SANJI NO MANE

"get the hell off this ship."

Eh no worries about late comics DT.

Seconded.

So either Red Leg Zeff is going to kick those knives out of Sanji's hands and deliver a speech on chef's hands and fighting and stuff, or Sanji gains a traumatic experience from using them.

Place your bets people on how the character development is going to go down.

Quick question regarding the conversation on the last page, I was inspired by all the talk of Biblical/ancient history based roleplay and wanted to maybe run something like that myself for myself and some associates of mine that have been a little wary of the whole "D&D" thing since I mentioned it to them a while back.

I've mostly been looking for something that could emulate when the Israelites were first going into the Promised Land but had to clear out all of the tribes that were there first, so something with a lot of Large Scale War without magic, and maybe a few Small Scale battles more like the usual D&D battles mixed in to liven things up for individual players. Does anyone here know of something that could help me run such a session?

Also, on an unrelated note, another session I'm running may or may not involve a spell that will turn a Young Green Dragon into the size of a Mature Adult for a limited time, after which he will pass out for the rest of the day. This is obviously a homebrew spell but I'm having trouble coming up with what Spell Level/Caster Level you'd have to be at to create/cast such a thing, or should I just have it be something passed down by draconic deities? I'm just not sure...

Ohhh, you want a bloodline ability for that, I think.

I do remember seeing somthing like that spell in Dnd, not sure if 3.5 or 4. Pretty sure it was 3.5. Anyway, Needed a dragonscale of the kind of dragon you where going to do a partial transformation into, and was frankly kind of rubish.

this sound like a more powerfull version, but you have increased the drawbacks of it pretty appropriate. sadly, it's late and i don't remember exactly what book, but i would recomend going digging in the 3.5 books for it.

The closest things I can find are either Polymorph (not powerful enough, it caps before you can get the bigger dragons) and Alter Self (also not powerful enough, he'd retain his ability scores when he transformed while what I'd want would give him everything that a normally aged dragon of that calibre would get).

Unless I'm just not finding what you guys are talking about.

Shapechange http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/shapechange.htm (9th level Arcane) would work up until 25 HD, wheras Mature Adult Green is 23 HD.

Alterantively, if all you're looking for is the difference in size between Young (Medium) and Mature Adult (Huge), you could use psionics instead. An augmented expansion power http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/powers/expansion.htm would cost 7 power points (meaning that you'd have to have Manifester Level 7 to manifest it). At level 7, it would last 7 rounds a use. You could probably homerule for a lower powerpoint cost and longer duration if it caused massive non-lethal damage (enough to knock the character out for a long time)

That Shapechange is actually perfect, thank you so much! Now all I need to do is modify it so that it only works on dragons so the party doesn't just steal it for themselves/sell it for maximum profit. At the very worst they just won't give it to him... unless I can just mask the item's power. Is there anything that would prevent or at least hinder a Wizard from being able to cast Identify successfully on an object?

A "Nystuls Magic Aura" spell heightened to second level will fool identify for days per caster level.

Consider adding a cursed item property to it, such that can only be used by a real dragon, or else it'll bestow several negative levels whilst in use. Alternatively, make it intelligent and extremely uncooperative/racist with non-dragons.

Found it

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/f/form-of-the-dragon-i

lv 6, take the shape of a medium size dragon.

I dont know if it will help you but maybe you should take a look at "Testament - Roleplaying in the Biblical Era" by Green Ronin Publishing. I got a copy from paizo for only $2 when they were having a sale (thought it may get used by some of my more religious friends or at lest put a smile on their faces), but they don't sell it anymore. Noble Knight has it listed, its a thick book (a lot thicker than I was expecting) so it costs a bit. http://www.nobleknight.com/ProductDetailSearch.asp_Q_ProductID_E_197631673_A_InventoryID_E_2148116997

I'd actually looked into Testament earlier DragGon, and I think that's going to be my answer for that particular issue. As for the Draconic thing I can't believe I didn't think of Cursed Items before, the malleable nature of Curses makes them perfect for the kind of thing I'm looking for. Thanks for all the help guys, this is really going to help when this all finally goes down!

Sounds pretty good, just as long as whoever's leading the band of them has to have the terrible sense of direction flaw.

As we will see later, when Sanji uses knives for fighting, he's unstoppable.

Only becouse he managed to lawyer in using his proffesion chef to hit and damage roll bonuses seeing how he was "cooking" his opponent, and was not acctually fighting him. thus not breaking his "look Ma, no hands" flaw

That is the same kind of argument Raxon makes when actually fighting. His attacks are invisible, and they don't knock the enemy around, so it's family friendly, especially for the kids, because, hey, they can't project energy fields or chop enemies in half with their minds.