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Yes. Core rules for stacking multipliers involves adding the 'extra' damage together. x2 damage is adding one extra damage roll, x3 damage adds two extra damage rolls, so x2 and x3 together adds three extra damage rolls, for a total of x4. Which is what charging with a lance and the SC feat...

Only to the extent that making up your own rules to create broken characters is amusing. Personally, I find it rather dull & pointless. Seriously, what's the challenge?

You don't provoke an AoO when tripping with a weapon, reach or no reach. Only if you're tripping with an unarmed strike and don't have IUS or IT does a trip attack provoke.

Au contraire. The mathematics is assuming that every vampire victim rises as another full vampire, capable of itself infecting new victims. This leads to exponential population growth, which rapidly swamps the normal human growth rate unless the generation times for vampires are comparable to or...

Your consideration is greatly appreciated. I'd thought about picking up a DMG2 way back when, but after looking through it, decided $40 was just too much to pay ... Thanks to your tip, I picked up a copy yesterday, plus the Eberron supplements Five Nations and Explorer's Handbook, for just a bit...

That's because you're still thinking of the word 'intimidate' instead of the game concepts behind the effects of the Intimidate skill, within the D&D context. The idea is to use credible threats to get an opponent to react predictably in the way that you want. On the 'credible threat' side, bear...

Kinda sucks for the shapeshifting (PHB2) druid with a Periapt of Wisdom, though ...

The same thing that happens when you cast a maximized, empowered fireball using your own feats (with an 8th-level spell slot). Using a rod is just like using your own feat, except that the spell slot level isn't increased.

Death by Insanely Overpowered Fireballs (whispering): "Go ahead, light it. What could go wrong?"

And regarding the balance issues between a 0th-level and a 2nd-level spell that your DM is presumably concerned about--he shouldn't be. Having used this technique once, I can tell you without fear of contradiction that, as a method of coping with invisible opponents, it doesn't hold a candle to...

Nope, that pattern holds, even into epic levels.

Which issues were those in, Glyfair?

Yes. Mounted archers can make full attacks while their mount makes a single, double, or even running move. (See PHB 3.5 pg. 157.) So while your normal Scout can move, say, 40' and make one ranged attack with a skirmish bonus, a mounted Scout on a light warhorse could move 300' and take a large...

Yeah, but if you read his published papers, you'll see the limitations of that research methodology. "Why having your eye plucked out hurts like hell and ruins your depth perception" and "Why being hanged is even worse than having your eye plucked out" are not exactly classics of science ...

Bite damage is 1d8+10, regardless of whether the druid is making a single attack or a full attack. (The +1.5*Str to damage is for creatures that only have a single primary natural weapon, not for creatures with multiple natural weapons, even when the action taken restricts them to a single...

Our DM didn't worry about tracking normal arrows--until he realized the rate at which the archer was burning through them. A 1st-level character will buy a standard quiver with 20 arrows & maybe never think about it again. But a mid-level archer can easily burn through 20 arrows well before a...

Yeah--'cause it broke a general rule about illusions even in 3.0. For 3.5 they decided to keep the general rule & change the spell, rather than the other way around ... Only Evocation spells can create actual energy, including light. So if a spell is to illuminate an area, it must be Evocation...

MM 3.5 pg. 299, under the Full Attack heading: "The monster applies its full Strength bonus on damage rolls with its primary natural weapons, or 1-1/2 times its Strength bonus if the monster has only one primary natural weapon (for example, a wolf's bite)." And take a look at the monsters, eg...

Also, the critical hit entry in the Glossary of the PHB has 'extra damage dice', not just 'extra damage'.

We're kinda nervous about putting arrows in our bag of holding. :\ We do plan on getting her a QoE, either buying if we can find one for sale, or making one once our wizard gets high enough level to learn Leomund's Secret Chest. It'll be a great place to store her collection of magic arrows at...