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Heh. Now that I have found your weak spot, I'll go spamming Shadowcaster stuff in all your threads :p Seriously, the main fault I find with Shadowcasters is the extremely low number of mystery uses/day, especially at low levels. Before 7th level, they're tier 5 in my book (can be optimized to...

Can you think of a way to have Shadowcasters (Tome of Magic) not suck in E6 (using the generally accepted house rules by the class' designer Ari Marmell found here)? I'll even allow a homebrew "Extra Mystery" feat for more mysteries known, but other than that, this just doesn't seem to work too...

Scout 5/Ranger 15 or something similar with Swift Hunter, you mean. Getting Travel Devotion (optionally with a one level dip into Cloistered Cleric, which you can also milk for Knowledge Devotion and maybe Law Devotion; CC comes with turn attempts to fuel those devotion feats!) and going for...

I'd second (or third) Underdark as a useful book for this kind of campaign. Even the region descriptions hold lots of interesting hooks that can be refurnished to use in non-FR campaigns. Dungeonscape I find one of the most disappointing books of all time. Except for Dungeoncrasher and...

Baleful Polymorph Polymorph Any Object

An Air Genasi in my game once used the breathless ability to great effect: due to being breathless, I ruled that Stinking Cloud didn't affect her, so it became her go-to defense spell when the enemy go close. In fact, she sought out such situations. On occasion, she would also float upwards, out...

Well, just make a call and stick it out. That's really all you can do. Your job here is not to find the objective truth and preach it to your group, but to ensure the harmony of your game and group isn't broken up too much by a minor problem. The earlier this "issue" is off the table, the...

There is no such thing as units or quants or instances of shadow. There is no "one" shadow, and neither is there "another" shadow. Being in shadow is a quality that an area might have, and if it does, that area can be shadowjumped from and to. However, the total distance a Shadowdancer can...

This could be argued either way with good reasons, as the thread has shown so far. However, why is this really an issue? Is it a question of principle (never a good idea in a game based on friendship)? Or a question of balance (as others have already pointed out, the ability is fairly weak and...

Dominate Person, followed by "Just don't do any casty stuff, alright? And see me every nine days, please." Hostages. Dead magic zone. Bestow Curse, with a liberal DM. Guards who're on their toes.

Baleful Polymorph. Only that. It makes the BBEG your pet hamster. Nuff said.

Dazing makes foes "nigh-on defenseless" in that they can't do anything. Sure, they don't get a penalty to AC or saves or anything, but not being able to act is among the strongest debuffs in the game. At high levels, it is equivalent to quick, painful death. A 6th level slot for three rounds of...

For Metamagic, I strongly recommend Intensified Spell, as your 7th level feat sounds about right. That way, your Shocking Grasp will stay relevant for a long, long time. 10d6 bonus damage for a 2nd level spell slot? Sign me up. Also, at higher levels, Dazing Spell absolutely owns the game. It's...

Why exactly do you need Form of Doom? What do you want to accomplish? What are your other assets? What, in short, is your personal situation and your preferred way to go forward?

Wow, that was surprisingly... graphic. Disturbing. I'll use some of this to describe cold damage in my games, if you don't mind.

Refresher course.

RTFM much? Sure scrolls count as magic devices. All kinds of magic items do, actually. That's what the skill is for.

Only once they get up.

Yeah, no, that wouldn't help actually, since you could just be coup-de-grace'ing sleeping people anyway and save the poison. Have you ever successfully caught a whole camp of baddies in their sleep in D&D, btw? OP, why the hell are you not using two-weapon fighting? You're a sneak attacker...

I have two comments on your situation: 1. Why aren't your party's casters doing their job? Every fight with even a little bit of forewarning should see you enspelled with Haste (always the primary melee buff), Enlarge Person (for large threat radius and tripping hostiles) and Protection from...