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The rules you are reading are referring to inanimate objects, like doors and shields. According to the Rules Compendium pp106 Animated Objects are treated as Creatures, not objects. You would therefore not use their hardness value in normal combat situations. The reason you don't see it is...

@ Greenfield - By RAW, you are mistaken. Object hardness and DR are not the same, and are not interchangable. One is used for sunder and break attempts, the other applies to hit point damage. Even if they just happen to be the same, the two are not really related. For instance, an Iron Golem is...

I can't imagine when a creature or construct's hardness would ever be an issue. This awakened sand is either a creature or a construct, and neither has a hardness value.

Ok, so by RAW, a medium size dragon hide breastplate costs 900gp. Sounds pretty cheap. I think I'll go buy some at "Ye 'Ole Armour Shoppe". But "hold on" says you, "dragon hide armor doesn't grow on trees, it grows on dragons. You can't just go to the shop and buy some." So your PC's...

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I personally like having SoD effects in my campaigns. I also agree with those who say that having a PC die is not a great idea. So, I usually just make sure the PC's have a "way out" of death if it does occur. Either they have the gold and a friendly Cleric who can resurrect them (True Res is...

Ok, so in my campaign 2 characters drew this card, both druids. We already have a large group, so I want to do something different with this so as to keep the stress of playing multiple characters down for both me and the players. I personally like to let the players play their own...

As DM I once used an evolved mummified druid with the Lifesense feat. I ruled that living things can still be detected based on the light they give off, regardless of whether they were invisible or hiding.

First question: The DMG states on page 199 that you can have alternate cohorts that are "non-standard" races. You just use the ECL of the creature in place of a "standard" race's class levels. It also gives guidelines on what the ECL would be for certain creatures. Keep in mind that Awaken adds...

Does anyone know of an item (magic or otherwise) that act like a gas mask, preventing one from ingesting gasseous poisons and such?

Anyone heard of a magic item that boosts your caster level like the Practiced Spellcaster feat from Complete Divine?

Because it's not as fun! Who tells the story of the time they beat the "X" in normal combat? The stories told round the table for years are the ones born of great ingenuity, great luck, or great desperation. I'd not really consider doing something like this all the time, it'd get old fast...

Hey guys thanks for all the great feedback. IF I were to approach this from a tactical, rulesy perspective, here's what I'd say: I've decided that the idea has the following problems: Can't teleport inside another creature. Can't cast spells while swallowed due to verbal, somatic and...

Ok... so I'm a player in this 3.5 campaign. My party consists of a large guy with an axe, a smart guy with a ton of explosions, a sneaky guy with really, really sharp pointy things, a couple guys with heavy looking swords, and... little old me. I never do much damage, I'm just a small...

Ahh that's it! The Craft Magic Tattoo spell!!! All these are great ideas, thanks guys!!

So I've got this NPC I made over a year ago, a Wizard 10, who has a couple magic tattoo's that grant buffs. (this is 3.5 BTW) The problem is, now I can't remember for the life of me how I got those tattoo's! I know I didn't just make them up, it was a game with newbs so I was sticking to the...

Why not?

I've scoured the books and come up empty. Does anyone know of a way to advance in both Divine and Arcane caster classes (Cleric and Wizard or Cleric and Sorcerer) at the same time other than Mystic Theurge? Once you finish 10 levels of MT you need 4 more levels of something else before you can...

Sounds like a cool character. What do you plan to do once you get through all 10 levels of Mystic Theurge? You'll end up at about character level 16 with 4 levels left to go and no more MT. That's the final dilemma I'm facing now during my planning stage. Of course, if you know the game will not...

First thing I notice is that you chose Divination as one of your prohibited schools. Strictly by the PHB, this is explicitly not allowed. Of course DM word is law though. Regarding the Magic domain, you are correct that your effective Wizard level would be 6 if you were a Clr4 Wiz4. I would...