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    Please rate Order of the Bow Initiate

    On itself the prestige class is good, but not too good. Combined with the deepwood sniper prestige class and the odd stacking rules of archery and you indeed do have a killing machine.
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    Critical hit when doing ability damage.

    I would say that a caster can take improved critical with it, just as they can take weapon focus on it or that point blank shot helps. Of course, a pure wizard will have some difficulties gaining the +8 BAB that is required for the feat.
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    Dire Tigers CR is WRONG.....

    But isn't it the idea of the CR that the PCs will try to negate the sizeable portion of the winterwight's CR? I mean, negating CR will mean the expanditure of resources and hence it is still part of the CR value, or am I missing something? Isn't the CR supposed to be independent of...
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    Critical hit when doing ability damage.

    In one of the Sage Advices though the Sage slightly downgrades this. When the attack includes normal damage, a critical will only double the normal damage and not the draining damage. If on the other hand the damage only deals draining damage then the draining damage will be doubled on critical...
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    Dire Tigers CR is WRONG.....

    Perhaps, but when that party of average 11 level is not surprised the scorpion will be dead or avoided without much difficulty. First of all, the smart cleric will have a delay poison ready (highly underrated spell btw). The mage will have a couple of fly spells and with a bit of intelligence a...
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    So, if a dragon swallows someone carrying a lot of potions....

    Except that in the example of the SRD it is the one feeding the potion to the unconscious person is the one doing the conscious action. That person is activating the potion.
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    So, if a dragon swallows someone carrying a lot of potions....

    Dragons in 2 edition could eat and digest litterally anything including gems. I am not sure if they changed this in 3rd edition, but if this is still the case, I doubt a few shards of glass are going to pose such a threat. Personally, I would say that quafing a potion is a conscious action not...
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    Plane Shift to meet your god?

    Considering how the spell works, it is also the ultimate weapon against opponents with low will saves. Just planeshift them to the elemental plane of fire or the negative energy plane and be done with them. Anyway, the main reason for components is as a balancing matter. The planar forks are a...
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    Dire Tigers CR is WRONG.....

    In my experience some CRs are perfectly alright, but only against higher level opponents. So when that creature is used against a party of equal APL as CR of the creature, the creature wins easily. On the other hand, when using two such creatures against a party of APL of CR+2 the numbers are...
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    Please rate Widen Spell

    I have to agree with the other posters: +3 levels is too high a cost. Especially since I rarely have observed a situation where the question was whether the area could enclose all opponents. More often then not the question was whether all opponents could be affected without allies getting in...
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    Evoker (Prohibited school Divination) goes Divine Oracle?

    Re: Nope. Is this different from taking 1 level of sorcerer to circumvent the restrictions of the specialist wizard? As a sorcerer the wizard can now use items which require the wizard to have spells in their spell list. As a sorcerer these divination spells are also arcane, so the source of...
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    I will Living Greyhawk no more!

    The downside of the APL system currently being used by LG. The lowest APL is 2, so that means that most PCs will be level 2. Which means that this encounter theoratically is survivable. Of course, both the authors and the editors did not take into account that the CR of elementals is on the low...
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    I will Living Greyhawk no more!

    In my experience the DMs and players are of vital importance to the fun you will get from a game. In many cases they are more important then the scenarios. That is true for standard campaign, but even more so for Living Greyhawk. Remember that the scenarios are written so that they can be...
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    Calm Emotions?

    You know, calm emotions will be a real bad idea when facing spiders. Vermin is immune to mind affecting spells and spiders are vermin :p Anyway, 3rd level clerics and wizards for that matter are relatively common in a standard campaign world. I would think that anybody training soldiers and...
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    What setting is the PHB set in?

    The gods are from Greyhawk, the rest is just generic none-campaign world related information. It is not as if there are that many references to a specific world... Anyway, you will need a lot more information before you could run a campaign that would be considered a Greyhawk campaign ;)
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    ECL of Planetouched races too High?

    First of all I want to adress the discussion on flight. Personally, I find the ECL for Avoriels just for being able to fly way over the top. Flight is good and probably too good at low levels, but once you start approaching 6th level opponents will actually be ready to face flying opponents. The...
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    Shade Race from Dragon #307...ECL +2!?!

    Give me some slack here, I did read the whole thread. I just happened to have missed that particular post, my appologies for that. :rolleyes: As for my second remark, that was partially new - people did point out that racial modifiers where outside the system, but nobody discussed that having a...
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    Shade Race from Dragon #307...ECL +2!?!

    Except that that same character with a strenght of 26 at level 6 would either have a strenght of [the norm of lvl 20] + 26 or would have used those resources to get something else equally nifty. As for comparing a boost of an attribute as a racial modifier to the ones through leveling, that is...
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    ECL of Planetouched races too High?

    I have run thieflings and aasimar's at ECL +1 and I never run into problems either. In fact, the elemental resistances could be incredibly useful, though that might be because I ran a Planescape campaign. It is a real benefit to have acid 5 or fire 5 when traveling through a region that deals a...
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    Mystic Theurge too good or not?

    The funny thing is that you are all comparing the class combo with a full wizard or cleric based on 3.0 edition rules. Ignoring the fact that multiclassing a pure spellcaster with another pure spellcaster is a bad idea in D&D. Perhaps the designers made the prestige class to make a bad...
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