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Wounding is about as good as holy if your target has 14 or more Hit Dice. Whether or not wounding is overpowered depends greatly on the type of enemies your PCs face. If they face single, powerful, living foes, then wounding may well be better. If they face groups of enemies, or non-living...

Check the Space and Reach diagram starting on page 308 of the DMG.

I've posted these previously, but they were deleted during the database crash a few months ago, so here they are again! Its a mix of various types of feats. There's some psionic feats, divine feats, a lot of fighter-oriented feats, and various other things.

I'm not sure why a dagger and a longsword would deal different amounts of damage if damage represents the amount of physical trauma the weapon can inflict. A dagger, a short sword, and a longsword can all cause a puncture wound deep enough to pierce vital organs, which is the primary way you're...

Have you ever noticed that the unarmed strike is a simple weapon, and monks don't have proficiency with simple weapons? I voted that unarmed strikes aren't natural weapons. There isn't a single rules quote indicating that they're natural weapons, so the obvious conclusion is that they're not...

A player once assassinated a king. The council of elders (a sort of cabinet or advisory body) swept into power during the confusion. (The king was the last of his line, so there wasn't even a proper succession battle. No one had a legitimate claim to the throne, and the generals of the army were...

I would say that you could hold the charge in the weapon, but I don't think there's a clear RAW position.

3-5.

Nope. Instead, magical weapons have greater hardness and hit points. Every +1 enhancement bonus grants +1 hardness and +10 hit points.

Remember that message you'd get in Baldur's Gate? "The mechanism that operates this door does not have a conventional lock, and may be warded against simple spells". That drove me nuts, and drove me to pen-and-paper RPGs. I ended up playing D&D because that's what the game used. Of course, by...

This was a d20 Modern game with lots of supernatural elements. We were trying to rescue a hostage from a mind flayer. We had fought our way through the mind flayer's guards, and had arrived in the mind flayer's penthouse on the 10th floor. The mind flayer grabs the hostage and jumps out the...

I've never seen training in a game. People gain a level at the end of a session in which they earned enough XP to do so.

Well, in my new campaign, which has lasted 4 sessions, I've killed the elven warrior, the dwarven cleric (twice), and the human warrior, so I'm going to say "lots". Because I tend to have such a high fatality rate, though, I "soften" returning from the dead. No level loss and no material...

I would change Power Attack in two ways: first, every -1 penalty suffered on attack rolls would grant a +2 bonus to damage rolls, regardless of the weapon used, and second, the maximum allowed penalty would be -5 (for a +10 damage bonus).

I'd allow you to affect a stone wall as a single piece of stone. It affects such a small area anyway, I don't think it makes much difference. At 5th level, when you first get the spell, it affects a 2.5' X 2.5' X 2.5' cube, which means it will require several castings of the spell to get through...

My elves are hunter-gatherers.

Plane shift has a target of "creature touched". You can use it as a makeshift save-or-die by sending people to the Abyss.

I wouldn't think a character could speak orc without lips. If you look at the examples we have of orc, the half-orc example names in the PHB, almost all of them would be impossible without vocal cords, lips, and a tongue. For reference, the names are: Dench, Feng, Gell, Henk, Holg, Imsh, Keth...

Well, there's no penalty for failure on Hide checks. You can't hide when there's anybody around to Spot you, so you can obviously make Hide checks when there's nobody around. Based on the rules, I think its indisputable that you can take 20 on Hide.

In 2E, a shapechanged druid "takes on all of [the] creature's characteristics--its movement rate and abilities, its Armor Class, number of attacks, and damage per attack". Its pretty simple.