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Kelderen follows Tak to the design. Pausing momentarily to commit the details of the shape to his mind. I feel this star is a lock... we should seek the key it craves? He gestures to the south with a questioning pulse of thought.

I do find that an interesting point. On the paper again: at a first glace a wizard would seem much more complicated to play. The sorceror could even look like a nice simple caster for someone not used to spellcasters? The ability to throw out/relearn spells in 3.5 helps somewhat. One nice...

Our DM picked one of those out of someones dicebox and used it for half a session before anyone noticed. We thought he was just whining when he said he couldn't roll over 10. :p There's quite a few of them round my neck of the woods. Both the nearby FLGS's still sell them.

It's a nasty combo. I do think the duration/casting time limits them a little in normal play. Often seen self buffing clerics sit out the first 2 or 3 rounds of combat, only to join in when the fights half over? Figure if you can pick the exact round the fight starts, it'd help... It gets so...

I'll say Necromancers: Because I play in the game with Darmanicus's Necro and he'll blind me if I don't. :) In fairness, not a specialist I'd seen in 3.x before and it's impressed me a lot. As for generally, I'd say it partly depends what splatbooks are in play!

Could you cast the heal part of the contingency off a scroll? 1 level of cleric or some cross class ranks in UMD?

If you want to mix Ranger and Fighter, Wood elf* might be worth a look? The archetype does kinda fit the race type to me. Ranger is favoured class and +2 Str/Dex is nothing to sniff at? * Yay - it's a half orc + elf without the Chr Penalty. :p

Clr-20 is great. Does all sorts of things and by the way the spells are memorised, you can rejig the focus of your character with a nights rest? I'm playing a BBn-1:Clr-4(Kord) right now. Seems an effective melee type and pretty straightforward. Martial weapons and speed boost are nice. Buff...

I'd strongly consider picking up some additional weapons: Get a slingshot for ranged combat - 1 gp and it gives you the option to hang back. Engaging the right opponents at range will keep you alive longer. +3 hit and D4+3 damage is vaguely acceptable? If there's another fighter type around...

Nice going there! Particularly liked the description of Endo's item creation - got the ickiness factor across well. :) Swarmed by hundreds of insects - ewwww! I hate to think what Evan has done for Kord worshipping in Diamond Lake. Having a CN bard talk on your behalf has got to be good. I...

I think wizards look vastly superior on paper. Int based casting, huge spell range, better skills, free feats and earlier access to magic... However, IME Sorcerors are much better than their paper look when you get to play. The spontaneous casting thing is huge, particularly if you select a...

I just got to wondering - via the mechanism of limited wish, a wizard or sorceror could use this to cheat death? Avoids the personal ethical issues that a druid might/might not suffer from... Would it be stealing off of nature? In a more convoluted method, you could avoid the need for a...

Acid Fog works OK too? Good for those that laugh at cloudkill...

In a previous campaign, the DM gave us full access to the spell list of a ~16th level druid. For various story reasons he wasn't able to come into the dragons cave... but we could get whatever buffs and summons we wanted. Worked well and we did defeat an oversized over CR black dragon. However...

This is exactly the game I'm intending - Sons of Grumsh followed by Red Hand of Doom. Freaky :) You've got me curious here, so I'll keep reading!

Kobold Bardic Lich. No particular reason other than it amuses me. It's cute, horribly ancient, evil and will keep coming back from the dead to bother you.

Assay resistance is in complete arcane I think - 4th level spell... and a very nice one too! Doesn't fare well if you're fighting a lot of foes with SR though, but everything has a downside somewhere! Would be interested in seeing the final results of this if you don't mind posting them...

For my next game, I'm going for: PhB* + 1 book each. The books are selected from the Complete series and the XPH. Because I'm mostly familiar with the contents. *Some selected stuff has been moved from various books into the PhB. Such as improved toughness replacing toughness. This is not a...

Like some others, I'm not sure it'd work so well as a campaign, but could make a fun one shot? Morrus used something quite a lot like that as a short interlude in a high level planar hopping game. Was on a heavily chaotic plane IIRC. Each day, when you slept, you had to roll randomly to find...

I try to keep them as light as possible. Like to keep the quantity small enough that players will reasonably know them. Do tend to house rule races and classes a bit - but I consider these to be less invasive changes - the coping with them tends to be up front rather than being done every session?