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I know this is more than a day late but I just saw this thread brought back up and had to chime in. I'm playing a level 19 war mage in a campaign right now and I rely heavily on those orb spells. Not because I actually like them, but because they are the only spells I have that get through...

Good, sound suggestion. Add to that the MasTrans can take advantage of certain creatures' fast healing ability, and it shouldn't be a problem. Thanks for the advice y'all. :)

All, this is largely a mental exercise but I would appreciate input on this. I've been doing a lot of research and trying to digest all the information available about polymorphing and the Master Transmogrifist PrC from Complete Arcane. This would be a back-up character or potential cohort in...

Heh. Yes, that would be a bad situation and I'm not that nice, but I would allow (and have told the player) the Sickening Grasp to be applied through Spectral Hand.

It's a judgment call. I knew my players were capable of killing the harpoon spider, not just charming or "turning" it, and I also knew it was going to come back to exactly the same place and, while they had two other options to exit, they would likely be coming back the same way. Not trying to...

OMG! This has to be one of the best things I've seen in a while. I hope you'll keep us updated (as I also hope you get some great ideas) and let us know what winds up happening. I'm not sure if Practiced Spellcaster will help for a bard, but you might want to keep that in mind -- if not for...

I had something like this come up in one of my games and my players howled about how unfair I was (in a friendly and good-natured way) but ultimately did just fine. They were exploring a ruined castle and were attacked by a harpoon spider. Things were not going well and one of the PCs used a...

Question for Ye Assembled Wise-Men and Women: I know that when a PC polymorphs he retains his own hitpoints but takes the constitution score of the new form. I assume this means his base hitpoints remain the same but are adjusted based on the new Constitution modifier. Is that correct? If...

It does. Thank you for reminding me of that. Okay, perhaps not quite so useless. We have a mage in the party (actually an NPC that is currently being run by a player) and this feat just hasn't been used at all, so I guess I just defaulted back to my original thought that it was not proportionate...

Right, and that's how I've been reading it and having it played in our group but when I compare Sickening Grasp to other reserve feats, it seems rather weak. As compared to, say, 3d6 of fire damage every round (or 8d6, or whatever the highest level fire spell you have memorized) with fiery...

All, I am a little confused with respect to the Sickening Grasp reserve feat. Almost all Reserve feats say that you "can" or you "may" use it for such and such an effect. In contrast, Sickening Grasp says "Any living creature you hit with a melee touch attack becomes sickened..." I think it...

Cool; thanks for catching the Fort save issue. As for the mindbender suggestion, why not just use Binder? +2 Fort and +2 Will at 1st level.

Well, I might have done something wrong, but I counted the +1 boost to the fort save from his Constitution score. Incorrect? That will definitely be useful. What page is that?

Thanks guys. As a preface, the precise order of advancement I was looking at was: 6 Warlock / 2 Ur-Priest / 9 Eldritch Disciple / 3 Hellfire Warlock / +1 Warlock. Without looking at the Binder or other classes, this was the quickest way to meet the Skill and Saving Throw prereqs for...

They should come up with a Drink Defensively ability. :p

Earlier in this thread I had asked for optimization help with a Warlock/Cleric build. I received some great advice and rebuilt it as a Warlock/Ur-Priest. Any additional suggestions and advice would be appreciated. Warlock 7 / Ur-Priest 2 / Hellfire Warlock 3 / Eldritch Disciple 9 Ability...

Interesting. That could work perfectly. One member of the party is a Cleric of Orcus who, as I understand it, is not yet quite a god but only a demon prince on the path to ascension. So, that might work perfectly. Thanks Rich.

Guys (and gals), you rock. Thanks for the advice. Hopefully I'll have the FCII soon and will post the revised stats based on an Ur-Priest/Hellfire Warlock/Eldritch Disciple build. Definitely appreciate the help and advice. :D Edit: Ran into a small issue, although it's probably something...

Interesting note on the Practiced Spellcaster issue. The mechanics are confusing and the errata for the class didn't quite help me clear it up. I'll look it over again. Honestly, I was thinking of swapping it for Cleric at one point anyway, but now I'm looking at Drowbane's build and might...

Drowbane and Milo, those are good class suggestions. I'm going to try playing around with that. SotS, thanks for the suggestions. I'm anxious about dropping Strength but it's probably silly -- more of am emphasis on surviving to escape from melee makes more sense, and the Dex and Con match up...