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I'll add my 2 coppers worth that the ToB is a great addition to 3.5e. A much needed fix to the 'power gap' As far as power creep is concerned....the tiers of abilities more or less go like this. Spells are greater than or equal to psionics, and both of those are greater than almost all of the...

Slow does crap to reduce an opponents saves, and doesn't help much against a brute monster that can just Power attack for 10 and still clobber someone with a single attack. Unluck is similar to any other save or suck spell...it's better than most save or die spells, because it targets an easier...

Use Magic Device + Scroll of Righteous Might + scroll of Divine Power + Transformation....Your grapple check is + WHAT!? The best way to avoid being grappled is to stay out of melee range.

For me it was in 1993 when I was 13 y/o living a sheltered life in the bible belt. I was into Magic: the Gathering back then, but it was back when it was still kind of a newish thing that had hardly caught on. I had never considered playing an RPG. I was raised to think that RPGs were evil...

the ToB is great as a whole. Full of tons of flavor, and tons of options. There are probably 8-10 maneuvers in the book that SERIOUSLY need editing to be balanced. And you have to restrict night sticks to a limit of 1 in any world where you allow Ruby Knight Vindicators. Also Jade pheonix...

That is sort of the point to rolling initiative. To see who has the fastest reflexes and 'gains the advantage'....Neither group should be surprised in your example. As soon as the player says hes done talking and wants to attack, everyone rolls initiative. Speaking and listening to bad guys...

Slightly modified Permanencied teleportation circle at the top of however many flights you want to actually have? Circular staircase, so the party can't maintain line of sight very far. Activates at the end of the round anyone steps on it and takes them back down to the bottom...with any...

In my mind, the logical progression goes something like this.... Normal: You roll a natural 20, then confirm the critical hit. Vorpal cuts off the head...immunity to critical hits does not protect from this. Fortification (100%): You roll a natural 20, then confirm the critical hit...Then...

I'm leaning toward the interpretation that creatures normally immune to crits can still have their heads cut off, as Starbuck says. It even lists undead as an example. However, I also think the fortification property DOES make one immune(or sometimes immune) to Vorpal. From the...

So we're about to start a new D&D game, pathfinder setting. I'd like some advice from other people on what would be best to play. We're restricted to the Pathfinder campaign setting book for what we can play. So no APG, and no Paladins because the player that always makes anti-social non-team...

My bad on the spell component...saw the description of silver circle and must have pulled the GP cost from another spell. Magic circle says 2 different things. It says the creatures spells can cross the boundary. But then later it says if you use the special summoning diagram that their...

I do have a question for Dandu. PCs in any of the games I've ever played in have only ever used Planar Binding spells VERY sparingly. And usually things end up bad. How do you use Planar Binding in combat? It takes 10 minutes to cast. First they get a save, then they get a couple of...

Still have to make the relevant concentration check to cast the spell. It does not change into a different action because you modify the components. It does however let you cast a lot of spells you could not otherwise. For instance, while grappled you cannot cast any spell with Somatic...

Your first step when considering the price of any item someone wants to make should always be the same. Compare their desired result to the items that already exist. There are a ton of items that grant +5 and +10 to individual skills. They all use the exact same formula. If you wanted an...

I had to read the original post a couple of times. Hearing someone say wizards aren't very powerful is like reading a foreign language. Does not compute... A core wizard/druid/cleric compared to pretty much any melee class thats even allowed to use splatbooks pretty much dominates in the...

Animal companions don't increase in size when they gain hit dice because of druid levels. Their base attack bonus, ability scores, and feats increase based on their bonus hit dice though. If you want a bigger version of your animal, you can trade in the wolf for the dire wolf when you are high...

pounce and whirlwind attack are pretty much impossible to do at the same time, as far as I know. Pounce allows a full attack action when you charge, which is a specific combat action. Whirlwind attack is a feat requiring 1 full round action, which means you can only take a 5-foot step and...

"Using a scroll is basically like casting a spell." "Spell trigger activation is similar to spell completion" The share spell ability does not say :when you 'basically' cast a spell, or when you do things that are 'similar' to casting spells on yourself. Magic items that cast spells are not...

I'm playing a Warblade8/Swordsage2/Master of Nine5/major bloodline 3 character....and what you are saying sounds rediculous to me. I don't have 9th level maneuvers, and none of the other rules lawyers in my group read it the same way you are. My warblade initiator level equals 8(warblade class...

The way I read it, activating a scroll, drinking a potion, using a wand...those are all ways of creating magical effects that do not count as 'casting a spell on yourself'. Activating a magic item is an entirely different action than casting a spell. Magic items function under different rules...