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yeah, you've pretty much got it. as mentioned, PC classes are always a CR above the NPC classes. also, some races in specific - like the kobold - get an additional hit to their CR cause of their kobold-ness. but anyhow: 3rd level human fighter = CR3 3rd level human warrior = CR2

personally, i've taken a dislike to them thematically, but not as hilariously as you've found them :) in my campaigns, i've just said that they're manipulating the mostly-unused deific power of fallen, dead or former deities. basically, the deity-stuff that was so potent and powerful that it...

how about a feral half-red dragon bladerager for ECL 15? i think one of those with 15 levels of warblade and a ring of acid resistance would scare most folk senseless. especially if HD act the same way levels do, for determining the warblade's initiator level.

i've been a DM for several editions for more years than i'd care to admit, but here's a few bits of wisdom i'd like to pass on, if i may: 1. it's just a game. i know you're the ref and in most sports, the players hate the ref, but remember you're all there to ultimately have fun while telling a...

has anyone had any experience with turning fiendish resilience into a flat-out fast healing X ability? i was toying with this, kinda making it like the dragon shaman's healing auras, so it only works up to half-health. then again, the warlock isn't really the most broken class, so i was...

it seems a tad overpowered that an 11th level evil cleric would call up a 1st level reaver to permanently erase the pesky heroes he's just kidnapped, by destroying their souls permanently and rendering them incapable for raising, reincarnation or resurrection. otherwise, it seems kinda like a...

i think in Dungeonscape (sp?) or the book to a similar effect, there's a rogue class option where you trade out a relatively minor skill and then, from there on in, you may apply sneak attack to undead and constructs, albeit at half power. combined with the gems, it might be a fairly good idea, no?

in order to save yourself a lot of head and heartache, just flesh out the parts that the PCs interact with directly in rough first. no sense in spending an entire weekend cataloguing some arcane secret intelligence organization if they're not going to take the bait and interact with it very...

you might want to reserve this template only for your most trusted (and sturdy) minions, because it'd be really crappy to waste this template - not to mention thousands of gold and xp - on zombies, skeletons and ghouls, only to see a single fireball permanently take out half of your...

i should qualify the bit where you quoted me earlier that i honestly hadn't given much thought to many of the mechanics of the class, per se. i basically opened up complete scoundrel, read the feat and kinda on-the-fly interpreted it RAW.

taking a look at the SRD, i note that the black dragon's class skills are hide, move silently and swim. assuming that it maxes out all of these skills - which i suppose it would, considering its HD and large amount of skill points - that means that it'd have roughly a +13 modifier to the first...

could better define "Lv 30 character troll" for us? i'm unsure whether you're playing a 30HD uber-troll, or want to roll up an epic 25th level character who's also a troll.

i can definitely vouch that it was a 2e rule. haven't personally seen it in 3.X, but this edition's hit points seem more ablative, which is something i personally like.

not to intentionally monkey-wrench anyone's plans, but i noticed this under the epic section of the SRD. doesn't directly relate, but it might be interesting to see how it could establish a baseline for grappling in such a situation: Epic Skills :: d20srd.org

i hate to rain on your parade, but the swarm-shifter's LA is "--", meaning nonexistent. it' does however raise a CR by +1, but it effectively has no LA. my interpretations of templates that have no LA indicates that they are effectively "beyond normal PC use", but your mileage may vary. if your...

i'd think it'd be akin to this line regarding feats, from the d20srd: "A character can’t use a feat if he or she has lost a prerequisite." so it would follow that if you lost a prerequisite for something else, you'd also lose out on it as well.

i realize that probably would only happen in the best of circumstances, but we need to keep in mind it's basically an entirely abstract system that was meant for computing some fairly unrealistic things. i mean, if you really want to split hairs, anyone hit directly by a fireball should die...

i've always envisioned the 5-foot step as one of those feints or slight dashes that people do in the movies when they're having a sword fight, Pirates of the Caribbean style. it's basically just a slight dodge backward, giving you an ounce of breathing room, at the expense of any other movement...

i attempted a semi-fix of the fighter at my blog here: smallredtable: the fighter it's not really going to change anyone's core beliefs on the inherent flaws of the fighter, but i felt it was a fun little project that actually had people taking fighters as cohorts. ok, fighter levels in...

you are too good! could i bother you to maybe, perhaps, if you could, paint out a hypothetical scenario, for the benefit of the OP, on how this guy would completely ruin a melee-folk's day? maybe arena style, just to give both sides equal footing?