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yes, qft. when I made a custom reincarnation chart (for sean's character, ha ha), i even had one LA+2 character on there, just in case. he wound up with a hobgoblin, but it didn't impose an LA. it was fine. and a hobgoblin monk is quite sneaky

I do. That's why I started this thread. For one thing, it erodes Craft Wand. A lot of the indiosyncratic quirks about magic items in this game are solely to grandfather in existing flavor. Monte Cook (and others, I am sure) has gone on record saying that the only reason for Brew Potion's and...

yeah, but that's because speak with dead only works on a certain kind of object, like stone tell.

Actually, that's true for me. Isn't that kinda sick?

Well, if you just want it to be an iron golem, then make it an iron golem in the shape of a dragon. I've seen two separate examples of iron spider golems. Make something up. Or...isn't there a half-golem template somewhere? See what that does.

I agree. As an epic feat, it is certainly worth taking. For the rest of us, there's Iron Will, which I think you are under-rating. If you want cheese, then dip into barbarian and revel in its rage boost to Will saves. And tell your cleric to memorize some of the resistance spells from Spell...

Why? If we throw out the definition of "several," then we should be able to throw out this absurd minimum caster level. Why not just make Craft Wand and Craft Staff feats that you get at different levels? the answer being, i suspect, that Craft Wand will disappear A staff contains multiple...

Rystil Arden nailed it. There must be some reason, somehow, that a staff is more expensive than an "equivalent" wand. (because they aren't equivalent) As a house rule, I might allow single-spell staves (of any spell level) to be created by someone with both Craft Staff and Craft Wand, but...

I have seen people try to break Craft Staff by having, say, two copies of fireball in it, to pretend that they are somehow different spells, in order to load a staff with only one spell. And now ... stealth errata? Does this rub anyone else the wrong way?

It doesn't matter how you read the ability; it matters how your DM does. Fear effects are cumulative, so a lich riding a dragon would be quite scary indeed, but you are arguing for why-don't-two-potions-of-bull's-strength-make-me-twice-as-strong. Being a Dread Necromancer does not give you an...

Frank's working on his next level of Loremaster

yeah, good point. How about we make a rule that you can only make a phylactery or soul gem once per century? So the DN can continue, but it takes a looong time, so he can catch up on his Danielle Steele novels, or whatever it is liches do

Please put down the glass pipe and walk away from it. I imagine if you found a different fear effect, one that said "this can increase from shaken to frightened" or something, then it would work, but it seems that the DN's aura works once every 24 hours. Either you make the save and are...

I would love to have access to whatever special edition of Heroes of Horror the authors have, but mine doesn't include a natural armor progression. In fact, most of the nifty lich tricks just fall out of the sky: the immunities, the racial skill bonuses (boni?), the paralyzing touch, um...

You fail your save, you become shaken. That's it. The text mentions it affecting only creatures near to the DN. I don't think this is an area effect, i.e. it could not affect, say, a magical door that opens when you rebuke nearby. Since it is not an area effect, and the DN is not mentioned in...

I don't really see the problem, e.g: You have a scroll of wish. You wish for a potion of cure light wounds. You lose 4 xp. You have a scroll of wish. You wish for a mirror of life trapping. You lose 16,000 xp. What's the problem?

There's a pretty good one on this page and there's always Wikipedia. I can't think of any typical arrangement where slaves rowed. On a standard Mediterranean trireme, the rowers were seasoned professionals. Unskilled and potentially rebellious slaves would never be entrusted with rowing...

This one is a bit strong, and sudden, for me, as well as something you didn't cover, which is the +2 to Int, Wis, and Cha. Also, my problem with the paralyzing touch is that there have been other touch attacks developed all along the DN's career. Why can't paralyzing touch show up sooner...

yes, this is an important distinction. For actual class-skill feats, you need something like Apprentice or Mentor from DMG 2. Or, um, there's some damn Dragon mag feat called Flexible Mind, but I never allow Dragon material IMG. Really, judging against the existing feats out there, the basic...

The "core only minicampaign" is a very good idea. Three sessions. Four if necessary. FWIW, my wife plays a druid in my campaign. She had no idea what she was getting into, and if she had, she may have shied away from a character with so many options. But I make her charts and spreadsheets...