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No Will save roll. In character knowledge. No, it handles the question "do I see right through this illusion, or does it seem as real as everything else in the world on the surface?" Yeah, I know.

Yeah, you misrepresented several of my points and then knocked the strawman points down. OK, I concede the mind-affecting descriptor.

I'm using this definition of amiss in this case: "improper; wrong; faulty". I don't know what definition of "notice" you're using but the one I'm using means "to perceive; become aware of": They don't notice that it is an illusion, because they notice nothing wrong about it. That does not mean...

Maybe I was unclear. You certainly misinterpreted my argument. Let me rephrase it: I do not belive that a failed will save versus an illusion utterly convinces someone that it is not an illusion. They merely do not insantly see it as a transparent outline (for a figment or phantasm). I do not...

The problem with that is that every lost paladin level loses you 3 (charging smite) x 5 (lance+riding boots+spirited charge+rhino's rush)=15 damage to your charge attack. All for the same benefit you can get from items. Lucky (+1 equivalent weapon enchant) from MIC lets you reroll 1 failed...

No, it doesn't. The complaint comes from the description in the OP which says that the character who failed his will save immediately asked for a detect magic to be cast to check for illusions. You yourself said that the first clue you had that it was an illusion (rather than a fake body) was...

This thread has given me a lot to think about regarding illusions. As the consensus in this thread stands, the outcome is binary: - Will save is successful. You see straight through the illusion. - Will save is failed. You are utterly convinced that the illusion is real. I don't see this...

I agree with this. There were plenty of other rationales to choose to cast detect magic - believing that the body was illusory was not one of them, and was in fact metagaming. UNLESS. Unless the character previously (through having failed a will save against an illusion to later find that it...

I see I was mistaken on charging smite. Sorry about that. The build is already really really feat-intensive. Items are cheaper than feats for utility stuff such as this.

This does not follow. They already think it was a dummy corpse. Why would the dummy corpse being a perfect replica halt all further investigation?

After noticing the missing kama and having the suspicion that it was not the real body, he failed his saving throw against the illusion. He is now convinced there's a body there, and that the body looks exactly like the vampire. That does not mean that all his suspicions are allayed. He may...

Charging smite gives *twice*, not triple, the paladin's level to damage, so that's only 24. Also on the rules for multiplying damage, the 5d6 do not multiply as they are bonus dice. I designed a paladin like this, purely as a powergaming exercise (he happened to be level 12 too). You'll find...

I disagree. Casting detect magic will tell him there's an illusion in the coffin. He doesn't know what exactly it is, what it is covering up, but he does know there's an illusion. Failing a saving throw against the illusion doesn't make him think there's no illusion; it will make him think that...

If you're a halfling Yondalla's Sense (Races of the Wild p.152) will add your Wisdom bonus to your initiative.

If you're going with 1) your creature creator is giving out more treasure than a party would get from a CR13 encounter, be it an NPC or a monster. Thus I think that that option is "wrong". 2) and 3) are both equally valid from a treasure-per-encounter standpoint (though NPCs tend to give more...

You could go Weapon Finesse to do DEX/CON/CHA instead of STR/CON/CHA and be unarmored. This would allow you to use more sorcerer spells to buff with, but that won't really come into effect until later levels. You would, however, have rather a good AC at early levels with lots of DEX, Shield and...

When I said implied I was referring to the ambiguity of your sentence. "[concealment] allows hiding and sneak attacking" can be interpreted to mean, "concealment allows hiding, and hiding allows sneak attacking", or "concealment allows hiding and concealment allows sneak attacking". As only the...

Concealment allows hiding. Hiding allows sneak attacking. I think that was what was meant to be implied.

DnD 3.5 does not itself have a world map. The default world for 3.5 is Greyhawk, and that does have a world map. However, there are a lot of other worlds (also called settings) published for the system: - Eberron, a setting where magic is a sort of technology; it's used to power the world's...

The complete champion version only works on undead, not all sneak attack immune creatures like the Dungeonscape version does. D8 sneak attack dice against evil is good (though it isn't called Righteous Wrath; it's called Sacred Strike), but it's an Exalted feat: "Only intelligent characters of...