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Anyone else notice that if you take Major Creation as a spell-like ability with your high arcana you can make thousands of doses of inhaled poisons as a standard action in combat? -Frank

Actually, single classed spellcasters (except Druids) can generally be on a pretty even footing a mid-to-high levels with massively multiclassed and PrCed Warriors. Neither single classed warriors nor multiclassed spellcasters can especially keep up. It is my contention that therefore single...

Being Prone does not actually prevent you from being tripped. Otherwise people could voluntarily fall as part of readied attacks in response to Improved Trip attempts to keep you from getting your attack from Improved Trip. Similarly, being temporarily blind (say, from a Glitterdust spell) does...

Just a bit? -Frank

Heck no. It's a Druid with Expertise, Improved Trip, Combat Reflexes, and Improved Unarmed Strike. Transform into a Riding Dog, cast GMF on yourself, and go to town. In two more levels you'll be a Dire Wolf instead and have a strength of 25 and two attacks per round. That's a bewildering...

I don't honestly know. This was part of the "Since I can turn people into trees, does that mean that I can make shapeshifters too stupid to turn back to their normal forms?" question. And his answer was no, and that was his reasoning. I'm not sure that it's a more balanced spell if it can...

Polymorph Any Object is like Polymorph except that you can transform any creature or object into another [creature or object]. So if you are targetting a medium creature it is a creature, so you can transform it into a Titan - because that falls into the category "any creature". You can also...

According to Skip Williams, the 3rd edition Polymorph Any Pbject only raised your intelligence, it couldn't lower your intelligence. So transforming someone into a frog did not come with a free Feeblemind and transforming someone into a Troll didn't make them stupid. Since the wording on the...

Yeah... go back and see the Rock Paper Scissors example. I have seen more than one set-up where people made a Fighter specifically to beat a Barbarian. Similarly, you can make a Ranger, Paladin, or Barbarian to beat a Fighter. Neither proves anything. The point is, that you can make a...

That's a common misconception. While Raichu is no longer able to learn agility based moves such as Quick Attack from levelling - its Speed statistic actually does rise when it becomes Raichu. Base Speed of Pikachu = 90. Base Speed of Raichu = 100. Pikachu does need flavor text, though - it was...

Yes I do. Taking 3 levels of "Barbarian" gives you 3 hit dice; 3 BAB; +3 ranks in skills; +3 Hit Dice to avoid Cloud Kill, Circle of Death, and Blasphemy kills; bonuses to all saves; faster movement; a bonus feat; Uncanny Dodge; and Rage twice a day. Throw in some Rage and some good old...

So? Who said anything about getting an amulet of natural armor? In fact, the amulet of natural armor in 3.5 is an enhancement bonus and applies equally to the Half Dragon as it does to anyone else. However, transformation magic is a fact of Dungeons and Dragons. So when asking whether or not a...

reapersauraus: It's both, actually - that's not a flip-flop, it's simply that both are true. The reasons that a multiclassed character is better than a single classed character are: 1> Saves add up in stupid ways for a multoiclassed character. This is a seperately solvable problem that has...

Yes, in the 3rd edition rules set Undead Temporary Hit Points seemed to last forever in all cases. If you were to call a class "balanced" you would want people to be able to walk away at any time. If you need to take all the levels of a class in order for it to be balanced you've essentially...

You are forgetting "Same Size" and "Same Kingdom" (mammals in this case) - for a total of +11 (permanent is +9). Of course, you can be a irbolg instead, and walk away with a Strength of 36. But the Polymorph Any Object spell has squatter's rights. The Level Allowance rules fiasco was...

That's a bold claim that you have yet to actually back up in any way. I came out with two builds: one was a mounted/ranged/melee character and the other was a straight hitting machine. They both had more relevent abilities than a single classed Fight could. One was focused in one area and the...

IIRC, the reasoning behind the ruling by Skip was that you became visible at the end of the attack action - which in this case contained the entire full attack. Similarly, if you cast a full-round atack spell you become visible at the end of that spell - not the beginning. That is supportable by...

And Polymorph Any Object lasts forever - so once you get access to an 8th level spell (even from a scroll) the template is a waste of time. So the template has a time limit. At 7th level and below it renders you subject to Cloud Kill and Color Spray - making you essentially krill. At high levels...

The rules say that if you have 10 ranks in Hide you can charge and "only" suffer a -20. That means that you can run full bore thirty feet into someone and shove them out a window without anyone seeing you if you can beat their spot by 20 points. Now, how close to that walking through an empty...

It also compares poorly to being polymorphed in battle. And with a 3 level lead-time - that's entirely a possibility. -Frank