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If you haven't already, greater magic weapon/vestment on your weapons and gear. Heroes' feast is practically a given for any mid-high lv party, I suppose this can be extended to npcs as well. If you are willing to invest in persistent spell, divine favour. If you can reduce the slot...

This is quite a common phenomenon, where people tend to confuse taking 10 with taking 20. I have no idea how it got propagated either. Taking 10 essentially means you forgo any potential upsides from rolling well (ie: 11 or more), but this means you also will not suffer the drawbacks of rolling...

Warforged warlock with mithral plating and fell flight = iron man?

I think their primary aim now is to scrap any properties which do not have a direct impact on combat. Wotc could do that, but it may just end up cluttering the item's stat block with filler abilities which most players would never use (or find some way of abusing).

Do you want a skill challenge or a combat encounter? If the latter, simply say the item has been corrupted or possessed by a demon, then have them fight it. EL6...a babau or barbed devil should work nicely.

I liked that 3e actually made an attempt to make monster races playable as PCs, never mind that sucked and tend to result in monster PCs being too weak for their ECLs. In hindsight, the savage progressions concept is quite primitive and unwieldy, but a bold first step nonetheless, IMO. :)

I would give you points for creativity though. Reminds me of that 3.5 trick to build your own death star. :cool:

And you have just discovered first hand why epic spellcasting sucks for creating damage spells.:) Good flavour, I give you that, but at that lv, 35 fire damage/round isn't going to matter (monsters will either be highly resistant or outright immune, not to mention their tons of hp and reach).

Let me get this straight? You people think that stone giants with the half-dragon template (ECL21) or orcs with the half-dragon template and taking all the abberation feats are power-gaming? I too would bar them from playing these combinations, but my rationale would be that they would be too...

Alternatively, you could simply remove immunity to sneak attack, and reduce the rate at which a rogue's SA improves (though this will probably require revising just about every class/prc granting sneak attack/skirmish/sudden strike). Halving it might be a good place to start. :p

I think that at lower lvs, warlocks can still be fairly potent for their cr. Give them eldritch spear, spread them out and watch the party run all over the place trying to gut them. Low eldritch blast damage may actually be a boon, in that you don't run the risk of accidentally 1-shotting a PC...

I agree though the fluff seems incongruent. A succubus ur-priest - now that's a caster. :cool:

They could, but from a metagame perspective, this is problematic in that when the PCs overcome them, you risk the party getting much more gear than recommended for their wealth guidelines. It is more practical to give a monster extra HD than a +5 weapon and an amulet of con+6. The crs in the...

I wouldn't be surprised, considering that 3e completely screws over undead thanks to the massive loss of hp due to lack of a con score, the fact that classed npcs tend to be very weak for their cr (especially at higher lvs) and the death knight template too seems quite anemic for its cr...

I am guessing his best way is to suck up to the PCs by acting as a source of buffs. Enlarge the fighter, bless the party etc, ray of enfeeblement on the enemy. These are low lvs spells which remain useful even at higher lvs.

I thought free actions could only be taken during your turn?

HD+LA would work, if wotc didn't artificially inflate LA just to discourage players from playing weird races. As it stands, many monsters have ECLs much higher than what their power level suggests (either that, or wotc was comparing them with really subpar PCs, or they really overestimated the...

Replicate giant size, zip to collossal and ... ?profit? :lol:

To be honest, I know nothing of eastern or western fighting styles (barring what I have seen from comics/anime/wuxia flicks - which I profess to being a fan of). Nor do I attempt to make this distinction in my games whatsoever. All I know is that tome of battle helped made melee fun again by...

You could consider using spells to simulate this, such as telepathic bond or shield other. Maybe abilities which improve your ability to work with another, like that feat in PHB2 which improves your flanking bonuses, or white raven maneuvers (tome of battle). I seem to recall some sort of race...