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I don't like the tradition names, but I like the removal of the Tome. However, I wouldn't mind bringing the Tome back in as the "generalist's implement" which offers a smaller bonus, but boosts every category. However, I think the implements idea's kinda bad overall. I don' mind the idea of...

Hmm...if this mean it's possible to perform touch spells at range, then it could be a very nice item for healer clerics. It makes the curing spells a lot more powerful. Scare your friends into thinking they've become vampires!

Higher than you might guess. First off, the founder's nickname is Caesar. So it's not entirely surprising that he went with a Roman theme. And since Ars is the Latin word for art/science/skill/technlogy, the phrase "art of technology", which is the theme the site was built around, is ars...

Actually, I think that there has been some cases of distinct 'sonic' damage. For one thing, nuclear weapons are a great example: the main cause of the destruction at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not the actual fireballs from the nukes. It was actually the sonic blastwave that resulted from the...

Well, AFAIK, Climb is ineligible for take 10. But in general, I think Take 10 is OK, because it does eliminate a lot of randomness for routine tasks. I wouldn't mind seeing Take 1 and Take 5 options for simpler tasks, but I think that there should be a generalized Take X option where you simply...

I'm of the opinion.. why not? Have huge numbers of groups. Even if you have 1% of the population as 'heroes' then in a 500,000 person nation, that still means 5000 people. Some few should be rich and retired (and anyone rich enough to retire should generally be famous, since the profession tends...

I don't think there is. Because if we generalize to 'any ability appropriate to a creature of HD X, then we have to determine what is 'appropriate'. And in this case, I'm fairly sure the direct RAW argument would be "If it's not directly tied to level/HD advancement, then it is considered...

Jack, the one problem is that noble djinn, by RAW, don't get wish due to levels. It is rather an innate SLA that is not tied to level, but by the condition of being a noble Djinn, which carries with it 2 extra HD and Wish as a SLA. So while a PC might have abilities tied to level, the noble...

I wouldn't allow spells of 3rd to 6th level to be restored pre-epic without some pretty hefty penalties, because honestly, perma-teleport, a GDM to screw the opponent every encounter, perma-Divine might, and all sorts of other spells would screw over the melee types permanently. They would be...

Nope. The simulacrum is always under the control of the caster. And since it's a simulacrum made by a simulacrum, it will always be under control of another who happens to be under your complete control. So yeah, it's a legal way of Wishing for more Wishes. EDIT: Actually, it was solely for...

Actually, I'd suggest instead trying to find a creature with that as a SLA, and making a simulacrum of that creature and a noble djinn. Free Wish and infinite armies for you!

Same. I think it is the chaotic streak. I can't let things be. But I also don't like the idea that someone else who makes the same choices can be permanently better than me. Which is perhaps a chaotic trait in and of itself.

Not really. He only uses a combat spell once or twice in the whole of LotR. I doon't think he 'saved magic', because he manages to create umpteen fireworks that have much larger, more powerful blasts, and is implied to be able to do so frequently. It's just that he doesn't, if only because...

Having just had a classics class, I can say that my professor certainly thought so, and it looks like most of the current crop of classicists think so.. and so do I. I'm fairly sure there is a definite procession from the 'dark, creepy, wild and dangerous mythic' to 'cataloguable mythic' to...

Another reason I think Discworld's jokes work is that he describes even the female dwarves in ways that tell you they are very much like a member of the the classical fantasy dwarven race. Look at Cheery Littlebottom.. even though she's a dwarven feminist, she is described in ways that make her...

Yeah, but I've held the 'short bladed long sword' and claymores. The two designs are very different. For example, claymores tend to have significantly longer hilt sections.. often about 3-4 times as long, and the hilt is a much larger percentage of the total length, sometimes reaching about...

Just wait, and you'll start making paintings that multiple copies of a photograph of your character that are only different in the way the photo's colors are substituted... Honestly, I can see the thing that "D&D worlds are static till your PCs come in", but I also can see that there needs to...

If you go hybrid recharge, one possibility is to have the type that is per level be the 'save a character's rear end' type. They aren't useful for anything but ensuring that death doesn't happen. (But allow the possibility of the character suffering long-term impairment as a result) However, for...

Yes. They're small, annoying elementals Planars use as a means of ticking other Planars off. Want to tick off your enemy? Send him a mephit. Want to tick off your enemy while also gloating? Send him another type of mephit. The more mephits you send, the stronger the message... Beyond that...

Actually, I think that's about right. Looking at say a dragon, they'll usually have an attack bonus in the high 20s to low 30s, can do 60 to 100 damage a round, have ACs in the low 40s to mid 50s, and about 800-1000 hps. Since they have so much AoE and a bunch of attacks, we can probably drop...