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He cashed that in already; it was used to have Shojo keep the Linear Guild locked up indefinitely without trial.

Even better when cast outside, as the volume increased to be measured in cubic yards! Form-fitting fireballs were nice, but I was always a big fan of the bouncing lightning bolts. Great for people standing in front of walls. :)

Wow! I need to figure out how to teleport to the Philippines!

Indeed. If the lives of my friends and I depended upon me being able to bullseye a gnat with a fireball, you'd better believe I'd be out all day on the practice field with a pile of sulpher and guano. Regarding targetting, surely the wizard player has time to count squares and such while others...

Do remember he's an NPC; as such, we should be talking CR, not ECL. Now, we know Xykon is a sorcerer, meaning that he gets his first 9th at 18th level. The lich template adds 2 to the CR, making him a minimum of CR 20. If he were a PC, then he'd be minimum ECL 22. Lich adds +4 ECL (sadly).

Nah, Elan survives. Elan: Does this story have a happy ending? Oracle: For you, yes.

Woo! Go Xykon! *throws the horns*

Best not to worry about it. Bad Latin seems pretty common in games, and it's far easier to go with it than try to make it work. Also, obviously someone's been taking levels in Dread Thread Necromancer. :)

There's a lot wrong there, to my mind. When grappled, you can't cast spells with somatic components at all. That's why Teleport and Dimension Door are V only. The Duskblade Arcane Channeling ability states that you cast the spell and channel it through your weapon, so you couldn't cast BoB in...

Well, yes. If I'm a high-level wizard then, absent Dimensional Anchor, I am only fighting those fights I think I can win handily. Why risk yourself unless you know you will win? As for the cities/villages destroyed, better them than me. Especially since, being said high-level caster and probably...

To be fair, I don't think the "the FAQ is a poor source" argument is the main one used by the anti-INA crowd these days. From what I've seen in the discussion, the argument seems to go: The monk special ability treats their unarmed attack as both a natural and manufactured weapon for all...

We do see Worf modify his communicator to produce a very temporary personal shield in A Fistful of Datas, so apparently a communicator/shield generator isn't out of the question.

Security. They may have opted to leave Redcloak's somewhere where it would be safe for 1d10 days, as it is also Xykon's phylactery.

Energy damage (acid, fire, sonic, lightning, cold) and spell damage bypass DR.

It is regrettable that this was not a multiple choice poll, for both 1 and 2 suit my experience. I voted for #2, though until the party is capable of casting the spells themselves they go pay NPCs to do it for them.

I rather enjoyed the obscure joke about the pools on the Astral plane. :)

It dates back at least to 1E, where DMs were encouraged to mess with wishes. I believe an example from the text went along the lines of "Wishing another character dead would be grossly unfair, so the referee could whisk the wishing character to some far future time in which the character was...

Also, he's a sorcerer. For all we know, Int is his dump stat.

Plus, its reinstatement to the ruleset would give the Regenerate spell something to do.

If you're going to bring up Schroedinger's Cat, you could at least mention the lethally radioactive material portion of the thought experiment. :) Also, that quantum superposition doesn't really apply on a macro scale.