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If CR is defined as a "moderate challenge for a group of 4 party members, each of their ECL = the CR", and where "moderate challenge" is defined as "using roughly 1/4 the party's daily resources" with victory more or less assured (nearly 90% chance of victory), than the WotC CRs are usually...

Yep. You can get it here. Note that the assumption he makes at this point is the ECL = CR. As such, wherever it reads "CR", mentally substitute "ECL" instead. As it says later, WotC CR usually equals 2/3s ECL, and does so in almost all cases, with notable exceptions (almost all dragon CR =...

There is no official LA for it. By U_K's reckoning again, +28 ECL. Of course, the problem with just saying it's +28 ECL is that there is no HD added, which is a huge detractor. U_K has a method for dealing with this usually, called the Golden Rule (and also, for more extreme cases, the...

Upper Krust's ECL guide (v5) states ECL 42 exactly for Solars. In general, I disagree with the CR = PC HD rule. I agree that there's a difference between CR and ECL, and that it's pretty consistent everywhere -- PC and NPC differences don't really count all that much, even when it comes to...

Yikes, I can't see how anyone can prefer the old statblock to the new one. The old one is completely disorganized, with masses of important information jammed under the catchall "Special Abilities", the completely redundant "Attack" line (as opposed to Full Attack), mushing together melee and...

Dante, what have we told you about trying to give more work to U_K outside of the task at hand?

If reasonably priced and had good utility, yes. I'm thinking along the lines of the "World's Greatest Gaming Table", except not quite as heavy. By this I mean stations for each player with a nice big surface on top, and a larger area for the DM.

The Immortal's Handbook (3rd party) has rules for pricing and creating artifacts. Of course, the market in question mostly involves deities, as few mortals can afford them, or have the power to make them. I suppose I could sit down and work out the costs for a couple of the SRD artifacts.

A percentile XP hit is probably a bad idea, as XP doesn't work the same way as it did in 2e. I'd suggest a +2 LA for a single gestalt. I'd allow gestalting with an NPC class for +1. I wouldn't allow a three way gestalt at all, but if you really want to, +3 or +4 could work. It's worth noting...

That was the popular interpretation, but UK clarified in an earlier thread that Metamagic Freedom allows any number of quickened spells to be cast in a round, so long as the quickening comes exclusively from Automatic Metamagic Capacity, and not just from applying the quicken feat normally...

Divine Ability: 13. BANE GUARD You can combine your music with others for greater effect. Fix the description. Divine Ability: 147. SPELL ABSORPTION Okay, so you absorb the spell. Then what? Specify what you can do with an absorbed spell (I assume, from the description, that you can cast it?)

Draconomicon also has it, IIRC. I remember that Greed and Dragon were two of the domains...

I know you said "if you don't have a problem with PA don't post", but I feel I have something to add anyway. Because I do feel there is an imbalance and discrepancy with regards to how much more effective a 2H Swordsman is over a Sword and Board guy. But my fix wasn't to nerf power attack...

It utterly depends on the changes made. If no SRD, than probably not. If the changes are TOO radical, than probably not. If it's another 3.0 -> 3.5 style update, than probably yes. My dream for 4e would be that the system is redone for further internal consistency, and better core class...

I think it's a case of the portfolios being so powerful that they need a weakness to balance them out...

It's up! Belkar does have a good point.

How about a combination of the two... a set penalty based on DvR, to a maximum of 1/2 (or 1/4). That gets rid of both problems, I'd think.

This is why the Thought Bottle should not be allowed, in any campaign, under any circumstances, ever. I'm still waiting for the errata that says "Thought Bottle no longer exists". There's no way it could possibly be balanced. Ever hear of the archtypal CharOp characters, "The Wish" and "The...

I'd leave him at "Fine" size, myself. He might be to small to date a pixie, but he could get away with courting a petal if he liked. The D&D rules just weren't designed to handle size categories smaller than fine. The only really consistent way to do it would be to calculate everything else...

I definitely agree with this. I didn't like it at all at first, but now that the plot has started, I'm enjoying it quite a bit.