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Yes, I would have to say that grappling is very broken. For an example, take a look at the behir. He gets a grapple check at +23 followed by 6 more at +18. Combined with his Swallow Whole ability and Cleave feat, that's a lot of chances for chances for a character to go down the gullet into the...

YES!!!!! D&D is getting more and more Pratchettian every day. IMO, every bar tender in the (supernatural) world should have a cudgel with a strip of cold iron, a strip of silver, that's been soaked in garlic oil, and with a piece of blanket on the end. After all they have to deal with...

Sorry, I should have clarified. The house rule that we play under (and have all agreed is better (at least for us)) is that failing the Concentration check to cast defensively doesn't cause the loss of the spell, it simply provokes the AoO with the defender being flat footed.

This is something that came up the other night. The party's cleric is using the emblem on his shield as his holy symbol. While trying to cast an inflict spell on the bad guy he botches the Concentration check (treating the 1 as a -10) bringing his check low enough (for once) that he failed the...

IMO, the biggest advantage of the Psion is his immunity to MageKill tactics. He can still manifest all of his powers while grappled, instead of the small # that other classes can use. Being bound and gagged doesn't prevent him from maninfesting. Most importantly, there is no spell...

Hmmm.... You seem to be correct in that the spell description does not indicate that Awaken changes the type of the animal. However, the creature in question does now violate one of the fundamental aspects of his former type, namely having an Int of 3+. Also, the D&D Main FAQ, in a query...

Sorry, but that is wrong. It requires 2 months to train an animal to perform tricks. You can train the animal for all of his tricks simultaneously.

Awakening states that the critter becomes a magical beast. Animal Growth states that it affects animals, not magical beasts.

They already know the important ones. Attack the closest enemy and Attack the SOB that's attacking me. The rest can just show up at the end of two month's time like normal (assuming that your campaign has that long between levels). PS. For moral reasons, I feel that I should point out that...

By the current philosophy of WotC, that would mean that the troll would have equipment equivalent to that of a Level 9 character, higher than his CR. He has 6 levels in Giant and 3 levels in Fighter. (Of course I would probably increase his CR above the norm since trolls don't usually use...

As originally seen in KnowTheToe's last post: I beg to differ. Basically the Druid (ranger) has two options upon the gaining of a level. 1) They can dismiss their now obsolete animal companions and spend approximately 1 day hunting down a new one that already has the 1 extra HD (as per...

If it were restricted to only dealing the Str damage on attacks that actually deal (subdual) damage, then I could see this as a +2 or +3 enhancement. If it always does it, even against armored foes, then yeah it's +4 easy.

Wanderlust: Personally, I would probably increase that to Dex 15+, the same as for Ambidexterity. I would also put a BAB requirement on it. (dunno what, just something to keep it out of the hands of Lv.1 rangers) Now then, let's take a side trek back to my original point about daggers and...

Graft weapon makes the weapon an integral part of the manifester's body, allowing it to be affected by powers and effects that normally don't affect weapons. However, the weapon is still a weapon, affected by everything that would normally affect a weapon. You get to stack the benefits as...

It really isn't that any worse than an opportunistic Rogue with a Spiked Chain.

Ah. So your ultimate goal is to have the game dominated by Trolls and Ogres Dual wielding light picks. After all, they can get three extra attacks with a decent AP value and their high Str bonus will really make those extra attacks count a lot more than using a large weapon would.

IIRC, the entry that you are looking for is under precision damage and non-targeted effects. However, even that simply states that the splash portion of the grenades damage doesn't get the benefit of PBS, WS, or SA. The target whose AC you had to beat still takes your extra damage for having...

Wow, you people are mean. I talked my DM into giving letters of credit for free up to 1000g. Then I talked him into giving letters of credit for up to100 kg for 5% interest. (we get the extra money, not the NPC) All of this is of course done through the wealthy merchants in the area where...

Wanderlust: Actually, I think that you have you AP values backwards. The stilletto and most other daggers were used because they would penetrate armors that deflected the blows of larger weapons. Another example would be the bec-de-corbin (sp?), which was somewhere between a warhammer and a...

Oooooh. I think I'm going to have to tell my Bluff Rouge playing friend to start threatening people with a finger. (not the middle one) Seriously, if you lived in a high magic world and saw some guy wearing robes or a bunch of holy symbols trying to poke you with his finger you'de probably...