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As things are looking right now, I'm most likely to use it as Unearthed Arcana was intended to be used, as a big pile of house rules suggestions and inspirations for 3.5.

Specialist wizard abilities that are more useful and more interesting than just "here's another slot". Sorcerer magic mechanically tied to bloodline. Eldritch knight with abilities that are more useful and interesting than "you're both a fighter and a wizard, but even more vanilla than the...

That wouldn't abuse smite evil nearly as much as TWF. :p

This is really interesting! Does anybody know more aobut this?

You are wrong. I'm operating on the basis that on the first reading, the paladin boosts appeared insane. After some discussion, I haven't changed my mind and they still appear insane, because the counterargument seems to boil down to "meh, it's +20 to damage, but it's just against a couple of...

No, that's if the GM is using 4 Evil creatures per day. Against Evil outsiders it's +22 at 11th level. Your extensive experience and in-depth understanding isn't really showing. Your claim that monsters are being boosted to compensate for the "new state of the onion" would suggest that you...

So +5 to attacks and +11 damage on each and every attack against a grand total of four opponents per day is suddenly not impressive damage? How on earth did you endure playing 3.5? Or did you just use it when you wanted to play semi-competent everymen, like when people go to Warhammer Fantasy...

No? Smite give +Cha to attacks and +level to damage against evil, +Cha to attack and +2xlevel against fiends, dragons and undead. Seems pretty massive.

Still twice as long as the fighter, barbarian, monk or rogue, no? Any concern about the paladin being overpowered isn't about how he compares to giants, it's how he compares to the other PCs.

Fascinating, isn't it? On the face of it, there's precious little to recommend the setting. You have pseudo-Vikings in the north, a decadent empire, woodsy elves, pseudo-Egyptians, pseudo-Arabs, stoneworking dwarves, an undead-infested Trasnylvania-analogue... meh, right? But it works. I...

I'm likely to get more use from the setting than the rules.

What, specifically, is the problem with Second Darkness?

What plot holes are you thinking of?

BTW, a tangential question I think is relevant: why must tumbling difficulty be dependent on the defender's skill (whether their own tumble skill, or BAB, or level), but not concentration difficulty? I cannot remember ever seeing this line of reasoning applied to concentration, despite the two...

Tumbling through something at full speed (half normal human speed won't take you far enough to go through a Huge, 15 ft. monster) on a natural cavern floor (a not uncommon environment in D&D) is an effective DC 40 check. You'll have to invest in tumble quite a bit past 5th level if you want to...

I always though the stonelord from Complete Warrior would be a pretty neat PrC for a monk, and years ago I made a fire-based equivalent. Maybe you could use it for one of you fire monks.

I might have been unclear: I know what editions were meant, but I am incredulous of the implication that prior editions were different in that regard.

WotC-D&D?

Doesn't Pathfinder fix Toughness to work like 3.5's Improved Toughness, +1 hp/level? But frankly, a player who feels that having +1 to some weapons but not others is too much complexity isn't going to be happy playing 3.5 or Pathfinder even if you create a completely static and straightforward...

I think one could achieve much the same effect by simply picking static feats for your fighter, like Weapon Focus, Great Fortitude, Iron Will... just account for them in your totals and forget about them. When they start running out, just keep piling on Toughness.