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meh. My barbarian has it, but now that I picked up the Book of Nine Swords, none of the characters I designed (six so far) has taken Power Attack.

I was under the impression that Rao is essentially a pacifist, and that his clerics would be noncombatants. I never considered him really good material for an adventurer's god. If I were going to make a paladin of him, I'd be sure to make him a demon-killer, given the history of the Crook of Rao.

It's posted now.

I would go so far as to say that any corporeal creature has a natural armor rating.

As the player of the martial adepts that died (swordsage and crusader), I can say "overconfident," in the case of the crusader, and "unlucky," in the case of the swordsage. The hobgoblin swordsage 6 died from a circle of death, and the aasimar crusader 7 died from making sweet love to a...

ahh, so this is the difference between this topic and Fast Wild Shape (CD p 81), which allows a druid to wildshape as a move action. Wildshaping is not expressly offensive. OK, thanks.

I gave a 1xp bonus for a player figuring out what was wrong in the html of one of my log pages.

whoops! Have I been doing this wrong? Does an off-hand weapon use only half of the Strength modifier...even if it's a double weapon? I hadn't bothered including that tidbit for, oh, the last five years or so. I guess I figured a double weapon didn't have an "off-hand." thus: Joe has 18...

wow, thanks, Hypersmurf My goliath warblade is officially illegal. This is a relief, mostly because of the good-for-the-goose-good-for-the-gander rule, and I certainly didn't want a Huge bastard sword coming at me any time soon.

err, uh, no? I'm lookin at the goliath in Races of Stone, and Monkey Grip in Complete Warrior. The goliath text: "The benefits of this racial trait stack with the effects of powers, abilities, and spells that change the subject's size category." Monkey Grip: "You are able to use a larger...

oh! What if we say that "concentration" (that is, burning your standard action each round) is enough to create a believable reaction?

OK, so Thing failed its save vs silent image during combat with the illusion. What if it strikes the illusion? (an illusion's AC is 10+size modifier) Is that good enough for another save, or for evidence it isn't real? If the invisible caster of the illusion is on hand to concentrate on the...

Just off the top of my head, in The Heart of Nightfang Spire, Gulthias has ranks in Knowledge (red dragons). There is precedent for "other" knowledge skills.

I have both of these, and they have breathed new interest into the game for me. Especially Bo9S. If you have the chance to check it out, look into the Jade Phoenix Mage prestige class on page 113. The class flavor is swordsage/wizard, but you can take it as a sorcerer, and if you want to...

No. Warblades have to meditate as a swift action to regain maneuvers, but then cannot use any maneuvers in that same round. You pretty much can't ever use the same maneuver two rounds in a row, except: 1) you prepared a copy with a martial script (I think? the rules aren't clear on whether...

No. Initiative measures a creature's reaction time for getting into the flow of combat. Increasing your initiative result would be tantamount to time travel or something. Note that even haste does not let you creep up the initiative ladder, though perhaps it should...

DM's call. I would say: provided both hands are empty, and the fighter is picking up one in each hand, then it is one move action, with one attack of opportunity. Other DMs (and situations) will differ.

Since "you strap a shield to your forearm and grip it with your hand," do you drop it when you are stunned?

My new machine at work runs z/OS 1.8, heh heh. No D&D stuff on it, though I did run a dice-rolling probability program. it took something like six hours to run on a machine with thirteen processors.

What if a 20th level paladin or ranger has a Wisdom score of 20? He gets two bonus 1st level spells, one bonus 2nd, one bonus 3rd, one bonus 4th, and...he "should" get one bonus 5th, but there aren't any 5th level paladin spells. Can he apply that 5th-level bonus to a 4th level spell? Can he...