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Hi could someone please remind me which two skill it is you need 5 ranks in to qualify for the feat somatic weapon. I think it's something like spellcraft and concentration, but i'm not sure. Thanks in advance

Thats a decent amount lot of damage, but then high level rogues with two weapon fighting can do a lot when they hit. Not sure if you're working your hit rolls out right though: A Rogue 8/Ninja 2 as far as i can remember should have a base attack bonus of +7/+2 Weapon finesse allows you to use...

I think you're grossly underestimating the potential of smiting here. First a question: do you have the spell compendium, and if so, have you not read the description of the 1st level spell rhino rush? Coupled with the charging smite alternative class ability this can be truly scary (and as a...

Fairly sure i remember reading a magical weapon bonus in the magic item compendium that after one hit would adjust the weapon to bypass certain types of dr. Dont own the book though so someone else will have to supply the specifics if you're interested

On a (slightly) related topic that i've been unable to find an answer to, how is a duskblade (pre complete mage) supposed to cast most of his spells whilst wielding a melee weapon and a heavy shield? A large percentage of his spells have a somatic component which he will be unable to carry out...

I'd argue darkness doesn't create light as it actually counters light spells (of equal/lower levels), though a literal reading actually implies illumination (see srd). In the situation you describe the way i'd handle it is that if the darkness spell is of higher or equal level to the ongoing...

Thanks for the feedback. When creating the character (at 6th lvl) i'd considered arcane disciple to get healing spells on my list, but as someone else was playing a radiant servant of pelor, i opted for lawful neutral and the elven goddess from races of the wild-no clue what her domains are...

Hi, prety much as the title says... I'm currently playing my first arcane caster, and am really struggling with choosing feats. Just levelled so that i have 5 levels in (elven) generalist wizard, 4 levels in war weaver (so actually only lvl 8 caster). The feats iv'e already got are Scribe...

I agree that its up to the dm how much complexity he wants to deal with, but the op had a situation where only one person was mounted, and the player was arguing that he shouldn't need to roll spot/listen for his tiger mount, and that if his rider had passed the check, the rider and mount should...

A lot of people seem to be arguing that rolling spot/listen for low intelligence war-trained mounts is not necessary as it makes no real difference, since an aware rider can make the mount move in the surprise round anyway. Would these people rule that; 1) The mount is no longer flat-footed as...

I'd agree with you that rider aware does not equal mount aware in the surpise round, otherwise the mount is suddenly immune to sneak attack in this situation (which would be particularly unreasonable if the mount happened to be something like a tiger). Both rider and mount should be rolling spot...

This is probably not RAW, but my inclination would be to have spot/listen rolled for both the rider and mount. If the mount fails its checks, the rider must pass a ride check in order to get the mount to move (or other passive actions) on his initiative in the surprise round if he is aware...

Sorry slaved, caught me in a mood last night and was just letting off a bit of steam. I've not seen the swordsage or crusader in action, so wouldn't be able to compare them to all the other classes. I would argue, however, that at lower levels the warblade in our party compared very favourably...

Assuming a)the dm doesn't tell the cleric where to stick his metamagicked persitnt spell, b)pull out the faq with the bit about not being able to metamagic a spell over the maximum spell level the cleric can cast, c)send wave after wave of undead at the cleric whilst cackling what, you haven't...

The concept was more that i would be a melee fighter who could also use his chosen weapon at short ranges. The current trend in our group is to have a completely melee or ranged fighter, but i was more interested in bridging the gap a bit. I figured that if i was to specialise in something like...