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Bingo. The reason archers were a given on most battlefields (not a key player usually, but still there) was because in big, historic battles not everybody can be a plate-steel-wearing, shield-carrying nightmare. In D&D, the adventurers are the nightmares of the battlefield and can be expected...

Working with others' ideas offers a fresher perspective and a more open mind, generally speaking.

Yes, shields were pretty much the only reliable defense against arrows, because GOOD arrowheads almost always kept pace with GOOD armor, such that any armor (helmet included) which was impenetrable by a bodkin arrow (the very narrow-headed kind) was also too expensive and cumbersome to equip...

In my mind, objects like this should at least have a chance of detecting as magic, since this most certainly IS a magic item. Other than that, it sounds like a great stealth device.

Perfect! You found an abuse I hadn't thought of, which was the point of posting instead of assuming I'm always right. Have you any suggestions to fix that single issue, instead of replacing the entire list of suggested feats? One obvious suggestion would be to drop the Divine Heighten Spell...

So, basically, metamagic is inaccessible to low- and mid-level spellcasters even more-so than it already is? Yeesh.

I've become interested in the concept of divine metamagic, and for the past week have been slogging through the literally hundreds of pages of text that can be found discussing it in just this forum. I've come to 2 important conclusions: 1) I've already spent WAYYY too much time on this...

Sweet Jesus Christ on a jogo stick! That's a pretty dang good tactical feat! Saved to HDD.

You did indeed use the correct word: "heighten". There's a metamagic feat called Heighten Spell in the Player's Handbook that does what you're looking for by increasing the spell's equivalent level. Of course, you have to be able to cast a spell at that level, and use up the appropriately high...

Ants don't actually have a hive mind. They just secrete and detect pheremones as a form of communication much like traffic lights and frantic hand gestures. It's very complex in it's usage, because literaly hundreds upon thousands of individuals are communicating, but the actual information...

When I design characters, I pretend that PrCs have the same multiclassing issues that base classes do (what with the XP penalties), and I also pretend that any XP penalties of ANY kind are absolutely unacceptable. It results in characters that are neither dippy, nor preposterous. I'm tempted...

Ask an entropomancer. She'll know what to do. If no such obscure, extremely rare manipulators of chaos are available, listen to Jack Smith. It sounds like HE known what to do, too :D

I think the best part of a Tiny character is taking the Leadership feat, earning/hiring yourself some cohorts (or playing in a party of similarly Tiny characters), and forming a swarm. I read the swarm discussion here on EN a week or so ago, and I learned that the rules for swarms are some...

Watch Flynn as Robin Hood fight Little John with a quarterstaff. That's stereotypical heroic two-weapon fighting, and approximately what the D&D rules are aiming for.

Lvl BAB Fort Ref Will Special 1 1 2 2 0 Exotic Weapon Proficiency, Rapid Reload 2 2 3 3 0 Blast Radius 3 3 3 3 1 Mortar Precision, Far Shot 4 4 4 4 1 Weapon Focus 5 5 4 4 1...

*bump* I'm realy quite curious about this, you see.

Which is where the Cleric he adventures with comes in handy. Or, heck, if we're messing around with Lvl-10 character here, he may bring along a Geomancer, who can provide buffs before the battle, then lightly bread and fry the hydra with divine-metamagic-inhanced fireballs before the Barbarian...

Meh. I feel as though Sneak Attack is over-used in new PrCs. It's getting to where if you allow any and all WotC material, the Rogue class has nothing unique to its name and is simply a collection of other classes' abilities in a base class package. Personally, I'm not comfortable with that...

Hm. The Swarmfighter feat in CW allows PCs to occupy the same square, as well as giving a nice little morale bonus shared by adjacent swarmfighters. Would that mean they could act as a swarm if they were Tiny creatures (say, under the effect of Reduce Person)? Seaking of which, there was a...

The Hexblade and the Shadowdancer. The latter gives Evasion, which you all should recognize, and the former gives Mettel (same rules as Evasion, but applied to Fort and Will). Throw in a few levels of Barbarian, to get levels of strong Fort saves to match the Shadowdancer's Ref and the...