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It's also worth noting that the mindflayer's planeshift I believe is a spell like ability not an actual spell. As a result the concentration DC is much lower.

Under the current rules shields don't stack with a bracers of armor or mage armor anyway, so the value of a shield to a monk wouldn't be that great to begin with, unless he was low level. In 3.5 it sounds like shields and force armor effects will stack, so it would be more useful for a monk...

Even if you were above ground, I don't think you'd be able to estimate the exact time of your save down to a period of 6 seconds. That's the sort of thing you'd need a digital watch for. I've also seen it ruled that you need to have the bonus for the entire 24 hour period, because presumably...

"Yep, that's it. One of my books, and I can't remember if it's 3e/d20 or something else entirely, had a picture of one of those as a tower shield. I've been using that notion ever since and it works quite well with the "Tower shield = cover" rule. I know not everyone sees it as that, which is...

"Being a freestanding object, it can function without the weilder holding it" Actualy no it cannot. Nothing in the rules say it's freestanding, and if you look at the picture, it is quite clear that it is not a free standing object, and has no base whatsoever. If a wizard wants to use a tower...

Well it's really simple to figure out if something is a death effect. If it's a spell, you just look and see if it has the [death] descriptor in it. If it doesn't, it's not a death effect. For special abilities, it's generaly not a death effect unless it specificaly states that it is. For...

Well there are two big problems with using charm to cut through red tape 1) If it fails you are in big trouble, probably looking at a death sentance, lengthy imprisonment, or at least fleeing the town and never coming back. If every time I cast a spell I have at least a 5% chance of death (and...

As long as you properly understand how they work, they are pretty well balanced. Often they end up screwing up the wielder as much as his enemies. Make sure you read the article posted on the rules for them, because otherwise they are quite unclear. Remember also that any attack that misses...

Well remember that the flames shed no heat, which strongly implies they don't burn things touching them. It's just sort of like a retaliation effect that blasts anyone striking the person with the spell up. As a result I would not add fire damage to unarmed striked or cause continuous damage...

"They'd be poor suggestions if they were for someone playing an archer Fighter or Ranger... But in this case, he needs to worry about doing other things besides just dealing damage. There's no point in playing a Bard if you're going to neglect spellcasting and skills for the sake of combat...

It's very hard to play a melee combat oriented bard because of poor ac and poor hit points. You can sometimes do it with the right spells, use magic device, and shield scrolls but it is difficult. If you go this route you need a good strength more then anything. You can't be a melee bard with a...

Technicaly you can get away with it in living campaigns, since it is a medium weapon. However many DMs will forbid it anyway (which is technicaly against the rules of living games) or simply assign a ridiculously high circumstance penalty to hit (which is completely legal by the rules). Skip...

It's worth noting that elves can only tailor their stat adjusments if you allow the elf races that were not intended for PCs, such as grey elves and wood elves. Remember these races were never play tested or necesarily intended to be PC races, even though many allow them. By the official rules...

Well it's worth noting that creatures do get a save and SR against teleport. When they say that only held and attended objects get saves, they mean as opposed to object just lying around in the middle of nowhere. However I'm pretty sure it's right that the golem could choose to lower his SR and...

I have to agree with archer, the main cost of rhino hide armor is the fact that it's hide armor. By the strictest letter of the rules it can't be improved, but if a DM wanted to allow it, it should probably cost 5,000 gold, which is difference between the price of +2 and +3.

I suppose a tower shield might protect you from a line breath weapon, but a cone would just flow around the shield. It might still give you some cover, but certainly not 9/10.

Well it's worth noting that when you cast a spell normaly, you are also simply making the final gestures (most of the gesturing is implied to be during preparation), and they take just as much as time as the final gestures you make while using a scroll. So really I don't see any differences...

Yep that's the Skip Williams ruling I was refering to. Generaly considered to be wrong, but still official.

Burning hands is perfectly balanced for it's level, it's an area effect damage spell that can do up to 5-20. And it's definetely clear by the rules that it does not light people on fire, since the DMG very specificaly states no instantaneous spell ever does.

Regaring using a tower shield to hold off a dragon for a round, If the dragon was smart, he'd just 5' step around the tower shield and attack from an unshielded side. It's really easy to get around those things unless your part of a shield wall or something.