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I grant that it's not meant to be on the ranged table - but that doesn't mean anything. There's lots of stuff that isn't on the tables - from dual-use magic items to the fact that the scroll table does not include all the spells. Lesser Planar Binding does not appear on the Arcane Scrolls...

There are thousands of feats. That's versatility. If you only get to choose from six feats because you are predicating game balance on a smaller number of more powerful feats - you have reduced customizability by aboout 99.4%. And that's not even counting the fact that these have prereqs, which...

You're right! How could I be so blind! That must mean that all the additional special abilities in other books (which don't appear on that table) cannot be placed on items under any circumstances. Seriously though. If we accepted your reasoning, we would be forced to conclude that the lists...

Although if you do that te class is no longer customizable at the high end - violating the entire supposed purpose of the Fighter class. -Frank

* The Keen Bows and Arrows found in non-core material. * The fact that the weapon creation rules give an explicit list of what can and cannot be made Keen and that list includes a set which in turn contains Bows. -Frank

Darklone: That still sounds an awful lot like giving favored players bonuses to hit because it would be "dramatically appropriate" for them to hit at that time. -Frank

Hide in Plain Sight appears to be intended to function as a continuous ability, as it does not have a duration. Thus, using it is "not an action" - it is part of making a Hide check. Not that it matters of course, because as previously noted the Hide Check you make to vanish while being...

OK, let's go to Rule #1: the specific entry overrides the table. If the table listed a restriction that Bows could not be Keen - which it does not - then you could still make Bows be Keen because the specific entry says "Only piercing or slashing weapons". But it doesn't stop there - oh no...

I don't see the illogic in that instance. I really don't. The rules define flanking as the interaction of real combatants - not as the impressions of the target of the attack. You may want to describe the flanking bonus as a division of attention - but the rules don't say that! You are making...

Where does it say only melee weapons? And if it was implied that it could not be applied to ranged weapons - why would they bother having an explicit restiction on the throwing ability? You don't actually have any evidence on your side. The rules say that it is a weapon quality that can be...

As previously stated - the table is not exclusive. Whether or not specific items are unbalanced (such as spellstoring arrows), is a seperate discussion. The table doesn't include all of the items and combinations that sample NPC characters actually have, and the rules at no time link item...

Right. So long as the argument involves no multiclassing, no prestige classing, no non-core material, and requires the use of Fighter levels exclusively, I am unable to create a build that is a better Fighter than the Fighter. With that list of limitations, however, I am also unable to make a...

Spell Storing Arrows are legit as well - even listed in some FRCS stuff. -Frank

It's legal - even useful sometimes. While it's a waste - but so is 3.5 Vorpal. Not only is that legal - it's practically a requirement in 3.5 where magic bolts don't stack with magic crossbows. What else are you going to do with the enhancement bonus? Not only is that legal, these actually...

Then we obviously have nothing to talk about. If you think that a list of classes makes your character concept - no name-calling, please -Henry. Your character concept is made or broken by the abilities granted by those classes. If you have all the abilities you want - your character concept is...

Huh? Yeah, and Opposable doesn't appear in the treasure chart at all - that doesn't mean you can't make an Opposable weapon. Please, those are the randomly determined treasure tables - they have about as much to do with what you could make as the standard NPC equipment lists. Some abilities...

The hell I'm not. Fighters only have Feats and weapon proficiencies. That's it. If I can get that many feats and the weapon proficiencies, I am a Fighter. The fact that I can also have skills and class features on top of that means that there are some "Fighter" builds which are underpowered...

Technically, a bow is a piercing weapon. Arrows are ammunition which can be used as an improvised piercing weapon. So bows are definately able to be Keen. You could make a compelling rules argument that Arrows can't be made Keen - although I would personally allow you to do so. -Frank

Um... my point was that the levels of Fighter 3-20 were so bad that I could make a better Fighter by replacing those levels with something else. I wasn't doing a "Ranger" or a "Barbarian" - I was making a Fighter. Of course I took some Fight levels. That doesn't mean that Fighter is good, it...

#1: Phoenix Duplication: Activate shapechange and magic jar, take over an enemy, then become a Phoenix. You now have the Immolation ability, so use it. You "die", which sends you back into the Jar and destroys your "host". It also creates a completely real and independently active CR 24 Phoenix...