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I see comments about the brutal strike not being expended on a miss, but in the power, I don't see anything for a "miss" effect. Am I missing something obvious?

Yay. In any treasure system you have to make sure you're not giving inappropriate treasure (not too much, not too little, etc.), so you might as well be up front about it.

I noticed that a lot of the low level monsters are quick little buggers (goblins + kobolds, etc.), so they have relatively high ref defense, which could be annoying for casters.

I just had a thought of the arhetypical ham-fisted raildroader DM who loves to punish errant PCs with the dreaded Paladin Squad (you know, "I intimidate the innkeeper to get a free drink" "ok, but then 4 high level paladins come and smite you for being evil"). Now said railroading DM has a new...

Like Mialee.

The target wastes its turn shouting "come out and face me, you coward!"

Yep, it's a great tactic. But remember that temp hit points don't stack, despite some people out there twisting logic and reason in an attempt to make temp hp from the warlock pact stack. And I figure the fact that you are getting "easy" temp hp from minions is balanced out by the fact that...

I dunno, I wouldn't be criticizing a sharpshooter's dance steps. Darn it, now I'm making intimidate tied into dexterity too! :uhoh:

Just remember that you can only use sneak attack once per round; even if you are a dual-wielding superstar attacking a blinded, dazed, flanked orc barbarian, you only can sneak attack with one of your attacks.

I always thought of Hennet the sorcerer in the 3e books. Leather armor? Bad. But I guess it's ok to wear clothing that looks like 47 leather belts buckled all over your body. And the 3.5 shield rules are nuts. You only need one hand free to cast a spell; you can carry a shield in your other...

Yah, I wish there were more better 1st level humanoids than kobolds and goblins. Sure, those are fun choices, but how about an enemy that isn't all shifty all the time?

Sounds more like an artifact sort of thing than random powerful magic item thing. A +5 sword? Nah, it's not gonna melt your brain. A +5 sword that happens to also be the Lost Blade of Kord? Handle With Caution.

For magical zones, etc. they tend to be warding/protective effects, so if you're making a powerful magical trap, logically you'd want the magic to be hard to detect. Though I did always like the magical glyph which has the property of being magical... that's all it does: appear magical and...

What if you hit the minions for 23 hitpoints of damage when they only have 5 extra hp?

How about Arcana, nature, religion, and streetwise skills to identify minions? Arcana: "You have read that the legion devils are the common footsoldiers of the devil armies" (hint hint, minion). Nature: "You know that the spear-wielding goblins are likely to be the runts of the tribe."...

With a fun bonus! Because doppelgangers can't morph their clothing, to look like a ghost it would have to strip. Nekkid doppelghosts!

Exactamundo. I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a +6 hand crosswbow, the most powerful crossbow in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've got to...

You've articulated exactly what I was thinking but more succinctly than I could. Always make minions obviously minions.... so that when you don't it's a total rat-bastard surprise! It would get really tedious if minions were typically indistinguishable from regular monsters (players would be...

For a berbelang type monster, I'd just take a regular monster and duplicate it with none of this messy bloodied hit point math stuff. "The Sword Demon you're fighting suddenly splits into three duplicates!"

It means that just like the rest of us, minotaurs can never understand what the heck is going on in the show "Lost."