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How would I deal with this? I'm Epic level. I'd sneer at the Marut, hack it to pieces/blow it up/rip it apart (depending on my class) and ask the agents of Law how many others they have to throw into a fire, because that one made a nice morning exercise. And if the punk got lucky, the rest of...

Empower is a great feat for a 6th level sorcerer. It lets you put an applicable lower-level damage spell to good use. Always a winner.

I hope they can find a way to make traps fun, no matter what the level. Current problems: 1. "Guess the square" searching. Either your specialized trapsmith searches every single square (time-consuming and non-heroic) or the player (not the character) has to successfully guess which square...

You used a lot of unecessary words and left out some crucial ones. Any medium-sized bipedal creature of level-appropriate challenge rating and within melee range is toast against a high strength fighter. Period. The half-orc barbarian in my Pathfinder game is using a spiked chain. It's not...

The swarm was bad. It came closest to killing us of everything in the Whispering Cairn. I might suggest swapping it out for another monster. In fact, that's a tactic you would be wise to keep in mind throughout Age of Worms. Sure the big bosses/fights are all specially statted and junk, but...

My group has found that Age of Worms is much less lethal if you import the Action Point mechanic from Eberron. It helps to both make those crucial saves and to drop big bads one round early by nudging your to-hit roll just over the AC (often the difference between life and death).

No it doesn't. After the Death Knight is destroyed, the soul weapon reverts to being merely a weapon of badassery. You have to kill the Knight before you can claim its weapon. Heh. "Say Mr. Death Knight, how come you keep your soul weapon sheathed at your side and use that ranseur all the...

You know, the spell you're actually looking for is Zone of Silence. It provides you a personal 5 foot square of personal silence that moves with you, giving perfect stealth (without hindering spellcasting). I know what you're asking yourself. What obscure splatbook did he pull that one out...

This is in the Rules forum and not the House Rules forum, so it should be said that there's nothing in the game rules prohibiting a +0 LA race with a wisdom bonus. Guidelines in the DMG and elsewhere advise that this is the sort of thing that needs careful thinking, but race design is a DM...

No love for the girallon? Carnivorous white-furred giant apes are classic pulp fantasy monsters. The Girallon would be right at home in a Conan story. I do think the stats could be toned down some so they're not so much the ultimate melee monster. Currently nobody dares face these things...

No, no. With Sigil the base of the spire is in the Elemental Tempest and the top of the spire is in the Astral Sea. Somehow. And they say that if you search long enough, you can find where it passes through the Prime. It's the spine of the universe.

I'd say that "Ethereal Plane" + "Plane of Shadows" = Shadowfell. I'd picture Shadowfell as the place that ghosts fade into and out of when they manifest and de-manifest. It also works okay for Blink and spells like that. What do you really need the Ethereal for if you have Shadowfell? Puts...

There's a difference between deciding you don't want to travel with someone and leaving them in a safe situation (what Elan's former mentor did) and abandoning someone who counted on you when they're in serious trouble. If after rescuing Elan, Roy had told him, "That's it, you're out of the...

We don't know that. Associating with Belkar was brought up at the end of the strip, and the angel hasn't yet gotten a chance to discuss what it means. Certainly Roy's relationship with Belkar deserves a little examination. Is he ignoring Belkar's bad deeds because Belkar is serving Roy's ends...

I think with Simulacrum, we need to go back and look at the original intent of the spell. The idea is to present an option for the classic, "wizard substitutes a subservient duplicate for the highly ranked person". The idea is not to get a powerful minion for combat or useful spell-like...

I think it could work if turned into a super Dispel Magic. Normally it acts like a Dispel Magic cast as an area, except: A. Every magical effect (and item) in the area must make a check, rather than 1 per creature. B. There is no cap on caster level bonus to the check. C. Items that are...

Well, actually siloing is probably more like if he has 1 slot for battle spells and 1 slot for utility spells. He no longer has the option to go all one or the other, but it's okay because the bad guy wizard is in the same boat, and the game is designed with it in mind that he'll only have 1...

I like the idea that one of the primary uses of Familiars is to do "Aid Another" for non-physical skills. To me, the classic familiar image is of the small animal perched on the table as the wizard does his work, reminding him when he forgets something and making small suggestions that improve...

Well, technically the easiest way would be for the DM to just decide if it works or not.

I'm going to change my answer to, "whatever is best for the plot". Opposed rolls between two NPCs can be fiated.