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Because the prices of poisons have been inflated to 'balance' with other one-shot damaging phenomena (i.e. spell scrools / potions) you could quite justifiably allow crafting of poison to follow the same rate as for magic items - one day per 1,000gp worth.

I like the system of rolling for hp, and allowing any number of re-rolls, with the proviso that a cumulative -1 applies to each subsequent re-roll. So if you roll a 3 on your d10, you can roll (d10-1); if, for example, you roll a 3 again, you get 2 hp - with the option of re-rolling, but now on...

What about the exact instant when casting a spell? I remember a discussion here (quite a long time ago, and definitely before 3.5) around the question of an opponent attempting to grapple (or disarm, or bull-rush etc) a mage in response to spell-casting. Does the mage continue to threaten, and...

I've used (and recommended on these very boards!) exactly the same method, and feel it works well.

Morbidity forgot to mention that one of the major requirements of the system is that it not facilitate the DM playing cruelly with the characters like a particularly sadistic cat given the run of the rabbit-hutch. Not that I don't trust her completely....

Also remember that although they allow an 'extra' save (either allow a save for spells that normally don't, or two saves instead of one for those that normally do,) the saves are based on the level and type of the underlying Shadow spell. So, for example, a gnome with Greater Spell Focus...

I agree that the only real point of Overrun is as part of a Charge (to get past the weedy minion blocking the way to the BBEG.) I could even see a ruling that if the minion wants to get in your way that you spend your action knocking him down and can't also make an attack, but it seems kind of...

I have no idea what kishkery is, but it sounds bad :uhoh: Perhaps leaving it at +4 is reasonable if you make it a move-equivalent action. That way the Sorceror can cast two spells in a round, but cannot metamagic (beyond the Quicken itself) either of them. I think +4 levels and quick or...

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The only problem I have with the spell is when combined with Arcane (or Divine) Reach abilities. The spell as written is balanced by the fact that it's a touch attack, so you have to get near (and hit) the opponent. With A/DR added, that balancing factor is removed. Still, I have to wonder if...

Actually, I think restricting spontaneous Quicken is a necessary balance mechanism, given that the Sorceror gets more spells per day and more flexibility to choose spells than the Wizard. Having said that, I don't know that it is fair to prevent the Sorceror from Quickening altogether - in a...

If a(n Epic) Bard takes Improved Spell Capacity to gain a 7th level slot, could she thereby become eligible for the Archmage Prestige Class, or would having a 7th level slot through that Feat not be considered the same as being 'able to cast 7th level arcane spells.'

Knowing that your inscrutability often hides fonts of wisdom (for want of a better term) - how do you see 9th level spells (other than, perhaps wish and the imprisonment/freedom dyad) as 'plot devices'?

Yes, you are absolutely correct. I think I'm pretty close to moving to spell points...

Looking at p150 of the Complete Warrior it seems clear to me from the context (talking about characters with a spellcasting Prestige Class that adds to the caster level of a base class) that the "character level" in that paragraph should instead read "caster level". I suspect that the idea...

There is a bonus granted to the save if the suggestion seems unreasonable - so 'run away and abandon your friends' might grant a save bonus to a steadfast Lawful Good Paladin. On the other hand 'I am only a minor danger! You should quickly run to protect your friends from the great danger that...

You're both right, in a way. Once you hit Epic levels in terms of your total character level, you no longer gain BAB and saves as per the standard progression, but rather by the Epic Progression. On the other hand, when advancing in a class, you gain class abilities (other than BAB and saves)...

By the letter of the rules, it probably doesn't stack, but I've always been a firm believer in the heretical proposition that there is some room for common sense in interpreting rules ;) The best analogy I can draw is the Natural Armour bonus for Druid Animal Companions / Wizard familiars...

While technically enhancement bonuses don't stack, I would treat the Sacred Fist's bonus as increasing the enhancement bonus granted by the monk class rather than being a separate enhancement. It still wouldn't stack with the bonus from, for example, Boots of Striding and Springing, but a...

I agree with Pax that levels sacrificed to level adjustment shouldn't be treated as levels able to be 'gestalted' with another class. However, as KaeYoss suggested, a gestalt level is 'worth more' than a regular level, and so I would be inclined to allow the sacrifice of fewer gestalt levels...