specific list of weapons. You can’t just make your own with whatever set of attributes you want. And there’s going to be statistically better and worse ones, so you have to choose between the weapon you think is cool and the one that deals more damage. In contrast, Mutants & Masterminds has weapons with a point buy system same as the characters. Though it’s extremely bad at explaining that. It just has a list of Devices and their costs, and you have to notice that the example characters have weapons that aren’t in the list, and that they cost the same as if you just build them into a player but with Equipment Points instead of Power Points.

Also, Lite at least doesn’t seem to have any way to build characters with interesting powers. I don’t really care if it’s superhero-themed in particular, but I just think M&M’s system of design your own spells is better than D&D or Pathfinder where you just have to pick one out of a list or or make your own and eyeball it.

I forgot to add, it needs to be free. It looks like that one isn’t.

I have one that’s supposed to walk you through it. I don’t know how user-friendly that is in practice though.