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Actually, both cases would allow you the AoO. AoOs provoked by movement are made before the provoking movement occurs, so with a reach polearm you'd be hitting them while you're in the square 10' away from you. This article (Rules of the Game: All About Attacks of Opportunity (Part One))...

If you want to treat it that way as a houserule based on your above reasoning about distractions/divided attention, that's fine assuming your group is ok with it. But by RAW, moving "out" of a threatened square simply means leaving said square, regardless of the direction you're moving in. The...

One I can think of off the top of my head is the Brutal Strike feat from PHB2, which lets you sicken an opponent as part of a Power Attack with a bludgeoning weapon. I imagine there are probably a few other feats like that out there somewhere, but I don't know of any specific ones offhand. I...

I'd say pretty much anyone who plays RPGs values verisimilitude in some form or another; the issue is that what some find helps their sense of immersion and verisimilitude, others find to be a hindrance. Some people prefer rules-light systems because those keep the focus on player decisions and...

For a 9th-level spell, you're going to need something a lot more significant than 20 ft of pushing to make it a worthwhile tactical spell. For a spell slot that high level, the tactical effect is so minor that I would look at it as primarily a damage spell, with a small bonus. And like I said...

This is very similar to a Fireball with the Explosive Spell metamagic and the same effective spell level, so I'm going to use that as a point of comparison. The Explosive Fireball deals far more damage (not only does it deal more dice of damage on the main spell at any level before 20, it...

Not really (hypnosis and discipline are pretty different concepts), but even if it were I'd still favor "autohypnosis". It's not that "discipline" isn't accurate as such, it's just that it doesn't feel very psionic. "Discipline" is a very mundane word, and that simply won't do for this purpose.

I like "Acuity" for the attack bonus sorta thing, but the term "Discipline" seems a little too broad in scope to be used for psionics. I second steeldragons's statement that psionics is mainly defined by terminology and flavor, so the skill should be named something that is clearly recognizable...

I'm definitely going to use Petals at some point in my fey forest campaign.

I have a huge text file full of ideas for these kinds of items lifted from the threads on the subject that tend to come up from time to time on 4chan. Here are a few of my favorites: Rod of Rod: Points to the nearest guy named Rod when the command words 'Hey, Rod' are spoken. A bag that, once...

Huh, interesting. I was not aware of that origin story. Though I do stand by my point that Stoker's character of Van Helsing bears little resemblance to the D&D cleric, whether or not you consider a position in the heirarchy of the church to be an important part of the class. But then again...

The main thing I like to see in a skill system is a rough parity in value of each skill. When a skill that's largely just a point of flavor and is more or less irrelevant to the overall course of events costs the same amount of XP (or whatever your currency of advancement is in the system) as...

I'm mainly a player, and I'd say my preference depends on the context. For combat, though I've never actually paid much attention to it while playing, intellectually I'd say I prefer rolls in the open. I know I tend to get kind of worked up during high-tension, challenging fights, and I feel...

For the record, I'm actually quite a fan of 3.x; I just think it's important to be able to look at the rules of a game -- even your favorite -- with a critical eye and that any game will run more smoothly for everyone involved if you're accepting of the fact that sometimes the rules are...

Maybe flat extra damage wouldn't be a great idea, but what about giving +5 damage against extreme-aligned enemies with DR that your attack doesn't bypass? Since you're only partially mitigating the DR rather than bypassing it completely, that would compensate for the increased versatility.

That's actually only true if the PrC grants a familiar or states that it advances existing familiars. Very few do.

Nothing legal, as far as I know.

I've been thinking lately about monks, and specifically the alignment restrictions. While the lawful-only restriction makes sense if you think of monks as studying rigorously in a temple or dojo, I feel like that only captures one kind of monk, and you could easily have monks that follow...

I don't recall it featuring anything resembling the D&D cleric...Van Helsing uses religious items to combat Dracula, but he's a lay member in the church (albeit a devout one). He may be the archetypal undead hunter, which is certainly one niche the D&D cleric fits well in, but he's really more...

Reminds me of just a few months ago in the pirate campaign I'm playing in where a fair chunk of the loot we got from raiding an aristocrat's mansion was in the form of coffee, tea, sugar, spices, and salt that we stole from the pantry. We fenced most of it, but kept some of the coffee and tea...