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Translation, and abstraction: in D&D, it is really, really easy to boost skills through the roof. Moreover, the binary nature of skill checks and the great variance of the d20 roll make any skill-based casting system that relies on D&D's basic skill system a swingy thing at all times. Making all...

Ah, didn't realize that, that's good to know.

Actually, Sublime Chord cannot be entered prior to 11th level, so any spell progression beyond 10th would already be inside epic territory, where it gets funky anyway.

Sure you can do that, no problem at all. It's actually fairly common to use Virtuoso to top off the last 8 levels of a Sublime Chord build.

Dragons can fly (fast!) and use breath weapons. Absent decent air cover, your Monk ought to have lost five times out of five. Ditto, and more so, the wolf. Dragons also qualify for a lot of [monstrous] feats, and a lot of dragon-only feats and prestige classes, which can make them quite strong...

My first thought for both causing volcanic activity and stopping it are rifts to elemental planes: obviously, to cause volcanic activity, open and stabilize a portal to the elemental plane of fire that's juuuust big enough (maybe the Efreet's job was just monitoring the portal and its effect on...

Huh?

Interesting, but ultimately not very strong feat (even when not taking prereqs into account!). Nerfing it further wouldn't serve a purpose, so just go by what it says on the tin! No AoO means no AoO.

At very low levels, a godsend, though with justifiable risks. At higher levels, far too easily abusable. In conjunction with other metamagic feats and one of a hundred methods of gaining temporary HP, you won't even notice any drawbacks and simply drool over your cheap metamagic. How about some...

Hmm... nobody mentioned Douse the Flames etc.?

Minor nitpicks: Whips don't work like ranged weapons in 3.5, though they did in 3.0. Entangling attacks don't make you lose your Dex bonus, they just impose a -4 penalty to Dex. So no SA vulnerability. Blinding/concealment: Here's the relevant rules text: So no, you don't threaten when...

Nice necro, but why not post here again I guess... I think the action economy advantage that casters can get at mid to high levels really seals the deal, but even before that, spells allow primary casters to function at a whole different level of play. Spells like Teleport, Contact Other Plane...

Sorry if I misread/misrepresented your post. You make a good argument about the contingency of actual in-game situations (which are the ones that matter) as opposed to theorycrafting "X ought be easy to come by" (which might be true, but if it's not in even one case, the whole argument...

I don't see anything in the rules that prohibits enchanting a weapon multiple times using the same enchantment each time. What's unbalancing about a +1 Flaming Flaming Flaming Flaming Flaming Flaming Flaming Flaming Flaming Longsword, anyway? As a +10 equivalent weapon, it just does an extra 9d6...

You are perilously close to committing the Oberoni Fallacy there, Evenglare. "The game ain't broke, coz you can play it by different rules" doesn't convince me. Some spells (items, feats, class/race abilities...) in the game AS WRITTEN are problematic. Not because it's hard to figure out and...

Sculpt Spell will usually be enough to do this.

Interesting how the Paladin is either the most hated or most beloved class... I always felt that if people are mature about alignment and conduct and stuff, Paladins are good fun, but not particularly impressive (except in PF, which finally got their mechanics right, but even in PF Paladins tend...

Arrows, even from a shortbow, are not out of range at 500'. Using the wand is awesome if you can take down the freaking moon with it.

In our campaign world, some jerks did for the moon in a "mining accident" some 3,000 years ago. They didn't even use their bragging rights! But the planet has a nice ring system now, really something to look at.

Note also that your Constitution score changes to " - ". That means you get no Con modifier, positive or negative, to your HP (or to your Fort save, for that matter).