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Also, historically speaking meteoric iron was better quality metal than was otherwise available (at least in the ancient world), and thus really did justify some special properties.

In the real world, 'cold iron' just meant iron. This may have to do with the fact that it was hammered rather than poured, or it may have been totally unrelated -- something like the fact that iron is typically cold to the touch, for example. In DnD, it's a special sort of iron, as described...

And this is relevant because? Presumably a cold iron golem would have the special quality of 'strikes as a cold iron weapn'.

Ponder cold iron iron golems. Also ponder adamantine golems or animated objects. By the normal rules for adamantine (ignores hardness <20), since adamantine is hardness 20, you have a golem with DR 20/-.

Tend to agree about the Stealthy feat, plus I don't really see why urban rangers can't track anyway, it's a useful skill for various urban archetypes as well. Gather Information, however, is a very strong skill in many urban campaigns, as it's the skill you use to do things such as collecting...

And in 3.5, compare either one to a Fighter2/Wizard8/Eldritch Knight 10. Spellcasting level 18, Hit Points 70.5, BAB +16, F +15, R +5, W +9, and 3 feats.

Rule of thumb: if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. This is equivalent to a major class feature of paladins; as such, it's too strong for a feat. A tenth level Aasimar bard or sorcerer could easily be able to heal 50-60 points per day, which is a figure even a cleric will take...

Note that the GM is under no obligation to tell you that there's monsters on the other side that will hear you fiddling with it...if you take 20, it means you're taking your time and being careful, not necessarily that you're trying 20 times, so the odds are something will be noticed...

It really depends on the current dynamics of the group. Making strict rules, if not needed, is a problem, but sometimes they really are needed. In terms of the posting issue, it really depends on what the scale of the awards are in the first place: if by posting regularly you'd wind up with a...

My general impression about both the BoED and the BoVD is that they were written by different people, with a different mindset, from the base books. This doesn't even start with the munchkinism or lack thereof of feats and abilities -- I'd say it starts with the fact that the definitions of...

Here's an alternative which accomplishes basically the same thing as 'armor as DR': Let everyone do a 'Cruide Attack'. This treats every attack as a touch attack, and grants the target DR equal to the amount of armor being bypassed. Within the DnD system as it is at the moment it's pretty...

I read the rest of that post. My point is that your statement, while true, is completely irrelevant.

Extrapolating from the age tables in the DMG, the equivalent age table for any form of dragon has the following effect per +1 Age category: +3d12 (Dragon hit dice) +3 Natural Armor +X breathe, where X is damage at age category 1 It also results in occasional size upgrades, and gradual stat...

The problem with the bard, why people don't play them, is that they're fundamentally not a class for dungeon crawling. They're about social skills. In a heavily political game, bards are scary-powerful.

So all rifles should be touch attacks? Significant doubt as whether this is true. Plenty of stories of knights with dozens of arrows sticking out of their armor and no significant injury. Um...the point is not that medieval weapons will blow through armor (the DnD system is not terrible for...

The problem is: if you use a vastly overpowered weapon (for example, a rifle against medieval armor), armor doesn't realistically reduce your chances of being injured -- either the attack misses, or it blows through armor and does damage. What armor does do is reduce the severity of those...

Generally speaking, it will show the first. You could, however, specifically phrase the spell to show the second, provided that the thief had possessed sufficient control over the item to count as 'owning' it (I'd probably require possession for a moderate period, such as a week, unless you are...

Discern location should be sufficient to find the spy, unless you choose to define belonging oddly. I would only make discern location fail in one of the following situations: 1) The caster cannot describe who he is looking for in a unique manner. If you seek the writer of a letter, when the...

Also, bear in mind: you might not run into any undead, in which case turn undead is even less useful. This at least gives some benefit.

In the real world, there are two ways to penetrate armor: you can hit where the armor isn't, or you can punch through the armor. A dagger has negligible chance of doing the second, and doing the first is pretty hard with any weapon. That said, this just isn't very relevant to DnD. In the real...