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If the feat actually says you ignore aging penalties, I'd be shocked if the designer of the feat to expect almost everyone who takes it to be venerable. So it should be balanced under those circumstances. The only online source I could find for the feat (Product Spotlight: Races of the...

The text does say that "forms of movement barred include" the listed spells, which means that the list is intended to give examples rather than be a complete list. I feel that it should block Summon Monster. Note that even if it does block Summon Monster, most of the time that won't be very...

He doesn't, but unless there's a healer around, non-lethal damage is just as effective as lethal against humanoids. (It doesn't matter if you have -1 hit point and no non-lethal damage or 49 hit points and 50 lethal damage: you're still unconscious.) In fact in our group, it's slightly better...

Looking at what you posted, nothing seems horribly suboptimal about it to me. Can you tell us what weaknesses you're trying to address? Regardless of the problems, Dervish probably isn't going to be very useful to you. You're currently missing 4 feats that you need to qualify, so you won't...

With respect to skill points, racial hit dice are just like class levels. So if he has 2 racial hit dice and 3 class levels, the maximum number of ranks he could have in a class skill is 2+3+3=8. As you appear to have figured out, a feat that gives a bonus to a skill doesn't help qualify for a...

If you do play him as loyally following the advise of a wiser party member, his "wise mentor" could easily be the person in the party who has bad ideas, especially if they're charismatic. In OOTS, I could see him following Elan.

Among the benefits that Frank listed is being treated as one size larger when considering what weapons can be wielded. So if a human with the feat can wield a Huge (Large) weapon, a goliath with the feat could use a Gargantuan (Huge) weapon. Based on what was said about the feat being from...

One issue/feature/problem with the rogue class is it tends to (in combat) be all or nothing. If he can get in a full, sneak attack against a vulnerable creature, it's hard to match his output. If the creature is immune, then the rogue can't do much more than be a flanking buddy and aid...

What Ahnehnois said makes sense. You can also compare it with Shocking Grasp, a first level spell. That is also a touch spell, which does 1d6/level damage without a save. For the extra level of spell, you gain +1 damage/level on average (3.5 -> 4.5) The possibility of 1d6 damage/round for...

Also, you can use UMD to decipher a scroll like you would for Spellcraft. (The DC is 5 higher, but otherwise, it's the same.) So a non-caster using UMD to activate scrolls only needs a good UMD; he doesn't also need a good Spellcraft or to use items to cast Read Magic.

I thought that when doing a flurry, you could only use unarmed strikes or monk weapons. On the other hand, with a level of monk, I think you could do all of your iterative attacks as unarmed strikes (just not flurrying) and then make all of your natural attacks as secondary attacks. So if you...

While I'm not aware of any rule for it, it's probably more than fair to trade your familiar for the ability. It's not like the ability gives you any bonuses; it just says that you're allowed to use your skills to the full extent. You might even be able to convince your GM to allow a custom...

That does negate it's use as an emergency eject button, when the party is losing a fight. One way to keep the escape functionality while preventing scry&die is to rule that, as part of the teleport, you spend 10 minutes traveling on the Astral plane (or whichever one teleport uses) to arrive...

Many of these features aren't standard, so you need some way to figure it without being able to easily compare to existing items. One way to look at this compare the weapon with a weapon the player could use and look at what you would need to do to that weapon to make it into something with the...

Part of what makes this situation complicated is that the PCs have several pieces of information: There is something which looks very much like a vampire in his coffin, recovering from his wounds. There is a missing kama I'm also assuming the spell had a tactile component, so that the...

For a more general answer, what your doing is how you calculate ECL (used for PCs), not CR (used for creatures being fought). For CR, you take the CR of the base creature and add the number of PC classes. (There's a lesser adjustment for NPC classes.) An Ogre has LA +2, 4 racial hit dice...

Depending on the geography, Web or Entangle might also be useful. The PC's will probably make the saves, but they can still hinder movement. OTOH, it's likely that the PC's would just fly around them unless the battle is in a fairly constricted area.

Prestige classes are (almost) the same as base classes in gestalt. You take two classes at each level and (barring house rules) 0, 1 or 2 of them can be prestige classes. A wizard 5 // fighter 5 could become a wizard 5/elemental savant 1 // fighter 6, wizard 5/elemental savant 1 // fighter...

Unless Greater Command includes a bit that it dispels Fly, what happens when the Fly spell ends doesn't matter. The fly spell is still active. The subject can fly, but doesn't have to. The Fall command also states that it falls to the ground and obeys the command to the best of its ability...

I'm looking at building a first level gestalt crusader for a PvP arena game. The combats will be me against another player built with similar rules. Characters are built with gestalt rules, 36 point buy and most 3.5 books. I have PHB II, most of the completes, Book of 9 Swords, Libris...