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What is the activation method for Spirit of the Bear? Is there a reason (mechanics-wise) why a player would choose the black bear for his totem?

On my random encounter table is Malkagar, a tiefling merchant who travels from place to place selling obscure items (often whatever was in the latest Dragon or splatbook, not a terrible way to introduce them) out of his covered wagon. Why does he bump into the party so often? No one knows.. yet.

If you have multiple DRs, you apply the single most effective DR against any given attack. For instance, if you have: DR 5/lawful, DR 10/adamantine, and DR 15/evil, then an evil (but not adamantine or lawful) weapon has its damage against you reduced by 10, from the DR 10/adamantine. The DR...

Morgenstern, maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like your feat chain will accumulate damage <i>very</i> slowly. 1d6 per round, with successful hits reducing that amount is not likely to add up to anything. And spending a whole extra feat to get +1 on that die roll is rather weak...

Mind posting? I don't have that book.

I think of dire animals as sort of being leftover holdouts from previous ages. From a real-world point of view, a sabertooth tiger is sort of a 'dire lion', a woolly mammoth is a 'dire elephant', an archaeopteryx is a 'dire eagle', and a megatherium is a 'dire sloth'. Animals aren't always...

Certainly I think +1 to your next attack, or even a whole round of attacks, is too weak. A feat like this is highly comparable to weapon focus; let's look at what conditions let them come into play. Weapon focus: whenever you wield the specified weapon. Eye of the hurricane: on the round...

Sounds like you want to make a Reverse Feint feat. Although I like Gather the Storm a lot, you make exactly the correct point: without some other way of getting a significant boost to attack (and getting it for an entire round if you have multiple attacks), there's no real point to it. And...

modified Death Attack feat ThoughtBubble: That's not a terrible idea. There's a somewhat similar feat in Beyond Monks that gives you +1 attack bonus/+1 AC bonus for the length of combat versus an opponent you spend a standard action studying. However it cannot be repeated. Plane Sailing...

I may just do that. The effect, however, definitely couldn't be save-or-die; large damage, stunning, etc might be ok, but I'd have a hard time taking an already-strong PrC ability and giving it to an NPC as a feat. edit: Not to mention, Death Attack explicitly cannot be used against an...

GuardianLurker, I don't know if this was intentional on your part or not, but it seems like your version of the spell will do ridiculous amounts of damage to targets with low AC, and pitiful damage to anyone else. A PC will first have access to this spell at level 11. At that level, each...

GuardianLurker, I don't know if this was intentional on your part or not, but it seems like your version of the spell will do ridiculous amounts of damage to targets with low AC, and pitiful damage to anyone else. A PC will first have access to this spell at level 11. At that level, each...

Improved Total Defense could actually be a pretty nice feat when combined with Defensive Strike from Oriental Adventures. And Attack Focus is great for making that one hit count when you really need it... but how to get the attack that will really count if it hits? I'm just not quite...

Well, let's look at the spells I can think of which might be most similar: Evard's Black Tentacles, Acid Fog, and Mordenkainen's Sword. First off, I'd say the duration needs to change. 5 minutes + 1 minute/level isn't only a nonstandard duration, it's also ridiculously long for a spell of this...

Clark411, I said that the damage multiplier of the 'release' attacks should be increased, not the critical multiplier. That is to say, if your weapon has 20/x3 critical, and you've been charging for three rounds, your longsword will do 1d8 x (1 <base> + 3 <gathering the storm>) = 4d8 damage for...

Hmm, thanks for the second wave of replies. I think I might have an idea for exactly what it is I'm looking for. Gather the Storm: You focus your energy inwards during a battle, storing it for a spectacular display of power. Prerequisite: No idea, help me out a little? Benefit: During a...

Scion, I was addressing Derf. He suggested the 'awesome evil guy' feat. A feat chain accessible to the PCs (should they become interested after (hopefully) having their butts kicked) would be fine.

Wow! So many great replies. Thanks much. Here are my thoughts on what's been said: Awesome evil guy feats: I don't like these kinds of things. If the character were, say, the chosen one of an evil deity, maybe it could be explained away, but this guy is just a badass who carries a sword...

Hi all. I'm needing a fighting style for a villain. Basically, I need a feat (or combination of feats) that allows him to emulate a particularly historically inaccurate method of swordsmanship often seen in samurai movies or anime. Specifically, I want him to be the guy that keeps his sword...

I would make it so that the target creature must have HD comparable to the caster's own, or another similar restriction. Otherwise, there's no reason why a wizard can't just kidnap a random baby every few years and live forever. It's more exciting if he needs to go after someone powerful (like...