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Yeah, Wings of Cover is almost enough by itself to make me play a Sorceror. But then I remember the Abrupt Jaunt ACF and play a Conjurer instead ;) Fair enough, that's a really good example of a spell that has no higher-level analogue... but then, if you've got Rapid Metamagic you could...

Darkvision always has a limit. The special quality under discussion is see in darkness, however, which isn't darkvision and NEVER has a limit. See In Darkness is NOT darkvision because: 1) See In Darkness works in magical darkness, whilst darkvision does not. Far more importantly: 2) See...

As others have said: by the rules, neither. Sorcerors can't (at least not explicitly) cast a lower-level spell from a higher-level slot so imposing penalties for them doing so isn't relevant. On the other hand, if your party sorceror wants to suck 17 times times a day instead of only 6 or so...

3 rounds is a long time to hang onto a cleric; I'd be chuffed if I managed that ;) Of course, spellcasters have recourse to stuff like Transdimensional Tentacles, which really screw over incorporeal types. Not to mention freakin' Kelpstrand: since my players cottoned onto that one, my bad...

I've seen some really effective grappling/lockdown builds in play involving dips to Tome of Battle classes to pick up Setting Sun and Stone Dragon maneuvers. Adding the constrict ability to a Large (or larger) grappler is nice. On the other hand, said builds either circumvented or subverted...

Actually, I looked very closely at the "poorly-written" Master Spellthief, more closely than you did if your quotation above is anything to go by. Your alleged confusion is disingenuous at best, as you've missed out everything in the feat description that disagrees with your conclusion, which...

Er... no. It doesn't matter which interpretation of Master Spellthief you prefer, there's no reason for you to gain extra caster levels with this build. The Trickster ACF gives the Spellthief the spell progression of a Bard, but you still only have one arcane casting class - Spellthief - which...

If you really, really want to burn a feat and your DM is sufficiently arbitrary as to enforce the XP penalties for multiclassing, then the feat you're talking about is Additional Favored Class from Unearthed Arcana, pg. 100 For the sake of completeness, other (even less good) feats that achieve...

Oo, colour me impressed :) OK, assuming Herzog's interpretation is correct... Able Learner: Human only, 1st-level only Bardic Tutelage: Presumably in order to get access to Druidic, yes? Versatile Spellcaster/Heighten Spell: I guess you're relying on this to apply to Bard and Cleric...

As Herzog says, a distinction is usually made between "Variants" and "Alternate Class Features". The page you link to is confusing as it talks about "Diviner Variants" instead of "Diviner Alternate Class Features", but it's definitely referring to ACF's. ACF's exchange a normal benefit of your...

Manual of the Planes, pg. 37: d% Plane 01–05 Heroic Domains of Ysgard 06–10 Ever-Changing Chaos of Limbo 11–15 Windswept Depths of Pandemonium 16–20 Infinite Layers of the Abyss 21–25 Tarterian Depths of Carceri 26–30 Gray Waste of Hades 31–35 Bleak Eternity of Gehenna 36–40 Nine Hells of...

Hello! That's a good start. They sound like a target for a high-level group of good-aligned adventurers to me. A group, moreover, with a Cleric optimised for turning; with Greater Turning, the right feats and appropriate equipment, do you have any idea just how many HD of undead can be...

Basically, it's up to you. Why do you suppose Evil Outsiders register so strongly with detect evil whilst other evil creatures don't? If you think it's because of this... ...then this... ...might well mean that Native Outsiders register like any other evil creature native to the Prime...

Brilliant suggestion... Unfortunately, I'm a Cerebremancer. My Psicrystal is never going to have sufficient Hit Dice to take Leadership. I've got exactly two feats to take, and it's going to stay that way, worse luck :(

Unless there's some cunning solution you've worked in there somehow, corssing the room you describe is going to take Climb and Jump checks, which rely on a stat that tends not to be a priority for Rogues. They're both class skills for Rogues, sure, but at that level they're not going to have...

On a related note (related from my point of view, anyway!) does anybody have any good suggestions for feats for a Psicrystal to take? Unfortunately it's not really gaining Hit Dice, but I've got a couple of feats to give him and I was wondering if anyone had any bright ideas :)

There's also the Changeling racial substitution level that lets you "dual-specialize", although to my mind it's not as good as Focused Specialist.

Practised Spellcaster won't help your Eldritch Blast damage because it's not a function of caster level. Oh, sure, you can take the feat to improve caster level vs. spell resistance but you're already down by four levels just for being a Pixie without multiclassing with Rogue as well, which was...

It's the Focused Specialist from Complete Mage :) Best variants are Conjurer (for the awesome Abrupt Jaunt ACF and of course "Conjuration = battlefield control" for the win), and Transmuter (because there are tons of amazing Transmutation spells).

Personally I'd be headed for Hellfire Warlock. A Pixie Rogue rocks. A Pixie Warlock can rock with some effort. A Pixie Rogue/Warlock is going to suffer really badly from being 4 levels behind the rest of the party and sacrificing both caster level and sneak progression. Sure, you're going to...