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When advancing monsters by adding Hit Dice, what happens to the effective caster level of their spells and spell-like abilities? Do they increase their caster level by the same amount as the increase in Hit Dice or do they stay the same? ~Marimmar

Unhallow allows the caster to tie another spell to an unhallowed site and the caster may decide who is affected by that spell. So if the BBEG ties a silence spell on an unhallowed site does this mean that only the good guys would be subject to the silence spell? ~Marimmar

My PC just hit 12th level and now I have to think about the future again. To be precise, I cannot decide on what Feat to take. I have several options to play with and would like to hear some opinions or suggestions. My PC is a Ranger 1 / Rogue 11, he specializes in Two-Weapon Fighting (he's a...

In our last two sessions our party cleric cast 'Righteous Might' and 'Divine Power' to annihilate the BBEG at the end of the sessions. I as the DM wasn't thinking much about it the first time she did it since the villain was actually CR+3 over the party and was deadly anyway. The second time she...

While creating a new monster, I stumbled over the Humanoid and the Monstrous Humanoid type. The Monstrous Humanoid is explained as a Humanoid with bestial or animalistic features but why then are Gnolls Humanoids whereas Derros are Monstrous Humanoids? AFAIC Derros are far more human than Gnolls...

Hi! I was thinking of something new to try with my characters and thought about making a Jumping Charge. Charging this way would allow a character to simply jump over the frontline heavies and attack the weak wizards behind their backs. I know that charging is not possible when someone is...

Well, I was brooding over the animal companion advancement rules this morning and wondered if an advanced animal gets the additional stat point for hitting a level that is divisible by 4. They get the Skills and Feats but they don't mention the attribute points. ~Marimmar

I got myself the Miniatures Handbook yesterday and skimmed over the rules. My first impression was very positive but there are some things that irk me. Most of the 'Sudden Metamagic' Feats are nice additions to a wizard's arsenal of Feats but since they didn't distinguish between power levels...

Hi! My players found a buckler of sonic resistance last session and now I wonder if the wearer would be protected against the stun effect of a sound burst since the spell would be unable to damage him. The spell description unfortunately only covers deaf subjects. Thanx! ~Marimmar

I'm a bit unsure about the Polymorph spell. When I change from dwarf to half-elf, do I still get the +2 Con bonus from being a dwarf, do I still get the racial boni to STs vs poison and spells? From reading through the Alter Self description I know that the boni to Appraise and Craft (stone...

When playing around with online char-generators the other day, I was a bit annoyed that almost none of the randomly generated 4th level fighters had weapon specialization. It's almost a must have IMHO for an effective fighter build but still it's almost never there. Did any of you ever...

Yesterday our party faced a dire threat Evard's Black Tentacles! Luckily the wizard casting it was actually only 5th level and the NPC-generator screw up when it spew out the spells so we still live. Nevertheless the new tentacles spell is a real killer, no save, no SR, complete damage immunity...

Hi all, I'm just curious about what to remember when laying waste to Waterdeep in the FR. Well, I got some interesting campaign running right now where a large army of humans and humanoids was gathered by a Zhentish cleric of Bane and sent off to conquer/destroy Waterdeep. The initial army that...

From the SRD 3.5: Darkvision Saving Throw: Will negates (harmless) Saving Throw: None Sooo... not that it matters much, but do I get a save or not when that annoying mage casts <i>darkvision</i> on me again? ;) ~Marimmar

Hi all! Last session I DMed an adventure where the PCs found a moonwell that creates a ladder to the moon when the light of the full moon shines down on it. It will take them the whole night of climbing to get there but the adventure left the moon for the DM to create. Well I got lucky and the...

Hi Ffolks! I'm currently playing a dwarven fighter on it's way to becoming a dwarven defender and was looking for other people's experience with that PrC. Brok Rock (my PC) is currently level 3 and trying to maximise his AC since he regards defense as the basis for a good offense. He's...

Hi all, I was just curious about Feinting (as per the Bluff skill) and making a Sneak Attack afterwards. Does the loss of Dexterity for my opponent allow me to take advantage of my dual short swords and make two Sneak attacks or even my iterative attacks or is it just the first attack roll I...

Hi everyone! I consider making a fighter specializing in the two-bladed sword and wondered about the following: If I just make a single attack (not using it as a double weapon) with the two-bladed sword, do I get the times 1.5 strength modifier for wielding a weapon with two hands? Thanks for...

I bet this has been done before but nevertheless the answers interest me. IMC when a player couldn't attend a session he gave us his character sheet and we played him as an NPC for that session. Since the other players couldn't play a character of another to its fullest, those 'NPCs' often got...

Last night a big discussion erupted in our group concerning the druid's animal companion. The player of the druid (lvl 5) took a dire wolverine (5HD) along and the party cleric was offended by the damage the wolverine dealt to our enemies, claiming that having an animal companion is too powerful...