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Frostburn definitely has rules dealing with altitude sickness, and I imagine Stormwrack would probably be the place to look for stuff dealing with water pressure. And to round out the extreme environments set, look to Sandstorm for heat- and dehydration-related hazards. It's almost like they...

The thing that always bugged me most about clerics is the relative lack of distinction between clerics of different deities. Even with domains, the vast majority of your spells are still drawing from the same pool as every other cleric, even those of deities diametrically opposed to your own. Of...

I'm just going cut the thread derailment short and say that while your interpretation of RAW isn't strictly correct, that's actually a good thing. If you can justify the reasonable approach as being actual RAW, more power to you. Me, I think it's better in cases like this to just say that it...

Yeah, that's pretty much how tripper lockdown builds go. Combat Reflexes + Improved Trip + spiked chain for reach tripping. Add size increases to boost your reach and help you trip more effectively, get Stand Still to help with those foes you can't trip, and that's more or less the core of it...

None of that says anything about being proficient or nonproficient. The fact that you can't deal lethal damage with the unarmed strike without taking a -4 penalty doesn't mean it's somehow not a weapon or different from other weapons -- it's just a weapon that deals nonlethal damage, same as a...

There is in fact weapon proficiency for natural attacks, it's just not a feat you can take. If you read the creature type description in the Monster Manual, most types (humanoids being a notable exception) will be explicitly stated as being proficient with their natural weapons. Likewise, druids...

Improved Unarmed Strike is not the same thing as weapon proficiency. Humanoids are only proficient with the weapons given on their class list (if they have no class -- that is, if they only have racial hit dice -- then they're proficient with all simple weapons), and monks do not have unarmed...

Those are actually two of the easiest possibilities to plan for. If they side with the Elvenking, the campaign changes to the party working with the fey to stop other outsiders trying to thwart the Elvenking's plan. If they decide not to get involved, then it's pretty much game over -- they're...

Yep, there would be elven towns and cities in the forest where they could get such things. I don't think I'm going to have there be much in the way of "attacks" perpetrated by the fey. The expansion of the Elvenking's influence would mainly be a gradual spreading of the boundaries of the...

Thanks for all the tips, everyone! The thought of splitting the fey into different factions had crossed my mind, but I'd initially rejected it because I felt like it diminished the power of the Elvenking, making him a less imposing threat. However, thinking about it more carefully, it would...

Technically speaking, if you're sticking to RAW, monks probably aren't proficient with unarmed strike... While generally speaking it is a good idea to stay as close to RAW as possible, in many cases this causes a lot of problems. 3.x especially is bad on this point. In this particular case with...

That's pretty debatable, given that it is described as being "wielded as a heavy shield". Doesn't explicitly state that it's a shield bonus, but the intent is very clearly implied and most DMs would probably interpret it that way. Even if you do take it as being an untyped bonus, the fact that...

Worse than paladin, certainly not bad. The paladin gets his Cha bonus to all saves, whereas the crusader only gets the bonus to Will, plus the paladin has an added incentive to put a few extra points into Wis, which further boosts the Will save. But yeah, crusaders still have pretty good saves...

I would say working out a NG paladin variant with your DM is probably the best option, but if you want to go with strictly RAW classes your best core class option is cleric. As long as you're up for tangling with Vancian magic rules, a cleric can be an even better tanky-style fighter than a...

I haven't really run games all that much before (a single one-shot for my family when I was home for Christmas, but that's it), but I recently got an idea for a campaign I'd really like to run. Unfortunately, there are a couple aspects of the concept that present some issues that I'll need to...

Pardon the thread necromancy, but seeing as this seems to be a recurring question (I found no fewer than three threads on this board alone, each several years apart from the others, through a general google search for the weapon to try to figure out details about its use for some homebrew stuff...