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Well, hong, it should be rather obvious to anyone that to fall into tired, repetitive patterns of spell usage makes one very predictable. If you always enter a building through the door, people come to expect this, and therefore will start preparing for your entrance through the door. Therefore...

Yes, that would certainly do the job, but it's also above and beyond what is actually needed for the task: The character isn't being required to operate in flares, sunbeams, or sunbursts: Just ordinary daylight. Being someone who suffers from the same daylight problem, as I really, really...

Point. In places where the alleys are built in such a manner, visibility could become severely impeded, depending on the angle to the sky. My guess is that you haven't been gifted with very good night-vision, then. I've done a fair bit of nocturnal wandering myself, being a primarily nocturnal...

Actually, the concept of the atom was invented by the ancient Greeks, who existed in a timeperiod that predates the start of the typical D&D campaign. And while mesh walls of force are a subject of debate on another thread, a more interesting case has come to mind: The messiness which occurs...

Rat Bastard players are people who do things like applying Disintegrate to load-bearing structural members supporting many tons of rock, create monofilament meshes and bisection planes out of Wall of Force, and otherwise apply legitimate tools in ways which are perfectly logical, but not at all...

The wall of force is said to be immobile: As a two-dimensional construct, it can't be compressed. This means any deceleration incurred on contact with a wall of force must be accomplished through compression of the impacting object, not the wall: The response of the object to impacting the wall...

The entire point of these spells *IS* to abuse them. What the hell would be the point of always using tools in predictable, orthodox ways? That'd just be too obvious. It's like entering a building through a door: It's predictable, obvious, and everyone expects it. That's why you surprise them by...

Many people seem to forget that the D&D game takes place in a medieval era: Life was short, brutish, and nasty. People survived, therefore, by being like life: Short, brutish, and nasty. Paladins are commonly stated as being modelled on the Christian crusader knights....who were sent forth with...

The "mechanical" strength of a crossbow is simply the conversion of work done by your own muscle power to mechanical tension. It is possible (and I have actually done so) to create high-tension crossbows which will hurl bolts harder and further than an ordinary crossbow. The key here being that...

I don't think this would even really be a magical item. Tinted glass is not a technology unavailable during the typical fantasy/medieval period, and getting eyeglasses made for such isn't something which would cost an immense fortune, or even require the services of a mage. The downside being...

Yes, but what if losing the level, and all its attendant benefits, still qualifies them for the PrC in a circular logic loop, where abilities gained while in the PrC have become self-sustaining without the externalities of other classes? A Rogue/Shadowdancer, in theory, could have enough that...

Forget about hemispheres and cages: Create walls of force with widths or heights of a single molecule, or, if permitted, in meshes of monofilament. Watch as somebody runs into one, and is cut in half or diced into cubes as a result. By the rules, it's entirely permissible, and you can create...

Frequently used areas are the BEST places to put traps. If they're frequently used, people are going to go that way, so surely that's the best place to put them. For instance, in real life, I've put traps on the front door, the toilet, and countless other places that I frequently use. It keeps...

The real problem here is that you're trying to apply an alignment to a society. This doesn't work. This was beaten to death not all that long ago in a thread that I can't search for, but I'm sure somebody can. Assigning an alignment to an entire society is, in essence, silliness. Most societies...

Good old monofilament wall trick. How I love thee. The requirements are that the wall must be "continuous and unbroken". I believe the requirement for "continuous and unbroken" means that the wall must not be physically seperated at any point. If the restriction meant that the wall had to be be...

Unless the alley is covered over, a modern alley would actually be harder to see in than a medieval alley: Modern buildings are taller and obstruct starlight more. The fact that there are no street lights isn't really an issue: Street lights not located within view of the alley don't contribute...

Sheesh. What is it with liches and hiding phylacteries in the weirdest, most godforsaken locations guarded by the weirdest monstrous guardians? Didn't anyone here read the Evil Overlord's Guide? Rule #5: The artifact which is the source of my power will not be kept on the Mountain of Despair...

Don't have to be able to setup the arena: That was simply an example of one thing that you COULD do, given a specific arena: Different arenas grant you different arena-based tactics. And while the listed grenade-like weapons do relatively poor damage, there are ways one can improvise more...

The party can never have too many roguely people. Rogues are synergistic: The more rogues you have, the easier it is to pull sneak attacks, when you have rogues bouncing all over the place like berserk slinkys. With a large assortment of skills, and a good multiclass choice, you can easily make...

If the dungeon is populated by orcs, then yes, it's reasonable for followers to be in there. Even if the dungeon is somewhat harder than that, it's not unreasonable for followers to be there as schleppers of the loot and torchbearers. Unless casualty ratios are extremely high, or the leader is...