"It's what my guy would do!"
"My Guy" syndrome is when — often unwittingly — you disclaim decision-making power and responsibility by acting like "what my character would do" is inevitable and inviolable, even if it gets in the way of actually having fun in the game or being able to play the gam...
It's mainly good if you have front-liners who have reach or ranged attacks.
For clarification this answer only concerns the Pathfinder version of the spell and relevant rules on Acrobatics checks. Though the question is tagged for both DnD 3.5 and Pathfinder, DnD 3.5 may work very differently.
...
One game design purpose is balance.
If you don't have Eschew Materials as a feat or class ability you are vulnerable to your component pouch being taken/destroyed which would you effectively lose all your prepared spells that have a material component. And I think the idea is that when you prepa...
Let's try to break down the layers of the problem here, why fleeing isn't coming up as an option to be taken. A key problem is the limitations of communication; they just aren't able to have a debate about how all their coordination in attack is a massive waste when really they should be doing th...
You - the player - can always come up with a reason that makes sense for "MyGuy" to not do something that is too easy and makes the game unsatisfying. Using the forum.rpg.net post cited by Alex P, there is nothing actually stopping that player dreaming up how their explosives expert could ever po...
