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In my experience, I've seen PA used in the following situations: 1) The player is at some odd to-hit bonus, and power attacks enough to make the primary attack a multiple of 5, to make his math easier to compute. (This is perhaps the second most common use of the feat, amusingly enough, after...

If it offends your sense of "realism" just consider that according to the D&D rules: Your average person can stand at the door of an empty, well lit 30x30 room and have a 5% chance of not seeing an automobile on the other side of the room. A cleric were to cast "animate object" on that very...

Actually, the rules give him a -8/-8 penalty for doing it. A bastard sword, wielded one handed, is an exotic weapon. Without the proficiency, he's at an additional -4 to hit. It is harder to do than to use a longsword, but by spending a feat, you can learn to do it. Once he has the...

Woohoo! More Liberatory goodness! Thanks, (contact).

Divine metamagic, even Quicken, isn't that big a deal in my opinion. It's a strong choice, but it sucks up a lot of resources. Not just the feats, but the charisma to get the turning attempts. What is definitely broken is combining any divine metamagic feat with that item from Liber Mortis...

Obvious choices: Spell Focus - Conjuration and Augment Summoning. Don't waste your time with - Spell Penetration and Greater Spell Penetration. As a conjurer most of your attack spells bypass spell resistance, as do your summoned monsters. Don't overlook - protection from XYZ spells, on the...

There are two big questions that you need to answer when building a rogue character. The first is, do object to being useless in combat fairly often? The second is, do you want to be the party face? Once you have those two questions answered, you can build your character. If you don't mind...

Worst case scenario, you have to put two spells in the staff: Magic Missile (8th caster level): 6000gp Ray of Frost (8th caster level, 2 charges): 1125gp Total cost 7125 for a magic missile staff with 50 charges (that uses your actual caster level). Nothing says the second spell can't be a...

Sudden Empower (or Empower in general) is the superior feat for spells with a 1dx+y mechanic, such as ray of enfeeblement [1d6+(0.5*caster level)], false life [1d10+caster level], fires of purity [1d6+caster level], or the previously mentioned spell turning. This is because of the quirk in the...

If you're outdamaging the party fighters consistently, then you either have superior stats, superior gear, or a superior build. Your character is competently put together, and strong, but I don't see anything really unusual there. Straight classed barbarian and fighter builds should be able to...

You guys aren't thinking big enough. Bust out the Epic Level Handbook and have that epic druid use Intensify Spell on it. Somewhere, there's a rosebush with 36 Int, Wis, and Cha.

Armbands of might add to strength checks (trips and bull rushes). Rage, Frenzy, and Primal Scream add to strength (primal scream would seem to be out for you, as a non-elf). The Courage domain spell adds a +4 morale bonus to strength. Polymorph or polymorph any object can potentially get you...

Oh, man, did you get off easy. If I'd been the DM, I would have announced that he was teleporting, then asked each of you around the table if you were willing to go along. Then picked the weakest among you as the only one I wanted to include in the spell, and take that one with me for a...

There is no requirement that one be and elf to take the class. Yes, a 5th level fighter could qualify. No, it's not generally considered an overpowered class. The main benefits are extra damage at close range when firing only a single shot (doesn't count when making a full attack), and the...

Armbands of Might from Complete Adventurer take the bracer slot and add 2 damage any time you power attack for 2 or more. That makes the calculation -2/+4 for one handed weapons or -2/+6 for two handed weapons. Nice stuff. I'm looking for some of those for my two weapon fighter. Getting that...

I've seen a couple - one double sword and one urgrosh. Out of hundreds of PCs. The only ones really worth using are the ones with which you get a "free" proficiency. Quarterstaff, or the racial weapons if you're the right race. It's almost a totally wasted feat if you could instead choose...

I just put together a build, and extrapolated it to 16th level just to see what it might look like if I actually decided to play the character. It was nearly straight fighter (I think I ended up with ftr 12/knight protector 3/exotic weapon master 1). It starts out with 28 point buy: Str 14 (10...

One other thing that's not clear - is this the character he wants to play, or the character he's currently playing? If this is only on paper - the character he wants to play, but the campaign hasn't started yet, what you really need to do is sit down and figure out what all this stuff is. Then...

Elusive target is from Complete Warrior. Requires Dodge and Mobility. a) if you dodge target power attacks, he gets no extra damage. b) if you're flanked by your dodge target and another, you can make your dodge target miss his first attack and stab his buddy instead. c) if you provoke an...

I'm surprised nobody mentioned either Elusive Target or Power Attack. Elusive Target gives you a wide range of defensive options. Power Attack lets you actually try to hurt things you can't sneak attack, like golems and undead.