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I can't find it in the SRD. Does anyone have a link to it somewhere? Or could someone repost them? I just need the 3.5 xp and feat progression and, unfortuneately, I'm at work...

That's a little too complicated for my simple players. If silence becomes a problem (which I doubt it will IMC), I might just say that the spellcaster gets a Concentration check (to answer one of my other threads, hehehe) or a Spellcraft check at a difficult DC to pull it off before the silence...

Sure, cohorts/minions and other magic items (w/o verbal command words) can be used, but I was just sorta surprised how effective this tactic would be. A spellcaster might realize someone is readying to counter them, but that still means the spellcaster is limited in his options (i.e. not cast a...

Let's say this 8th-lvl monk was also, oh I don't know, a vampire (heehee). Could said vampire/monk attack once with a slam (to get its energy drain attack) and then once (or more with flurry) with the staff? What about w/o a staff?

Can someone with the 2nd-lvl Silence spell simply ready himself to cast it within 5 feet of an enemy as soon as the enemy attempts a spell? Since the action is readied, the silence spell would go off first and the enemy spellcaster would automatically lose the spell (assuming the spell had...

Do you use the Concentration skill for anything other than spell casting? I've had several players comment that it's near-useless for non-spellcasters, yet it's a class skill for monks. Any comments? Creative ways to use Concentration?

One thing you need to consider is how effective you want the Knowledge - Local skill to be. If you make players specify a region (which makes sense to some degree), the skill becomes much less useful and, in my experience, PCs who travel a lot won't spend any ranks in it at all b/c they're never...

How many feats and other stuff need to be spent to make the staff an effective weapon? I'm interested in it as a flavour thing, but I'd like to know if it's a complete waste of time or not (especially in regards to it being used as a double weapon). I'm thinking of using it for an 8th-lvl monk NPC.

I would say the rider needs a 20 to negate. No rules to back it up but I'd say a natural 20 needs another natural 20 to cancel it out. Just my opinion. As an aside, we ran a battle today with a dragon and its rider vs. the party. The dragonrider had a +32 Ride check. Mounted Combat ROCKS! That...

Is there a difference (other than speed)? My players use Airwalk pretty much as the Fly spell. Is this right?

The Mounted Combat feat allows a rider to make a Ride check once per round (as a reaction) to negate a hit that has been made on the rider's mount. If the check is higher than the AC struck, then the attack is negated. My question is this: Does a character with the feat get to choose which...

Of course, it's the DM's responsibility to approve sources other than the Player's Handbook. This is especially true for clerics, who would gain an incredible boost from having automatic access to all cleric spells. It's the DM's call which spells to allow to keep things balanced. IMC, I...

I'm almost certain I saw a thread about this before but I can't seem to find it. Did they take away the ability of vampires to fly? The 3.5 MM doesn't seem to mention it.

Wow! I though this thread had died. There's a lot of great ideas and I'm still going through them all. One of the reasons I asked the original question was that IMC the party frequently goes up against the villain in a toe-to-toe matchup. By that point, all the villain's minions are usually...

What are some very general combat tactics for a villain that is a fighter? I'm talking no specialized feat trees or special moves for that ethereal, flying, monk/barbarian/psionic/whatever. Just some ordinary fighter tactics, especially when fighting a party of 4 characters. For instance...

Balance? I think this house rule needs some balancing. Yes, you've gotten rid of all magic items that boost stats - but you've also given players a free way to increase their ability scores (free, meaning they only have to gain a level). So basically, they've freed up all the money they would...

Back in the day, I remember a DM pulling out the rules for a RPG called "TOON." It was like you're Bugs Bunny and I'm Wile E. Coyote, and the "rules" of cartoons apply (i.e. you can paint a road on canvas and have someone run through it and fall right off a cliff). Needless to say, we shot the...

A quick question about rules and their interpretation. Why do people feel that rules should be interpreted "as they are written" and without regard for what was "meant" by game designers? Many people think of themselves as "rules lawyers" but, in reality, the law is an evolving thing that is...