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Didn't rogues have proficiency with saps in 3.0? What gives? (If this has already been discussed --I'm sure it has-- would someone point me to the thread?)

Elf rogues Somebody should really consider a campaign in which elves are less pure and good and more tricksy and chaotic. It would be a simple matter of switching the preferred class from wizard to rogue. (Think of all the bother it would save if the rogue didn't have to constantly be saying...

What do you mean by "badly defined"? I've sometimes felt that it is problematic to have a "race" of creatures who are only likely to occur through rape. Perhaps what needs to be defined is whether these are cast-off orphans of rape-victims or are they the descendents of such--a whole community...

I second this comment. I've never heard of anything so presumptuous of a DM.

I'm now beginning to see the wisdom of this advice. My DM denied me the option of the "domain wizard" from Unearthed Arcana (which might have given me access to some druidy spells. I have to admit that he is probably correct. It's not a balanced ability. So, I think I'll just try to make a...

I just came across a couple feats in Gryphon's Tome of 3rd Edition Feats. They're called Fey-Touched and Child of Nature. The first allows anyone with a wisdom 13+ to cast a 0-level druid spell a few times a day. With that as a pre-requisite feat, the second one gives an actual spell...

Wow, you guys have pointed me in some promising directions. I don't suppose any of this is on the web?

I want to create a druid-like wizard. I'll start with some of the options in Unearthed Arcana: swapping the familiar for an animal companion, and possibly using the Domain Wizard option to emphasize nature and/or elemental spells. Where should I go after that? Are there any prestige...

That's how I would prefer to think of it too, but still, the name of the feat influences its flavor, at least for me. Maybe I'll just take the feat but call it "Shoot to Kill" instead. The action could be described as taking aim at a small vulnerable spot--more difficult but more deadly.

I don't much like the Manyshot feat. I'm fine with unrealistic, if it involves magic, but for certain things I like some degree of realism and this doesn't seem realistic. Am I right about that? Wouldn't it have been easier just to have a feat that enables an archer to do extra damage by...

The PHB says the skin color of gnomes ranges from dark tan to woody brown. Is anyone surprised by that? I was. To me, that sounds like the caramel skin tone of lighter-skinned african americans. Is that accurate? Is this standard for most campaign settings?

If I ever start a campaign from scratch again, I will require players to take two levels or so in one of the NPC classes before they can qualify for a normal class. I like low-power games. This way, the normal classes become almost like prestige classes. Got the idea from Dragon magazine...

By the way, does anyone know where I can get a good raven miniature? I have the familiar pack from Reaper miniatures, which has a good hawk miniature, but I don't think it would pass as a raven.

I love the animated object idea. I wonder if anyone has developed the idea of a sentient staff as an alternative to a familiar. Edit: I searched around for it myself. There are staff familiars out there! http://www.raflar.com/fantasyrpg/Wizard%20Staff%20Familiar.pdf...

In my opinion, the speak with master ability would not be sufficient to activate a magic item since it does not involve actual words. It is usually just a string of animal-like sounds, as it says in the PHB if I'm not mistaken. The fact that a familiar CAN activate some magic items is a...

What's that?

Any more ideas out there?

Wow. I checked that thing out. It's cool stuff. And free!

I guess another thing to consider is the delivery of touch attacks. Hawks and Owls have pretty good attack bonuses, and the raven is not bad. I guess a bat could come in handy when you're in the dark (especially magical darkness). It would allow you to at least know where the bad guy is, and...

What are the special advantages of different familiars? I'm not asking about their bonuses and abilities. (I can look that up myself). What I am asking about is why some of those abilities would be especially advantageous. For example, a raven can talk, but is that ever very useful? A bat...