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Well, it depends, both by outsider type and by which books you're using. By the default rules, outsiders die and have their essence merge with their plane of origin, or some such. In any event, they can't be raised, save by wish or miracle. Spell Compendium added Revive Outsider to the cleric...

I'm not sure that a unique code for each book would work, unless Wizards shipped them shrink-wrapped. What would be to stop someone from going to the store, writing down the unique code, and plugging it in to dndinsider without buying the book in the first place? It seems to me that having a...

I know it's frustrating to not be able to access the site, but do remember that it's tough to cope with many millions of simultaneous requests. The D&D population just slashdotted the servers. They'll be up again soon enough for us to play with.

In short, no. Why would you, in WotC's shoes, ever artificially limit yourself by saying "We shall produce X editions of the game, and no more!"? We already have a game company that refuses to revise its core mechanics in any appreciable way: we call it Palladium, and when last I checked it was...

Five years is a pretty good amount of time, especially since we've had 3E for seven. Speedy new editions of games are not necessarily bad things. Take, for example, some of White Wolf's offerings: Vampire 1st edition: 1991 Vampire Second Edition: 1992 Vampire Revised Edition: 1998 Time of...

I would guess not; why would they feel the need to rubber-band a cooked claw? It's probably just some weird aberration the aboleths are sending out to mess with us.

I allow any spell from the SC (except Wraithstrike, off the top of my head), but get around the huge boost in versatility for clerics and druids by using the spontaneous casting variant from UA.

Also note that while it is a relatively benign substance, it can create a dependency. Man, those withdrawal headaches HURT!

Nope, AC 39 (-2 size, +1 Dex, +30 natural). CR 10. Touch spells would seem to be the order of the day.

True, but for many people (such as myself) if the book wasn't done by WotC, then it may as well not exist. It would be nice to see a Wizards treatment of some of these (though, if I had my say, not Sigil or FC:III. I'm one of the weirdos who hates Planescape irrationally because of the changes...

Shut yer noise, you! Let the man get his free market research! :)

The creation of Pun-Pun also gave us his only natural enemy, the Omniscificer. Similarly odd, but less "broken scalykind" and more "nonsensical drowning ruling" and "generally questionable infinite loop."

In my experience, you can occasionally detect a hint of wood flavor when using a lump charcoal as opposed to your run-of-the-mill briquettes. I've also had some luck with smoking chips made out of chopped up Jack Daniels aging barrels. At the very least, you don't end up with a dead dino taste...

Hi, all. One of the characters in our game, by virtue of the Wild Mage PrC, has a continuous nondetection effect active. There was some question about whether deathwatch would be able to detect the character without need for the caster level check. Here are the relevant portions of the SRD...

Ah, yes. I misread earlier.

No, the spell does need to be on the class list (MIC 224). So I couldn't give my conjurer a Runestaff of Enchantment and expect him to make good use of it, as enchantment is one of my banned schools. Similarly, things like warmages, beguilers, duskblades, and assassins get reduced utility from...

To be fair, you can't direct a grenade with nearly the same precision as you can a fireball. Given that a mage can create the effect at any arbitrary point in space, I don't find it terribly unreasonable. If my survival and that of my friends depended on my ability to engulf my foes in a great...

Amusingly, Holy Word has the [Good] descriptor; as such, you would push your alignment toward good every time you cast it.

Hyp about has it. It's worth noting that you can only be attuned to one runestaff at a time, the choice of which made when you prepare spells/meditate each day.

'Cause the book specifies arcane spellcasters. ;) More seriously, I suspect that runestaves are an attempt at leveling the playing field between the arcane and divine casters, with respect to spell selection. Divine casters, of course, can choose their spells from their entire spell list, and...