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For something a bit more standard, try: Str 14 Dex 11 Con 14 Int 10 Wis 17 Cha 14 Wisdom is your first priority since it's your spellcasting stat. Charisma is also a priority to enable turning, etc. Con should always get as much as you can afford in a point buy system--14 unless you have a...

I don't think I'd categorize missing out on: Mage armor, polymorph, stoneskin, and project image as missing out on "all"--or even most--of the defensive spells. There's still: Shield, alter self, blur, displacement, veil of shadows, blink, invisibility, greater invisibility, shapechange...

Put me in the "half-orcs are just fine" category. If you want more data than the anecdotes of people on the boards with an axe to grind, this is about the best I can think of: www.nyrond.org/turbine/charstat-people It's a list of all of the Living Greyhawk characters in the Nyrond PC...

As I alluded to in the other post, there are the local NPCs who will sometimes be of decent level and, even if they aren't can sometimes catch the high level characters in vulnerable positions (when they've passed out in a ditch after drinking too much, for instance). There is also the political...

IIRC, in the bible, when King Ahab decided to do something about Elijah IIRC, he sent a group of fifty or so soldiers to capture him and Elijah called down fire from heaven and it consumed them all. So, King Ahab did it again. (Maybe he figured Elijah would run out of spell slots sooner or...

You should bear in mind that Creeping Doom is really a corner case of the Swarm rules which are plenty nasty enough already--especially for low-level characters who face the relatively low CR swarms which can only be hurt by area effect damage on a regular basis. The primary goal of interpreting...

There are other damage output options. Fighter/Cleric/Pious Templar or Fighter/Paladin/Pious Templar with Divine Might and Extra Smitings will end up with a pretty good damage output. You'll notice the build has Power Attack (since it's the prereq for Divine Might), so pick up some Armbands of...

So, under this perspective, what exactly is the point of remove curse if it doesn't remove curses?

Gee, wouldn't that be fun. After the third fight with an evil cleric, every character in the party has his speed reduced by half, their int and cha vary inversely by the phase of the moon, and all their magic items will be destroyed in a month. Unless they murder the high priest of Pelor and...

We usually place the mini on top of a d6 and either remember the elevation of (in my case) turn the d6 to 5x the distance from the character's feet to the ground in inches--a five for instance, would mean that my character fills the box between 25 and 30 feet off the ground.

4 spells that might well be required for all wizards: detect magic, identify, dispel magic, fire trap/sepia snake sigil restricted: blindness/deafness, bestow curse, charm person, glibness, detect thoughts banned: animate dead, command undead, dominate person, suggestion

I would say that the point of alignment is to allow for moral effects with a relatively simple mechanic. Some priests can cast spells that protect against evil people but are useless against the forces of good or those whose actions haven't tainted them very much. How do you know if the spell...

I'm playing a rogue/cleric/church inquisitor/shadowbane stalker (17 total levels--Rog 1, Clr 3, Church Inquisitor 5, shadowbane stalker 8) at the moment and it has very much the feel of a 2e multiclass. The character isn't quite a proper cleric, but he can get the job done unless the job is...

I suspect that +x armor abilities seem like bargains because simply getting +1 [ability x] armor and buffing it up with magic vestment is a common practice and eliminates the opportunity cost of AC. If you figured the cost of soulfire armor as it would be tacked on to a +5 suit of armor, it...

Even if Arcane Mark doesn't work for labels (and I'm solidly of the opinion that it would work), it wouldn't be very difficult to engrave or ink a rune into the potion's stopper. The trick, for adventurers, however, would be ascertaining the accuracy of the labels. Even if only potion labeled...

A lot depends upon what you think an angel or a demon is. If a demon is a fallen angel, then look up the appropriate stats and use them. A powerful fallen angel? Use a balor. A seductive fallen angel? use a succubus. (And if you want more smackdown ability, give her fighter, rogue, and...

In WotC race terms, this would call for: Humans Yuan Ti Elan Aasimar, tieflings, and possibly genesai Mutation could be handled by prestige classes like the green star adept and dragon disciple, and classes like the favored soul and possibly monk. Lycanthrope and vampire templates also seem...

Which would make a pretty rockin adventure idea. A kolyarut shows up in town to punish an adulterer.... Ouch!

It looks like there are two questions in the intro: What role to fill in the party? and How to build your paladin to fill it? For the first, it looks like your party is short on two things: 1. There is no dedicated healer (though I think Shugenja get some healing spells--the earth shugenja...

One question that will really determine the challenge that the spellcasting balor actually poses is this: what do you plan to have it do with the spellcasting it gains? A Balor who uses his cleric spellcasting to cast destruction or firestorm or gate is not a significantly greater challenge...