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Dittos to the last two. The only time you would make multiple rolls is if theres say a mage and an archer both firing at you with held actions, though a case could be made that both those attacks are also at the same time and require one big roll rather than two rolls.

Rogue is probably the best with a few fighter levels thrown in. Wizard leaves you behind the spell casting dept (a full level behind the other characters in the party). A fighter/rogue is a force to behold, go for two weapons if you like to use the twin sword. We have a human going the same...

When I roll a 3 and the DM says its a hit. Every fighter should get power attack after level 8 or so, after a while you can't miss anyway so you might as well hit harder when you do. It doesn't take long to get base attack equal to or higher than most enemies AC, especially if you have a cleric...

Screw minis. A piece of graph paper and a pencil. Pick a letter for your character and write him down. Works perfect, is practically free, and allows for plenty of room in almsot any situation (more pieces of graph paper or bigger pieces if you need to). None of us can afford minis and the whole...

In response to the title: Only if its really dark alot. We had a shadowdancer in our party a while back, and while it was great to be able to turn invisible at a whim, it didn't always do him much good. During the day he had to work to get to any shadows, and enemies knew where he was. "He...

-2 Dex makes perfect sense to me personally. Hell -2 Dex and Cha makes perfect sense to me. 1/2 orcs get 2 off two stats and all they get is darkvision. Dwarves get darkvision and a laundry list of the best racial abilites in the game. Shield dwarves (I think) from FRCS do actually have the -2...

Dwarves are funny. If they were a non standard race they'd be at least +1ECL. They gain a "strong" stat (con) and lose on a "weak" stat (cha), as per the DMG. They get +2 to all saves (+2 vs poison and spells... whats left really?). They get +4 AC vs giants, +1 to hit orcs, etc. Oh but they move...

> How many free actions in one round? Actually this often depends on what your doing. Some free actions (like nocking an arrow) have no limits others (such as quickened spells) are only allowed once in a round. Most often the thing you are trying to do will tell you in its description. A safe...

A wight? Was he an evil mage with control undead? Otherwise he jsut created another foe to fight.

Invest in a bag of holding. Every party I've DM'd or been in has done this. Even the lowest bags carry more than enough, and if you get a ton of coins convert them to higher coins or gems. Or as someone said buy equipment with it if you can. What else are you going to do with it anyway?

Unless you got hit with alchemists fire or something along those lines. Anything that would coat you or make your outline visible.

Yep. Trust me a 3rd level fighter 1/2 dragon isn't very powerful compared to a 7th level fighter. Without equal equipment, playing the 1/2 dragon is futile. Even with equal gear, I'll give the 7th level character the win almost every time (assuming equal base stats and hit point rolls).

I ran into the same issue myself (to the point of people maximizing the areas of effect to hit the most enemies at a time- taking several minutes to chart it all out). In the end I think the best way is to pick the intersection for radius's within a decent time frame. Dont allow for charting or...

Looking at orcs it seems like they have shorter lifespans (probably the rule for monstrous humanoids-it was in previous editions), otherwise I find that a safe bet to go with is half elves. That way your not too old at start and live longer than a human, though not so much longer that it becomes...

No offense kobold, but to use your own phrase, where in the book does it ever say anything done in a round is done at the same instant. And I dare you to show me how you swing a sword 3 times at the same instant in time (unless you have some alien understanding of time and space). Things in the...

Not to mention it blatantly contradicts the DMG NPC template for half dragons (which specifically says that class levels count). Funny how he's willing to use judicial review on this, but on the infamous matter of harm noones willing to give the stupid thing some sort of save. I agree with...

A PC in my campaign focused on transmutation and enchantment and was nearly unstoppable. Haste, slow, blindness/deafness, disintegrate, charm monster, charm person, hold monster. Every spell a encounter ender, everyone had a huge DC and he could cast 2 a round for 3-4 rounds straight. Who needs...

If youre going for a swashbukcler type, head towards spring attack, all the feats are pretty good along that line (though mobility will be less useful once your tumbling gets really high), and spring attack lets you maximize your sneak attacks easily. Don't worry about your skills so much, in...

Dead as a doornail.

Well officially theres not facing, but when you get into Long creatures even WotC admits you end up with facing (though they don't have any gerat ideas for how to handle it). For example X human no facing XX Horse- you cant tell me the top or the bottom of that is its face its obviously...