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Since the enchantments are only for thrown or projectile weapons, and this destroys the weapon on impact, the prices seem reasonable.

Just for the record, I took a look at the 3E Zodar, and their STR is still 25. :D

Thanks to everyone that contributed to this thread. I have at least 10 different ideas for NPCs that I want to create as a direct result of some of these builds or as offshoots of the great ideas. My players will thank you for it, too, once they've recovered. :D

Not to hijack the thread, but as a Non-Dragon subscriber, what the heck IS a wilora? Just curious.

That's not exactly the reason I was asking, but it is helpful. To clarify: Lets say a cleric finds a psionic weapon as part of a treasure cache and wants to add a magical enhancement or power to it? Will that work, or do psionic weapons not take magical enhancements and vice versa?

Call me psionically ignorant, but... Are psionic and magical enhancements mutually exclusive or can you have them on the same weapon? For example, could you have a +2 Keen, Bodyfeeder Longsword?

25, IIRC. Right up there with the Titans of the day. :D [Edit: OOops! I thought you were asking about 2E stats.]

The ability damage or drain is normal, AFAIK. I couldn't find anything to indicate otherwise. The Mystic Theurge was included because Contingency is a Sorc/Wiz spell, but I suppose you could duplicate it with Miracle, anyway. I don't know how the CON drain thing would resolve, though. You have...

I guess what really needs to happen is for the ability scores to have equal usefulness. I'm not even sure that 3.5 will be able to address this with the attention it needs. If the ability scores were truly equally useful, then I'd be more comfortable using your system where each has a roughly...

I think this was the guideline, though only for non-physical ability scores, that was presented in the DMG. Sav. Sp., IIRC, did away with this and you apply negative modifiers to the base score, just like you would a positive.

Yeah, I'm referring to the DMG and it's discussion on how abilities in certain proportions are roughly equivalent (p. 24) I see what you are saying, but if we just dismiss this precedent, it's tossing out a significant portion of the rules.

I'd agree that a +2 alone probably wouldn't justify a LA by itself, but what about the physical vs. non-physical abilities and the way they're balanced at character creation? (see above post) These seem to be contary to the idea that each ability point has a set, fractional ECL value. Honestly...

If you value non-physical stats as 0.125, what do you value physical stats to be worth? By the RAW, they're supposed to be roughly double. This contradicts the 1 point for 4 levels idea.

I don't think your argument about increasing ECL works when applied to ability increases due to leveling, because all characters receive ability points at the same rate. If all classes and races receive those points, they are effectively balanced, so it won't cause an ECL issue. [Edit: Doh...

That's a tough one... I'm not sure that the Vorpal quality would qualify as a death effect. It certainly would kill a human, but not, say an Ettin or a Hydra or even an ooze. A death effect would work on all of these creatures.

\ Enter the Mystic Theurge, Contingency, and Restoration. Since the ability damage and the Restoration would both occur instantaneously, I think you'd be good to go. :D "Have fun storming the castle!"

It should say in the poison's description, but... If the unconciousness is a sleep like effect, go by the spell. If the unconsciousness is due to ability damage, they're out until the ability damage is healed.

Celestial is a template that you apply to creatures and things that would be native to the plane. Half Celestial is a template that you apply to something that has celestial blood in it, such as the offspring of a human and an Astral Deva. It should now be more apparent why the squirrel who...

I'd say that we're now venturing into strange and probably less than useful territory, but here goes: Warhorses as a creature "class" are probably proficient with barding of all types. This differentiates them from standard horses. The horse can't put on barding without help anyway, so I'd...

That's actually my point. You CAN'T assign a precise number to the ability points, so any number you give them is kind of arbitrary. Even using that 0.125 number will have different results depending on which abilities are modified and to what extent, so balance is always going to need...