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Does anyone know of any software or spreadsheets for automatically creating a skeleton or zombie from a given monster? This would be for the Warlock's animate dead ability used on the fly during a combat to temporarily raise a fallen enemy to fight.

So, my players keep asking me bizarre questions, mostly to be obnoxious, though one of them actually came up in play. I've making on the spot rulings, but wondered if there were actual rules, or in lieu of that opinions, on what should be done in the following situations: A summoned big monster...

Would you allow a character to willfully provoke an AoO as a free action without any penalty during combat (for example the fighter taking the hit on his turn so the wimp can move away from the monster without getting whacked, but have the fighter still take his full attack ... in essence just...

If you make a wand of some swift action spell, is it still a swift action to use the wand and cast the spell? I guess the same question applies to quickened wands. Speaking of which, a related question: if a character has some feat or class ability that allows him to quicken spells with only a...

In the SRD under Mithral Golem, it says: Magic Immunity (Ex): A mithral golem is immune to all magical and supernatural effects, Is this supposed to be different than most 3.5 Golems which in general just have infinite spell resistance instead of vague immunity like this? Or has it just not...

How would Mord's Disjunction work with always on spell-like abilities? Would you rule it surpresses them for some number of rounds like a Dispel Magic?

If the players use Gate to summon a Balor, I understand they can force it to obey them for like 17 rounds or whatever their level is. What happens after that though? First, does the Balor just automatically return? Or is it still around but free? And in either case, would it be reasonable for...

A dragon's bite is it's primary attack. Normally it only gets 1xstr bonus on bite damage, but the beginning of the monster manual says if a creature only attacks with it's primary weapon it gets 1.5 x str bonus on damage. So, when a dragon charges with its bite, for example, would it get 1.5 x...

How does Bigby's Forceful Hand work? It seems a bit ambiguous. I assume it bull rushes the target on the caster's turn every round until the spell ends, but can't the target just move away from it on their turn? They can't go straight, but cant they go sideways and around? Over or under it? (all...

I was wondering if anyone had any experience playing a higher level warlock ... say mid teens or higher. It seems to me they really start to fall behind the other core classes at that level. Their damage progression is just slow, which seems okay at the lower levels, but starts to look pretty...

how would you rule a situation where the party rogue wants to try and climb on the back of some big monster they are fighting, like a hydra? If it was a monster without a flexible head on a long neck, would you then make him immune to attacks while he was staying on the back (at least bite and...

Can you disintegrate a magic sword that your enemy is trying to kill you with? If not, why not? And if so, is it automatically destroyed if it failes its save (being less than a 10 ft cube ... unless it's a REALLY big sword) and if it makes its save are those 5d6 against the HP directly or does...

Is it just as easy to sunder a magic staff (without enhancement bonus) like a Staff of Evocation as a regular old mundane staff? If so, how do you repair them? And if you repair them, are they right back to being just the same as they were when they were sudnered (same number of charges and...

How does sneak attack work with spells like scorching ray and meteor swarm which allow multiple ranged touch attacks to deal damage in one round? Do you have to pick only one of the attacks to deal the sneak attack damage, or do you get it on all of them? And where is the relevant rule for this...

Is the spell storing enhancement worthwhile at all at mid to high teens? The saves are all bad, so all spells that require a save are worthless at that level, and the ones that don't require a save just don't seem strong enough for a one shot deal. Does anyone have any good ideas for how to get...

Let's see if I'm missing something with the wounding enhancement for weapons. It seems a little too good for a two weapon fighter with wounding on both weapons. Our groups fighter just hit 16th level, has all the double weapon feats and boots of haste, and has two weapons of wounding. That gives...

I'm beginning to hate Ray of Enfeeb. The no save and it being a first level spell is just game breaking sometimes. My group has really got the tactic down with now when faced with a strong bad guy --- wizard has quickened ray, plus a normal (soon to be plus a twinned), fighter has one or two in...

So, I'm introducing a new type of magic into my game (character levels are in mid to upper teens) called "Sould Magic" that they are slowly finding more and more info (doing research) on. I wanted some suggestions on "pricing" it to get some feel what others might think is balanced. The idea...

What are the rules for spell components for warlock incantations? I'm pretty sure it says that the eldritch blast requires somatic only (so it can't be done while grappled, right?), but it says nothing in any of the others except for an occasional mention of having to say something (making it...

Are there any rules for removing specific enchantments from a weapon? Like if the group finds a nice unholy weapon and want to remove the unholy but keep the rest?