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Really? You saw Enlarge Person, with its 1 round casting time, as a major problem in your campaign? Worse than Color Spray? My biggest issue with the spiked chain is that there is so little reason not to use it. However, that being said, it's one of the only ways to make a noncaster viable...

If it were me, I wouldn't pay a dime. Look what Frank and K give away for free!

And where does this leave our spear specialist fighters? Holding their shafts in both hands, they thrust into their enemies...

Exactly. I will not lie to my child about anything, Santa included. I will teach her to be respectful of the rights of others, however. Part of being a good guest is not bringing up subjects that make the host uncomfortable, so I would not expect my child to suddenly pipe up with "Santa's not...

I'd recommend the chicken with cashew nuts if you're looking for a safe introduction to Thai cooking. If you can get some Tom Kha Gai (coconut and chicken soup) with it, you're good to go. I lived there for 5 years and it's still my favorite in American restaurants. Get sticky rice with it if...

Can you use split ray on a scorching ray to get three more rays? I thought it was just one more ray.

Why did you take Martial Study? That's useless if you are already a martial adept, unless you must have some maneuver from a prohibited school or something. That said, dip Barbarian. Barbarian is excellent in any melee build. You want to get Power Throw or Bloodstorm whatever (the PrC in...

The Abjurant Champion PrC gives insight bonuses to AC (some hefty ones!), as does the feat for diviners in Complete Mage.

Seriously? Now I love beyond monks, and there are good ideas in there, but that book actually managed to take the weakest class in the game, and make it weaker. Feats like Boxing and Kickboxing are straight up insulting. I really hope that's not what you meant by balanced. And how can you...

Just wanted to make a quick comment on one of your excellent articles, Thunderfoot. Are you really claiming that ...And Justice for All was the beginning of Alternacca? That was an excellent album by any reasonable metric. Was it as good as the first three, possibly not- but it did have...

Wow. That pretty much means any high Str character is fighting unarmed most of the time. Heck, even metal weapons break like toothpicks under a system like that. I'd make any Nat 1 force the weapon (or the wielder) to Fort save or have the weapon break at most. Even that's pushing it...

Actually, Deep Impact works quite well with a full attack. It's a nonaction to activate it. True, it only affects one attack (hint- use it for the last one), but that's often enough.

Man, you're snarky. It really doesn't matter. Even a mega-nasty pet rhino will find something that kills it. Death is part of D&D. The fact that Wizards are punished for their familiars ever dying is truly unfair.

Wow. Did you read my post at all? I was not at all making the point that PAO makes it dangerous to have a familiar or animal companion. I was saying that 15th+ level wizards are dangerous. The thing about my player being unhappy with retaining the BAB was just one of the examples of his odd...

Use it on captured foes. Saves money on CLW sticks. Or have livestock around for that. Necromancy pork- that's good eatin'!

If the best a 15th+ level caster can think to do to a sleeping party is polymorph your animal companion into a Behir- then you have nothing to fear from your DM. Your party is casting 8th level spells and you sleep? You should be in your own demiplane by now... Your DM is correct about the...

First, let me say I agree that the spiked chain makes very little sense looking at it. I tend to visualize it as a normal length of chain, with a spiked ball at the end, similar to the head of a morningstar. I'd actually prefer it to be a bludgeoning weapon, something like a meteor hammer...

You do realize, that by limiting the amount of magic items available, you skew the game in favor of full casters quite dramatically, right? Fighters NEED magic items. Casters just like their magic items. I think that what you want is a different system, like Iron Heroes, as previously...

Why the hate?

What's RotG?