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Does Enlarge Person even work on Warforged?

Sorry for my True Seeing misrepresentation; I must have remembered the version of True Seeing that I wished was in the book.

True seeing does not penetrate mundane darkness. Magical darkness is not "the world as it really is", and hence True Seeing penetrates it, in my interpretation anyway. Also see above for the concealment provided by normal magical darkness, as per the rules.

The Warlock idea has much merit; Eldricht Blast is a good counterspell on its own. It doesn't cost the warlock much to ready to blast whichever enemy casts a spell first; where an archer or melee fighter would lose out on full attack goodness, the warlock's main attack is a standard action...

This. DnD rules are inconsistent with many of its published settings. You either adapt the setting to the system, or adapt the system to the setting. I think a world in which resurrection is as readily available as the spells in the PHB indicate is a much more interesting place than Ye Olde...

I am curious as to your phrasing, as you say "already" prone. As far as I know, neither grappling nor pinning causes anyone to become prone. As Abciximab says, being prone gives a penalty to AC against melee attacks, which includes the melee touch attack to initiate a grapple, but this is also...

You have not shown any rock-hard evidence backing up your interpretation. You have only shown examples that do not cover the interpretation in question.

Okay, sure. I get that that is hard to swallow. But why don't you address the fact that your examples simply do not cover the situation, rather than claim that they definitely cover the situation by not covering the situation? An example is not needed. The rules text is unclear. It is up to...

Then you need a better argument for your side first. Your examples all "support" your side of the argument by not covering this possible use of contingency at all. Note that in many places in the published material examples are specifically called out on how a spell does not work. This is not...

By magic. Seriously, "Elminster's different spell can't" is just as invalid. In effect you're saying "it just doesn't". You are setting yourself up as the sole arbiter of what is a valid response and what isn't, and trying to squash any dissent by calling it a waste of time. Here are some...

If the player is fine with coming in with a new character, i don't see why everyone is assuming there are out-of-game issues between players. Sometimes characters clash. Yes, sometimes this is because players clash, but in my experience it's mostly because of in-character issues. I do not get...

The OP stated that this was during a downtime that the cleric was spending away from the group. I don't see how you get from that statement to the bit I quoted above. I agree with what others have posted: Let him earn some downtime money, but not for every slot every day. People aren't...

Not on the same round, he couldn't. You can't take a 5 foot step on the same round in which you move using your move and/or standard action.

Your interpretation is correct. A 5 foot step does not use up a move action, it only prevents other movement. It also does not provoke attacks of opportunity for movement; as was said above the 5 foot step is the exception to the "provoke from leaving a threatened square" rule. Yes, provided...

Teleport is only a problem if you allow it to be a problem. Traditional adventure design has progress foiled by physical obstacles that have to be overcome; rivers, chasms, walls, doors, and so on. Teleportation spells (including Dimension Door) circumvent all those obstacles. The common...

That was exactly my point; one provokes when the other does not, yet to an enemy combatant they are completely indistinguishable. Which one is the oddity is not the issue to me, just that it is an odd artifact of the rules. I do think it should be possible to manifest defensively while...

It is odd that manifesting provokes attacks of opportunity, seeing as you can manifest while paralyzed. When you're paralyzed, you can't move your body at all, no matter whether you're manifesting or not... so why should you provoke an AOO when you're manifesting while paralyzed, and not provoke...

A buckler gives a shield bonus. A shield bonus does not stack with another shield bonus, because of the general rule in DnD 3.5 that bonuses with the same name do not stack. The shield spell gives a shield bonus. For the same reason that a buckler and two-weapon defence does not stack, the...

As is made clear in the books, the turn based system is an abstraction of a continuous flow of time where everyone takes their actions simultaneously. Hence, if you fail your save against cause fear, you start to run away immediately. You don't actually move across the battle mat until it's...

The "+6/+1" in the table is a convenience feature; only the first number really matters. For multiclass, add the first numbers together, so for your example you have +14 and +6. This becomes +20 altogether. Now, to find out the full attack sequence for someone with a BAB of +20, you can look at...