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For magic items, I'm glad to see that they're upholding a distinction between by-the-book items, and player-invented house-ruled items: Of course, I'm unhappy that they're hanging onto the "item caster levels aren't requirements" notion, which I think is nonsensical. This isn't what the DMG...

So now "Yes" has suddenly pulled ahead, 55% to 45%. Crazy :) Good question, I actually didn't vote in my own poll. My gut is telling me that when most of these kinds of powers get expanded verbiage, they end up looking like the spell turning power. That is, protections like Spell Resistance...

Well, that's, like, the closest poll I've ever seen on these messageboards: 42% to 58% (right now). That seems like a pretty major capacity of the ring of counterspells to be so ambiguous!

"Yes", by the rules as written. A common house ruling is "no".

Can a ring of counterspells negate a fireball spell? Assume that the ring is properly prepared (with a fireball spell), and that the wearer is caught within the the attacking fireball spell area, etc. From the SRD: - "Yes" Argument: The ring description says that the attacking spell is...

Link to the previous threads of "best spell polls": http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=144162

Actually, I don't see much for class variants in Unearthed Arcana. There's the ranger favored ennvironment-based bonuses (+2 to smoe skills), but that's it: http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/classFeatureVariants.htm#favoredEnemyVariantFavoredEnvironment There's more for aquatic racial...

The notion of indirect fire is contradicted by the fundamental "line of effect" requirement for all magic spells. From the SRD "Magic Overview":

Cool, thanks for that! Now I really wish CA was OGC. :)

This is a reasonable (and not uncommon) analysis, but I come at it from the other direction. Any common fantasy-world depiction of war uses standard medieval formations, regardless of the presence of wizards. This is how it appears in Lord of the Rings, in the illustrations in any D&D books...

Good question, I'm again thinking "whatever's cheapest", i.e., as few and low-level as possible. One wizard or cleric of mid-level is certainly fair game. (And the enemy spell attack might be anything from 5d6 to 10d6 damage, possibly assume 8d6 on average.) Andargor, thanks for spell...

Here's a question I've been puzzling over for quite a while. Let's say you've got 100 soldiers active in the field (1st-level warriors). What's the best way (i.e., simple and generally least expensive) to protect them from being devastated by a wizard's fireball attack? EDIT: For the purposes...

Note also that the cover of Dragon Magazine declares the whole work to be "Official". The cunning thing is, WOTC realizes that lots of us feel compelled to look at "Official" stuff, so they've started using it strictly as a marketing term (instead of a priority source of adjudications). Which...

Yes, you can turn into a (generic, average) titan. You cannot turn into Chronus, Titan Father of Time, etc.

Simple recommendations: - Multiclass Cleric/Fighter. - UA Variant: CG Paladin. - "Holy Liberator" Prestige Class from Defenders of the Faith. (Basically a CG Paladin type with more specific flavor, works best in conjunction with UA Variant: Prestigious Class Paladin).

Also note the glitch (above, from the Conversion Booklet) at AD&D Strength 22.

Once upon a time I thought I would allow this. However, the "Devoted Defender" prestige class (Sword & Fist, etc.) has as its primary benefit the special ability to do this, once per round. Therefore I have to conclude you can't do this unless you're a Devoted Defender with that special ability.

Having read all the previous arguments, I voted "No, not per the Rules as Written (RAW)". Technically, there is ambiguity. Ambiguous situations are in fact what Sage rulings are meant to help with with. However, for me the deciding factor is that the feat appears in the MM, and frankly I don't...

And yet, if you convert a creature like an ogre or giant from AD&D1/2 under those conversion guidelines, they become under-powered compared to the core D&D3 rules.

This one one of the several rules that made more sense in 3.0, where everyone did in fact threaten unarmed. The revision in that regard overlooked the rule about AOOs with trip/grapple/disarm, making it rather disjointed.