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Well... Kreia is the equivalent of that stock character from movies like Requiem for a Dream, the drug addict who's been on so many different illegal drugs and medications over the years that now none of them really work at all anymore, she has to take a dozen illegal substances just to...

The Force multiplies everything. It's like being high on drugs. It fills you up with life force and magnifies your ability to perceive the emotional content of everything. Meditate, and get peaceful, and feel at one with the universe, and you get *really* peaceful and *really* at one with the...

This is *horrible* logic. Defining "social" CR is almost impossible, since it depends on tons and tons of plot factors (whom the PCs know, what their reputation is, etc.) By this reasoning the average monarch, who has, say, around 8 aristocrat levels, should have a CR of, like, 22, since...

My issue with this guy has nothing to do with the idea that paladins must be celibate, or that they're not allowed to partake of pleasures of the flesh, or any of those things. My issue with him is his little spiel about how doing good is a useless endeavor, and therefore he's driven to...

Some of these are real words: No. It's Greek, and the hard K sound is always preferable for chi. "AH-ker-on". (Yes, it is a real part of real Greek mythology.) Sure. French. Accent is on the second syllable. Bar-DEESH. And yes, it's every bit as real a word as "longsword", and changing...

*groan* Except that words like "paladin" really are words, and unless WotC actually presents them as "foreign" words spoken in a "foreign" language I prefer to sound like I know what I'm talking about and to acknowledge the real-world connections and connotations of D&D terminology instead of...

The dictionary says that "si-jil" is the preferred pronunciation for the actual *word* "sigil" (as in a symbol). Whether the city Sigil is actually named after the English word for a symbol is up to you -- pronouncing it with a hard G is certainly a great shibboleth to separate planars from...

The problem is that this runs the risk of making disarm, sunder and trip way too good. Especially trip. People already like tripping a lot more than they really should for the sake of realism or interesting combats. Making it not cost a feat to be able to trip every time? Bleagh. (Yes, I'm...

Urban Arcana is exactly this concept, but done in a horribly contrived way that I don't care for at all. (D&D monsters magically appear on Earth for no apparent reason; ordinary folk can't see them for what they are, also for no apparent reason. This no apparent reason is a mystical force called...

I take rounds to be an average, not an absolute time frame for each individual round. One round might be 15 seconds (enough to say a whole sentence), one round might be one second (enough time for a character to swing a sword once as a full attack -- yeah, I don't see it taking 6 seconds to...

The ogre-mage wasn't a great master manipulator. Any monster with sorcerer levels, as people point out, could do as well or better. He has _charm person_, not _dominate person_ -- his lousy DC 14 charm spell is good for *single interactions* with people to bluff his way around in civilization...

The 3.5 _polymorph_ as opposed to the PHB II spells like _dragonshape_ and _trollshape_ explicitly states that your HP *do not change* when you polymorph. They don't go up when you turn into a troll, nor do they go down when you turn into a housecat. HP remain the same, and if you get damaged in...

By RAI, sure. Not by RAW. If the rules don't mention breathing, then there's no breathing requirement. Normally I'd agree with you, but this is one item that needs as much nerfing as it can get, and the primary way I can think of to nerf it is to prevent players from making their own characters...

By RAW, no, it doesn't. Doesn't mention any such requirement -- just says that people in range of the effect are "treated as stunned".

Use your own idea. "Intelligent armor", or a variant thereof. "Living Armor" as the formal name, "armor" as the shorthand (replaced with the full form when necessary to disambiguate).

Well, if you're already playing a fairly powergamey campaign, and this isn't going to get the character to be any more powerful than anyone else -- especially with selfish clerics who aren't pulling their weight in terms of support -- then it sounds fine. A greatsword wielder who needs the...

Nondetection doesn't work against True Seeing because allowing it to do so doesn't make sense. True Seeing isn't really a magical form of sight -- it doesn't let you see something that would be impossible to see if magic didn't exist, a la Scrying or Clairvoyance. It does the opposite -- it...

Sure it has consequences. If you use up your AoOs for that round, then within the same round the dude you're fighting can now attempt to grapple, disarm, sunder or drink a potion without fear of AoO. The whole idea of one AoO per round deals with the idea of being "distracted" -- turn to lunge...

_Shield_ is nice, but it's not *that* nice. It gives you the same shield AC bonus as wielding a +2 heavy shield (and note it doesn't *stack* with having a +2 heavy shield). So it means your two-handed wielder can bring his AC up to that of a sword-and-board wielder. The fact that -- unless he...

Trading an immediate onset for letting _remove curse_ work on the sword seems fair to me.