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oo I hadn't seen this asked from the POV of an invisible caster! RAW says yes the caster loses invisibility. What if the spell is detect magic? That, too, can include foes in its area, but there's no saving throw the way there is for detect thoughts.

I can't find the rules anywhere for commanding summoned creatures. Previously, in DMing 3.5, I was pretty lax about actions in combat, but now I want to get more strict. I can't find the rules anywhere in Pathfinder! I think it's something like: move action to command a summoned creature...

Hi all. I haven't played any d20 in about a year and a half now, and we're getting back into it with Pathfinder (after a lot of exhausting high-level 3.5 play). I guess I've been crowned DM, and I'm starting with the Shattered Gates of Slaughtergarde, and hoping to get a smooth transition in...

I really like Set's post, #5, above. It's been a year since I cracked the book, but I think there's some kind of post-monk martial adept prestige class in the Book of Nine Swords. I have forgotten its name, but it tinkers with both positive and negative energy, and even does the aforementioned...

Isn't Silence a glamer? Illusions tend to have either saving throws or caster level checks. I'm in the caster level camp. Is Blasphemy still broken as heck? I've always had to find a reason to not use it, or forget about it, or use it ineffectively. It's an insta-TPK in the hands of a high...

I haven't played D&D in a year, since my groups collapsed. I've been considering firing up a new game, but not the dreaded 4e. [I've played 4e a few times -- the minion rule alone makes me retch] So I was going to write up house rules like "clerics don't get heavy armor proficiency" and...

voted A I have seen (and fallen prey to, dammit) a circle of death run in the style of A. I think I've only seen sleep cast once in a game, ever. From what I recall, it didn't hit the limit. Style A makes more sense particularly when all creatures have different HD.

err, yeah, 2d20 is more like 6d6, but with a flatter curve, so it's "more random." kinda fits into a more-chaos flavor 6d6 for a second-level area spell? wtf? among other things, I allow neither 3.0 sources, nor the BoED/BoVD set, so there's no way this spell makes it in. I might allow it...

These come to mind: http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicItems/wondrousItems.htm#dimensionalShackles

my proposed change The thing I have always hated about the spiked chain is that it never really existed out here in the real world, presumably because it's so impractical. Think about the comic misuse of nunchaku that leads to hitting yourself in the face. Can you imagine that with a spiked...

Hi, could someone point me to some good wilder builds? I'm not (necessarily) talking about min-max char-op (though it would be interesting to see what exists); I'm mostly interested in workable PCs/NPCs. No one IMC has ever expressed interest in psionics, so I haven't bothered to learn. While...

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So dogs can talk to each other? Really? Not only can dogs conceptualize smoke, but they can communicate its amount and direction? Really? This is ridiculous. An animal companion is not a familiar; it's an animal. Int score of 2. At most I would allow the communication of anxiety. Unless...

it seems that everyone missed something minor You do have to specify the alignment. Dragons are color-coded for your convenience, but still, you have to say "chaotic evil red dragons." So hmm. But yeah blargney has a point. I think I may let this fly. It's just that there are a lot of...

ah, OK, the player (and I) had skimmed the spell wrong at first. We've never used this before. She wanted red dragons; I (incorrectly) told her that she had to slap CE on top of that, so we'll remove it. So. Red dragons. The question is now whether antipathy targetted at red dragons affects...