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Souljourner makes some good points, but I'd also like to add to them. There is a very good reason that a group of spotters has a good chance of finding a group of hiders (especially if those hiders are moving around). Why do you think scouts go out one at a time, rather than in huge groups...

Don't forget (as was pointed out to me just recently), that it only takes a free action to get anything from an HHH, according to the DMG errata. So you could maybe put arrows in there or something, and still get them as a free action, so it sort of acts like a quiver anyway (of course, if you...

Isn't "flanked" a condition independent of the opponent? An example being a bad guy that is flanked by two good guys, and a good guy shoots at the flanked bad guy...doesn't the shooting good guy still get bonuses for flanking? For some reason I seem to recall hearing this somewhere, though it...

I'd have to put in a vote for wayfarer guide...of course, I suppose it could be an okay NPC, but really quite a strange/useless prc. And on another note, I really was disappointed with the prcs in song and silence...not very good, and also there aren't very many of them. Pretty icky. Blighter...

Page 82 of the OA book...in the "combat" chapter...first paragraph of the "Iaijutsu Strikes in Normal Combat" sidebar: "You can use your Iaijutsu Focus bonus damagein normal combat too, but only when you are attacking a flat-footed opponent and you draw your weapon in the same round you...

HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!! HHH is a free action!??!?!?!? HELL FREAKIN' YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks like, ten billion times for pointing that out. It always seemed as if it should be a free action, but then I figured it must be a full round to pull something out from the bottom of your bag or...

Whew, there's a number of wrong things in here.. First of all, Iaijutsu focus only requires you to have drawn the weapon that round, so you don't need to draw a new weapon for each attack. This also means that in the first round you would only need to have one knife out, which means you...

Or, you could get a wand bandolier (I think it's from magic of faerun or something) or a heward's Handy Haversack (makes it a move-equivalent to get anything inside) and ask your DM if you could get quickdraw and either extend it to apply to wands or just get it specifically for wands (and not...

Sounds like your DM isn't that great. This is an example of "Page 100" DMing (a page commonly referenced for one of the DMs in my group). Basically, that page mentions that trumping your players' neat ideas and abilities is bad DMing, and it seems to me that what happened here was that your DM...

In case you don't want to look it up... Basically, blessed weapons are to infernal beings as fire is to trolls. A lot of demons will have a note under their regeneration ability that says "...takes normal damage from holy or blessed weapons of +x or greater enchantment." So if you're fighting...

Well, I don't know a whole bunch about the various psionic powers out there, but if this character is a telepath, as long as he has chosen his pwoers well, I would imagine that he would have a way to get out of this particular situation. It seems to me that a telepath would often have some...

There's also gestalt, a psion power that lets you absorb people into your body and get a number of arms equal to how many the both of you had to begin with (so two humans means 4 arms), and the wild fighting ability of the tribal protector prc (which may stack with flurry of blows, come to think...

Oh cmon...it's once per day and they have to take the second roll anyway. If there's 20 dice, then that just means that the overall effect of using the luck power would be less than if it were used on a single die...think about your statistics classes and how larger samples tend to average out...

Oh, and don't forget the prisoners that tunnel hundreds of yards with plastic spoons from the cafeteria... ...but then again, I guess spoons were designed for digging, right? :D

Good point with the being immune thing. But all that does is stops the lower level casters from being able to get him (like charm person and such). There are still plenty of spells with will saves that will really mess him up, and there's really not a whole lot you can do (besides getting...

To add a little more to this conversation that people seem to have missed... 1) that 23 str barbarian, when raging, can clean and jerk 1,040 lbs. The world record (depending on weight class) is around 500 lbs. Even without raging he could lift 600 lbs above his head, which is still far more...

Here's a question for the troll example someone gave a while back: What's the troll's will save? I'll bet...and I'm very sure that I'm not going out on any limbs here...that it is EXTREMELY low. That means a single suggestion, charm person, confusion, hold person, charm monster, domination...

I would have to agree that initiative is not unbalanced. Although most of my group seems to take it with almost all of their characters, I have many characters that I don't take it with (I should also say that we roll initiative every round in my group, though I don't think this would affect...

If it weren't for the lawful good/rulership prereqs/flavor of the prc, I have a PC who would take it in a second (this would fit him SO PERFECTLY). It's a bard who knows everything...really, he does! Bardic knowledge is +32, int bonus is 12, chr bonus is 14, etc. etc. Really, this prc is one...

To get a grasp on the huge effect that size has on wrestling, one can look at the different weight categories in human wrestling. The categories are split up into ranges as small as a few pounds, because if you have as little as a 5 or so pound advantage on a guy that can go a long way to...