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I didn't say we'd use the Fly spell. My paladin has a hippogriff mount. Circling up to 700 feet would be the work of a minute or two.

However, the movement seems to be away from giving PCs permanent "pets" that have to be treated as almost secondary characters. Note how the PHBII druid strips away the animal companion. I'm also remembering an article commenting on how familiars need to be more something that gives a...

It will fail if the den is in the sewers and all the dopplegangers happen to be in the sewers during the time period the spell is active. Only meeting up at certain times won't make it fail exactly, but it would mean locating only one doppleganger. It will fail if the city is large and no...

Now hold on. It's pretty clear from the spell description that if you were looking for the closest minotaur, and had seen a minotaur before, you could find the closest minotaur with no problem. Otherwise what does "a kind" even mean? The only question is if the change shape ability of the...

Serves me right for using the word 'type' carelessly when it is a term of art within D&D. We have a couple of doppleganger corpses to study as closely as we want. We are interested in finding any living ones that may be out there. (A corpse is of course an object and not a creature and will...

I'd suggest that unless this is attempting to convince the bad guy boss to act in a particular way, no skill checks are involved on either side. The bad guy boss has been presented with an item of information which is somewhat plausible. He will investigate and act upon the information as best...

As of last session, we've started having some problems with dopplegangers in a big city. I am thinking that we should just acquire a scroll of Locate Creature and use it to hunt down the nearest doppleganger for interrogation. (Well, ideally we would be able to use it to find their base.) Is...

Update: We played again this weekend. (We play every other Friday.) Roleplay heavy, not a lot of combat this time. Artificer tally: Managed to "talk down" a rampaging escaped zoo Chimera through roleplaying effort, knowledge of draconic, good usage of circumstances modifiers, and good roll...

One Wish alone won't get me there, as it can only create an item of 25,000 gp value and I think El has 30-ish HD. However, taking wish-provided inherent bonuses as an example, I think a reasonable DM would allow two Wishes cast in immediate succession to produce a gem of sufficient value.

Arguably, none of the conditions of Elminster's Evasion apply to 'Trap the Soul'.

The Artificer did in fact make himself an item of +5 to Use Magic Device and typically has no problem making Use Magic Device checks. Making checks isn't a problem for him. The player owns his own copy of Magic Item Compendium as well as Magic of Eberron. he has been making items out of the...

In all seriousness, "Trap the Soul" seems like your best bet. If you put it on an item and trick him into accepting it, there's no saving throw and no applicable spell resistance. Because he's not dead, he can't be brought back to life. Then dispose of the soul-gem in some suitably dramatic...

We are using action points. Yeah, he did that last time. After a series of dice rolls, he was able to cast one Quickened CL-1 magic missile and one regular CL-1 magic missile... in the same round! Cue 5 points of damage and all the other players struggling to hide their pity smiles. Then...

We had a 32 point buy, but he spread the points around a lot. I think his base stats were something like: Str-10, Dex-14, Con-14, Int-16, Wis-10, Cha-14 With Personal Weapon Augmentation he could be a decent archer, but he doesn't have precise shot and he's not proficient with anything except...

Okay, so we are playing Age of Worms in Greyhawk with 5 PCs, one of whom is a human Artificer. We just finished the Blackwall Keep adventure and are taking a couple of weeks of downtime before heading off to the big city. Half the party just made 7th level, and the other half is about another...

I think the fluff on Vow of Poverty is useless garbage that can safely be dumped. Lawful Neutral? Chaotic Evil? Not a problem. The mechanical point to the so-called "Vow of Poverty" has nothing to do with playing a good character. The point of it is to make a character who doesn't need to...

Well, first I think you have to separate that into two problems. Casting spells on voters versus casting spells on elected officials. Casting spells on elected officials isn't much different from casting spells on inherited nobles. Anti-charm and anti-dominate effects for people in positions...

There are several problems with this approach. 1. My experience is that reoccuring villains are a rareity in D&D. PCs don't like letting bad guys get away, and they can be pretty efficient at preventing it. Also, few fights have non-combatant witnesses. Combined, this makes learning specific...

They were all over. Just as an example, look at how the Warlock is possibly the most popular of the non-core classes in 3.5. It's not because the Warlock is so incredibly powerful. It's because lots and lots of people really love the idea of being able to "do something magic every round" and...

Um, what? I feel like I can say to a 99.9% certainty that WotC will certainly issue conversion guidelines. These will likely be equivalent to the 2E to 3E guidelines.