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As you rise in levels, you are taking a greater percentage of your damage from things which aren't even making attack rolls - such as area effect and targetted damage. As a Barbarian, you should have enough hit points to get through almost any combat so long as your rage holds out. So the real...

But light weapons (and natural weapons) are supposed to be able to make normal attack rolls. It's how the game simulates stabbing giants in the arm with a dagger when you are held in their hand. I mean, it's not like you are going to beat the Giant in a grapple check. If creatures had to win...

I'm pretty sure that the grapple rules do not supercede the natural weapon rules and allow you to iterative attacks with natural weapons. Natural weapons are just in a list of other options that happen to already be usable iteratively - it never says anything about disregarding the normal...

But Henry - that's largely irrelevent. Power Attack is and always has been a prerequisite of Cleave - it's a feat used for clearing away large numbers of zombies, and other inconveniences. When you have Cleave, it is better to have a lower chance of hitting and a higher chance of killing your...

Since you can't use a natural weapon more than once per round, and you apparently can't use more than one natural weapon while grappling (barring Rake or Constrict) - it appears that a Dire Bear can only attack with one natural wepaon while grappling each round. He still gets BAB modified...

True. This is one of the reasons I truly do not understand why Andy Collins thought it was necessary to improve Power Attack for two handed weapon fighters. -Frank

Because Polymorph subsequently lists additional restrictions. If they didn't - then you'd be good to go with transforming people into Solars and such. PAO does not have any such restrictions, and you are good to go on that. That's not a "special" implication rule - that's how English works...

I favor the removal of redundant skills. This frees up a lot of skill points. For example: Disable Device can bypass key-based impediment traps (otherwise known as "locked doors") - so "Open Locks" has no reason to exist. Dropping it frees up a little bit of skill points for people (especially...

OK, a size increasing magic makes you bigger. That's all of you - your hair is bigger, your hands are bigger - and most importantly your equipment is bigger. Shape altering magic doesn't do that. So when you turn into a bear - your equipment doesn't resize or reshape to bear proportions. It...

No. It means nothing of the sort: How that involves being motionless I have no idea - but it doesn't. -Frank

Not quite - I've also seen Custserv rule that: 1> The "base" in hit points on Alter Self was implied and that Polymorph changed hit points. and 2> They simply did not know and refused even to speculate. So the current trend is for Custserv to be horribly confused by a horribly written spell...

Well, with the new Polymorph rules that Polymorph changes your type - that would work. When the original PAO effect expires the new one won't be affected in any way as it checks for duration only when cast (otherwise all PAO castings would be permanent because your current Intelligence and Size...

That's not what the rules say, though. In the rules, when you aare sneaking past a guard, you need to make a Move Silently check to avoid being heard, and a Hide check to avoid being seen. if you roll really low on either check, one of the guards is probably going to detect you (either by...

....for ability scores. I think you are truly reaching here - especially as how the Shrew -> Manticore transformation is still a direct disregarding of the size and hit die limits and is still the official example of how the spell is supposed to work. No size limits. No hit die limits. If you...

Reference? That looks made-up to me. Things can have bonus hit points in addition to whatever they get from hit dice. Constructs, for example, would get around just fine with no hit dice (they have arbitrary hit points based on size). Objects are just like that - additional arbitrary hit...

The bonuses are not named - unnamed bonuses stack. A seperate question, however: If you have the Good and Summoning domain - is the bonus caster level from the Good domain also doubled? I would say yes, but the rules don't go into great detail about the order of operations for multiplication...

"-" The "nonabilities" rules only applies to abilities - not hit dice, or any ephemera. -Frank

Apparently, you are correct - at least partially: That's the monster manual. Apparently, you can only make one natural weapon attack. It's the [rimary source - so I guess that's how it works. Not what I would have expected - but monsters are kind of boned in grapples. -Frank

And yet it doesn't state that it ignores the type restrictions - and yet it clearly must. Otherwise, since no object is within any creature type, then despite your ability to turn things into objects you'd still have a null set of objects to choose from! So it ignores type restrictions -...

But that's not how it works game mechanically. Both of them are not actions that are combined with move actions. Neither of them suffer penalties provided that you move no more than half your speed. If you like, you can hide, move silently, and tumble with the same action at no penalties - it's...