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Looks like the WotC is down riht now, but the half-celestial was broken down into templat levels in the old Savage Progressions series of articles, along with half-fiends, werewolves, werewolf lord, half-fey, and some others.

I'm looking at altering these two lovely spells somewhat to reduce lethality but maintain the power level for these spells for their level and for their relatively confiend conditions of their use (one needs living plants, the other needs an enclosed space of some kind - two walls, etc.). A...

Quote please? Maggot: that sounds like a pretty decent way to handle special materials in general, though I'd put Mithral at +1 and Adamantine at +2 likely, retaining the material cost and relative rarity. Gah, snag! That helps medium armors alot! With all of the armor check penalties that...

You are mistaken, here's the relevant quote: Very cearly says these armors are considered one category lighter only for movement and other limitations such as the barbarian's ability only works with light or medium armor. Same would go for a ranger, who'd be able to use their TWF while...

Yea a good dispel and that character plops to the ground dead, yikes. Still, should Delay Death even be a 3rd level spell?? Sounds like a minimum of 4th or higher heh.

Hehe, that would be the correct interpretation. Mithril only reduces the armor's encumbrance from heavy to medium, doesn't change the type of armor it is. If the character doesn't know how to wear havy armor then they have trouble wearing mithril full plate lol. Never understood folk taking the...

Reduce the FS's base spells/day cast by one, allow them to select a domain and add these spells to their spells known, and turn undead as a paladin...and then the class actually starts looking good! ;) Edit - Oh yea and take out Knowledge (Arcana) and put in Knowledge (Religion). Always looked...

I'd like to alter the spellcasting for all divine casting base classes to all use a similar spellcasting mechanic to that of the Complete Divine's Spirit Shaman. Has anyone given this much thought or done this yet? If so, any pointers? Rather than having the divine casters (Cleric & Druid are...

Die-Hard should still allow the berzerker to act normally, I'd say they go down when non-lethal damage brings them to -10. Afterall, if a spear slicing through the berzerker's thigh bone won't knock him out, I doubt a punch to the head will faze the big guy much. :p

Had an evil group of PCs that struggled and fought to save the world from complete destruction, out of self-interest mind you...but they still did it! ;) Even villains can be heroic from time to time! One of my favorite books on "evil" heroes: Villains by Necessity by Eve Forward, which I based...

Try 4d6 (drop lowest) rolled 7 times (drop lowest score) and place scores where desired, ability scores with a total modifier +5 or less are re-rolled. Produces above average results for heroic characters, might be what your looking for in a higher powered game at low-levels (with the rare...

Bah, it's been iterated in the FAQ how the designers think the lance handedness should work (contradicting the RAW as a purposeful excercise) and will likely be how the rules for lances will be presented in future D&D editions. I'd start getting used to em now. Then again, how many of us already...

Right, as some folk have already mentioned, that would be the craft feat in Complete Arcane: Craft Contingency Spell. Allows up to a maximum of 1 contingency spell/level. The character can have as many as they want but must pay GP = spell level x caster level x 100gp and 1/25 of this amount in...

For buffs you want the Transmutation school. For opposition schools I usually go with either enchantment & necromancy or enchantment & illusion. For a good-aligned caster I try to steer away from necromancy and for a noble caster I usually opt out on Illusion too - no sneakiness or subterfuge...

Here's what I use for a Wizard, I use sheets with the full spell list (with spell summaries) when playing divine casters. Sorcerers get a straight and easy fill in the known spell blank sheet. Edit - Happen to be playing a 1st level Cloistered Cleric atm, here's the 1st page of the spell sheet...

Even using a creature's # of HD isn't perfect since a creature can have a some powerful special abilities to go along with those HD. Really using a creature's ECL would be the best way to go about it, though you'd run into the problem that most creatures do not have a LA so you can calculate the...

That's right, but I believe Pyrex was talking about items on the character, which do need to be targeted individually. The neat thing is that a character could chain a Dispel Magic to hit multiple magic items on a single character as well! Excellent use of the chain spell metamagic feat, thanks...

Complete Adventurer: Bloodhound (can qualify for at 4th level)

A Priestess of Lolth without access to her daily spells would be properly equipped with magic items to supplement her lack of spellcasting power. So instead of daily casting she has a couple wands and several scrolls, very precious items the remaining priestesses use to maintain the illusion of...

Wow, that's a real stretch there if I've ever seen one. While mounted, you can wield a lance in one-hand. A character then wields the lance as a one-handed weapon. To wield as a 2-H weapon they must use 2 hands. With a special feat a 2-handed weapon is wielded in one-hand, so this 2-H weapon...