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I've always thought that the magical items, enchantments, and such are out of control in D&D. Classes, PrC's, templates, feats, skills, weapons, armor... these are flavorful, interesting concepts that progressively add to a player's abilities and power. Magic items... mostly aren't. You just...

Ioun suppository, anyone? :]

I've found those "three 0- or 1st-lvl spell" feats to be useful for flavor and some rare PrC's (like Dragon Disciple) that require arcane casing ability but don't specify what level. Otherwise, there are FAR better feat choices out there, for ANY character.

Wow, that's ALOT of spells, Wycen, if you really mean "any spell" and the OP holds to "any source"! A fun one: Backbiter, Lvl 1 Sor/Wiz (Spell Compendium, but I know it's elsewhere) You essentially curse someone's weapon, so that it attacks them. Right up a Hexblade's alley. There are plenty...

I thought the reason Ioun stones are so fracking expensive was because they are slotless magic items? If you can only "wear" one at a time, and considering that they cost so much, why buy them?

Stony Grasp (Complete Arcane) is awesome for RP purposes, since you can basically have a massive hand reach up, pin your foe, and hold it in place at the mercy of your stinging wit or merciless questioning. When someone has information you want, but wants to kill you, Stony Grasp beats just...

I LOL'ed, it's true. Smite Neutral: Conquering mediocrity in the almighty name of Awesome. Rock Out: also known as Spontaneous Metal Interlude And probably the best class ability EVER.

I don't know how to answer your questions, Airwalker. I CAN agree with you, though, that to satisfy the spirit, or the role-playing aspects, of acchieving a class' 1st level, SOMETHING has to change. Personally, I don't multiclass just at will. My DM may be following the rules and be...

Yes it does appear wierd. The best I can do to aleviate that, short of a complete rework, would be to assure you that I've mock-built a 5th-, 10th-, 15th, and 20th-level characer around the most min-maxed use of Arcane Tussler I thought of at the time. None of them was too powerful compared to...

You may remember the Arcane Tussler PrC I came up with and posted here not too long ago. I've slightly revised it such that now it looks like this: +----------------+ | Arcane Tussler | +----------------+ Concept: The Arcane Tussler is blessed with both innate arcane powers and a measure of...

Hah! Give it the ability to grant long-range blindsense to its wielder and that would make for a Great Crossbow straight out of "Eraser"! Now, as for what would happen: If the arrow hits the target, the bullrush pushes the target back as far as possible, meaning it will push that target until...

I just consider the DM to be the All-powerful God of the D&D Microcosmos. We have 2 weeks between sessions to email back and forth about problems, so that when game time comes, we just kick butt and have fun for a afternoon, without rules troubles.

He could also ask alot more simply based on demand. For an extreme example: Let's say he's the only bard within 20 miles who can play a lyre, and you only have 1 hour to get a fortification built before an evil army of undead gets there to slay the crippled orphans. The bard may ask that you...

Doesn't Nystul's Magical Aura have a saving throw? It is, after all, essentially "duping" whomever attempts to Detect Magic. The Aura'ed thing is still magical, it still has its magical effects, and the mechanism for producing the magical effects does not suddenly become something non-magical...

You know what? You all make good points. All of you are right. [Forget] this "Divine Metamagic" bull[crap]. I'm, frankly, sick of trying to ressurrect an obviously fundamentally flawed piece-of-[crap] concept. In all honesty I'd like to thank the lot of you for tactfully beating the...

You're in for a small story and an insight into how I create character ideas before you hit the meat of this thread. Please bear with me here ;) How I thought through the character design: I'm playing in a campaign at the moment, which started at 3rd level and will likely climb to 12th or so...

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It looks like that is the intent, that Widen and Encompassing, being two separate metamagic feats, stack their effects. That means for two feats you can bump up a 1st-level spell to a 9th-level slot and increase its area of effect to 300% of its original (or 400% if the DM rules that effects...

In the world of houserules, one of the more popular ones is the addition of loads of base feats instead of the usual 1 per 3 levels: 1 every other character level, 2 out of 3 levels, or even a feat every level! When I'm making yet another houserule feat, I try not to use its prerequisites as...

Perhaps the DC for "Terror of the Battlefield" could be: 5 + 1/2 ranks Intimidate + Charisma Modifier + ECL of fallen foe. That way, the nastier the guy you just killed, the more effectively you scare the pants off his allies. If you fell the orc chieftan, the rest of the orcs may stop in their...