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First, the SRD has no concept of a "weapon-like spell". The concept was first introduced in Tome and Blood to allow the use of certain feats normally applied to weapons to certain types of spells. The concept was up-dated to the v 3.5 ruleset in Complete Arcane. From the perspective of the...

Fleshiver is a 5th-level Sor/Wiz necromancy spell from Player's Guide to Faerun. The spell has a Range of Close and a Target of one creature. Its effect is to snap the creature's bones, causing it debilitating pain and injuries; consquently I have interpreted the Target line as restricting it...

Ooh, ooh, I love this one too. Which direction is the wizard dimension dooring? Into something very big and solid? A slightly more sensible option, although equally disastrous in the wrong circumstances, is to "dimension door to the opposite side of my furthest visible ally[/i]". Contingency...

OK, exactly who is the subject of the resilient sphere here, the wizard or the assailant? Irrespective, given that the sphere is 15 feet in daimeter (for a 15th-level wizard), a wizard whose contingency dropped it on an assailant who had just attacked him in melee is going to be trapped in his...

As a house rule, I always give snake-like creatures, such as nagas, the movement and skill benefits of snakes. Nagas have climb and swim speeds equal to their (conventional) speed, and: Set your terrain up right, and nagas become far more interesting and versatile combatants. Cheers, Al'Kelhar

Remember that a scorching ray, at CL 7 and above, creates multiple rays, each one of which requires a separate attack roll, and each one of which is subject to any fire resistance of the target. So a maximised scorching ray at CL 11+ consists of three rays each doing 24 points of damage...

Amen, brother! In the current adventure I'm playing in, the DM has thrown bone devils, a death slaad and now a glabrezu demon at us. All of them have different weaknesses, and for the devils and demon, there was absolutely no opportunity to prepare anything (the devils ambushed us, and the...

Outsiders (the creature type), by design have: - spell resistance; - energy resistance; - good saves across the board. Thus, by design, outsiders are spellcasters' worst nightmares. It seems to me that spellcasters faced with outsiders are best advised to assist their companions with spells...

The master thrower isn't exactly SRD material, and the ability to use a touch attack with a weapon to cause weapon damage isn't contemplated by the SRD. Weapon damage is subject to DR. So, house rule it to make sense. Don't go with a rule which, when applied to a situation it was not intended...

You should be considered entangled (-2 attack, -4 Dex), but can cast spells without a Concentration check, and you cannot move. Cheers, Al'Kelhar

Yep, the spell designers at WoTC are breaking their own "rules" for spells. First, instantaneous spells causing energy damage are evocation. Only spells which cause energy damage over time should be conjuration. Second, spell resistance should apply to targeted conjuration spells which cause...

Is a creature which can cast arcane spells as spell-like abilities "a creature that can cast arcane spells" for the purposes of saving throws against feeblemind? For example, most intelligent outsiders have a number of spell-like abilities, such as greater teleport. Do they suffer the -4...

Yuan-ti? Would you like an herbal infusion or a piece of cloth to dangle from your neck?

Meanwhile, back in the Real World, there is a large amount of research going on about the relative merits of regulating complex subjects to achieve maximum social benefit through the application of high-level principles rather than micro-regulating specific behaviours. This represents very well...

So that would mean they have no components and could be cast by nothing more than a thought? So that would mean that sorcerers become... psions. Cheers, Al'Kelhar

Excellent! Substantive differences: Compared to mass resilient sphere, mass ectoplasmic cocoon has a larger area (40' diameter vs. 30' diameter), can potentially affect more targets, can potentially affect larger targets, lasts longer, has a longer duration, is not subject to power (=spell)...

Thanks Nifft. It's sometimes surprising how many people leap to conclusions about the power of a spell before considering its actual effect. Yes, it has the weakensses you've identified. The spellcaster can't just have his buddies surround each sphere individually, dispel that sphere, and...

Sorry, a bit more info: My Div7/Lor5 has Illusion as her opposition school, and has Analyse Dweomer, Legend Lore (her two compulsory divinations), Contingency, Disintegrate, and Flesh to Stone in her spellbook. She has Spell Focus (enchantment) and Spell Focus (evocation), but enchantment and...

Sorry Jeff, not an answer, but a similar plea from myself. My Diviner's now 12th level and is stuck with the usual Disintegrate and Flesh to Stone (as well as two divinations). I've looked through a heap of WotC products containing spells and really can't find any 6th-level spells which I'd be...

The point is that the core rules are the baseline against which everything else is compared. This is not a dispute about whether the core rules are wimpy or certain "character concepts" or "builds" are "non-viable" in the core rules. I think what a number of people are stating is that taking...