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Um, I don’t believe you are reading all of the posts. The new topic is not the surprise round, but once combat has already been started how would it affect the rogue who is successfully hidden from the opponents. Once combat has started you cannot have a surprise round in the middle of combat...

Your forgetting something though, with invisibility you can walk around the entire battlefield without anyone being able to see you. Yes, there is a chance to notice you, but no one can see you. With the hide skill, you cannot do this. Let me point out something in the Hide skill: While...

In my opinion, if a rogue was or is hiding at the beginning of combat and decides to attack from his hiding spot at a later time during the combat, he would suffer this penalty. Example: The pc’s are fighting a street gang in an alley, the rogue has hidden himself and none of the opponents...

As a DM I could see not giving this player any xp for the combat, but I would grant him some for any roleplaying he did before he left. I do not feel the DM was in the wrong, since he did ask the player to leave his character with someone. Also, it has been mentioned that HD has received emails...

This is the line that gets me, it states "it is considered wielded or attended". In a way that sounds like it would imply it would be no differenct than if it were in the hands of the wielder, both strengthwise and feats/skills/whatever. Moving on to the last part of the sentence, where it...

I've always felt the fireball spell should be expanded due to specific conditions. Such as casting it in a 5' hallway, or into a 20' square room that the pc's are not in. I never understood why they wouldn't expand. The problem arises though when players state things like "I'm going to put the...

A few sessions back my characters were facing an advanced spectre and the spectre scored a critical hit against one of the pc’s. A spectre deals damage in the form of 1d8 plus 2 negative levels. Due to it being a critical hit I ruled the spectre dealt 2d8 plus 4 negative levels. No one had a...

Example: A pc is sneaking around invisibly in an area where he/she believes the guards may have the ability to use see invisibility, so the pc decides to cast nondetection on him/her for added protection. IMO I don’t see a problem with using it this way, the guard or whomever, has to make a...

I’m confused on your alls opinions. See invisibility is a divination spell and nondetection states it protects against divination spells, so why wouldn’t it work? The description of nondetection explicitly states it requires a caster level check to get passed it. Are you saying this statement...

Unfortunately, every DM I have every played with either doesn’t like psionics or doesn’t own the book, so they haven’t allowed it in their game. As a DM I have always allowed psionics in my campaigns but no one has every played one, until now. I recently started up another campaign based out of...

@daemonslye I’m not exactly sure where you quoted the description from for nondetection, but had it been from the Player’s HB (page 257) if you would have read the very next sentence you would have seen this statement: Under misdirection, the spell descriptor states it is an Illusion...

First off, I don’t have the book so can only post my observation based off of this thread. Anyway, I don’t understand why the spell would grant a -4 penalty to hit versus adjacent foes due to a daylight spell? Shouldn’t it instead be a concealment miss chance? A negative modifier would imply to...

Somewhere in the Ask Keith thread (can't remember if its on this board or the WizCo one) the question came up on whether a warforged with the adamantine body feat would bypass DR due to his adamantine body. Keith stated no, his body was reinforced with adamantine, not comprised solely of it...

@hypersmurf Sorry, my mistake.

Shifter Traits: Beasthide (Su): +2 to Con and natural armor Longtooth (Su): +2 Str and grows fangs (1d6 damage plus 1/4 levels) Cliffwalker (Su): +2 Dex and climb speed 20' Razorclaw (Su): +2 Str and grow claws (1d4 damage plus 1/4 levels). Attack with 1 claw is a standard action, 2 claws as...

shapechanger subtype +2 Dex, -2 Int, -2 Cha Medium size Shifting (Su): A shifter can tap into her lycanthropic heritage to gain short bursts of physical powers. Once per day, a shifter can enter a state that is superficially similar to a barbarian's rage. Each shifter has one of six shifter...

I would have to disagree with this. As has been pointed out RoE grants a penalty to Str, not drain or damage. A shadow deals Str damage, it does not grant a penalty to your Str score. I can’t see how the ability damage done by a shadow would be stopped by RoE. It is my opinion that the line in...

Whoops, hehe. I guess this is what happens when you forget to reread your post before submitting it. Oh well. Let me try and clarify my point, or at least state what I was supposed to be saying. The problem is that the bane bonus doesn’t apply to the enhancement bonus from GMW. As stated in the...

One of the lines in the Bane description in the SRD reads: “Against its designated foe, its effective enhancement bonus is +2 better than its normal enhancement bonus.” The question I bring up is where it states “normal enhancement bonus”. To me, this would imply the bonus granted by the...

Another thing, as I recall it states under advancing creatures that if the creature adjusts in size due to racial advancement it does not gain the +1 CR due to a larger size. I use advanced creatures every now and then and I don't find the CR differences too bad. If the creature seems too...