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I've always been a big rogue fan myself. You get to be good at a great number of things. It's the versatility combined with competence that's appealing about the rogue: While a spell can replace a rogue on a one-shot level, you haven't really replaced the person, merely covered for his absence...

I generally would go the old edition route and have the player run the cohort, with the DM overruling as needed, just like the old pre-3E henchmen system. I don't generally concern myself with issues of "treasure" or whatnot: In fact, it was only recently that I discovered people actually...

That's news to you? That's practically the first thing I look for now. I look at the date of the first post in the thread, and if the first post in the thread is more than a month old, I immediately do CRTL-F "Altalazar" on every page until I find his name. It never fails, and he's always the...

Well, as Mark Twain put it, "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." Even societies which didn't have clothes as we consider them today have ornamental items worn as status symbols: Strings of beads, bones, ornamental paint, etc. I'd say that wearing(or not...

I'm with Jhamin on this: Suppressive fire is a perfectly legal and valid military tactic. Drow lurking behind illusionary walls is very much similar to an enemy soldier lurking in a foxhole. Sure, it's theoretically possible that the drow might have wanted to surrender, but in reality, a lot of...

Actually, if a tornado is coming after your party, you want to put a safe distance between yourself, and the nearest mobile home or trailer park. But not too far: The trailer park serves as a lightning rod for the tornado. You want to be far enough that you minimize the risk of being...

If I were to adapt such a thing for D&D, I'd decouple it from Dodge entirely, and instead make it something that comes into effect when you choose the total defense option. That would make combat have a somewhat more realistic feel to it. As a veteran of several knife fights, I can tell you that...

Go for the kills. Don't merely knock somebody out of the fight: If you do this, he'll just come back shortly anyway. Finish the job. If the situation is as no-win as you describe it, seeing as you're running opfor solo as a fighter-type against a balanced PC party, your objective is not really...

Well, if it's speed you want, there's a monk level and a barbarian level to consider, for a touch of both monk and barbarian speed, and an SD level for HIPS, so you can move about like greased lightning AND spontaneously disappear.

I'd say its head would have to move through squares between D and B. If, for some reason, such an act were completely impossible, then I would rule that the dragon could not make such an attack. The most noteable case of this would be the classic partially buried monster with tail attacks that...

Heh. In the games I've been in before, comments like this would be commonplace and expected, and greeted with uproarious laughter. Then again, the people I associate with have long since rejected the new-age notion that "people are all the same". We accept that people are different, and that...

Alternatively, you can accept that this sort of thing actually does happen, with some level of frequency. MOST of the time, the world operates in the expected manner, with aristocrats and experts as the leaders, because that's what they're specialized to do. However, every so often, some whacko...

Well, in my campaigns, "Speak with Dead" is a post-mortem brainscan interface by which the caster is able to access the memory imprinted into the brain-analogue of the deceased. As a rule, in order for this to work, the subject's brain or nervous system analogue must be mostly intact. No...

I dunno, sounds pretty realistic to me. There's nothing quite like surviving something that should have killed you to make you realize that you've become tougher. :)

Yeah, the entire "mock fights don't count" idea never really worked out well. What determines whether a fight is a "mock fight" or not? Does this mean an unidentified magic weapon is useless in a duel that's only fought to first blood, since it's not a life-or-death battle, and therefore, is a...

I don't recall anything that says you actually have to cast the spell once per day of the construction. That means the single charge wand, if you consider wands to be acceptable prerequisite-meeters, is valid: You CAN have the spell cast once per day of the construction. Since you never actually...

Unless, of course, he has quickdraw.

That's not necessarily true. If my prize bull is charging my friend, who is not attacking the bull, I'm still going to grapple my friend and pull him out of the way, not attempt to grapple the bull merely because the bull is the one pressing the attack. The friend is simply closer and more...

Yes, but if he's not able to clearly perceive what you're doing, I.E., for most creatures, by seeing you, feinting isn't meaningful. To touch him with the tip of your weapon would require a touch attack....but merely touching him with your weapon doesn't do anything to him except alert him to...

That's correct. Although you don't "re-roll" your new current level, because re-rolling something requires that you have rolled it before, and if you're just levelling in it, you're rolling it for the first time. Basically, your hitpoints are regenerated as if you were being created at that...