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By RAW, I don't believe you'd get your Dex bonus to the grapple check. It's a specific opposed check that uses BAB + Str + size modifiers + special modifiers. That said, I wouldn't be surprised at any DM who called that a grapple check is similar enough to an attack roll that you could use a...

Seriously... you are a Druid 20. You have shapechange. Wild Shape is great, but shapechange is better: it's the ultimate all-round buffing, movement enhancing, offensive, defensive, utility spell. With a Rod of Greater Extend Spell, one casting lasts for 6 hours and 40 minutes - and that's...

Hmmm. Only Monster Manual 1? And... are there other party members? If so, who are they and what do they/will they do? Importantly, is the rest of the campaign restricted to the Corest Three - as in, monsters and NPC's and stuff - or not?

Ah pity, could have done with the boost this evening ;) Anyway, no problem, you're welcome m'man. Benign transposition is a great way to get out of grapples if you can manage the Concentration check without a sweat... although, for the record, my last caster tended to use the spell to save...

Go here, read up, come back, ask questions :) And welcome! EDIT: By the way, nice to see someone else making D&D a family affair... Sock it to 'im, dad! :D

WHOAH! OK, I wasn't expecting all this when I got back... I was going to post further on the subject, but you know what? It's not worth it. Making a point isn't worth it. I had no intention of upsetting anyone, and certainly not to the extent of provoking such a reaction, because rules...

Amen, brother. What you said. Besides, what about other spells that achieve short-range teleportation effects? Particularly those that are arguably better for teleport-into-position tactics, such as dimension step? Dimension step, dimension hop, dimension shuffle, regroup, baleful...

Actually, the male form should be Incantator... Hell yes. It's a cracking combo. Damn straight: I'm all for Wizards giving the meatshields a reason to get out of bed in the morning. Despite this, I've encountered groups that aren't prepared to let that level of awesome stand, even if it's...

My personal favourite is for Ultimate Magus builds. Done properly, you give up very little by way of spells-per-day in exchange for vast flexibility. One of the things it might be an idea to tell us is; what level of powergaming are your group and DM comfortable with? Some groups find things...

My group house-rules differently, but the rules say: So, you guessed incorrectly I'm afraid :( Er... yes. But that's why StreamOfTheSky's suggestion was to take ONE level of Sublime Chord in order to pick up the advanced Bard progression on the spontaneous side and then go Ultimate Magus...

So you're cool with denying gnomes, halfling and other small characters the ability to take a 5-ft step? That's really stitching up Small races, and for little benefit when it comes to discommoding casters, which we'll come to later. Not only that, but for some reason you're making the rules...

You have to make a DC20 + spell level Concentration check to cast the spell: see the Concentration skill in the PHB... If you're casting the spell stilled, it has no somatic components... If you're grappled by Black Tentacles, you're still able to speak, so - as akbearfoot said - you don't...

Yeah, I totally get that, it has never been in question: the point is that you can cast 3rd-level spells, because you already know 1st-level spells and you can heighten them to 3rd level. The requirement is to be able to cast 3rd-level spells, which - if you buy into Heightened spells being...

I didn't think it mattered about not knowing all the spells on the list: the point is that you have to be able to cast 3rd-level spells. Versatile Spellcaster, Heighten Spell, Earth Sense and Earth Spell means you can cast 1st-level spells you know as 3rd-level spells... wouldn't that cut it?

All varieties of Quori have See in Darkness, and it's described exactly the same way as for Devils. So does anything with the Monster of Legend template, which grants the ability to the base creature. None of the entries describe a limit to vision range using the ability. The Quori and MoL...

Can you take flaws for extra feats at 1st level? If so, human Sorceror 1/Rainbow Servant 10/Sacred Exorcist 1/Geomancer 4 (the latter "just because") If no flaws, human Sorceror 4/Rainbow Servant 10/Sacred Exorcist 1/Something-Advancing-Spellcasting 1 You have 16th-level Sorceror casting...

Sorry, no dice. As such, you can't take the feat twice for the same spellcasting class to keep the CL up. He meant Dragon Magazine. #348, pg. 88. No. More specifically, "No, because..." Caster level doesn't cut it. I wish it did :D

Mercenaries. More specifically, Mercenaries pg. 91... "Benefits of a Laminated Steel Weapon: A laminated steel weapon gains +1 to all its damage rolls and its critical hit multiplier goes up by one as well. For example, a laminated steel longsword deals 1d8+1 damage and has a X3 critical hit...

The only magic item tooth set I know of outside scenario-specific one-off items are the teeth of Dahlver-Nar from Tome of Magic (putting one in costs you a hit point and gives you a power of some sort). None of those grant the effect of a pearl of power though. There was an item in...

A small handful of (probably non-exhaustive) lists for you, containing the class, the level at which you get the ability and the book it's on... It's worth noting that Mettle is an extraordinary ability for some and a supernatural ability for others: it won't matter most of the time, but it...