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In that instance, yes it would be a good idea, since the giants aren't likely to be very good spell casters if they have spells at all. Then again against giants I've found anything with a Will save at that level wins the fight for you anyway since giants have the worst Will saves I've seen in...

At that level taking out your spells isn't all that big of a deal. Most foes can beat the DC pretty easily, but odds are they'll do something else to just outright kill or incapacitate you. You'd be missing your level 9 spell when someone casts one at you. Most often its better to leave the...

Re: Re: Facing, long creatures and other things I can do it pretty easily, but a horse can't. Bipeds are more agile than four legged creatures in that respect, mostly because they can easily step to the side. But alot of creatures aren't built like horse, snake like creatures, and even felines...

Yep you got it. Thats why so many people have such a problem with clerics being too powerful. Course one dispel magic later and you're wishing you had all those high level spells back... but still probably worth it most of the time.

Re: huh? Thats what was intended. The +1 additional point makes up for your first level. For example at 2nd level a mage has say 6 hps (4 first level + 2 avg for second level). A half dragon mage gets 6 + 1 per level (2) +1 additional=9hp. Which if you look at a rogue with no Con bonus would...

I agree. Try to walk really slow for a day and see how exhausting it gets. You're throwing off your stride which makes movement uncomfortable over long periods. And like someone else said, try standing for 8 hours. Walking or standing the result is basically the same, you're tired. Now if the...

PHB actually. p150 And it only happens if the target rolls a 1 (not if they drop). Items are attended even if your killed. If someone wants to drop another fireball on your body to destroy your stuff more power to them, but I don't know anyone who would (PCs or NPCs). Thats like a mugger killing...

Well in all fairness to the dragon, I'd disallow dragon slaying weapons and the like, otherwise the dragons fighting 4-6 guys designed to kill it and equipped with +7 weapons against it. The dragon might have a pretty good chance if he picks his spells with the purpose of winning this fight...

Isn't Elven Chain just mithral chain mail (not chain shirt). Hence the better aspects come more from a chain shirt being better armor in most respects that chain mail.

The way I read it, barbarians don't get anything. The +1hp per level refers the average hps for the templated NPCs in the DMG (who get avg hit points and with a higher die type get +1 hp per level... all save the barbarian who gets nothing). Reread it again, but I'm pretty sure I'm right on it...

Personally if I spent a bunch of money and XP on an item and my DM told me it was cursed I'd (quite reasonably) get pretty angry and probably stop playing with said DM. Its fine to throw cursed items out, but making magic items isn't an easy thing for most PC due to time, money, and of course XP...

Consider the problems of DR in an antimagic field and you can see why its supernatural. To keep both players and DMs from making invincible fighters. Mostly helps the players though since few players have much natural DR compared to say dragons, devils and the like.

I use the same method as Gunman. I roll anything the players don't know the results of (searches, hides, etc) basically anything they'd look at the roll of and say "Well I screwed that up, I try again." It doesn't really come up all that often, and in some cases I let them roll these things...

I agree, theres something somewhere about not being able to stack bonuses from the same source (spells, etc) unless they specifically say it can be done. Last I looked you couldn't take Improved Init twice for double the effect, so you wouldn't get the feat twice in this case either. So for a...

Yes. Not to mention to have to all but change the game in order to figure out damn near everything (since its all in cubes/squares, etc). Seriously the 5', 10' ,5' thing works perfectly and has no real issues, and more importantly you can move in all the cardinal directions without problems.

And here I thought me and the dwarven cleric were the only ones! We shared a magic chain shirt to sleep in (one on watch one asleep). Sure takes a long time to put on that Full plate when something attacks in the night. As far as a good CDG weapon, my double axe always worked good, but like was...

DMG p58- Half Dragon (for applying to NPCs but thats irrellevant) "Hit Die increases one type to max of d12(fo rall but barbarian add +1 hp/lvl +1 additinoal hit point)" Normally your right, but races and templates are two totally different things. Templates change lots of things (look at...

Take a level of PsiWarrior for Standstill. Otherwise it would depend on the reach weapon (spike chain, glaive, etc).

vs 15-20 x2? Both seem good to me.

I've noticed that for many monster PCs they tend to be a bit too high in the ECL dept. Recently a player wanted to make a Gnoll (ECL +3) Barbarian, but he was also kicking around a dwarf/human barb/fighter. In the end the Gnoll had almost the same stats as an equal level dwarf (Attacks, hp...