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I think some of these spells make good flavorful options, especially for DM run npcs. The necromancer with undead troops has already been mentioned, that would make a good offensive npc spell. Flame Arrows could be great in certain situations. Tower defenders can shoot a lot of arrows in a...

Winged boots are great, 4 hours of flight time per day in 1 minute increments. Takes care of the issue of falling in water in plate. Handy especially around level 4, where casters can't cast fly yet but a dm can use manticores. Even if you just use them to ignore difficult terrain they are...

The problem is an optimizer would match the penalty to irrelevant stats to basically get a feat for free. Building a dragonborn paladin? -2 dex means nothing to a plate class, so the feat is clearly a better deal. -2 str for a halfling? Unless you have a dm who rigorously enforces encumbrance...

Playing on the berserker rage/hulk aspect, when he loses control, he might not attack friends, but if he doesn't he will likely flee after combat. Think of the hulk leaping away, or a lycantrope running around the countryside. When he's transformed due to the moon, make a save to regain...

The help action can be very handy when for instance only one group member has a magic or silvered weapon vs. a lycanthrope.

The old 1e D&D Conan (Conan Unchained! and Conan Against Darkness!) and Red Sonja (Red Sonja Unconquered) modules had some world information for the Hyborean age. There were no demi-humans, it had arcane and divine magic, though it was rare and feared and plenty of monsters. They also had some...

The Animated Series Handbook that comes with the DVDs has an interesting variable strength bow. It is a +2 composite longbow that adjusts to the users strength, fires energy arrows (no miss chance for incorporeal creatures, ignores most DRs) for 2d6 damage, and allows power attacking with the...