Another D&D question: My character is a swashbuckler with both the Improved disarm feat and a great deal of slight of hand. We begin combat, but I have a surprise round before initiative is rolled. I attempt to draw my opponent's weapon instead of my own, pulling it directly out of his own sheath. Is this a disarm attempt or a sleight of hand check? On one hand I want to say sleight of hand because he isn't currently wielding the weapon, Im taking it off of his person. On the other hand, Im not actually trying to be sneaky about it. I don't care if he sees me taking it, I just want it in my hands. What do?

This would seem to fall under the "Grabbing items" use of Disarm. In fact it seems to be exactly the kind of thing that section's written for:
Sleight of Hand doesn't seem to be as good a fit, both because you're not trying to be sneaky about it and because Sleight of Hand seems to be specifically geared towards handling small objects.

half on topic, but does anyone know of a good place for pbp 3.X? i used to go on mythweavers, but every time I get seriously into a game there someone in my family gets sick or dies, and I can't handle that right now

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Pip Boy - I'm seconding Meister on this one. It sounds exactly like what you want to do. Also: that's an awesome swashbuckler-move to make!

Drgon... uh, wow. That sounds pretty awful. My recommendation for finding 3.X stuff is Paizo.com, as they are the kind of last-bastion of all things 3.X. I think Wizards might still have some of their old stuff, but last time I was on their site it was really difficult to navigate.

Also, Aldurin - I'm not saying it's not evil, I'm just saying I don't know what it is, but given my lack of knowledge, it sounds slightly evil - mostly because of the word "creeper".

There is usually quite a few pbp games recruiting on the GitP forums at any point in time. Maybe try there?

That's a nice everything you have there, shame if something happened to it.

Ssssssss...

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Creeper, then play minecraft and learn to fear it.

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Not you, Yrcrazypa. The other Creeper - the one Aldurin was talking about!

Also...
Mhmmmmm. I have been enlightened! That does sound scary!

Also, also: YAY! This has become a general D&D advice thread! I love these!

If we're going to go general advice, here's 3 key tips to surviving as a party
1) Stab the rogue- they are basically just evil bards
2) Stab the paladin- they are basically just pompous fighters
3) Stab the monk- cause they will try to get the party locked up with no items just so they can murder everyone
4) Are you still alive? Stab anyone remaining, become an evil cleric, solo the campaign.

Play Neutral Good.

Here's the thing. There's a reason an NG Druid is one of the most dangerous alignments in the DnD world. You can be considered "The Pacifier". So long as you can justify your actions, you do everything "for the greater good"

"Those hostages? I killed them because of the unrest they were causing to the village in terms of the ransom money!"

"The one princess? She goes now to the astral plane to find her true self."

" I killed all your people with tangleroots so as not to cause you undue pain and suffering."

Just a thought.