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Spell DC is irrelevant to any non-spellcasting class. However, your attack rating is at least *relevant* (if not all-important) to every class. Everyone needs to either make attacks or make touch attacks. Everyone will, once in a while, have to make an opposed grapple check. Everyone has to...

If only you'd had a way to whip down his ego in real life...

In other words... you went back to the old Haste, with some modifications.

You don't recall the glee with which Numair, Jonathan and Alanna singlehandedly blasted away the Kraken -- an ancient and horrible monster of legend -- in the first Daine book? That's the moment that sticks most in my mind.

I would find this class a lot cooler if it used a variant of the Astral Construct rules from the XPH to make completely customized summons rather than simply replicating the Summon Monster table.

Then again, the Tolkien elf, with its great wisdom and insight, is also a big part of the sourcing for D&D elves. Discouraging elves from becoming clerics is dead-opposed to much of the elven flavor, especially the Aerenal elves in Eberron. What makes the most sense to me is -Str +Dex, although...

Frankly, folks like Fafhrd, the Grey Mouser and Conan would all be quite high-level if they were D&D characters. Elric's already been mentioned right? Tamora Pierce's Conan-ish-inspired books, starting with Alanna and moving on, all seem to have pretty damn high-level characters as...

Dominate spells do *not* grant you absolute and total control over your target! They allow you to transmit *commands* to the target, but it takes a move action to alter to or add to the commands. Whether you rule that you can give a blanket command like "Resist all protection spells from now...

Two Words: Tetris Unearthed.

What's wrong with trying to help out "n00b dms"? This is exactly the point -- if you want D&D to be more than a small niche hobby, which WotC certainly does since the growth of D&D is what's paying their salaries, then you need to make it easier for people to play the game. Yes, there's a...

"Negsperience points". Awarded to players as (imaginary, not actually counted) minus experience points for saying something obnoxious, making a dumb joke or just generally being annoying. At the best (or worst, depending on how you look at it) game sessions negsperience points can quickly...

Yeah, but those are base classes. The deal being that D&D style flavorful base classes would be really hard to run in a generic setting like d20 Modern, since "modern" covers a lot more ground than the sword-and-sorcery fantasy genre of D&D. If "Computer Hacker" were a base class, there'd be...

Bolt of Glory was powered up, a matter of some discussion in my group (as it was already a pretty powerful spell).

Because if it made quicksand, the spell would be overpowered, as it'd be an easy way to kill low-strength characters without the Swim skill. It's supposed to be an obstacle spell, not an instakill spell. The mud, unlike quicksand, is relatively dense so that most ordinary creatures will be...

This is the problem with shifts in the use of colloquial English. Nowadays people often say "may" to mean "can, possibly" -- i.e. "There may be a thunderstorm today", with the strong implication that the *other* possibilities are also quite likely. ("I may pass the test" implies I think I might...

What I mean is that what you were trying to do with Command you could do *better* with Charm Person, given that it would have actually worked (instead of cutting you off after six seconds).

No biggie. It *is* obviously meant to be more powerful than the real ghoul touch (1d4+1 vs. 1d6+2 rds of paralysis), and while elves are immune to *ghoul* touch they're not immune to the more powerful version of ghoul touch, ghast touch. And the Ghoul Touch spell is closer to the abilities of a...

In any case, not that big a deal -- if you're going onto the Prime, presumably the destination you're reaching for is a place you're already familiar with, meaning you can _teleport_ there once you _plane shift_. The main issue is not allowing _plane shift_ to replace _teleport_ or act as a way...

Yeah, but doesn't _Manual of the Planes_, providing more options for planewalking characters, state or at least imply that the core D&D cosmology treats _plane shifting_ off course consistently between the planes, unless explicitly stated otherwise in the plane writeup?

I would take the interpretation that if he does multiclass into it the class won't grant him spellcasting. Though taking the interpretation that multiclassing into wizard starting *now* gives him spellcasting starting at that level is far from unbalancedly powerful.