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    Do your PCs ever completely outclass the enemy?

    Yeah, it happens occasionally. It's been happening a lot in our recent campaign - we're playing Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, and the foes in that can be pretty static, especially the goons. So we go from fights with frighteningly tough high level clerics, demons, or dragons, and in...
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    Eldritch Knight strategies

    One way to take advantage of the EK's BAB and combat feats is to use rays and orbs. You can take point blank, precise, and you'll eventually have the BAB for improved precise shot, which is a big improvement over most ranged touch casters. I'd also work in one level of spellsword, so you can...
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    So a Keen Rapier Crits on....

    The big reason why they shouldn't stack is to cut down on certain abilities that trigger only off a critical hit, especially vorpal. A 3.0 weapon master with a keen vorpal falchion had a roughly 50% chance of taking your head with every swing, unless you had a superior armor class. With vorpal...
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    Empowered Ray of Enfeeblement

    Does anybody have an opinion on how Ray of Enfeeblement interacts with enhancement or inherent bonuses to strength? The question is what order they apply in. Say you've got a character with a 11 Str natural and a +6 belt of giant strength. Hit with an empowered ray of enfeeblement for 16...
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    What are the most common feat selections per class?

    In our group, any melee character (ftr, brb, rgr, pal, marshall, rogue) will eventually take power attack. The highly melee focused characters grab it early, the secondary melee types grab it late, but they all take it. Even most of our archers take it. Empower and Extend are the most common...
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    Good Prestige Class for Wizard

    As a wizard, you've really got the world in front of you. There are plenty of excellent pclasses. Elemental Savant is ok, but you give up a lot of versatility in your attack spells. Most of the classes in Complete Arcane are ok to excellent (and yes, as the poster above noted, Initiate of the...
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    Done with Master of Many Forms

    What's your objection to Warshaper? That's where my mind jumped immediately, but you'd rejected it by the end of your post. I've played with a Warshaper, and it's a very strong class.
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    The "Everything Sorcerer" Thread

    I have found one good use for Heighten Spell. When combined with Earth Spell (Races of Stone), you get some real bang. Each level of heightening with Earth Spell gives +2 spell level and +1 caster level. A 10th level caster heightening a glitterdust to 5th spell level would have it go off as...
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    How long does Pin last?

    No, because it must be lowered to accept a harmless spell. If a creature with SR is unconcious on the ground, his friend the cleric has no chance to cure him. It is simply impossible. He doesn't get a roll vs SR to get the cure through. If his enemy decides to fireball him, however, the...
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    How long does Pin last?

    This means that you cannot do a Cure Light Wounds on an unconscious Drow without first making the spell resistance roll. Actually, you can't. From the PHB (pg 177) "A creature with spell resistance must voluntarily lower the resistance (a standard action) in order to be affected by a spell...
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    Rate this monster

    Pretty good, but with a couple of problems. First, you've given it +36 in bonuses to hide (+8 racial, +8 racial in undergrowth, +10 insight, +10 competence). That's way excessive for something that 9th level characters are to face. The insight bonus in particular is mislabled - insight...
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    Magic Items That Grant the Wearers/Users Feats

    Belt of Endurance from A&EG, 10000gp for a +2 enhancement bonus to Con and the Great Fortitude feat. Probably 6k for the feat, in that instance. Or 4k * 1.5 for it being the second, related ability, which would put the base price at 4k. I think that's reasonable for the lower end feats such...
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    D&D 3.x 3.5 Point Buy

    Before you get into specific point buys, you need to decide what type of paladin you're going to play. The three traditional types are a balanced build, a strength build, and a charisma build. Other types are certainly possible. Examples below (though some of the builds above in the thread...
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    an earth-focused character

    Earth Dreamer (Races of Stone) is a pretty easy class to pick up and gives you some nifty earth related abilities. Coming from cleric, you'd lose BAB and hp, while coming from wizard you'd have to invest in a good wisdom to meet the prereqs, but neither of these losses is too onerous unless...
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    Help Me Build a BBEG

    Werewolf Troll Cleric 7/Divine Oracle 10. You get all sorts of interesting things to stack onto the clerical spellcasting ability - dr 10/silver, enormous con boost (always good for a single BBEG to have lots of hp), regeneration, evasion even in full plate, immunity to surprise.
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    Arcane Hierophant

    I don't play an Arcane Heirophant, but one of the guys I play with regularly does, and in the Living Greyhawk campaign, so it's especially relevant to your situation. While we often make fun of him for "playing a tiger with a druid companion" the character is quite effective overall. The...
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    Warlock Ideas

    Agreed, at high levels warlocks are terrifying mass combatants. Evard's black tentacles at will (plus cold damage). That's just sick and wrong. Low levels - go for point blank and precise shot. Halfling (for the size and dex bonuses to hit) or human are the way to go for races. Our party's...
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    Best Warrior/Mage Combos

    Human Ftr 1/Wizard6/Spellsword 1/Divine Oracle 2/Initiate of the 7fold Veil 7/Archmage 3 Skills required: Arcana (12 ranks), Nature (4 ranks), Spellcraft (max), Concentration (max), Religion (10 ranks) Feats: 1st - Power Attack, Spell Focus Abjuration, Skill Focus Religion; 2nd - Scribe...
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    Need help: elf sorcerer 1

    Ok, first off, Combat Casting is a horrible choice, except as a pclass prereq. Skill Focus (Concentration) is much more useful. The instruction here was "kicks butt" which is a bit vague, so I'll offer some options, up to about 6th level. (You should have a good idea what you want to do by...
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    More Players = More Monsters or Tougher Monsters?

    You can do either, but you just need to look at the way the encounter actually balances. You can't just open up an adventure and double all the encounters, nor simply bump up all the CRs. Let me give some examples. A 5th level wizard can hit your party with a 5d6 fireball. Two 5th level...
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