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In my view, the black bear is slightly "better" than the leopard for combat purposes. The riding dog is excellent for tracking - because you get the Track feat as a racial bonus feat, and presumably your druid has a few ranks in Survival - and is a reasonable combatant. But remember the...

Well I'll be darned. Y'learn someting new every day. Thanks Patryn and Staffan. Cheers, Al'Kelhar

Here is the first part of my examination of the game mechanics in the XPH. The second part will look at psionic powers specifically, if I get the time. My essential conclusion: Psionic spellcasting is unbalanced as against spellcasting by divine and arcane spellcasters as presented in the core...

I've been following this and many previous threads for some time. I'm currently reading the XPH and comparing the psion, psionic feats, and psionic powers particularly against arcane spellcasters, spellcasting feats and spells. I'll attach the analysis when it's done. But let's just say that...

Elves. I wouldn't have to beam them up. They'd be lining up at the door. Cheers, "the old elf jokes are the good elf jokes" Al'kelhar

Like others have mentioned, house rule Rapid Reload to apply to slings, too. I did. Cheers, Al'Kelhar

OK, everyone seems to be voting from the gut. But I take the high moral ground, and say I shall not be swayed by subjective impressions of the characters who have come before me. Nay, I shall vote from the perspective of game balance. Dwarves are a LA +1 race in v.3.5. Out they go. Cheers...

What, they run out of fuel and have to be abandoned? Guess they need the local cleric along to create food and water, then. Cheers, Al'Kelhar

Here's the description of resilient sphere from the SRD: In my opinion, this is an excellent 4th-level spell, as it has the effect of neutralising one Medium or smaller opponent completely for at least the duration of a combat (subject to save, SR, extraplanar travel, dispels, etc. etc.)...

Typically, yes. The annis's natural armour would replace any natural armour that your wizard normally has - which if he's any of the humanoid races from PH, is 0. However, if you've got any enhancement bonuses to natural armour from spells or magic items, they'll also stack with the annis's...

Don't eschew polymorph. From the level that a wizard can cast the spell, he or she can polymorph into an annis hag. Assuming your wizard is a humanoid, the annis form beats the druid's brown bear form any day - not only can you still cast spells while an annis without needing the Natural Spell...

I think the consensus on these boards is "no", as per the following from the SRD for alter self: While "heads" are not technically "limbs", the intent of the statement appears to be to preclude the very abuse you're discussing. Similarly, your wizard wouldn't get four claw attacks if...

So, 34, non-alcoholic Canberran, predominantly DM'ing since the 1980s, who's running a Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil campaign. You'd be my evil twin, then. Are twins ever both evil? Cheers, Al'Kelhar

[AAARGHH! OK, take a deep breath now.] Since D&D 1st edition, AC has never been representative of how hard it is to hit a creature. AC has always been representative of how hard it is to injure a creature. Armour makes you harder to injure. Whether it makes you harder to hit is irrelevant...

Um, sorry, single vote for Canberra here. At least I'm closer to you than Melbourne. Oh, can we call you Bruce? 'Saves a lot of confusion. Cheers, Al'Kelhar

Word! You're d'man! Anyone else want to get onto my Soapbox-of-Inconsistent-Spell-Design. You can gather some general design principles from the spells in the SRD. Every WotC product with spells in it since royally f***s with those principles. Funny, proximity of my colleagues to the bad...

Nope, I've got Complete Warrior and it doesn't have new equipment. I was really wondering if it's in the v.3.5 super-duper equipment book, whatever it's called. PS Ever made a ranger/fighter build with one of these beauties? I won't call myself a munchkin - more an "optimiser" - and this...

Guys, There's an exotic weapon called the gyrspike in Sword and Fist - half longsword, half light flail. Stats are 1d8/1d8 damage, crit 19-20 (presumably for both ends), trip weapon, +2 bonus to disarm checks. This seems to me to be one of the optimum exotic weapons. It combines the cool...

I actually can't recall my own character dying. I've been a DM for most of my D&D career (since 1980), and in 1st and 2nd editions, I found PC deaths weren't really common. My characters in the current campaign DM'd by someone else should have died at least twice; the first wizard should've...

Steelwind, I've recently finished preparing an adventure IMC featuring an iron citadel of an ice devil trapped in a large air pocket in a vast block of ice - for 5 PCs of 11th level. While not entirely relevant to this project, it does feature a few things your designers might like to...