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Magic Items and spells with a 24-hour or longer duration can be used to increase daily abilities (bonus spells, rage duration, lay on hands healing, etc.) but they cannot be used to qualify for feats any more than a headband of intellect can give you skill points. They are not permanent bonuses...

The rules aren't clear on whether or not you can replace a lost/destroyed psicrystal. If they were clear, we wouldn't have an arguement. Is there any other feat that gives you something that you can lose and never get back--even though you still meet the prequisites? I can't think of one. Is...

Mind explaining how automatic success is worse than a roll?

Though Multiattack from the Monster Manual helps if the Thri-Kreen is using his natural attack (claws) rather than his unarmed strikes.

That doesn't tell us much, but the DMG and Planar Handbook go into more detail on it. Basically the plane of Shadow is roughly the same where it touches the Material plane, thus landmarks and obstacles on the Material also exist in the Shadow (most of the time). Shadow walk creates a "coiling...

Not quite... If it's sundered, then you can't repair it at all.

If the wizard takes a 5' step back to cast, the fighter will take a 5' step forward and full attack on his turn. If there's any wackiness its that you have a suicidal mage. He should be taking a withdraw action to run (usually 120' as opposed to the 60' of a fighter in full plate). Then he moves...

That would be fantastic. I'm currently trying to fix the Craft mechanic for my upcoming campaign. Very specifically, I'm trying to fix the fact that the more difficult the item is to create (the higher the DC), the quicker it can be created.

If you allow a character to save feats for later use, you should add the caveat that they would had to have qualified for it at the level the "feat slot" was awarded. Part of the game balance is the prerequisites for feats. If a feat says BAB +1 in the prerequisite line, it wasn't meant for a...

If you allow a called shot against a creature's limb as an attack of opportunity (which directly contradicts the rules that you must threaten a creature's space not simply his reach to take an AoO) then you must also allow AoO's on creatures that attack with reach weapons. If you only allow that...

And that's why the FAQ is so loathed by many people. The FAQ changes the rules in the book by adding facing to 3.5, which was purposely removed. Only the Errata can change the rules, not a FAQ, hence all of that verbiage is meaningless.

The two statements in bold are inherently contradictory. A smart wizard with a spell for any occassion does not get caught in a contest of Hit Dice. Wizard prepared for encounter > Fighter every time.

Not that it has any basis in the ruling, but I would certainly allow it. It's not overpowered on its own and you can't use it when you don't qualify for it. Actually, it seems like a sub-optimal choice to me, so have at it IMC.

If it's purely for the flanking combat, you might take the alternate fighter from Unearthed Arcana that gets rogue Sneak Attack progression instead of bonus fighter feats. You also get full BAB, d10 HD, and armor proficiencies that way too, but you lose big time on skills, saves, and abilities...

No, the RAW says "each NEW level." Your wizard has been 9th level before, this is not new. You don't get a bonus for dying, sorry. No other class gets to keep the benefit from a lost level and get it again; why should wizards? Next a fighter will be asking to keep his bonus feat and then get an...

I simply treat them as summoned grenade-like weapons. They exist as an actual conjured object until such time as they hit (either the target or another solid object, like the ground) at which point they are destroyed. It's a hyper-powered vial of Alchemist's Fire--or, in this case, Alchemist's...

Okay, let me just be clear on this... You said to your DM, "I smite the wagon"? Wow...

Really? The SRD says... I see nothing in either the attack section or the monster section that implies that racial HD do not count.

Except that then you could have things like a rogue that's maxed out diplomacy and never put a rank into hide qualifying for Shadow Dancer. The minimum skill ranks requirement ensures that a person getting into that class has trained for it. I wouldn't be opposed to using "minimum total skill...

I have to agree with the posters that think your DM bit off more than he could chew. If he's a new DM, he has no business running a game at 14th level and randomly disallowing abilities simply because he doesn't understand how they interact with the rest of the game. I'd talk to him and ask to...