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Yes, absolutely. But I suspect the 3rd edition design team wanted to avoid giving clerics and druids a huge advantage over sorcerers and wizards when it comes to Concentration checks. Because nobody uses Constitution to determine their bonus spells per day and saving throw DCs. (Which is a lame...

The "others" are correct. I play it by the book. I don't know if the SRD includes it or not, but the illustration on page 176 of the PHB says: "All squares through which the line passes or touches are affected by the attack."

The text within the illustration on page 176 of the PHB is better: "All squares through which the line passes or touches are affected by the attack."

We use some Pathfinder adventures, but cleave to the 3.5 rules. IMO, Pathfinder made too many unnecessary rule changes, but Paizo publishes some really good stuff.

Maybe it's a matter of the degree to which this is true, but I don't really see the difference between a daily power that forces your monster to fall prone (4E) and a Trip attack that causes your monster to fall prone if the PC wins an opposed Strength check (3E). In both cases, there are rules...

First let me say that this situation is extremely rare in my experience; I have a considerable tolerance for what others might consider "broken" magic items. For example, in my current campaign, a 2nd-level character wound up with a cloak of resistance +5. While that is far above the...

As others have said, D&D doesn't assume "constant attentiveness in all directions" at all times. I consider the sneaking character to be invisible with regard to the guard, because the guard's eyes are pointed the wrong way to see him. I rely on common sense.

Patryn of Elvenshae has it exactly right.

You're absolutely right. Mearls' quote makes it clear: "While the cleric is the strongest class, I would argue that it is not unbalanced." It wasn't deliberately made overpowered; it was deliberately made powerful (perhaps even the strongest class). That's not the same thing.

<facepalm> There are rules for moving between two points of cover and for sneaking up on someone after emerging from a hiding place in the Rules Compendium. Perhaps he was thinking of those? I do not ignore that part of the rules, nor have I met anyone who does.

Okay, fair enough. I just wanted to see if you'd thought the matter through. And it looks like you have. :)

Would you say that food created by create food and water is an object? Or is that also just a spell effect?

Initiative is just an opposed Dex check; the only way to change your Initiative modifier is through an effect like the Improved Initiative feat, which is essentially just giving you a +4 bonus to Dex checks made for initiative purposes. But what is the advantage of using Dexterity checks for...

I disagree, for the same reason the_orc_within does: wall of force is an Effect spell and creates an object (in this case, a wall) out of magical force. And frankly, I wouldn't read the spell description so literally anyway. My ruling would be that see invisibility reveals invisible spell...

Initiative is not in any way, shape or form a Reflex save. But you are correct that initiative is appropriately called for whenever the DM needs to determine who is able to act first in a situation.

Fair enough. :) I hope I didn't come off too snarky.

IME, it is a standard survival tactic. But it often doesn't work. A few weeks ago, the casters in my current campaign ran low on/out of spells and called for a rest. Unfortunately for the PCs, they had alerted the BBEG to their presence in his lair, and when they didn't kick in his door, he...

No, I don't / have not. When I have discussed this issue with those who do find casters dominating play, I often find that they play the game with a very different set of assumptions than I do. For example, they may feel it is "unfair" or unsporting of the DM to have enemies focus their...

Please tell us where in the rulebooks we can find the definition of "property" that you're relying on to make this argument. Absent that, I think you're just making stuff up.

Not a combat round. Just a combat, period. Again, don't focus on the round. The first round could be a surprise round. A character that doesn't get to act in the surprise round will remain flat-footed until he acts in the first non-surprise round, which would actually be the second round of...