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Thank you one and all for your answers and for pointing me in the right direction. Still one question remaining: is it really true that, if I'm fighting a Large air elemental outdoors, and I miss a Reflex save or two, it can take me up to 200-400 feet and drop me, for 20d6 points of damage...

Tonight I ran some Large air elementals against my PCs. And when I tried to use their whirlwind ability against the characters, I found I was... confused. Some questions: (1) Does the air elemental have to enter its opponent's space in order to catch him in the whirlwind? Does this provoke...

So I ran a chuul against my players tonight. And I read Improved Grab in the MM. And still, I (and my players) were mightily confused. The chuul hit some guy with a claw (as an AoO, specifically) and beat him on the grabble check. Now the guy is grabbed. Unless the chuul takes a -20 on...

A character in my game is about to get a dire lion as an animal companion. The creature will not have all that much opportunity to hunt - it will probably spend a good deal of time hanging out on the party's ship, and only accompany its master on adventures in appropriate enivronments. My...

>There's one in Wheel of Time that gives +3 to Bluff and Diplomacy. Thanks. I'll go look at it. But in the meantime: any requirements? The Spectrum Rider

Is there a feat, in the official, semi-official, or non-official rules, for characters who are very attractive to members of the opposite sex? (Or, more precisely, most members of the opposite sex, and some of the same sex, depending on orientation.) I have a homebrew one - dealing with...

So can the manticore make a bite attack at +9 if it foregoes the claw attack? (As a standard action, let's say.) The Spectrum Rider

In my campaign, we have a host of elementals beyond the standard four: memory elementals, mirror elementals, radiance elementals, cloud elementals, and much more. A mirror elemental once came to the Material Plane, took on the form of a human male, and had several children with human women...

And remember that while the bard is keeping the song going, he can't cast spells, can't make use of a different bard music ability, etc. And if he is singing, he can't really talk to anybody. (And if he's playing an instrument, he can't use his hands for anything else - even worse.) Sooner or...

In the PH (pg. 132), it says of creatures who are less than Small that they "... have no effective natural reach. They have to enter or be in your area to attack you. Since they have to pass through your threatened area to get to you, you get attacks of opportunity...." If a Tiny (or smaller)...

Can anyone please point me to Mnte Cook's alternative ranger class? Thanks. The Spectrum Rider

If at least one of your classes has the skill as a class skill, then your max ranks is character level + 3; otherwise half that. Even so, when you go up a level in a class that does not have the skill as a class skill, you still have to spend 2 skill points for each rank. So, for example: a...

If a character fails his saving thorw against a harpy's captivating song, does the effect only continue as long as the harpy keeps singing? If, after captivation, the harpy (or target) is enveloped in a silence spell, or the harpy dies, or stops singing for any reaon, what is the result...

Thank you one and all. Since I do not have the Epic Handbook, might I ask: what are the prerequisites for Improved Flyby Attack? The Spectrum Rider

As far as I can tell: a dire animal is not just a really tough memeber of a standard animal species. It' a different species altogether. There's no reason to believe that a dire animal will travel with (or rule over) a pack of similarly-named standard animals; it would proably run with a pack...