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Hah, you know I suspected after the fact that that was the case, but since I made my Perform-as-Concentration check anyway, I figured he could have just done the sphere on his turn and readied the fireball and it would have come to the same thing. So do you have no opinion on the concentration...

So my Bard/Lyric Thaumaturge/Sublime Chord is somewhere halfway through a converted version of the Axe of the Dwarvish Lords and we're throwing down with an evil goblin king who's wielding the eponymous axe, his wereboar berserker (heh) minions, and some high-level cleric of Maglubiyet. I...

All the freakin' time, at least when I'm DMing (which is about 90% of the time). Most of my campaigns start with some straightforward goal to accomplish - protect this sage, escort this widget to this place, investigate this portal - followed by a failure of epic proportions, and then the rest...

Yeah, that's one of the big complaints that comes even from people (like me) who like high-level D&D - after a certain point, the d20 roll starts to be irrelevant. But it's worth mentioning that the saves I mention are the *good* saves, and the others are much more reasonable. The +26 in...

Actually, in my experience this is just how 3e works. At low levels, that base 10 on the DC means that the die roll always matters more than the bonus, so anyone can fail any save. As you gain levels, the relative cheapness of save-boosting items over DC-boosting items, the effects of...

Yeah, that's been my strategy with the Barbarian/Battle Sorcerer too - between false life, empowered or quickened vampiric touch, channeled lifetheft, Minor Polymorph, heart of earth, and critical hit immunity from the heart spells and the elemental body spell, I routinely take a couple of...

My two characters are basically diametrically opposed on this issue. The fey ninja (feytouched Bard 10/Battle Dancer 1/Chaos Monk 1/Exoticist 1) has an AC of 33 most of the time, 41 when fighting defensively with his favored weapon, and 46 if an opponent misses him five times consecutively with...

Actually, their most important gear can affect material-plane things when they manifest, albeit at a 50% miss chance unless it's also ghost touch - look at the "ghostly equipment" section of the template. And they still get the 50% miss chance even when manifested, so that penalty's at worst a...

Really? My impression was exactly the opposite - spacing out the charges is a more efficient use of that energy than whomping someone with all 3 charges at once, and so should heal more damage all told...

Hmm, my experience is exactly the opposite. Most low-level adventures are, IMO, quite dull, and the ones in Dungeon get a quick skim from me and that's about it. The encounters, roleplaying, and general situations in mid- to high-level ones are much more interesting. And even in some of the...

I actually have two characters like this, so obviously I'm fond of it. One is a "ninja" character made using the bard class, but with a one-level dip into Battle Dancer, from the Dragon Compendium, for the mad martial arts skills and the Charisma bonus to AC when unarmored. The other is a...

Actually, I'd go with a mercane sort of arrangement, coupled with a plane with a super-fast time flow. So the proprietor can take your order, head into the back room to fetch it, place the order with his organization, have somebody on the fast-time plane make it from scratch, and then deliver...

Yeah, because defaulting on payments to adventurers is a winning long-term strategy. I'm pretty sure the nobles inclined to that particular flavor of deficit spending would get weeded out early...

Incorporeal creatures do not typically hurl paladins through stone walls and across mountain ranges. :D

The teaser? Hmm... Unfortunately I have nothing to do with the shop side of things - you'll have to hope RangerWickett shows up in this thread again and can point you to it. Failing that, all of the material in the teaser is in the book, in the form of an appendix, and I do have the pdf of...

Hmm, please let us know what you think of our respective work, if you can - I'm the guy who wrote TFS. :) DMH has the right idea about the book, too - it's basically a variant "spellcasting" system, like psionics, for another example, and tries to avoid requiring an Industrial...

Except that a wraith's Con drain has a Fortitude save to negate it - better hope you have a seriously ridiculous number of wraiths, because it's gonna take a lot of hits to overcome the Tarrasque's +38 Fortitude save and 35 Constitution before he can kill all of them with his...

One level for the rest of time? 30th, then - though I prefer DMing around 6th-13th level if I had the rest of time to practice I think I could get 30th level down pat and run a really excellent game with the full resources of all the books at my disposal.

Oh, this is great! "Consider it yoinked" great, I mean. ;) I think I'll move them off the Ethereal, though - they'll be inhabitants of the interstitial membranes between planes, subsisting on leftover planar matter until they devour the barrier between two planes and swarm forth in their...

And the DM. At one point I was fighting the aforementioned - and supposedly intelligent - duergar in treant form and with fire shield and stoneskin up. I charged down a crowded corridor with the treant's trample ability, and dwarf after dwarf went "take an AoO, bounce off adamantine DR or...