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Yes. The spell makes you magically calm, so you can't get yourself worked up into a rage or frenzy. Your body just won't make enough adrenalin. For as long as the effect lasts, you're basically a fighter without bonus feats. If someone is repeatedly casting the spell on you, at least you get a...

Use the old DM standby and give her a custom magic item. Make it work like an improved dimensional anchor, giving immunity against external dimensional effects but still letting the wearer use her own spells or magic abilities. This effect might not be something you want the PCs get their hands...

IMO stoning is at least as easy to fix, because it's subject to the much-overlooked break enchantment. That's fifth level, and unlike raise dead, it's available to arcane casters too. Plus the victim doesn't lose a level.

Does it have to turn things to stone? If you just want a critter with a gaze ability, there's always the Bodak. It's CR 8, and its gaze does not petrify; it's save or die.

In the real world, strength and jumping distance are not nearly as important as moving fast and using the pole correctly. If forced to choose, I would make it a Tumble check, and add a bonus for high movement speed. IMC to keep things simple, I would let the player choose Jump or Tumble...

Skipping a turn means skipping a turn. It does not mean skipping only part of the turn. The bit that says "you simply do not take an action" means that you simply do not take an action. It does not mean you can take move actions or some other subset of actions. If you trigger this ability...

Targeted spells like reduce person and doom always hit what you aim at. There is no attack roll and no miss chance. As long as you can see or touch the target, and there's not a solid wall in the way, the magic will automatically hit. (This includes any spell with "Target" in its description...

Now you've got me wondering if there would be a use for a prepared spell that you couldn't cast. If this trick did work, I want to find some abusive loophole with reserve feats.

Can I change my answer? I like this one better. :) When your party member turns mindsight on and accuses you of being an outsider, you just say, "Right, I'm an Aasimar. I thought you knew that already."

;I can think of a few ways that could potentially help, but nothing available around your level. You're not going to be in any position to have nondetection or mind blank running. An amulet of proof against detection and location is probably way out of your wealth range. Your only real chance...

That's probably your lowest priority, because it's quite expensive and does not outdo cat's grace, which you'll be able to cast with one more assassin level. The spell is temporary (and doesn't stack) but does give you one more AC point when you need it.

Do you have any bonuses on your armor? Make sure you don't forget to enhance it. Splitting the money across multiple items gives you more bang for your buck. That +5 buckler you mentioned would cost about 25k. For the same money you can get +4 armor (16k) and a +3 buckler (9k), which is two...

Oh yeah! I forgot to mention my very favorite non-rogue way to deal with traps. Play a Warlock and take the invocation the dead walk. It works like animate dead but is usable at will, for free, unlimited times perday. As long as there's a corpse nearby, you can make it into a remote-control...

Open Locks becomes unnecessary after a certain level. Once the party has a wand of knock, you can open any normal lock in a single round. Any lock that the spell can't open tends to be a special, plot-important one that the rogue would not be able to pick anyway. l Even before you can afford the...

If the critter is living in a dungeon, it's almost certainly called. Summoning spells usually last for just a few rounds, so a summoned critter would have vanished long before you got to the dungeon. For game balance purposes, I give XP for anything that is fought as an encounter by itself. The...

The quests will be similar to those that a medium-size party would have. At low level you just have to make them bigger. A regular party gets sent to clear out a tribe of kobolds, or kill the lions that have been eating their cattle. A giant party gets sent to clear out a tribe of ogres, or...

The only thing I've seen like that was a pair of feats that a player was trying to invent, based on some 4E abilities. As far as I know there is no such thing in official sources. And that's a good thing, because if they weren't written very carefully, a halfling could one-shot-kill a Great...

No, that's not the case at all. In a normal Eberron game, warforged are awesome and wizards are very strong. Magic items are plentiful (though not cheap), and magic in general is almost everywhere. The problem you're having is that you are not in a normal Eberron game. Your DM is putting a lot...

I thought Complete Arcane included an epic progression for warlock. Maybe I'm thinking of another book. Whichever it's in, Wizards posted more options on their site: Epic Insights: Epic Warlock Feats

In a Western movie, not everybody has a gun. The bad guys are armed, and the good guy is armed, but the general townspeople are not. That's why the town gets oppressed by the villain and needs the man in the white hat to come to their rescue. If everyone has eldritch blast then there's no...