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What about if the blade is poisoned? Does the poison apply to everyone? I think it does.

Two things that aren't being brought up in favor of the sorceror: 1. Far superior staying power. A psion can manifest more powers that are effectively his highest level (through augmentation), but to really be effective, a vast majority of his combat powers NEED to be fully augmented. A...

I'm a fan of all the races, but warforged particularly interest me. There is so much potential pathos in the race. They are all adventurers and are going to be noticed wherever they pop up. Every day they are reminded that they are not truly living, when their fleshy friends eat and sleep. How...

From a physical standpoint, I don't think a solid, sinking object (not propelled downward) is going to sink to the point that pressure causes damage. The warforged would stop sinking as soon as he hit a depth where the water's density is equal to his body's density. Either way, he's just going...

With that in mind, is it possible to emulate a Paladin 20, then use a holy avenger to get SR and lots of free greater dispel magics? The item is doing all that stuff, just dependent on the class level of the wielder.

I would just say that things like Blackscale Lizardfolk and Sauhagin are monstrous humanoids because they are just plain dangerous. More dangerous than a normal humanoid, anyway. Normal humanoids are usually a threat because of levels they gained during life. Monstrous humanoids are a threat...

The important thing to remember when adjudicating the new darkness is how it affects light sources. If the only light sources in the room are in the darkness, they are suppressed. So anything not in the darkness radius has full concealment, with the 20% miss chance for the stuff in shadowy...

Wizard, 100% of the time. Even a wizard who isn't expecting an arena-type fight would have spells prepared to deal with various obstacles. Any one of these will probably mean that a monk simply loses, with no save: Shapechange (give the wizard unbeatable defenses, or attacks that devestate the...

I think it is definitely worth it. Instead of trading between the equipment/AC of a normal form and the attacks of an animal form, you just get beaucoup combat ability in normal form. And it's a free action to be combat-ready, to boot. Plus there is less bookkeeping and figuring out the most...

The other problem with comparing wild shape to Shapechange is that shapechange is the best spell in the game, easily and by far the most powerful offensive and defensive spell at the same time. Comparing anything to shapechange makes that other thing look weak. That said, wild shape is very...

It's not explicitly covered by the rules, but if you can silence a spellcaster while he is pinned (i.e. covering his mouth), what about covering a medusa's eyes? None of this "pin to the floor face down" mumbo jumbo, just putting your hands over her eyes. It's obviously not easy to do something...

No offense to the posters so far or the OP, but it's really futile to try and guard against every possible attack. There are a lot of powerful defensive spells, but there's always a chink in the armor, especially with as many spellcasters as you have. The fact that your party will get 5 actions...

I am going to go against the flow and say that it is a bit chaotic to use disease in combat. Perhaps the gauntlet affects enemies instantly, letting the monk beat a weaker foe. But as soon as disease is inflicted, the monk loses control over who it affects. Disease is a random and...

I like items that summon unkillable minions. The bronze griffon figurine of wondrous power and rod of the python are my favorites, both clocking in at around 10k in cost. The python especially, it is a very potent monster and not much can beat the high grapple check until higher levels. Most of...

I recommend wall of ectoplasm. It can be a bridge, it can divide up a battlefield, or it can encase you/the party in a pretty tough shield. It won't last long against a directed attack, but you're guaranteed to make the opponent waste an action getting through it at the very least, making it at...

At high levels, multiple Avoral guardinals, if my opponent doesn't have SR. A good roll on summon monster IX will get 5 of them, and each one can do 6d4+6 a round with empowered magic missile. 30d4+30 a round will ruin someone's day pretty quickly, and it's hard to get to a place where a 90 foot...

What would prevent you from creating 8 tentacles, 2 wing buffets, a tail slap, a bite, 2 claws, a tongue lash, a gore, or just growing extra limbs to make more claw attacks? For natural shapeshifters, time is not a limitation, as a minute of move actions gives you natural weapons for life. I'm...

I feel a little bit ashamed of all you DMs who insist on perverting the wish into utter uselessness. It's the most powerful ability a mortal can use, and it costs 5000 xp to even attempt. Unless the caster is really, really foolish, it's only fair to have the spell provide an advantage. Given...

Mass Suggestion is an excellent spell at that level as well, it hits all of the enemies with a (hard) will save and while it won't usually kill them, a creative use will take them out of the combat while probably also causing them to use either hit points or resources. Plus it doubles as a...

I think covering multiple bases is important, but it's not hard for players who are on their toes. In the Eberron game I've bene playing in for about a year, my character has gone from level 3 to level 12 and there's never been a cleric or wizard in the party. My character took a dip of ranger...