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Well the main attraction was its shadow blend ability. It's essentially complete invisibility for a standard action each round. It also massively increases my mobility which is another very important concern considering that if one of the DM's creations manages to actually catch/corner my...

Well since he's focused around skirmishing it's going to be rare that I'll use my rapidshot and since the campaign is only 28point buy I'd have to sacrifice both skillpoints and health to get any kind of meaningful boost to strength. I did think about going pure scout but my BAB is low enough as...

Like the title says, I recently joined a new group and got what can only be described as a baptism of fire. My character was dropped into negatives in almost every fight and the DM, who realises how high powered his game is compared to most, gave me until the weekend (the next session) to spruce...

I was aware of the -2 and had accounted for it but I'd heard of people using their cohorts as more powerful replacements for their special mounts and animal companions. Also, his special mount is granted an intelligence of 6 and thus would be elligible for cohort status though I can see that the...

I'm trying to work out precisely how the cohort as mount rules work. I've got a general idea but wanted to post them here to be sure I had a decent handle on them. I've got a Fighter1/Paladin5 with 16Cha and I've worked out that along with his in game bonuses he's got a Leadership score that...

www.meetup.com can be quite good. It's how I found my current group. Put in your city/town/state and it'll come up with a list of various meetups in your area. Find one that relates to DnD or Roleplaying Games and get in contact with them. Hope you manage to find something.

A few ideas from the top of my head, these will depend a great deal on the level of power you want for the McGuffin. *Wisdom 1- x/day cast true seeing or perhaps detect thoughts if you want to be a little more philosophical. 2- Detect Alignment at will *Ethical Conduct 3- Allows user to...

Normally darkness grants total concealment, 50% miss chance. Shadowy illumination, as found of the edge of light provided by a torch or similar grants a 20% miss chance. I would say that you definately need to make spot checks to see where the arrows/spells were coming from. Perhaps DC 15 to...

I have seen regional languages introduced with a lot of success in several games. Waterdehavian on the mid-western coast, further north this become Nethees until in the Silver Marches it was Gulmon, a bastardisation of dwarven and "the merchant's tongue" (normally known as common). To the south...

Blood each day from a living, intelligent creature would certainly be a big drawback to the race and to be honest could make it very hard to play as travel over large distances of wilderness is going to be very difficult. Perhaps treat it as the starvation rules so they can go about three or so...

I would probably go with 3 or perhaps even more. Yes blood lust is a major disadvantage but as you've not specified a species for the victim any will probably do so it's going to be rare the dark elf has trouble finding a victim, also, with the temporary hitpoints granted and con damage caused...

A lot of your names seem to suggest that you think it will allow someone who has been ambushed to act in the surprise round, hence names like reprisal, ever ready, etc. That's not the benefit he described, the OP described being able to use a full round's worth of actions rather than just the...

I don't see why not? The move silently skill is all about being light on your feet and there's nothing about the scenario you described which indicates being unable to make a check. Though the check would probably better be described as landing silently as you don't tend to make much noise when...

Don't be so quick to judge. At long range your average medieval longbowman could have three arrows in the air and the fourth on his string before the first one struck it's target. Infantry charging longbowmen would get shredded in much the way you describe because they did not have a "round" in...

True, those materials are available, that does not mean they're widely used. Most magic items, even high level ones are still good, honest steel, which as you know contains iron. Someone under this curse will be able to buy and wear new gear but unless they've specifically prepared for such an...