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Good job! I always hated the Shadowdancer PrC and banned it because it made no damn sense at all. Now I think I'll probably use your version instead.

Technik4--I like the general concept of the feat you created. I'll probably end up doing a version of my own, though, since I created some spells that I'll definitely have to specify how they'll interact with the feat (subvert magic, for instance, which causes a spell to "forget" who cast it)...

So what do you do if you roll a 1 for your half-orc's Intelligence score, ending up with an Intelligence of -1 (!!!) after racial modifiers? Talk about an intellect rivaled by gardening tools!

... And now I feel stupid for not noticing that. Oh well, that's what a public hearing is for.

Eh, I was thinking loose earth. The earth has been formed into dozens of hands, the target has probably struggled quite a bit kicking up dirt as they go down, and the ground has had a creature forcibly dragged down through it. It's quite violent, actually. If it magically parted the earth and...

Look at it this way: if you tried adding the stat mods BEFORE spending points, you wouldn't be able to get the 19 or 20 scores that races with a +2 to something ought to be able to get, because there is no entry in table 2-1 allowing you to buy scores higher than 18.

So, now who casts the specialized spells that sorcerers can't be expected to waste slots on to know? And who makes the items that depend on those spells?

You don't need a ton of feats. You just need one. You seem bothered by the fact that not just any Joe Schmoe can make an item as efficiently as someone who has devoted a considerable portion of their time and energy (in the form of feats) to mastering their craft. Does it seem unfair to you that...

It doesn't seem overpowered to me, at least not when compared to polymorph other to turn the target into a fish out of water. Polymorph other doesn't require a ranged touch attack in addition to a saving throw. But this spell cuts in half the amount of time the target can hold its breath, and...

See if your DM will allow you to "upgrade" the shield guardian into a runic guardian (from the Monster Manual II), in the same way you can add capabilities to an existing magic item. You could try and do this gradually, incrementally adding the capabilities of the runic guardian into the shield...

Yes, I think the dispel magic/shatter trick should work. Normally, though, it isn't a very sound tactical choice... Unless, perhaps, that same spellcaster has a bunch of gargoyles or other creatures with damage resistance backing him up. "He's really making mincemeat out of my pet gargoyles with...

(Neat, nested quote tags work.) I should have been more specific in my original statement. Not all uses of poisons are morally equivalent. One very important reason that evil people like poison is that you can poison someone's food or otherwise harm or kill someone in such a way that is very...

The person with the orderly mind is likely to desire such order in the world around him as well, and the simplest way to do that is to support the existing order--and if it needs changing, change it from within (so as to maintain order). But obviously this won't be the case for everyone. I'm...

Some new assassin spells in the Book of Vile Darkness have the [evil] descriptor. A non-evil character can cast evil spells--he just won't stay non-evil for very long if he does so. The only restriction with regards to casting spells with an alignment descriptor is found in the class abilities...

The reason the assassin has a very small list is the fact that he, and the organization that trains him, is very tightly focused. If it doesn't impact very directly on stealthy killing, he isn't interested and doesn't study it. An assassin who IS interested and DOES study magic beyond the bounds...

Kir-lanan gargoyles from the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting are also powered by negative energy.

Actually, Magic of Faerun has a rule allowing wizards to "attune" themselves to another wizard's spellbook, allowing them to forever after use it as if it were their own. (Despite the name, it's not a mystical process that somehow alters the book; instead, it means that the wizard has taken the...

In 2nd Edition it didn't say anything about the 4th level spell slot being unavailable until the imbue with spell ability spell was used up, but it did mention that the spell slots of the transferred spells were unavailable. Another question comes to mind, however: the spell description says...

In one of the Ravenloft 3E books--IIRC, Champions of Darkness--there's a feat that indicates that the character was raised ferally. It changes the character's type to animal. Mostly for "flavor", you could give the character the ability to mark territory by urinating. Predatory animals would...

Ah, I didn't realize you meant it to work more like a spell storing item rather than a potion. Unfortunately, this leaves me completely at a loss. There are only two such items and the prices on them are all screwed up (the vibrant purple ioun stone seems way too cheap, especially for something...