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Rules aside, keeping the Tarrasque sleeping under the city from waking up by continually draining its Constitution seems like a Good act to me. Now there probably isn't a hypothetical Tarrasque under the city, kept asleep by a cult of Good vampires. But are you sure the vampire's blood drain is...

"50ish" damage has been shown to be incorrect before in this thread. How do you get that number?

Note that the "area" section reads "creatures and objects within a 10-foot radius spread". This suggests to me that the creatures and objects that are within the spread at the casting of the spell are the spell's area, so the second ruling (duration is for the length of time of...

I think it's an issue of balance. I also think balance is the reason for the low base land speed of larger creature. I also think "step" is a misnomer (for any Medium or Small creature I can hardly see 5 feet being one step, let alone one careful step) . We tried to introduce step = space in...

This is the key wording that lets the two rulings coexist without contradicting each other. Moving is one act, so continuing to move is not a new (different) opportunity. However, there are several feats that allow you to get multiple opportunities on a charge. The relevant post on the gleemax...

I'm pretty certain it's level of metamagic +1, so 5 to quicken.

You use the Warblade in the fighter's place, that's how you make it non-boring. However, just because you're hitting things with a weapon, doesn't mean you can't change things up with tactical feats that grant new abilities, for instance. The fighter is the hardest class to get variety of play...

According to my interpretation of the rules text for Gate, if you use Gate to call in a Balor it will be just as if the Balor travelled to the Prime Material Plane through normal planar travel, and hence will do its death throes properly upon expiring.

I think it's more an issue of expecting different things from the game. These two players apparently expect to have some quick monster fights, kill things with fire, and go home with the loot. The other players and the GM seem to expect to have challenging encounters that will test their...

It depends. If the lich knows how threatening the party is it might open with Time Stop, Gate, Wall of Force to buy some time to buff up while the party fights a balor or whatever the lich wants to call in. If the party is threatening but not worth the XP cost of a calling version of Gate, it...

With a force cage with openings, Gaseous Form, sufficient Escape Artist checks, polymorph, could all get out of it, and that's just off the top of my head. There is nothing to indicate that the caster knows how long their Time Stop lasts. A greater metamagic rod of maximise spell might maximise...

There are many solutions for that. Mirror Image is one. There's an improved version in the Spell Compendium IIRC that lets you cast it as an immediate action. Other ways to introduce a miss chance or other forms of evasion could be ghost form, Illusory Walls, Solid Fog, etc. Don't forget...

Evocation is eminently excludable. You can find plenty of damaging spells that aren't Evocation, but there is no non-Abjuration Mordekainen's Disjunction. I must admit there are some good Evocation-unique spells: Wall of Force, Forcecage and Contingency are all very good, and that's just from...

To know for certain that it is an illusion, yes. Regardless, the "fails to notice something is amiss" is what the rules say and is what we have to interpret. Again, I think that it refers to noticing something "amiss" that reveals the illusion as such immediately, as that is the result of a...

I disagree here, as posted previously in the thread.

Also note that it also stacks with Greater Weapon Specialisation and Greater Weapon Focus, for a grand total of +4 to attack and +6 to damage with your chosen weapon. Fighters have enough feats to have all of the above.

Knowledge (arcana), Spellcraft, other knowledge skills, and roleplaying can all make for a character that is suspicious about a certain situation. Wait... roleplaying? Yes. There's no game mechanic that tells you that if you have int above say 2, you can remember that someone walked through a...

No, because I do not believe "disbelief" and "belief" are the only two states possible versus an illusion. There's also "agnostic". And there is nothing in the "illusions and disbelief" section that say that if you fail your will save you unconditionally believe the illusion to be real.

Here's where we differ. I think the Will save tells me, the player, what my character perceives. Yes you are. What I'm trying to say is that even if you fail your will save you may still suspect that an illusion is an illusion, just as you may suspect that a real object is an illusion. That you...

No. The person rolling the will save knows there's an illusion as he's asked to roll a will save to disbelieve. That obviously doesn't mean that the character knows it is an illusion. The character doesn't even know what a will save is, and so talking about a will save from a character's point...