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AIUI, the duplicate is the reflection - you look in the mirror, your reflection acquires an evil grin and starts climbing out of the mirror... ... which would imply that the duplicate does not, itself, produce a reflection, just like a vampire.

Actually, a fairly common technique for real-world assassins. Walk through a crowd, as you pass the target do a quickdraw-and-stab, keep walking. By the time the target goes "Urk!" and falls down you're six feet away, by the time the bystanders start going "OMG! WTF? He's been stabbed!" you're...

Just one more word on the Ghost Spike: Looking at the original article text, the crit range is given as "19-20/x2/x3". This is rather confusing, but I suspect the original intent was that one end have a crit range of "19-20/x2" and the other end a range of "x3". This would make a lot more...

That is, as long as you aren't making additional copies. IANAL, but as I understand it: Legal: I buy the PDF, use it for a while, then gift it to a friend while removing/destroying any copies I may have printed out/backed up - that is, the copy I give away is the only copy. This is...

I think you're putting the horse behind the cart, so to speak. IMHO, "Tumble to avoid AoOs" isn't "I wait for him to make an AoO against me, then I duck/dodge the blow". It's "I perform a sudden, unexpected somersault/cartwheel/whatever that gets me past my startled opponent before he can...

Combine these with the Dark Sun pygmy-cannibal halflings and they start to get really scary... Tad Williams, in his Memory Sorrow and Thorn series (The Dragonbone Chair, et al), has halflings as Eskimo-style arctic dwellers (the Qanuk). This actually makes a lot of sense. Look at Tolkein's...

As you're finding out, the built-in flash on most cameras is too harsh for up-close pictures (it's optimized for targets about 5-7 feet away). What you need is lighting that's bright enough to not need flash, but more diffuse. This is why professional photo studios have those big white squares...

A low-Int character doesn't necessarily do "stupid" things, especially in combat. "Grunk tried that once. Hurt a lot." If the character has survived long enough to acquire some fighting skills and/or levels, then presumably he's found a fighting style that works for him most of the time. Where...

The one which has always puzzled me is Warlock's Call. Essentially this is like sending a magical, one-way phone call to someone. So why did the designers consider it so powerful that they not only made it a Greater invocation, but gave the recipient the ability to "zap" the warlock for damage...

I'd like to see the Lasher redone as a "compressed" 5-lvl PrC like the Invisible Blade. For that matter, I'd like to see something similar done for a spear/polearm/quarterstaff wielder. A Bodyguard PrC would be good, too - again, probably a 3-5 lvl class rather than trying to pad out the...

I just said it was lowballed, didn't I? When I said "flatten" I was thinking like "stomping a beer can" flatten, as in the wearer's ribcage is a thin red paste. Size-wise, the 50lb rock would be to a giant like a baseball to a human. It is far denser than a baseball, though ... 50 lbs for a...

Note that Animal Friendship has quite a few limitations. It does NOT summon an animal, it merely allows you to make friends with one that's already there. If he wants an 8-HD wolf he'll have to find one first ... and be 8th level or higher (max HD affected = double caster level, ranger caster...

A 50 pound boulder is about the size of a gallon jug of milk or a little smaller, IIRC. When players (and DMs!) think of giants throwing rocks, they tend to have a mental image of the giant hefting a big boulder in both hands and bodily heaving it a hundred feet or so, rather like a human...

It's by Ursula Vernon, I believe. r.e. the various worg builds - I liked the bit in Fables where Bigby Wolf was the son of the North Wind. Gives him some nice abilities and neatly explains the whole "I'll huff and I'll puff..." bit. Essentially makes him a Half-Air Elemental, Were-Dire Wolf...

Yeah, that was my thought as well. It does go far towards explaining the leprechaun outfit...

Fey'ri are the elf equivalent of tieflings, just as tanarukk are the orc equivalent. They have some fiend blood but not as much as a half-fiend (i.e., they have a half-fiend great-grandfather or some such). One presumes there are similar racially-specific equivalents of aasimars. Personally I...

For the platypus I'd use weasel stats, with land speed 10' and swim speed 30', renaming the "bite" attack as a "claws" attack. Its familiar benefit would probably be a bonus to Swim checks. Their "see in muddy water" sense is not scent, they detect the electrical current of nerve impulses...

I put "pillars" as my single choice for most-used. (BTW, wedding supply sections in craft stores are a good source of cheap, good-looking pillars - intended for wedding cakes.) The next five most-used would probsbly be: mount/horse/camel 2D terrain tile spell effect (Steel Squire radii) field...

Heh. Reminds me of the time I tried to make a set of were-cow tribes parodying the Garou tribes from White Wolf - Stargrazers, Grasswalkers, Red Horns, Black-and-White Furies ...

I'd allow it, but certainly not for free! Mechanics-wise, this is equivalent to allowing a wizard or sorceror to cast spells without needing material components. If Eschew Materials is important enough to be a feat, then Eschew Focus should cost a feat as well. If you feel that's too strong...