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Oh quite, absolutely; I was shooting for the best way to make a Dex-synergy Duskblade and not worry about Strength overmuch, as the OP's question was "...could you make an effective Duskblade based on DEX and INT?" I love the idea of going down the unarmed strike route and mixing up Duskblade...

Don't be afraid to ask advice from the table at large. There's no reason to feel you have to make all the decisions in isolation; if your role-playing group is any good they'll help you out with rules questions without bias... or without much bias, at least ;) I've been running 3e since...

You can't take 10 on an ability check, full stop: the "take 10" rule is for skill checks. If you mean "charisma-based skill checks", then as far as I'm aware, the answer is "no", or nearly so. There are class features that allow you to take 10 on certain charisma-based skill checks, such as...

Yeah, that's the whole list alright. I don't see anything about it that would make you want to drop a couple of Wizard levels though!

Hey, I'm just trying to give the benefit of the doubt here... My initial response was going to be "The real question is: why would anyone care what bonuses a character with 4 levels of Fighter and 4 levels of Swashbuckler gets?", but I'm always prepared to learn :p

Time for a T-shirt slogan: "Monks don't kill people: Wizards, Druids, Clerics, Warblades, Swordsages, Rogues and cheesed-out Barbarians kill people." Of course, I may have to work on the pithiness a bit.

Damn, I was thread ninja'd... that's what happens when your minions interrupt you in the middle of a post ;)

Having Permanency cast would be daft: not only is the spell not on the list of spells that can usually be made permanent, it's an expensive way to get the effect you're after. The minimum of 500XP for a permanent spell would make it cost 2,500gp (5gp per xp), plus 450gp minimum for the fact...

What parinho7 said. Otherwise, no. I'm shuddering slightly at the concept of Fighter4/Swashbuckler4, but there's probably a good build behind it that just hasn't occurred to me yet. On a related note, what's with this? (emphasis mine) The 1st level of Swashbuckler gives you +1 BAB. The...

Only time I've seen VoP result in genuine cheese was when combined with a Warforged Cleric with the Saint template... and even then, the VoP aspect was more about contributing to the character's overall unkillableosity[1] than upping their effectiveness on the battlefield. Besides, any build...

Take a level of Swordsage, picking up a Shadow Hand stance as you do so. Take the Shadow Blade feat. And now you get to add your Dex bonus to melee damage: it's not even instead of Strength, it's in addition to it :cool: Wait a few levels before you dip so your initiator level is high enough...

For the win: YES! Well, except for those rare occasions when you should. ;) No, if we're back to D&D equivalencies it just flat-out doesn't take the damage, any more than a warhammer used to deliver a 100hp smack upside the head takes 100hp-worth-of-damage-minus-hardness. In D&Dland, a...

LMAO! Yes, all of that and a bag of chips - well said! You've touched on another gripe of mine with ranged combat in D&D: you have to really, really specialise to be any good at it (or "be a cleric") and there's only a handful of builds that actually work through a range of levels. Whereas...

Not so. You were fine up to the point where you suggested that a tree would take 20d6 damage simply because it *dealt* 20d6 damage. If your car runs over a cat, the cat dies and all the car will feel is a slight bump. Taking your argument as read, anything that hits anything else will take as...

Not at second level, he didn't ;) Archer/Skirmisher and Archer/Sniper builds can be awesome, although my favourite are size Small characters who are thrown-weapon specialists. I'm getting a lot of cheesy goodness out of one of those right now :D At low levels, ranged attacking only keeps up...

From the PHB: "Unlike bonuses, penalties don't have types. Penalties add together, unless they're from the same power." Two Divine Challenges - even from different sources - wouldn't stack, but a Divine Challenge and an Enfeebling Strike do stack for a total of -4.

That's not what "unplanned maintenance" means. Unplanned maintenance is maintenance that you hadn't planned to do. It's corporate-speak for "I've fallen and I can't get up". However, this is extended unplanned maintenance (a somewhat mind-boggling concept all by itself) which I presume is...