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At a guess, I'd think that not changing the attack rating is because constructs get BAB at the worst rate, and that changing the aforementioned hydra to a construct shouldn't reduce its BAB by a dramatic amount. If that's correct, then the change to Strength would change the attack bonus and...

That's a pity. Since they're an NPC class, and technically designed to be "weaker" than PCs in the first place, how damaging do you think a house rule to give them more skills might be? Would giving Ari's 6 or 8 skill points cause any balance problems? If you're going to have high level...

Anyone know how many skill points / level an Aristocrat gets? They have most of the communication skills as class, but if they don't get many skills, then, yeah, rogue does seem too valueble a class to anyone who isn't an adventurer... On another note - I'd agree that the average NPC in a D&D...

Yeah, I understand that. I just (mistakenly?) thought that, when you were refering to everyone multiclassing and rogue for non-combat skills, some non-combat characters would be included - and I don't see it as terribly appropriate that every alchemist, herbalist, craftsman, or merchant know...

What about Expert? 2 less skill points per level, but you get to choose your own class skills, so it might work out pretty well.

Eh. Given that it says "when gazed through" and doesn't seem to directly imitate the spell, I'd say it takes up a hand-slot whenever you'd use it, but I'm not sure what I'd do with combat - is it really possible to hold something right in front of your eye mid fight? In any case, that's all my...

What about ones that give saves? After all, with targeted spells, you know if your target saves or not. What happens if you hit an image with, say, Charm Person? What about Hold Person?

Yeah, that makes sense to me. It wasn't so much the statements that the world was "low magic" as the comments about reducing the power of magic that was irritating me, however. Yeah, only the major players in the world had magic - but that was what made them major players. Seriously, while not...

Where, exactly, are all these assertions that the Black Company series is low magic coming from? I can't claim to be an expert, but I'm quite sure that more than a few of the mages in the series could go well beyond mere fireballs as far as destructive power goes. Especially in some of the...

Again, my mistake. I hate not having my books - I say stupid stuff. I figured out why I thought Monstrous Humanoid was a subset of humaniod. As far as I can tell, it exists to give several monsters fighter BAB rather than cleric - other than that, most of the Monstrous Humanoids could have...

Whoops, my mistake about Hold Person, etc - but they're still listed under the same heading as far as Bane and Favored Enemy are concerned, you realize.

A semi - relevant point to this discussion is that neither Trap the Soul nor Soul Bind actually consume the gem used, even though the gem is listed as a material component. It's quite possible that souls are worth only that much, if the gem can be recovered after the soul is used for whatever...

I'd say that monstrous humanoid counts. They're grouped with humanoids as far as Bane Weapons or Favored Enemies are concerned, after all, and they are still vulnerable to Hold Person or Charm Person. I don't see why they wouldn't count, actually, by any but the most technical reading - and I...

Eh, no. You're taking a single target spell and changing it into a multi target spell - that sends the damage cap through the roof (think a multiplier of 1/2 caster level) for damaging spells, even if all that damage has to be on multiple targets. If anything - especially when you consider the...

If I'm not mistaken - I currently don't have my DMG, and it doesn't seem to be listed in the SRD - any non-instantaneous fire effect can set characters alight. Given that, I'd say that Wall of Fire, Incendiary Cloud, Flaming Sphere, Flame Arrow's buffing version, the aforementioned Fire Seeds...

You need to reread the description. It very specifically says, "any spellcasting ability you already posess," and definitively includes all spellcasters. Take the right class combo, and you could boost wizard or druid spells with it. (In any case, your method left bards out in the cold. It's...

For a 12th level Wizard, species isn't going to mean much.

You sure about that? Constructs are specifically immune to fort-save spells that don't work on objects, is the point; and implosion doesn't. As far as I can tell, they're immune, creature or no.

By "one spell per level," do you mean caster level, or spell level? If it's spell level, yeah, he's not following the rules - one of the catches of Speciallization for wizards is that 1/2 of your automatic spells must be for your speciallized school. That is, he has to have at least one...

If I'm not mistaken, you're only required to have 5 spells with an (not the!) elemental descriptor. Fireball would count, as would any other elemental attack.