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One of the single largest problems with polymorph is that it is set by HD rather than CR or some other mechanic measuring the power of the creature. Perhaps, since XP will be the general measure of a creature's power, the spell could allow you to change into a creature worth up to Y experience...

Especially in 4e where it sounds like a fighter attacked by a rust monster won't end up reduced to a muling babe with extra HP. DC

After reading a series of books...I want to say the ColdFire Trilogy...but I can't be sure...I instituted a change that caused any level drain / negative level to be restored upon the death of the creature that caused it. This allowed a energy drain to be potentially dangerous within the course...

That's a good point. I run into that as well (in fact, I love the Tome of Magic for the great options. Same with Magic of Incarnum and I hands down prefer 3e psionics to 3e magic (which was killed in translation from 2e to 3e by clinging to many unwieldy sacred cows that may have made sense in...

It would be hard to imagine Eberron, in the course of two years, suddenly losing 13 orbiting planes and plopping down into the middle of a great wheel. LOL I think it is safe to say that no cosmology is going to become core...rather the elements of the cosmology (ethereal, astral, inner, outer)...

Blech. Paladin is a prestige class and barbarian is a character concept. This would be my wish list (with the related classes we could do away with listed below): Cleric -- Archivist – killed by the cleric to become a talent tree -- Favored Soul – cleric talent tree? likely redundant with...

Especially given that combat is "abstracted" (thus the rationale for no facing, HP vs. wounds, etc.) but iterative attacks break this down. If you spend the round dancing around, dodging, parrying, and striking, what do extra attacks represent? The one attack roll identifies whether your various...

Of course the irony here is that the granularity and accuracy of magical items is going away for 4e. You don't. Thief and bard started at 1,250 and Cleric started at 1,500. Fighter and druid were 2,000, ranger and paladin were 2,250. Wizard was 2,500. (the irony of course is that the weakest...

This is just the point...I chose single target (or in the case of MM one that could be focused all on one target. As I said, with area / multiple target spells, my math would require revising. One example was presented as that: one example. And yes, sorcerers do have to a way to selectively...

I apologize if my OP came across to some as inflammatory. I don't know how attributing a problem to user error = user is fat, stupid, and lazy but as 2+ people thought this is what I meant, I may have misspoken. irdeggman said exactly what I was trying to say...perhaps better. PSIONICS IS A...

Certainly...if every day you knew that there would at some point be a PP draining enemy (and if those enemies could easily reduce you to zero PP), this would be the exact result. That is not what I was positing. Within the rules as they stand, a PP drain is unlikely to reduce a psion to nothing...

The reason (in my humble opinion) that issue #1 (psions going nova using all their power points in one shot) ever comes up is because DMs allow psionics for their players and then forget to add them into the rest of the game. There are remarkably few attacks that can strip a wizard or sorcerer...

I have removed my post to D&D rules and out of this thread as per a mods indirect suggestion. I do not accept the initial premise and thus my comments had no place here. My response has moved here: http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=203629 Sorry about that! DC

Except on a practical level, a wolf drags its prey down with its teeth, unlike a lion which is prone to tackling prey and overbearing it, a wolf (or pack of wolves) will snap at the legs of its future food in an attempt to bring it down. DC

Dragonmarks are the expression of the Draconic Prophesy through living creatures. They are tied to race + bloodlines (but not necessarily to families) (which is why a half elf cannot have the Mark of Handling). The only known way to destroy a dragonmark is to kill the person with said...

If it is not being targeted to the other side of the AMF and it has a duration other than instant and it has the ability to "wait" until the field is gone before continuing then maybe this is true. so basically, a summoned creature could wait for the effect to move on. a lightning bolt or...

Since what you're talking about is a fairly advanced wraith anyway, make it a dread wraith (or an advanced wraith) with the Lifesense ability then give it an item that generates a darkness effect. Within the area of shadow illumination, the wraith should be protected (because it is not within...

I agree. Any concentration duration spell would end when the caster entered an AMF. Essentially, by nature, concentration spells can persist only so long as they are continuously used, otherwise they cease. DC

No...it is clear defined. "However, each round after the first you may use a standard action (concentrating on the spell) to call a bolt." The clear definition is "Concentrating on the spell" even if all of the bolts were created in advance (and cleverly hidden from all who view it)...

this is because line of effect is a relative not absolute concept. The line of effect for a fireball cast on the prime material plane is different from the line of effect for a fireball cast on the ethereal plane (the things the affect one, will not necessarily the other). In the case of...