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The ring only lets you control 12 HD worth of animals while you wear it. It is not the same as casting the spell. Casting the spell from a scroll is the same as casting it yourself. You can only use a scroll with use magic device or having the spell on your spell list.

The intent was not to have 1st level barbarians take it as a 1st level feat. It will be in the errata along with the 9x/day limit on shapechanging healing, no limit/full stackability of forsaker ability bonuses and a revision of SR stacking for forsaker and foe hunter. Too bad everyone getting...

Extra spell feat and extra slot feat are so underpowered its ridiculous. Extra spell feat should add one spell of every odd level (1,3,5,7) but not equal to or greater than the highest level you can cast. Taking it again should give a spell at every even level (0,2,4,6,8) with the same...

If you are going the trip route, don't stop at improved trip, go on to knockdown because its not worth the risk of getting tripped to get a touch attack instead of melee attack. There is an armor ability that reduces spell failure to 0%. Rage mage drops spell failure 10%.

You have to have the DR from a class ability, not as a class abililty. Great cleave is good for wading through peons, if you get reach, it becomes 3x as good. It definitely has more utility at very early levels than at epic levels.

An NPC wizard can just go out and kill a few marauding humanoids that threaten his community and rack up a lot of experience fast. A 6th level wizard still gets 300 xp per CR1 monster. NPC wizards are considered magical artisans for items they create so they only cost them 75% what it costs...

The answer is, YES, it is a God thing. See Deities and Demigods as it comes out in stores this month. People at WoTC got to read and playtest this book in advance. Dragon always prints things the month before the book comes out to make people want to buy the book. The same thing happened with...

Generally +3 HD or double, whichever is greater for dire. Dire increases the size of the creature one step if it was medium or small, two sizes if diminutive or fine. Step up the stats appropriately for size change. Add 5-7 pts to various attributes. Dire animals can scale up another 100% in HD...

Everyone is just saying the same things over and over regarding shields. I'm sure people reading the guide can manage to ignore the "best advice" on this one if they wish. The words "house rule" should be included in best advice however. I I Kung Fu Master doesn't use shields...

Hide in plain sight lets you hide while being observed. You just seem to fade away. Shining a lantern around isn't going to help unless you elimate all shadows within 10'. Its great if you want to escape, hide and then run for it. Its not so great for in and out maneuvers but with haste you...

Why is the squirrels base damage 3? Don't you mean -3 so when he sneak attacks he does 5d6-3 damage? Why was he more effective than your typical 9th level rogue? Whether a tiny creature can flank at all is good question. I guess you decided they could. All the animals can cast spells as normal...

The rules do not say it is a martial weapon when used two-handed, they say if you have martial weapon proficiency then you can use this exotic weapon 2-handed without penalty but you wouldn't want to because a real 2-handed weapon is better.

I concur that the +2 average damage for a bastard sword over a short sword is worth a +1 enhancement cost.

The exotic prof. would cover the weapon in all forms of use.

You aren't sneak attacking because as soon as you move up to attack you are spotted. Ready actions will hit you. Anyone other than the person you are attacking gets AoO for your movement. Hide in plain sight is a standard action as people have mentioned. You must have shadows within 10' of your...

The flametongue longsword isn't even a special weapon. Its a +3 equivalent longsword so should technically cost the difference between a +3 and +5 longsword but burst is such a sucky power it shouldn't count as more than flaming and charge for the upgrade from +2 to +4. You should let it be...

Yeah, your player is clearly confusing the ring for a rod of empowering or maximization. Items exist that have that effect but ring of wizardry isn't one of them.

PHB 277, middle of left column Damage reduction: A special defense ... but not from energy attacks... Barbarians have damage reduction as a class feature, but theirs is a special type that negates a set amount of damage from any source.

Awakened character already need a full round to stand from prone and draw a weapon. A partial action means choosing between standing up and drawing a weapon on the first round. No actions were taken in the round when you were woken or do you mean the awakened person gets a partial action...

Yeah, those slam attacks get 1.5x str bonus. I think the cube was supposed to have 17 str as it would have negative strength if you shrank it down to medium size but its attack bonus is figured as if it had 10 str. The cube has had 1d6+4 damage since before the monster manual was printed and the...