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Did you play alternity? In my experience, random armor didn't slow the game down much at all, because you roll the defender's armor at the same time as the attacker's damage. Actually, all types of armor in alternity had 3 DR values, versus different attack types, so this would be even simpler...

The trick with spell points is to use a method similar to the augmentation of psionic powers. Yeah, magic missile is a 1st-level spell. It would be overpowered in a spell-point system that always charged 1 point for it, but let the number of missiles keep increasing with your caster level. So...

Not terriffically useful, definitely not as often as evasion, but one example is horrid wilting (fortitude half).

You know, I thought I knew the answer to this one, but I was re-skimming the rules and managed to confuse myself. Googling produced no answer, but I'm sure you guys will know this right off. Charge is marked as:AoO:No. This bears the additional note, "1. Regardless of the action, if you move...

You highlighted: "one swift action per turn", when it actually says "one swift action per turn without affecting your ability to perform other actions". We already discussed that. It takes longer and interferes with your other actions, and is no longer swift. So the later sentence doesn't...

The most useful example is from Complete Adventurer: Distract Opponent is a 1st level spell, as a swift action, that forces a target to will save or become flatfooted until his next action. What if I want to cast it twice? I would like there to be a graceful devolution of action types...

I thought of that, but I'm not sure it's a big problem. It would basically be two quickened spells and a regular spell. So, two Q-dazes and a hail storm, all taking up 4th level spell slots. Not so terrifying. Two Q-magic missiles and a cone of cold, all 5th level? Two Q-cones of cold and a...

Suppose my sorceror knows a spell with a casting time of 1 swift action. He wants to cast it twice in one round. He can only perform 1 swift action that round. The first casting is swift. What about the second casting? Is it: A) Impossible. B) A move action. C) A standard action. Strictly...

Yeah, the review site is rediculously more usable now that you can see more than the recent reviews that used to fit in that little sidebar. The chronological list is excellent. Good job.

I was wondering about this the other day for a thing I'm working on, and it took less than 10 minutes of poking around to find out the answer to this. Once you understand that the term COPYRIGHT NOTICE in section 6 of the OGL refers to all of section 15, it's pretty self-explanatory, too.

It's a coincidental use of the same (very obvious) name for a very obvious feat. You wouldn't need to have read Complete Warrior to come up with that.

There was a very good history or discovery channel special on ancient greek myths. The greeks spoke of the griffons as hoarding or guarding gold, and for a very long time the appearance of a griffon was very static. The theory was that this would only have occurred if there were some external...

As I recall, skill costs in Alternity escalated by rank. To improve your skill one rank cost 1 point more than the previous rank did, I believe. There was a very early erratta for the game that suggested using linear skill costs instead of escalating skill costs. Look that up and use it...

Until you actually have to shoot an enemy.

Grapple him. A touch attack is much easier to hit, then the size bonus for grappling on the opposed grapple checks yields one dead dwarf.

That's what I said. Don't try to correct me if you don't read my post. The text of the feat is an excerpt.

Closed content doesn't prevent you discussing it anywhere or even posting the whole text of the feat for purposes of discussion. It only prevents you from using it in a SRD-derived (OGL or d20) book that you publish yourself.

He wants to do something that was done fairly often historically- use a shield in one hand and a spear in the other that is long enough to attack past the ally in front of you. Far more common than spiked chains or double-bladed swords, but not really possible in the 3.5 D&D rules. Personally...

Just use the wizard/sorceror spell list, it should be fine.

At this point, this guy is looking better than a cleric, and cleric is one of the strongest classes in 3.5. Definitely way better than a sorceror (gets 2nd level and higher spells 1 level earlier, for one). Should probably be 2+int mod skill points/level, and either a d6 hit points, or drop...