Recent content by Jackinthegreen

I wish you luck in turning the rollplayer into a roleplayer. You might want to look at all classes that get Mettle in 3.5 to see where the player is likely to go and perhaps offer alternate progression paths. I haven't made a list of classes with Evasion yet, but that should be a quick project...

There is also something to be said for not having "absolute faith" in a single person's understanding of rules and text. Had that woman not asked about a different interpretation of the words, the redraft of that criminal code almost certainly would have gone through and, as you said, a clever...

If you're still accepting of someone from this board trying to help you out (not all of us will say anything about real life gypsies) then I have some possible suggestions. In terms of fortune telling the easiest way to go about that would be a Divination specialist wizard. You won't get the...

Both the CW samurai and the swashbuckler have significant problems in terms of being useful. The samurai at least has Imperious Command to boost its Mass Staredown ability. The swashbuckler has Daring Outlaw to boost it a bit, but having to multiclass to make another class usable is quite a...

http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?279079-3-5-The-TWF-OffHandbook is the primary guide for TWF and such. http://www.minmaxboards.com/index.php?topic=10768 is my half-baked guide to playing a swashbuckler. And for others who haven't seen it yet...

There's also the Fiendish Heritage feat.

One of the things to note is some 3.5 books do mention rules or items from 3.0 books. But as usual, it's up to the DM what's in the game. As far as the heavy flail would go, a medium one is 1d10 damage, thus making it out of a heavy metal would turn it to 2d6. I don't have the rules for the...

A bit of a preface: I have not read the thread that describes the dirt farmer adventures, and as such I can't make any comment on the character's usefulness, perceived or otherwise. However, one of the things to note is players will often want to make characters that are reasonably worthwhile...

There are several ways for a character to gain one of the needed types, and even humans can get one from a template. The Master +0 LA Race List has several monstrous humanoids and such. The Player Race List for +1 and +2 LA handbook likewise has several races available. LA buyoff from...

There might be some guidelines for the animals, but don't expect a true formula for them especially across multiple books. The reason for not going with it across multiple books was they were conservative at first with CR and such, but as the game grew they felt players could handle stronger...

Order of the Bow Initiate does not have any abilities in it that allow advancing an animal companion. Since the animal companion's power is based on effective druid/ranger levels, the character in question would have an animal companion based on only the 6 ranger levels. Yes, it's probably a bug.

WotC has a history of poorly-worded or otherwise incomplete rules, and Unearthed Arcana is full of them. Sometimes they're meant to be open-ended to allow DMs to fudge things a bit, but given a rule set the size and scope that D&D 3.X turned out to be there are definitely going to be screwups...

The combat modifiers section of the PHB and SRD has information on helpless defenders. In the PHB it starts on page 153. Helpless defenders are specifically at the attacker's mercy in some way such as being unconscious, paralyzed, sleeping, etc. Of note is the defender not only doesn't get...

Since beguilers are spontaneous casters they qualify for Versatile Spellcaster. Add Heighten Spell and you supposedly could cast a 3rd level spell from 2 2nd level spells. But as with any early entry cheese, you'll need to chat with your DM about it. Their BS/cheese tolerance will be the...

You might be interested in the Mithral Golem also found in the Epic Level Handbook. It's 3.0 so it would need updating and perhaps some changes, but it could work for you to at least get some ideas as well.