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Actually, your comments seem quite relevant. :) This is certainly true, and I am by no means suggesting that simply adding a dozen skills to the list of skills on a PC's character sheet would be beneficial to a game. That gives a player far more places to spend skill points while having the...

Like: Flavor and variety of abilities. In a core game, they are pretty well balanced, though I personally think Natural Spell puts them over the top, and remove it. Dislike: Splatbooks completely break the class. Various splatbook writers seem to believe "if it's balanced for any other...

Lots of good advice in here. :) To add to it: * Be prepared to die. Once you get into the high levels, PCs are going to bite it. It doesn't get less deadly, it gets more deadly, with various save-or-die spells floating around and big monsters that do insane amounts of damage with multiple...

I don't recall Geordi ever getting lucky...

I am not a big baseball fan myself, but I would like to point out that my brother wears a Mets ball cap, not particularly because he loves the Mets, but specifically to express his hatred of the Yankees. Now then, can we have an update, sir? :p

Yep. I think this would be an excellent clarification, if they included it. Hopefully they'd touch upon scrolls as well at the same time since, as I mentioned above, there is a certain gray area there as well.

Right. To up the DC, you'd need to apply Heighten Spell, which would tack on additional spell levels.

My interpretation: Both statements are referring to a spellcaster, and not magic items, etc. The "not always" in the statement regarding obeying commands refers to when you do not speak a common language with the creature you conjure. In which case it attacks the nearest hostile, but you...

Stirges are scarier than they look. I used Stirges against my 1st-level party in a previous campaign. There were four PCs, and two waves of about 10 Stirges. Each round, 4 Stirges would get killed attempting to close into attack range (they draw an AoO for being Tiny). Then 4 Stirges would...

*shrug* I believe in my very first post I mentioned that I don't believe there is a specific rule as you would like. Instead, I posted my ruling and the reasoning behind that ruling.

My apologies. I did not mean to ignore it. It seems rather plain to me that the spell descriptions were written under the assumption that you are casting the spell. Which is to say, they don't address magic items casting a spell at all, but rather all the verbiage is written from the...

Staves are a specific exception to the rule that allow the use of specific feats. AFAIK, whether or not feats that do not directly affect DC (the exception specifically allowed) are applicable is not addressed. I allow them to, though I could understand a more strict DM ruling that because...

Interestingly, my campaign showed just the opposite trend. In the opening campaign notes, I listed several skills which I suggested may become particularly useful, based on the campaign's nature. Among them were Heal and a handful of knowledge checks, including Knowledge (Anatomy). At first...

Well, it would seem obvious that I don't think the uses to which I put Knowledge (Anatomy) can be covered just fine by the Heal skill. Healing does not include a body of knowledge regarding the workings of muscles and organs, at last afaic. It covers midwifery, preparing and applying...

My suspension of disbelief comes when asked to accept a world where paladins are required to always accept surrender, and still remain an even semi-productive force for Good in the world. Anything with a greater-than-animal intelligence would soon learn that in such a world, one need merely ask...

Yes. Note that at range they would have to make a standard melee attack (in order to activate Ring the Golden Bell) and would not be able to forgo melee damage to deliver the attack as a touch attack.

Well, it's a rant, so I'm not going to debate with you too much. Everyone's allowed to vent. However, I will say that I don't find the idea that historical peoples would see a jet plane as a giant silver bird preposterous in the slightest. Indeed, they look a lot like giant silver birds to...

You beat me to it. These armors are priced and designed to be balanced as they are. Rhino Hide armor is fine as it is, because Hide armor sucks. Rhino Full Plate is another matter entirely. Celestial Armor is fine as it is, with several excellent properties. It wasn't meant to be a property...

I don't know of a quote offhand that directly says "Augment Summoning applies to wands" or "Augment summoning does not apply to wands." I know how I interpret the rules, and the basis for my interpretation. Let me clarify that. First of all, for reference once again, the feat itself: So the...

I don't think, strictly speaking, the feat works with wands. Wands do not benefit from the users feats, only from those feats the creator added into them when crafting the wand. Staves are the magic items that allow the use of feats. Spell Focus and Spell Penetration are also [General] feats...