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Does anyone know of a Human Sorcerer character option that would grant Diplomacy as a class skill? All WOTC books and dragon magazine available, 3rd party books with GM approval. I have looked through the WOTC books I own (most of them) and have not found any.

Heck, I didn't even know anyone who used them at the time. That aside, as much as class level is a metagame thing, relative gauge of individual power level is not. Since many things in D&D are based off of character level (e.g. effects of dragonfear or a sleep spell, what spells you can cast)...

Let them run. Then have them make balance, climb or dexterity checks for every 5 feet of movement, less often if you are feeling more generous, but I wouldn't go less then once a round. These checks should be quite hard, but allows for particularly focused characters to pull it off. Of...

I have decided that I really want to get the Deflective Armor feat for my dwarf fighter/rogue (what can I say, I like the +14 or so to touch AC), which will require me to get the Wild Talent feat so that I can be psionically focused. I could have sworn there were magic items that made use of...

It is worth noting that this one of the issues that 4E tried to address by taking away most of the caster utility spells and giving fighters and other defenders more 'stickiness'. The result has been a decent game system that no longer feels like D&D...

Nice build to keep in mind, though the lack of a spell list hampers the analysis. Was there something you were trying to point out besides that being restricted to PHB isn't that bad? Not trying to be snarky, it has just been a long day and my brain is on a bit of auto-pilot. :yawn:

You noticed I said no one is playing an arcanist, but what specifically did you have in mind?

Semantics One could argue that the entire purpose of this thread is to discuss houserule suggestions, but anyhoo... I would definately suggest that any GM who feels they need to restrict spell acquisition make it clear up front what those restrictions are, since being told on a case by case...

I'm trying! ;)

Be that as it may, I would agree with Arrowhawk that the nature of arguing about rules defiantely changed between 2nd and 3rd editions. Rules 'lawyering' as seen in 3rd was driven largely by appeals to the Rules and Written or Intended. As Arrowhawk put it, what happened in 2nd edition was...

Ultimately, balance is not about all characters being equally useful in all situations, it is about everyone having their time in the sun, which is up to the GM to ensure, provided that the players have made characters that are a reasonable fit for the campaign.

If you don't mind me asking, what reason was given for you playing a s/b? It seems an odd thing to force on someone and knowing the reason makes it easier to meet the intent while giving the player (you) more flexibility.

Overall I prefer the 3.x over 2nd. The thing I like most about 3.x is that took a lot of the arbitrary GM calls out of the games by providing rules to cover most situations. However, I will admit that most bad rule calls in 2nd were from bad GMs (What do you mean the orc chief reachs around me...

Actually, the fact that crossbows are simple weapons and bows are martial covers the ease of use angle. The damage also seems reasonably balanced since crossbows have a die higher damage dice. True, they do lose out on the strength bonus, but overall, I have felt they did a pretty good job...

I like to think so, welcome aboard!

I am going to agree with those who said more information is needed, namely, what is the crime and who is the deity. That said, since one of the facets of a CN religion is usually a lack of a strong hierarchy or central control, who exactly is going to disapprove? Other individual clerics? Who...

The Longbow/Quarterstaff is an Elvencraft bow from Races of the Wild (3.5 Edition Book). It can be used freely as both a longbow and a quarterstaff in the same round without penalty and costs 300 gp more then a normal bow. It says NOTHING about not drawing AoOs when used as a ranged weapon and...

It has been several years since I played D&D 3.5E and I don't recall if the following debate was ever firmly settled: A fighter with the Heavy Armor Optimizatin (HAO) Feat (+1 armor bonus, reduce check penality by 1, Races of Stone) finds a suit of Mithral Full Plate (counts as medium armor for...

So if the rider is allowed a save, no comment on cancel teleport vs. tag along rider?

I agree that the May update seems to make it pretty clear (I cited it at the beginning of the thread), the GM doesn't feel that it is in the spirit of the June update that essentially says that you can't use teleport to drop someone without a saving throw and asked me to follow up. Any others...