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The build I'm hopting to run one day has a slightly different lead in than Thanee. I go with two levels of Wizard and one of Fighter with the race being Half-Elf (need the favored class to be Any). If you want the remaining four levels to be in a half caster class (my build includes 4 levels of...

Oh, I'm quite sure he won't last long. We're in the WLD and have already had one party wipe, so he's my first replacement. I think one person might be on character number 4 - not sure though ... 1st level? for the extra skill points? With the Sorc level in there, I like the extra d12 and...

My current character is 5th level and about to go into Dragon Disciple. My plan is to make use of that increased strength to improve my tripping abilities. Trip is a pretty dang wicked move to pull in combat; +4 to hit while they're down, AoO provoking move equivalent to get up. The other...

Didn't the 5 ft bull rush granted by the Improved Shield Bash feat in Defenders of the Faith have this rule about the person getting knocked down if there was no square to move into? I don't have my books handy, but I remember thinking how useful that could be for a dwarven defender "keeps the...

Feldspar Silverpick was a 2E Gnome Illusionist/Thief who had converted to the worship of Gond while working for his uncle (a clockmaker) in Tantras. Setting off on a pilgrimage to Lantan, he was taken prisoner by a group of brigands and thrown into a cell where the party first came together...

Time to revise your tactics: "You can move 5 feet in any round when you don’t perform any other kind of movement. Taking this 5-foot step never provokes an attack of opportunity."

This was my experience as well - especially on the balance front. Maybe you can salvage some of the ideas, but the mechanics were generally fubared.

I was in a party which exercised good discipline and tactical thinking, that is right up to the point where we TPK'ed. Usually my character, a Fighter-Ranger (headed towards Dwarven Defender), organized the tactics, which was fitting as we were in a dungeon (the World's Largest, in fact) and he...

What if you already have Improved Toughness? If you're focused on max HP's then I can see someone wanting to follow up IT with the old MotW Toughness feats.

The numbers favor the +1. This makes sense as a fair chunk of your damage is coming from a non-crit multiplied source, the holy 2d6 damage. h/r is hits per round, c/r is crits per round, d/r is damage per round. +2 Holy Bastard Sword one-handed ab=14 1d10+7 + 2d6 19x2 ac=27...

That's my first problem with the sudden feats. The second is that they appear to allow you to surpass max caster level in a way you couldn't for the metamagic feat they're based on. For example, a fifth level wizard can't Maximize his fireball, but he could Sudden Maximize it. That's seems...

I agree, I think I'll use that for Genasi as well. It never sat well with me that Genasi should be suboptimal sorcerers when they have a perfect reason for having innate natural spell ability from their elemental heritage. I'd rather give them a penalty to most Cha based checks (but not for...

I tried to to come up with traits that would work for both human and orc raised half-orcs and came up with: HALF-ORCS +2 racial bonus on Intimidate and Sense Motive checks: Half-orcs are not readily accepted among any race; Half-orcs must quickly learn how to identify allies and discourage...

You're thinking of trip which makes use of an opposed Strength, with the defender having the option of Dex, check modified by creature size to determine success. Disarm uses an opposed attack role modified by weapon and creature size. So you can disarm, just not as well against or as well as...

Remember that you can finesse the thinblades and rapiers, but not the longsword or its, errrm, half-brother ;) So unless you're planning to qualify for ITWF and GTWF through Ranger or some adapted version of Complete Warrior's Swashbuckler, you'll have to have a high Dex and you'll end up...

You'd have to add something extra like those proficiencies for the orc raised ones or else their abilities would be a subset of those raised by humans and that wouldn't be fair. And as far as filling niches goes, a Dwarf will cover anything anything the human can't. Compare a Dwarf warrior...

I agree with the others that in terms of the rules as written Half-Orcs wouldn't get Weapon Familiarity. A shame really, because Half-orcs were the worst race in 3.0 and didn't get improved in any way in 3.5 which means they fell even further behind some classes. I've yet to play in a party...

Two more films shot Robby Mueller :) After Wenders, Jarmusch is probably the director he's worked the most with (Down by Law, Coffee and Cigarettes).

As I understand it, that movie is based on a book (of the same name) by JG Ballard whose childhood experiences of spending WWII in a Japanese prisoner of war camp was made into the movie "Empire of the Sun" by Spielberg. My favorite cult movie of all time has to be Repo Man. I remember...

I don't like it simply for the fact that it works in a way that is counter to the how we treat weapon attacks and hitpoints. Basically, it viloates the treatment of hitpoints as an abstraction of health+skill and the idea that not every hit for damage results in an actual wound. Say I have a...