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In our epic game, one of the characters has expressed an interest in taking a planar substitution level for sorcerer. What it shows in the book is that basically, for giving up 1 spell known at 2nd level, all spells that deal energy damage now deal 1/2 of that as pure force damage. At first...

I wouldn't think you'd need eschew materials; iron golems are roughly humanoid, so your gear shouldn't be subsumed.

I just have this cool vision of a warforged: "Initiating arcane rejuvenation cycle.....beoooop!!" The head slowly nods down as the light fades from the eyes.

Is this a house rule? I just read incantrix out of PGtF, and I didn't see anything about not being able to instant metamagic a spell to a higher level than you could cast. It specifically states the metamagic feat affects the spell without raising the level.

But what isn't said? The class neither confirms nor denies if a caster can cast out of the warding. The only thing left to go by is the text reading "...stops spells and spell-like abilites" Since they didn't mention that the caster was immune, and since this would be a huge feature of the...

Just from personal experience (I've been playing in a converted Nights Below game for the past 18 months, just finished the ENTIRE THING), the 2 hardest encounters we fought in there were against groups of 3-5 monsters of similar CR to us. There were a couple times that the party had to fight...

I believe this is covered in a rules of the game article. By my reading, specialization in rays deals 2 extra damage of the same type. They specifically mentioned enervation (or ray of enfeeblement) doing 2 points of Negative Energy Damage that is, the target takes 2 extra points of damage...

A 7th level initiate can throw up a warding 4/day. The warding can be personal, or include all squares adjascent to the initiate, or it can be an immobile wall. If the initiate wanted to change a warding that was centered on her, she would first have to drop her first one (a standard action)...

This has come up in our campaign both because of fireshield, and the Initiate of the 7 Veils' 'personal warding' ability. When someone makes a full attack, the attacks happen over time, correct? The question is this: if a fighter is hitting my wiz, who has fireshield, he takes damage for every...

Maybe not, since then the initiate can throw up the violet veil (i.e. the veil of destroying everything) and then cast with impunity. It'd be like having an antimagic aura that didn't affect you.

We've recently come across an orb of dragonkind in my campaign and are trying to solve a dilemma. Here's the text: what I was wondering is the wording about AC and saving throw bonuses and how they cannot be modified. So say it gives you AC 38, Fort save 25, Reflex 18, Will 25. Does that...

I actually thought Kensai from complete warrior complemented monks very nicely. Get +5 Holy Frost Shock Flaming fists, use a move action to add +8 to str.

No one ever mentions one of my personal favorite melee classes, Occult Slayer. It seems like you always hear about how high-level magic users just own tanks due to their low will saves and powerful spells. Occult slayer has 1.) Full BAB 2.) Good Will Save (and bonuses to all saves vs...

For each meteor that crits, I would double the bludgeoning and fire damage against the creature it crits. After all, if you struck in a vulnerable place, that fiery explosion will hurt more, also because in the case of the person it hits, the spell works almost exactly like scorching ray...

I thought I remembered reading that a monk's unarmed strike counts as both a natural and manufactured weapon, making it eligible for magic fang or magic weapon

I have this book. The wards function like single layers of a Prismatic Sphere The final ward will disintigrate unnattended objects, but if a person moves through, he (and his gear) don't get disintigrated, its a will save or be sent to another plane. Since unattended objects get...

You don't get any spells or spell-like abilities when you shapechange. That being said, there's still plenty of reason to be a solar, what with their energy immunities, dr 15/epic, and regeneration 15.

Have you also considered elemental savant? Costs you 2 caster levels, but adds +2dc to all your cold spells. So if you have spell focus and greater spell focus in both cold and evocation, all your energy evocation spells are at +6 dc. Take the metamagic feat from frostburn to ignore cold...

This sentence says to me that the spell needs adjudication. Becuase I would say that a pit fiend polymorphed into a human can still use his spell-like abilities, because they are tied to its essential nature, it's "soul", whereas things like poison bite, tail constrict, are obviously functions...

Try casting it in the nights below. "Ok, so your caster level 19 Holy Word hits all the 12th level kua-tuo fighters, deafened for... 3 rounds, blinded for....4 rounds, and paralyzed for... 5 minutes? Damn, ok they're all out of the battle... wait, Kua-Tuo are immune to paralysis, ha ha, they...