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Yes, you can critical on a grapple check (step 3 or Damage Your Opponent). It's like a melee attack. See the old 3e FAQ, page 45 for a precedent.

Grappled by a troll? Travel domain granted power does not help. Grappled by a spell? Travel domain granted power does help. Evard's Black Tentacles, Bigby's various Hands, Telekinesis, Entangle, Briar Web (Complete Divine), Bands of Steel (Compete Arcane), Hold Person, Hold Monster, Slow --...

Produce Flame is a better weapon than a bow, most of the time. When you run out of fire, the elf druid can pull out a bow. Ranged touch attack, 1d6+1/level (max +5). Hits a whole lot more often than arrows and does pretty good damage. At level 5, Empower Spell makes it 9-16 HP per hit. If time...

1) Grapple the enemy spellcaster before he gets the spell off 2) Ring of Counterspells - 4,000 gp 3) Five levels of Occult Slayer 4) Three levels of Holy Liberator 5) Have your cleric buddy ready Hold Person as a counterspell 6) All of the above Ring of Freedom of Movement is pretty...

Inconsequenti-AL had a good idea with the greatclub. Your druid buddy can enhance it with the Brambles spell now and the Spikes spell later. These spells make it an awesome melee weapon. Power Attack and Cleave are excellent. At third level, select the Extra Rage feat from Complete Warrior...

Steady Concentration feat from Races of Stone: "You can always take 10 on Concentration checks." Pre-req: Concentration 8 ranks

At level 11 and above, I don't want to go anywhere without the Breakfast of Champions. When it expires (one hour/caster level), you stop for the day or cast another one (one hour casting time). You can't fight dragons, demons or devils effectively without fear immunity. The Will saves are just...

Work up four different builds then have an arena fight. Try build 1 vs. monster, build 1 vs. build 2, build 2 vs. build 3, etc. Choose a monster whose CR = character level. Figure out which works best in combat. Then try same battle, giving yourself two friends, a fighter and a cleric. Build 1...

Caeleddin and Skip Williams have it wrong. Hypersmurf and Patryn have it right. Another difference: a sole natural weapon does 1.5x Str bonus on damage; an unarmed strike does not. (And, guys, an unarmed strike usually inflicts "nonlethal" damage in 3.5e, not "subdual" -- that's SOOOO 3e!)

For a blaster sorc or warmage, try Arcane Spell Preparation and Quicken Spell. Also Twin Spell or Repeat Spell. These feats give you more blasting power faster at level 10+.

Buy some Natural 1 insurance Buy yourself a Cloak of Resistance +1 to wear on top of your Cloak of Charisma. The second cloak won't work -- per the DMG rules for slotted magic items. But if you blow your Reflex save vs. area damage spell on a natural 1, that 1,000 gp cloak will blow up...

There are no rules. Make it up. A reasonable house rule would be to treat the character as being non-proficient in an incorrectly-sized shield, so you would apply the sheild's armor check penalty against appropriate skills and attack rolls.

That house rule gives any character a tactic that's normally only available to characters with the Shock Trooper tactical feat from Complete Warrior -- something like the Domino Rush ability. I'd recommend against giving away a "Trip after Bull Rush" ability like that for free.

You can get away with not using minis in trivial combats if you really know the rules. Otherwise, you need a grid and minis (or pennies or whaver) so that everyone can visualize the tactical situation. If you have a DM who "won't accept" a tactical rule, it probably won't help you to describe...

No, I'm starting from that statement in the PH saying a grapple check is like an attack roll, backed up by analogies with the regular melee attack roll and ranged attack roll, and backed up by all but one entry in the old 3e FAQ and the new 3.5e FAQ. That one entry was written by Andy Collins...

I hope not. That was forbidden by the PH Errata last year.

It looks like you're thinking that the multi-step grapple attack does no damage because it has multiple steps. Is that what you're trying to say? Grapple attacks clearly do inflict damage (usually nonlethal, as if with an unarmed strike, per step 3). One can even take Weapon Specialization in...

Those are AC bonuses, not attack bonuses, so they don't affect a grapple check. See the difference? Combat Expertise definitely helps the AC of a grappler who is being attacked by his dance partner using the Attack Your Opponent option (attack with a light weapon at -4). It does not help...

I'd agree with that, so the Tumble DC would be at -10: "Accelerated Tumbling: You try to tumble past or through enemies more quickly than normal. By accepting a –10 penalty on your Tumble checks, you can move at your full speed instead of one-half your speed."