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Nitpick: it isn't actually "memorizing" and "forgetting" so much as it is pre-casting spells so you can release them quickly in combat; think of it less like "I suddenly don't know how to cast fireball anymore..." and more like carrying around a pistol with 3 bullets, a grenade launcher with 2...

Ideally, for me, you'd have the four archetypal classes to start with, which I define as the "nonmagical combat guy" (fighter), the "nonmagical utility guy" (rogue), the "magical combat guy" (cleric), and the "magical utility guy" (wizard). Yes, the cleric and wizard both do both combat and...

There's a war mage (not warmage, war mage) prestige class in Dragonlance: Age of Mortals that gives you +1 damage per die at 1st level and another +1 at 3rd and 5th, as well as a bonus metamagic feat from a small list at 2nd and 4th. And you gain the ability to grant yourself and/or some allies...

It was in the 3.0 DMG, but isn't in the 3.5 DMG. The second paragraph of the 3.0 DMG contains the following: Why this wasn't addressed in the errata I'm not sure, but the designers are on record as saying that the first 3 paragraphs of the 3.0 DMG PrC section (a fluff intro paragraph, the...

I'd like to see specialization handled as a mix of the way the 1e illusionist and 3.5 psion handled their specialties: there's a base list of spells of all schools that a wizard can access, then there's a list of 1-3 spells per spell level of each school that only specialists can access. So the...

There are several problems with the sorcerer class. Aside from the skill list, this "fix" does not address any of them--and in fact, in the case of the grimoire, it even makes them worse. The sorcerer's real problems include, but are not limited to: 1) Delayed spell acquisition, getting...

What happens to a nation's currency after defeat depends on what happens to the nation. The value of a fiat currency is based upon the strength of the nation's economy and the trust in the nation's government to back it. (This is a vast simplification, of course, but it's close enough.) So...

How about a Wizard 5/War Weaver 5 (Heroes of Battle)? You can essentially pre-buff and drop up to 4 buffs with a move action in the first round of combat on your entire party, and throughout the combat you can continue to hit your entire party with buffs (even touch-range ones). Since you're...

You're right, sort of. There's a difference between 5 cubic feet (five 1x1x1 foot cubes) and a 5-foot cube or 5 ft3 (a 5x5x5 foot cube, or 125 cubic feet). The volume a character with 12 Wis can control is the latter amount, so while Rumble said 5 cubic feet (which would only have been 500...

While I'm not going to take a side in this discussion overall, I would like to clarify one point: As a matter of fact, it is important to include that line, because of the change in the way diseases worked from 2e to 3e. What are considered to be "magical diseases" in 3.0 were considered to...

And how do you deal with a PC with high Int and many knowledge ranks, who can look at a pixie and identify it? Or a player who's fought one before and remembers some of their powers? Players knowing the monster books backwards and forwards isn't a result of letting people play monsters, it's a...

It's not really a DM vs. players thing--when I say "think very carefully" I don't mean "I'm going to completely screw you over if you use this" I actually mean to consider whether you want to go ahead with the plan, and if you do the NPCs will adapt to suit as appropriate for those NPCs. This...

I use every 3.0/3.5 sourcebook and Dragon mags, because between all the players in my group we have all of them. I have two build/optimization rules to go with this policy: 1) Anything you can do, NPCs can do too; think very carefully before trying to break the game or do anything too cheesy...

So it would appear. I thought you were one of the posters on the "Planning ahead is evil munchkinry!" side of the last debate on the subject...? but perhaps it was someone else whose handle started with a k. Sometimes with good reason, yes, but on the whole the 3.0 weapon enchantments don't...

Planning ahead and making better choices are not the same thing. You could choose classes/chess moves entirely at random, and the person who gets a result of "take a level of Archmage"/"capture his queen" will still have made a better move than the person who got a result of "take a level of...

Alter Reality + Rejuvenation + Supreme Initiative + Divine Spellcasting are pretty much all a deity needs; wish at will plus auto-true resurrection plus always going first in combat plus having ridiculously high-level spell slots, combined with a deity's ability to see weeks or months into the...

As Rath mentioned, the only way for an area spell of any sort to damage equipment on you (barring ad hoc DM rulings) is for you to roll a natural 1 on your save, and the only way for you to target worn or carried items besides armor is to sunder or disarm them (you can't sunder or disarm armor).

Sneak attack does the same type of damage as whatever you're sneak attacking with, so sneak attacking with a morningstar deals [morningstar base damage + SA damage] piercing and bludgeoning damage. Again, SA damage is of the same damage type as the base spell, as explained in Complete Arcane...

An eidetic wizard doesn't need a spellbook for his free spells from leveling, but he still needs expensive incense to add any additional spells, which would not be available via this loophole. It's not really a good choice unless you're using Collegiate Wizard and the elven wizard substitution...

The wu jen (Complete Arcane) and shugenja (Complete Divine) are element-based oriental-themed casters, who both have fire specializations. The wu jen gets a +2 caster level boost with spells of his chosen element and a +2 on saves against same at 6th level, while the shugenja can sense the...