Recent content by Antoine

Don't forget "minor action" attacks such as Low Slash and Snap Shot, and other options like the Nasty Backswing : extra attacks in rounds where you missed your Standart.

Or you could just house rule that you can't use a ritual if you're untrained in its key skill. Which would make [common] sense !

Actually, you might use Bluff vs. Sense Motive as for a feint if C is tricking A into believing they're on the same side.

The ring of freedom of movement sets a troubling example : 40 k for an everlasting 4th-level cleric spell (with a basic duration of 10 min./level). Then should a ring of death ward cost a mere 53-some thousand gp ?

Don't know if this might help, but when I have a six-character- party, I usually double the normal encounter for a four-character one. Usually works fine since damage dealing spellcasters usually get more foes in area spells. At least when they're dealing with monsters rather than NPCs. Can be...

I'm pretty sure a hierophant, for instance, trades the fact that he doesn't get more spells per day for power a regular cleric does not have, even if they still share the same caster level. And when I refer to spell power, I think of the archmage (for instance) ability, not the lines in the...

Comparison is difficult, cause BAB is the raw power of fighter type, a characteristic "caster level" shares with the "highest spell level available" for spell casters. But I wouldn't like a feat phrased like : "When you get this feat, you gain two fighter bonus feats. You must have 4 non-fighter...

Now that's a good point. But I can't tell if PC falls in this category or is closer to "add 4 to your BAB, to the limit of your hit dice". I certainly have some bards and clerics who would spend one of their really few feats to get something like that.

OK, bad phrasing ;) What I mean is, it seems logical to me that multi-class spellcaster are far less powerful spellcasters than single classed spellcasters (that's my gap). Prestige classes from 3.5, then feats like Practiced Spellcaster (or worse Precocious Apprentice) fall in and provide...

Point is : why accumulate feats and prestige classes that fill the logical gap between multi- and single classed casters ? Looks like the only good excuse is to sell paper. Why is it suddenly brilliant to print a feat with +4 (possible) CL, when spell-power, one level at a time, is the sought...

So what's the point ? That the game needs a spellcasting character built more powerful a spellcaster than a single class cleric or mage ?

That's argumentative ! It does provide a bonus up to +4 on top of your regular caster level. Unless 4 fighter levels are stated as a penalty to your caster level. ;) Furthermore, it doesn't just apply to overcoming spell resistance.

Multiclassing shortchanging spellcasters is as old a debate as D&D : try a 1st or 2nd E Cleric/Wizard 14/14 vs. an 18th level Archmage. With exactly the same experience. We're pretty close to the Mystic Theurge vs. Wiz17 comparison. Multiclassing, by essence, is you fall behind specialists in...

Covering your tracks works this way in 3.5 : party states it does, moves at half-speed, doesn't need any skill, feat or check, and tracking DC climbs 5 points.

The plain dwarf fighter proves really reliable in the long run, you'll have a good first-liner with decent AC. Use dwarven waraxe (for d10) and shield. For a pure fighter with single-handed weapon, weapon focus is probably the best feat around at first level. If you're playing a Forgotten...