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Lets leave the bastard sword issue out for the moment, and just discuss the pros cons of why you might, for example, want to spend a feat for Oversized Two Weapon Fighting (to use two longswords) vs spending it to use a double sword. The most obvious gain (of either option) is the increase in...

I recently took part in a puzzle solving competition that had a letter sudoku - the grid was made up of 5x5 blocks, instead of 3x3, with 25 squares per row and column. Some of the resulting filled in 5x5 blocks where then used as the Playfair cipher keys and used to decrypt some text :)

Hit points are almost, but not quite a d6 average for that build. Definately the better caster, but that was never in doubt. However, magical mithril chain shirts give, or perhaps I should say prevent, far more bang for the buck than bracers of armor. I still think that the Bladesinger I...

Remember with Duelist that the Int bonus to AC cannot exceed your current Duelist level. I've thought about running a Swashbuckler/Bladesinger/ Spellsword - at 20th level it gets int to damage and AC, a d8 hit die average, 19 BAB, Song of Fury giving an extra attack Rapid Shot style, light...

Your choice of opponent for the EK feels like a bit of a strawman. A fighter limited to PHB and DMG tends to be pretty dang weak - hence the slew of feats in PHB II that require weapon spec and high BAB's which try to address that. The PHB/DMG also severly hamstrings fighters who just want to...

I can do math - but when you're enlarged, raging, bull's strengthed, etc, etc it can become a bit of a problem if you're adding up everything every round. Not to mention that on the fly it can be easy to forget things like the fact that if you're enlarged, you're reflex save is going to be one...

I believe there's also a variant rule that allows you to spontaneously cast your domain spells (in addition to cures as usual) at the expense of losing the extra domain specific slot.

Yes, but there are times when threats are wasted because the attack cannot hit. This most often happens when the threat range has been expanded (keen weapon or Imp. Crit feat), especially with large threat range weapons like rapiers. Threat range vs crit modifier is something I think is...

Ah, but I feel like crits come rare enough that to roll a 1 or 2 and waste that opportunity to tear a nice, big chunk o'hide out of the enemy would feel like a huge disappointment. But I do appreciate that for you, the d12 fits your personality and how you like to play. That's why above...

Yep, I agree with this. I'd let the players choose - which I'd imagine would most often result in one vote of 2d6 and all the rest for 1d12 ;) I'd also say that if 2d6 was chosen as the standard, but a given player really wanted the d12 (more randomness!!!), then they could choose to roll...

Gimp his character beyond belief? I'm not sure how switching from an elf to a half-elf is getting gimped. Doesn't this very thread support the position that Favored Class: Any is a valuable racial ability? And don't underestimate the value of *not* having a -2 Con penalty. Having half the...

Not to mention that its just more fun and exciting for the dice to roll. Hearing a dm go click-click-type-type-click "ok, you did 37 points of damage" just isn't the same.

The way I handle adding up large groups of dice is to pull dice out of the big pile in groups that add up to ten. When you can't anymore, you count the tens and then add in the left overs. For example, say I rolled 10d6 and came up with the following: 2 5 5 6 1 6 4 4 4 4 The first thing I'm...

The first thing I have to say would be directed to your DM that he should definately let you guys tweak and change your existing characters to deal with the loss of the other player. Its in the best interests of everyone - 3.x is a system that rewards character planning and punishes haphazard...

The worst grade I ever got in college was in a signals class I aboslutely hated slash didn't understand - Frequency Modulation, as in FM radio, was always refered to by my friends and I as F***ing Magic. Anytime they would start talking about e raised to the power of the square root of -1, my...

I think logically, giving him the bonus was the *least* you could do. It seems to me that the noises he could be making while flying - change jingling in pockets, spiked chain links rattling, etc - all exist on the ground are equally present when he's walking on the ground. So, if the boots...

<pedant_mode>Shields are classified as light or heavy. I'm assuming you mean heavy instead of large. A large shield would indicate an ogre sized shield of some kind.</pedant_mode> I absolutely think you should be able to use the Agile Shield Fighter feat with a Heavy Steel Shield. <edit1> To...

I don't understand your response here MH. While wielding, for example, a Dwarven Waraxe and a Heavy Shield, you can still make unarmed trip attacks. Were you thinking that you needed a free hand to make an unarmed trip attack? With a Waraxe you'll do more damage, but with the trade offs of...

Well, if shield bashing is for when you're disarmed, you don't actually need two-weapon fighting since you'll no longer have two weapons in your hands ;) I hope, my good stable Dwarf friend, that you're not thinking you'll be disarmed because you'll have *dropped* your flail like some silly...

Heh, my first 2e (which I first played in the late 90's) Ranger was named Hawkeye and dual wielded a pair of hand axes :)