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However in the DMG under the condition Drowning, you get 2 rounds per Con point.

Acutally, that is listed under the "Suffocation" condition, quoteing from the SRD:

"Suffocation

A character who has no air to breathe can hold her breath for 2 rounds per point of Constitution.
When the character fails one of these Constitution checks, she begins to suffocate. In the first round, she falls unconscious (0 hit points). In the following round, she drops to –1 hit points and is dying. In the third round, she suffocates."

So the rules in the PHB apply only to drowning, and the rules in the DMG apply to any situation in which the charicter can not breathe, but is not underwater.

Rob to answer your question, the reason why you get 1-2 minutes before you start rolling is that if you fail a check, you automatically die in three rounds, which is pretty nasty. I don't have a problem with the rule myself, that would mean an average human can hold his breath for 1 min before he would have to start making checks (when underwater). That is fair enough, IMHO

As for the original question, I agree with James

Oddly, I don't recall ever seeing this useage of the word fence until the article.

It crops up in movies from time to time, e.g. Ocean's 11:

Rusty: "Don't let him fool you, there’s boatloads, if you can move 'em"
Danny: "My fence seemed confidant enough"
Rusty: "Dealing in cash you don't need a fence"

etc.

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Samurai Knight vs. Waffle Donkey!

Samurai Knight: Dispite the confusion caused by a massive idenity crises, that donkey has his waffles!

Pancake Bunny vs. Parfait Ninja!

Pancake Bunny: Clearly any Parfait ninga would fall all over himself trying to get at the delicious pankake, leaving himself wide open to the bunny's devastating bite attack.

Baboon Pirate vs. PostMonster General!

This fight would end with no clear winner, as both sides would be content to simply throw feces at each other while shouting curses in an indecipherable nautical slang.

AARRR!

Big Jake is essentially correct. You can voluntarily fail your saving throw, but you are never denied a saving throw if the spell calls for one. However there are a few conditions that can affect your chances for success, especially on reflex saves. Here are a couple of examples from the SRD:

"Cover and Reflex Saves: Cover grants you a +2 bonus on Reflex saves against attacks that originate or burst out from a point on the other side of the cover from you. Note that spread effects can extend around corners and thus negate this cover bonus."

"Helpless: A helpless character is paralyzed, held, bound, sleeping, unconscious, or otherwise completely at an opponent’s mercy. A helpless target is treated as having a Dexterity of 0 (–5 modifier)."

Since your reflex saves are modified by your Dexterity, a helpless character would take a penalty to his reflex saves.

It includes the tables of content for every back issue we have in stock (and many of the others).

Far be it from me to dispute our Postmonster General, but this is not actually true, at least not yet. We have all of the recent issues (going back at least 3 years) done, and many others besides, but we are not done with all of the ones we have in stock yet.

We now have a nice little collection of avatar images

Yay! Images!

Anyway, I think I'm done with my summer meat binge. Mmmmmm...... veggie burgers.....

Veggie burgers? Thats going too far. They do have a good chicken burger though. And their turkey burger is not bad either