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This sounds like the origin of the saying, "I don't have to out-run the bear; I just have to out-run you." --Axe

Focusing on the cleric, I would target reflex saves and touch attacks. For fighter-types, tripping is a nice tactic against spellcasters. I'm assuming this character is heavily armored, so ranged touch attacks are nice; ray of enfeeblement is particularly nasty for someone who relies on strength...

I disagree. First, if we want to argue according to the literal RAW, "includes" does not equal "includes all," so don't assume that a sheep-herding dog is equivalent to a riding dog. Border collies and shelties are working dogs, and I can't imagine either as a size M creature that can serve as a...

IME (which is probably less than that of most others), it's not a problem, especially as level increases. If you're actually dealing with an ambush situation with good ambush creatures, the Hide opposed rolls will be very high (especially if they had time to take 20). As long as the Hide rolls...

Is it a game design flaw if PCs fail to grasp the importance of Spot and Listen? Of the eleven core classes, five have neither Spot nor Listen as a class skill, but really only the cleric, paladin, and sorcerer are in a particular bind. A wizard's intelligence gives him skill points to spare...

No, it just takes the will to buy the ability cross-class. If a fighter is willing to do it, he will be much better at avoiding ambushes as he levels than the first level warrior with no ranks in Spot. The fighter just won't be able to hear the whispers through the doorand at the end of the hall...

And if no one in the party can make you invisible, Obscuring Mist can help you out here. Even standing at the edge of the mist, you have concealment, and you can move in five feet for total concealment while you muster your squadron of hippogriffs. --Axe

Or an Oaf.

I don't agree with everything, but KarinsDad has some good points. I don't agree about the leather armor, especially since, once you can scribe some scrolls, you can get Shield and Mage Armor going for most encounters. A high AC is important at 1st level, because, even though most opponents...

Obscuring mist is a good "Oh crap" spell, and probably the only first level one. Battle going badly for you? Cast this and get out of Dodge. It's also a good choice for scrolls, since it involves no save and has a one minute per level duration. --Axe

While a feat with some immediate value (like Improved Initiative, as some have suggested) is a good choice, think about what you want your wizard to be like in the future. Yes, you get some bonus feats, but there are lots of feats just in the core rules for wizards to take, especially metamagic...

I assumed it's the difference between increasing size and increasing size categories. Think of a lion as the smallest creature in the Large category, and the largest lions are the largest in the category, but not Huge. A tiger is bigger than a lion, so it isn't surprising that the largest tigers...

Yet abilities like Combat Expertise include language that specifically says that the penalty lasts the whole round; there's no such language here. I also don't see the "per round" as necessarily meaning that it affects the entire round, any more than "one Quickened spell per round" does. I've...

3 points 1) To paraphrase an acquaintance on why he tended to play basketball rather than softball: "If you schedule a full court basketball game and 4 people show up, you can still play a game of two-on-two basketball. If you schedule a softball game and 4 people show up, you can still play a...

And finding and disabling traps is a very, very good thing in AoW. You'll have plenty to do, even if you're not the best combat rogue. --Axe

How about preparing a fireball and wishing you had one more fly spell to get the whole party off that crumbling precipice? That sounds almost like an argument *for* the sorcerer. If the roles of spells can be reduced to a select number of categories (attack, defense, attack a particular save...

Fecund? Does this mean more of their infant spells live past their first year? ;) I think the "flexible" argument refers to the fact that sorcerers can cast multiples of a useful spell without having to have prepared them beforehand. A wizard and a sorcerer may each have fireball, dispel...

I thought the same about sorcerers being underpowered, especially since scrolls can make up for the wizard's fewer spell slots. But some friends pointed out some advantages, and, having now played a sorcerer a bit, I'm convinced that sorcerers are at the very least equally fun to play as wizards...

It's moot for the bonus tricks, but not for the others. A druid could say that he spent the time training his companion in its six non-bonus tricks before his first adventure, but it appears that a ranger's companion essentially arrives knowing one trick, and the ranger needs to spend six more...

I have an elven ranger who will get an animal companion next level. Because rangers have animal companions that progress more slowly than those of druids, I figured I'd go with a mount, rather than a companion that would mix it up, so I could eventually go for mounted archery. After examining...