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Well, you know the saying: Big Brother is watching.

Balancing the PrC is simple: For every extra "goody" you give a spellcaster on top of the full spellcasting progression, give a penalty as well, so it's not simply "This class is simply better than base wiz/sor", but instead, that the class offers a different set of benefits and drawbacks than...

Woowee. That's some cost. You know, you gotta hand it to a completely whacked out economy when the value of an item comes out to 25 tons of pure gold. Where would somebody come up with 25 tons of gold to buy this item, and how would they carry it on anything short of a massive caravan...

In other words, AC strictly from things that help you avoid being hit, and everything else is DR, which reduces the pain and suffering of being hit. Except that you haven't actually proposed a new system with numbers. I like the idea, and have been kicking around numerous thoughts on the matter...

The feat for doing something would HAVE to be rather "broad ranging", so to speak, because otherwise, you'd have to have very specific feats for every potential combination of character that the person may have had in mind. Either the feat to allow such a thing would have to be rather...

Multiple scaling spells that all "come due"? I'm not sure I understand. You mean like if the sorceror has multiple spells which become available at level up, yet the sorceror lacks sufficient known spells to take them all? That's too bad, then. He's stuck with the weaker version until such time...

Yes. He gets his attack of opportunity anyway, simply because you barged through his threatened squares, regardless of whether he avoids you or not. The actual act of performing an overrun doesn't provoke an attack of opportunity anyway, it's the act of barging through threatened squares that...

You can, indeed, make a full attack with ranged weapons while mounted. There's a hefty penalty for attempting this. Now you know why a drive-by shooting involves the vehicle STOPPING before the gunmen open fire.

If people are supposed to survive in areas of unbreathable sulpherous gas, doesn't this defeat the point of having an area of unbreathable sulpherous gas in the first place? If all you're going to do is have an area where all the negative effects are obviously supposed to be dismissed with a...

Well, if you're guarding the castle as a wizard, you presumably guard the castle in the same way as any other guard: By patrolling the walls looking for intruders. Watching from a high tower works also. Being a wizard, you should focus on detection spells to enhance your ability to detect...

When a cloudkill hits a barrier, assuming the barrier is impermeable, such as a wall of force, it stops, obviously unable to travel anywhere, being a gaseous cloud and all. Eventually, it will come to a hemispherical clump against the wall. As for non-perpendicular barriers, that's an...

Well, while 3.5 allows ranger FE bonusses to actually work against undead, they still remain the province of your party's cleric. Leave the undead-bashing for the cleric, unless your group happens to be lacking in clerics. The cleric will be way better at bashing undead than you are, anyway.

Both, of course. The fighter gains no benefit to attacking you even if such an act does distract you, not that looking for an invisible opponent is a distraction: Since the fighter lacks any capability to actually inflict significantly more damage than anyone else of his corresponding stats and...

The ecology was the best part, and I'm generally a "by the book" sort of guy: Anything I change is outlined as clearly as if it was carved in stone, and becomes "the book". Of course, I'm a killer DM as well, and just because the players know everything about a monster's physical properties...

Also, hitpoint disparity across classes has increased markedly from 2E->3E. In 2E, after 9th level (10th for wiz & thief), hitpoint gain effectively ground to a trickle: Fixed amount (1-3), not modified by Con. 3E, full HP continues, draining the effectiveness of the old paradigm for...

Of course, the presence of the fighter simultaneously impedes the effective functioning of the wizard. Now that the fighter is in the way, and therefore taking the damage, the wizard is impeded in his ability to cut loose with a fireball or two. I contend that a wall of rogues is far more...

I agree with the original poster: No ride check is high enough to make your horse do that. You can make a "Handle Animal" check to convince it to do so. Ride would be for what happens after you attempt to convince your horse to do so, but it decides at the last minute that this would be a really...

You do realize that for even a DC 0 check for something simple, like, say, standing upright on level ground, a fighter with something like halfplate and a tower shield (-17 ACP) is unable to pass this even if he takes 10, which is not permitted in combat, and with a higher DC, or even a...

If you wait until mid-levels to take it, then your skillpoints will already have been committed and you won't have any skillpoints to be plowing into this skill anyway. Since you'd only do a crossclass skill thing if you were genuinely SERIOUS about the skill, you're effectively expected to take...

That's why I said picking dragon was contingent on the presence of dragons. Your DM will surely enlighten you on the fact. And it's not two points of damage against the dragon, it's the very hefty to-hit bonus against a dragon....and against a dragon, you need that to-hit bonus. On the other...