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For what it's worth, a darkwood heavy shield has no armor check penalty, and thus no penalty at all for using untrained. And it's only 260gp total, so that's not really an issue. I guess you should just go for a wand, staff or rod in your offhand, then.

I had read the line you quote as referring to anyone, not just the PC the stirge is attached to.

Why are you acting as if the invisible rogues example makes more sense than the invisible lemmings example? I understand what the RAW are, I simply don't think it makes sense.

Are you certain about this? Shield from a wand will only last a minute, so it'll cost you the first round of any combat to activate it. Given that a large shield is a cheap +2 to AC all the time, that seems a pretty good bargain. And it only gets better when the party (inevitably) comes...

But this doesn't supersede the fact that, while grappled, you can only attack with light weapons at a -4 penalty. (And it does make sense; it would be hard to attack a tiny creature attached to your body with a greataxe, for instance. ^_^)

This actually came up in the last session I played in; the DM just house ruled that you don't count as grappling for purposes of moving around and the likes. It's a bit annoying that you can't easily attack them yourself, though.

Rather than flat out elminating casters in the 10 level version, why not make them "advanced classes" like d20 modern does? Not being able to enter a casting class until 4th level significantly weakens their power.

The distinction is the number of attacks you can make against one target. When used on your turn, cleave increases the number of foes you can attack, but not the number of attacks you can make against any one foe. You could have always attacked your secondary target instead of the original...

Note that this leads to various weird situations, though, since you can get a free attack on one of your enemies, even though they have done nothing to provoke it. Not so bad with just Cleave, but Great Cleaving on AoO can lead to just plain stupid situations. (Like the famous bag'o'rats...

From the spell description of raise dead: Obviously if this can be a problem if the body is decapitated, cut in half, or other such conditions.

Glancing at it, I don't see anything to worry about, so sure. The split casting stats thing was a weird Complete Divine quirk, and seems totally unnecessary. Flavorwise, I'm not quite sure what the "spirit" of an elemental is, though; elementals are spirits, or at least that's how I think of...

Scrying is a subschool of Divination which (from the SRD) includes Arcane Eye, Clairaudience/Clairvoyance, Scrying, and Greater Scrying. I'd assume that there might be some more in splat books.

Two reasons why this is a bad idea: You have to roll and add up 45d6 every time you cast the spell! That's all well and good if you use a dice roller, but many don't. With so many dice, the standard deviation will be quite low. A quick test using this roller indicates that most results are...

Well, there's something slightly odd about both mending and make whole, which is that both target one object. (Regeneration is right out, though, since the language of the spell makes it clear that pieces are rejoined or welded back together.)

The FAQ touches this:

As others have pointed out, most such feats are equally useful at all levels. For example, although your spot check increases as you level up, so does your opponents hide check. If both of you max out the skill, you'll basically have about a 50% chance of suceeding on the check vs. someone of...

The fact that they know more about dragons than the dragon shaman, who don't get knowledge(arcana) as a class skill, bothers me somewhat. ^_^

If you go mystic theurge with a cleric, the only class ability you lose is turning. But if you go mystic theurge with a druid, you miss out on abilities like wildshape, a significant part of the druid's power. So a druid/arcane PrC has to function differently than a cleric/arcane PrC like the...

Is it really that common for magic items to be lying around unattended? I suppose PC's sometimes drop one weapon to pull another...

It is a ninth level maneuver though; it's supposed to be awesome. WRT is probably ok as long as you just say no to cheese. The uses of it which are broken are pretty obviously broken, and simply forbidding it to be used more than once on a target per combat cycle is enough to prevent anything...