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Beating someone in an opposed skill roll doesn't usually involve any death where as someone with +3 armor, +3 shield and +3 weapon will annihilate someone with only two +30 skill items UNLESS that person is in optimal situation where those items allow them to avoid that person, but against a...

Being able to swap out spells when you level makes for a nicer time of being a sorceror, whether its rechoose all your spells every level, swap out one spell of each level or just one spell of any level. This obviously deals with the problem of new supplements and spells becoming obsolete later...

You get the +2 the first time you shoot or every time if you have improved invisibility. This is entirely a separate issue from the target being flat footed. If the target lost sight of you then I suppose you could get another invisible attack. This is much easier if your hide is 30 or 40 over...

If someone with a high enough escape artist skill can squeeze through a wall of force I would definitely think that someone with a high enough spellcraft could tell where it was placed/going to be placed.

Its a double entendre, ambiguity of meaning arising from language that lends itself to more than one interpretation. The "I chain up a troll and use vampiric ability x on it a million times" has been overdone. Any attempt to bring it up again is a troll, to fish by trailing a lure or bait to...

I agree that the book no longer accepts spells for free but I say the bag of holding empties its contents on to the floor. I think there is some precedent for that.

The skills that have large bonuses are ones that are duplicated by low level spells. Jump is superceded by fly, Hide by invisibility, Move Silently by silence. Most skill items would work fine as single use item like the shards from the Psionics Handbook. How often do you need a +10 to...

Your number of worshipers affects your powers as a deity so you overlook a few deviances from your ideal to be more inclusive. A diety of one isn't much of a diety.

There is always true reincarnation and you get two rolls, don't lose a level and if both rolls are unacceptable, die and do it again.

I think Corwin is right and Shard is wrong ;) Ok, now on to the thread. Simply put, it does matter what you take in what order. If you take rogue as your first level then you get 8x skill pts, if you took fighter you only got 2x. The same thing applies if you start taking fighter at epic...

That's a much better wand than normal. The only bad thing for wielder is getting shocked and some of those attacks are strong.

I interpret it to mean character levels. If a character has 4 more levels than a character with uncanny (unflankable) then they can flank if they have sneak attack capability.

EL 8 is calculated from the fact that EL 1 is 2 orcs and each doubling of monster numbers is +1 EL, ergo 128 orcs is EL 8. A 5th level sorceror can decimate a horde of 128 orcs. 4 fireballs (or ice burst for 30' radius) will kill just about every orc. A rapid shot archer will thin out the...

Temporary is a named bonus type so other temporary things don't stack like a shambling mounts electricity bonus and such.

This is what zone of visibility is for. Nothing can be hidden from you within the zone. All invisibility and hiding are useless.

Items that grant +7 AC tend to cost 49k at a minimum. Mage armor is a 1st level spell but bracers of mage armor cost 16k. The thing about shield is that it is stackable with all other forms of defense which makes it immensely powerful.

The only two mount improving classes are the Paladin and the Windrider and the windrider is far superior. Druids have improving mounts of a sort.

Easier than making a wish is letting epic levels increase your BAB so fighters get 5 attacks, clerics get 4 and wizards get 3. Epic challenges are staggeringly difficult enough that an extra attack at -5 below their worst attack is going to be all that gamebreaking.

Gee, I'd do the same. Obviously its better to shoot the skiprock from a sling, especially if you are also letting halfling have a +1 racial bonus with the sling. The skiprock is not such an amazing item that one should have to use 2 feats to master it in all its forms.

It is so worth trading a feat for uncanny dodge that I can't believe people are debating it. You can't be a victim of sneak attacks unless you are caught flat footed. If you happen to have the fate domain as a cleric you have immunity to sneak attacks which normally takes 5 levels of barbarian...