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That's usually, however, because they don't have to take a 5000xp hit in most mythological stories :) Seriously though, I don't think that Wish is particularly bad. The only time I can see Wish becoming nasty is with ancient liches who hit 20th level a few millennia ago and have far too much...

I houseruled that really easy Knowledge skill DCs can be defaulted- in the same way that the average (modern day) man on the street knows a bit about (e.g.) the World Wars, or basic maths, or has heard of Dickens, without having to take Knowledge (History), Knowledge (Mathematics) and Knowledge...

Er...with due respect, no one would go for these. Considering that a d10 sword does average damage 5.5, a simply +5 weapon will do average damage 10.5- not to mention also have a +5 to hit and +5 to overcome DR and sundering etc. Personally, I think that the bonus equal to one-half of the...

Now this I *have* to hear... A dozen skeletons is like, what, EL 5ish? Against a 50% bigger than average party of level 8-10? Your PCs must have been really really stupid or hideously unlucky (or probably a combination of both)

What surprises me is that the PCs had no backup plan. As the old maxim goes, if you have no backup plan, you have no plan at all. Where were the Clones? Where were the Contingency Teleports? Where were the last minute Miracles? Personally, the goblin seems to be not particularly powerful...

To be fair, I've never had a player take the weapon proficiencies, but I fairly often get fighter-types going for the feat over the skill points, and it gives them quite a comprehensive boost in low-level combat.

Since half-elves can arise in many different ways (elven mother, human father; human mother, elven father; two half-elf parents) I figured that I would give them a choice. EITHER 4 skill points at 1st level + 1 skill point at every subsequent level OR 1 bonus feat at first level OR Elven weapon...

Jim Smith, the reluctant adventurer. An ordinary run-of-the-mill commoner who just wanted a peaceful life tending the turnips, but whose overambitious social-climbing wife and in-laws want him to adventure and become rich, famous and powerful...

What I tend to do is 'hidden' rolling. For PCs, I let them RP it out, and then roll the relevant skill check behind the DM screen, adding appropriate modifiers. The NPCs in question react to the dice roll, not to the roleplaying of the character. For NPCs, I roll the dice then roleplay it...

Oh well... Human Rogue (normally works...) Str 11 Dex 15 Con 15 Int 13 Wis 6 Cha 13 Eminently playable, actually :)

Aha...how about this... Since she cannot touch food herself, she cannot feed herself and hence is permanently starving. However, the PCs could, presumably, feed her by spoon or whatever. As she gets less hungry, so she turns away from Vaath and is gradually restored to normal- but whenever...

Oh, why not.... Str 10 Dex 13 Con 12 Int 11 Wis 7 Cha 6 Hmm...perhaps a common pickpocket? Second time luckier (I hope)... Str 14 Dex 13 Con 11 Int 10 Wis 8 Cha 17 Paladin a la Don Quixote springs to mind...:)

Hmmm...LG...used to be LN. I must be more evil in the future :D

The level does seem rather high. Given Bestow Curse's ability to apply a -4 penalty to attacks, saves and such like, and given the results you list, I'd say that this is probably balanced at 3rd. In terms of effect, it is probably more unpleasant that Bestow Curse; but in terms of damage, it's...

Erm...sorry for saying so, but this does seem very overpowered for a 1st level spell. Imagine the top-level cleric. He has 30 Wisdom (buffed), 12 Int and 20 Charisma (he buffs charisma a bit to turn). HPs: (1+10) x20= 220hps AC: 11 + 20 + 5 =36 AC Attack Bonus: 1 + 1 + 20 =+22 to hit (and...

With the average roll of a 3d6 being 10.5, and I believe that someone mentioned the standard deviation of the 3d6 method being 1.7, an 8 is (2.5/1.7)=around 1.5 standard deviations below the norm. In other words, at about the top of the bottom 10% (or so) of the population. These are not the...

I see no reason why not. In terms of logic, it works. Death Attack is all about examining your unaware (or unmoving, in this case) opponent, and seeing exactly where you could pinpoint a precise attack. With Time Stop, you can easily examine your opponent's weak spots, aim precisely and...

How about First Strike-type tactics? Ready an action to fire a big direct-damage spells (Fireball etc.) with a burst area of effect when he tries to cast a spell. The only problem is that if he has Silent Spell (or casts spell without any verbal component) then it starts to get very tricky...

In response to John Brown John Brown- Well done on an interesting alternative insight and different thread of arguments to those already proposed. However, I do feel that there are inherent contradictions in your argument. Moreover, it stands clearly at odds with fusangite's argument in some...

The composite elemental attack spells are certainly an interesting idea, but clearly underpowered as written. With slightly worse damage scaling (e.g. 4d6 v 5d6 at 5th level) and the same cap, the are really dragged down by only affecting one target (although the RTA is compensated by lack of...