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Someone really needs to tell the Wizards folks that "theurgy" should (in the D&D system) apply to divine magic, not arcane.

"I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor." Quick, identify the source!

It seems that they're already taking this route to some extent, at least. Quoted from the Design & Development article from 8/20 by Mike Mearls: Looks like rogues, at least, get some "combat tricks" based off their skills.

I'd play whatever allows me to best emulate my archivist from our last abandoned 3.5 campaign. She was pretty much the healer and buffer for the party anyway.

Hey, be fair. I don't think that option 1 is that outlandish an interpretation of what's written. ;) Yeah, I figured option 2 was what was intended. :p The Paragnostic Apostle does rock, regardless.

The Paragnostic Apostle prestige class (Complete Champion p. 94) gains the following ability: Bolding mine above. So, just to be clear, is the modifier: [(PA level + other class level) x 2] + Int modifier, or (PA level x 2) + other class level + Int modifier? Strict interpretation of the...

Yeah, I mentioned that in my edit to the OP. It does seem to make the elf paladin sub5 pretty worthless by comparison. In fact, IIRC, the DMG has the unicorn as an option for a level 6 paladin, meaning that you're only LA -1 for advancement, rather than LA -6 (although the latter applies only...

Can't speak for FR, but... I would say that it's about even, but its strengths lie in somewhat different areas. Casting buffing spells on top of using Dark Knowledge can make a very strong party buffer, but you probably won't ever be much of a blaster. Really DM- and campaign-dependent. I...

Thank you for the input!

Feh--I seem to have a positive talent for asking questions that no one here finds interesting. Oh well.

If an elf paladin takes the 5th level substitution option (from Races of the Wild), does the unicorn mount improve its HD, BAB, and saves as a magical beast? The PHB text specifies that paladins' mounts improve their stats as animals (although they're considered magical beasts), but the mounts...

True enough, but I miss the ability to bludgeon someone with the weighted end. I prefer the two-handed version, myself.

I think that the v3.5 DMG had some stats for the kusari-gama in the variant campaign section, but it was pretty severely nerfed relative to the 3.0 OA version...

I played an archivist in a (sadly, now-defunct) nautical campaign. She was the only divine caster in the party, was based heavily on the Raine Sage character from Tales of Symphonia, and was an absolute blast to play. Since the campaign crashed prematurely, I miss her very much. :( One...

I have just done so, and I promise to share any response they give me with the folks here. :) (We'll see if they bother to answer.) Mostly, like I said, for me it isn't an issue with houseruling or taking feats or prestige classes. It was really just a question of whether this was an editing...

Having done some digging at the Wizards boards, I notice that someone brought up this exact issue in the Heroes of Horror errata thread back in 2005. Unfortunately, no "official" answer to this problem was given (although Mouseferatu very helpfully supplied a number of other clarifications)...

That sounds like an interesting option. What are the details of this feat?

You could also have a sorcerer with the Domain Access (Knowledge domain) alternative class feature from Complete Champion: the loss of one spell known from each level would be partially offset by the bonus spells that the fiend-blooded grants you.

Did one of the authors actually come out and say this? It sounds dimly familiar, like someone might have said, "Oh yeah, it was supposed to be 4 ranks" or something like that. Neither sample character qualifies for the class, as I noted above.

Warmage and beguiler both lack Knowledge (the planes) as a class skill. Duskblade could do it, but you'd drop to 1/2 BAB, which probably wouldn't be worth it. I dimly recall a thread that brought up this issue when Heroes of Horror first came out, but I don't recall if there was any official...