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Off the top of my head, don't forget the masterwork thieves' tools. I know it seems obvious, but I'm always amazed to find people never think of them. (in my current group of sneaky scoundrels, I was the only one with them) Depending on how your DM does tower shields, they might come in handy...

The challenge. I'm not talking about hack'n'slash, or how difficult that combat encounter was. I'm talking about challenging the PCs in more than just fighting. There have been some great answers here about not just fighting. Likewise, Dausuul is spot on by stating a dungeon is a framing device...

Ignore, for the moment, that the DM is the final arbiter of the rules. It seems many people see the faq as the definitive answer to the rules. I am beginning to question whether we should or not. the_orc_within asked that if you somehow manage to grapple a dragon, can you prevent his BW by...

Interesting question. If you couldn't, I would probably allow it just because it sounded interesting. A similar question pops up in the faq. Can a Dragonfire Adept use his BW in a grapple? Their answer was: "p. 60 of the Rules Compendium outlines a series of maneuvers that can be used in a...

As my wife often reminds me: "let them do what they want. It's all supposed to be fun!" I agree to a point. It depends on the world. One world I'm currently running is my "God" world where the PCs have just figured out that they are really gods to be. In that world, they can basically do...

Draconomicon (p. 68) provides 12 metabreath feats which are similar to metamagic feats. For example there is a maximize breath and a Quicken Breath. Instead of adding to a spell level (like metamagic) they increase the amount of time until a dragon can breathe again. Hey, don't dis the...

I just happened to have my original MM next to the computer. Hopefully I can translate the data into 3.5 An ancient red dragon was supposed to be the big scary encounter in 1e. However, it has 88 hps, (AC -1 = ) AC 21, and does claw/claw/bite of d8, d8, 3d10 at something like +8 to +11. If...

Remember, though the game has always been called D&Dragons, dragons were never very scary except at low levels. IIRC, the original MM only gave them a bite attack. In fact, once we learned to play the game, we would scoff at dragons (until clever DMs would add stuff gained from the Dragon mag)...

At the risk of people yelling, I'll just point out how I've always seen inviso played. Effectively, inviso makes all aspects of your person invisible, including your aura. (Aura does not necessarily imply light) Thus detect spells don't work. Or, in the case of detect evil, that particular DM...

I've had the same exact situation. I have both feats and so I brought it up with my DM. We basically agreed that you get your 'skirmish' damage but not your 'improved skirmish' damage. However, that might simply be because he was tired of me beating the crap out of things. (With the Travel...

Persiflage, it seems like you and I really are on the same page. I consider AS to be an upgraded DM, and personally don't like the argument about line of sight blocking it. However, I also don't like the idea that the various detect spells automatically break invisibility (or sort of break...

I did forget to add that there was a big technical discussion about conjuration vs. evocation. Essentially, evocations (light, continual flame) create the light, but a conjuration does not. Thus, Glitterdust (conjuration) does not create light. THAT actually made more sense to me.

It's part and parcel with the idea that if you cast invisibility on someone carrying a torch then you don't see him but you can still see the light. In this case, the 'magic' of the 'glitter' still allows the reflection of light in the area, so it sparkles. Think of it as the dust becomes...

Well, parsing it you get: "If a, then b. When a" So, to my mind, it's when you are fighting in a two-weapon manner. I was going to refer to p. 137 of the PH, but it brings up more potential problems, specifically the use of the phrase "at your normal attack bonus." While I rarely get an AoO...

I should've mentioned that, my specialty is Abjuration and I don't do Necro/Illusion (only 'bad' guys do those, right?). As a UM, yes, I can Quicken easily. Stream : "You're not up on noncore spells, but you're using a PH2 class, the beguiler." Yeah, I know, kind of stupid. I had to create the...

First let me say that I'm likely giving a wrong impression. While I call him a necro-assassin it's because that's his attitude; I don't know exactly what he is. He is a 2e transitioned into 3.5, and has a few cleric levels of some sort mixed with some other 'sneaky' levels. Further, I seem to...

I think we are pretty much on the same page here. For example, when you say "pinpoint the location" I'm actually thinking that you "see the space" the creature is in. Hence, inviso's concealment still works. However, others (not you) have casually thrown out the hiding behind cover blocks DM...

Hmm, this made me think and calculate a bit. Over the past 30+ years and at the time of each group I've regularly* played with (and could remember): 20 unmarried high school and college students 2 divorcees 19 married 1 affianced 20 single 3 dyed in the wool loners (40 year virgin types)...

While I'm pretty sure it's not in the rules as you've described, talk to your DM about it. Some will buy the argument and give you a +1 to AC as a light shield. (Several I know do that and for qstaves as well)

Perhaps one way to think about your second question is this: Some guys jumps out at you going "boogity-boogity". You hit him with your sword. As he dances around you giving you an AoO you realize he's annoying harmless fool, so you punch him in the face as your AoO. Do you think you should take...