They each require their own mastery (as with the Player's Manual example of battle axe and hand axe, p.260).

Excellent news! Hopefully these 0-level nobodies never rise to the level of a classed PC.

Ghul wrote:

The bots will just crush us with advertising if they got in. They wouldn't affect the PbP. What I mean is if we went to a better option than boardhost, all that would be lost, and I don't want to do that to those involved. But at the same time, boardhost hasn't done anything to improve in years. They don't answer customer support emails, either.

Preface: easy for me to say, since I don't do PbP, but...
All campaigns end, eventually, right? With enough warning, maybe the folks engaged in it here can plan for the transition to a brand new campaign, replete with all the mystery and wonder that entails? 

That's one possible interpretation. I'd be inclined to rule that a failed SV means the character is entangled for the duration of the spell, so treated as prone for the duration. In other words: it's a deadly spell, especially as it's only 1st level.

That's an example of "supine", not "prone": supine is face up, prone is face down. I'd allow a supine character to attack for sure, with a penalty.

I haven't been in many years: first attended 1979, and for the last time in 1987. It seems like it would offer a good selection of gaming, since I'm interested in all types of games. Fingers crossed!

Welcome to the fora! There is no official 3e screen from North Wind Adventures just yet, but the 2e one should suffice (I think the biggest difference is the Combat sequence: 1e/2e used phased rounds, 3e doesn't). You should also grab the free PDFs here (the 3e Ready Ref sheets in particular).

Osric_of_O wrote:

But if a prone creature could not attack, that would mean that Pyromancers' Fire Web spells, which keep the victim prone for multiple rounds, would be an instant, no-challenge, encounter-winner.  And we don't really want that, do we?
 

Why not just treat a prone defender by the RAW, i.e. -4AC? They're not completely defenseless (automatic hit), just more vulnerable.

Yes, or fishing around in a pouch for the right rune. All the more reason for it to take their action. 

Yes, the cutting of the palm and dripping blood on the rune is done when "enchanting" the rune, not during the "invoking" of the rune. The 1HP/spell level "pain" takes effect upon invoking. The analog to other spell casters is "enchanting" = "memorization" and "invoking" = "casting".