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Caliban, there's a period in between "Some of these actions take the place of an attack..." and "If your base attack attack bonus allows you multiple attacks..." That means that both of them are modifiers of the main point of the paragraph - "When you are grappling (regardless of who started the...

NOTE: I am going to completely ignore the line "you can attempt one of these actions in place of each of your attacks...." as if we read that line literally it becomes advantageous for clericss to become grappled as it allows them to cast spells iteratively based on their BAB - which is a...

I wouldn't call a Fighter/Wizard a "Fighter". I wouldn't call a Druid/Barbarian a "Druid". Mixing archetypes makes you a mixed archetype. However, a Fighter/Barbarian is definately still a "Fighter", just as a Wizard/Alienist is still a "Wizard". -Frank

Hide and Move Silently really work better as a single skill - like in Arcana Unearthed. The practice of actually using them is that either one by itself is virtually meaningless - if they hear or see you the result is virtually the same - you are detected. Listen and Spot, OTOH, really do...

Technically, equipment does not affect CR or ECL. However, other advantages which are gained in exactly the same manner as magic items (such as lycanthropy) are supposed to be worth CR and/or ECL. It's a mess. Especially because a Wizard gets virtually nothing from turning into a wereboar and...

Then you have forbidden the feat entirely. One of the prerequisites for having your Dexterity denied against an attack is for the attack to have been declared - until that happens you don't have your dexterity denied against that attack. So since declaring an attack is in fact one of the...

Precisely. Think of it as the "present hypothetical". If you attacked them right now, would they be denied their Dexterity bonus or not? That's the question that you are asking. Remember that if you are feinting, invisible, using flick of the wrist, or doing any of that other crap - your...

YES. That's exactly how it worked, and it was really dumb - and it was fixed in 3.5. And that's why every single 3.5 guy you talk to is going to agree that Polymorph can change your hit points - the alternative is intolerable. I don't think you can get any of us to buy it - which means your...

Because your constitution modifier hasn't changed - which means that you don't recalculate hit points. That's what is so hard. Remember: Polymorphing does not create a secondary phantom Constitution score - it creates a real one. -Frank

You recalculated your hit points based on your new current constitution - it meant that Constitution damage could actually give you more hit points. If you had a Con of 10 (no bonus), and Polymorphed into a creature with a Constitution of 23, you gained no hit points - but if you took 4 points...

Whatever else you do, this is completely wrong. Constitution does not exist as a series of discreet units. Adding 4 to your constitution does not give you two hit points per die. It gives you a new modifier as specified on page 8 of the 3.5 PHB. This new modifier is then added to all of your...

That's not abuse. People are supposed to increase their caster levels beyond their character level as primary spellcasters. In any case - this is essentially the 3rd edition Tenser's Transformation you are talking about. Only it gave out half your caster level as bonus BAB - idea was that it...

One of the problems here is that Druids were always supposed to be able to Magic Fang themselves. In 3e you could enchant your fist and when you turned into a bear you got the full benefit out of it on your claw. In 3.5 you have to enchant your claw while it is a claw - so for Druids to retain...

It's that simple. Do you threaten them? (within melee reach) If you attacked them right now, would they be allowed a Dexterity bonus to AC? It doesn't say "who was very recently denied a Dexterity bonus" and it doesn't say "who you have attacked in the last turn without allowing them a...

If and only if they were outside the area when you opened it - that would work. That's not a directly aggressive use, however. You can just walk around hostile areas with symbols that are set to blow people other than yourself up. And since you can have them scribed for free by outsiders that...

Yeah - it's actually really fun. Many of he old favorites have been yanked in an attempt to rebalance the types (there's a lot more call for Bug and Rock types). The storyline is very water-centric, and thus there are so many Water Types that Plant and Ice are sort of inherently overpowered...

http://www.scshop.com/~ritaxis/summoner.html Simply change the allowed creature types to Undead and you'd have a perfectly valid character class from a power perspective. Of course, it would probably be too limited for a player character (you simply don't encounter enough undead in most games...

This is modeled by people getting a +4 bonus to hit people on the ground - not by people getting extra attacks while people are trying to stand up. As is, in 3.5 you are often simply better off from a defensive standpoint staying on the ground (and for example: casting magic). That's wrong. And...

Of course you do. You get a melee attack against anyone who is denied their dexterity bonus against that attack. Not people who were denied their dexterity bonus against some other attack made by you or someone else at any point in the past - just that attack. So Feint is perfectly valid to set...

I really read it that he has to be denied dex bonus right now, and not some indefinate time in the past. So in order to get an extra attack out of Feint you have to Feint at the end of your action so that the Expert Tactician Attack can take advantage of the Feint. So with Improved Feint and...