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Yeah. The example is all screwed up - it's in no way correct. I've also seen a seperate response from Skip that described how to use ET with Quicker than the Eye (now Improved Feint) in a way which was just... perplexing. Expert Tactician just provides you with an extra melee attack every...

I'm actually not. The one time I actually got up from a prone position in a life-or-death confrontation I am pretty sure that I didn't provoke an attack of opportunity for doing so. Since I was at that time surrounded by six skinheads with knives and rocks - I'm fairly positive that if I had...

3.5 rules ensure that there are items and class features that can raise your caster level by a lot. While such a spell would be useless at best to a multiclassed Wizard/Fighter (mysteriously enough) - it would allow an Archmage with an Orange Ioun Stone to get more iterative attacks than a...

Rope Trick has a special caveat preventing detection - a bag of holding does not. Objects in a bag of holding are simply 10 feet or so farther away than the opening of the bag - locate object works just fine on that. -Frank

Xavim - that's wrong. While the spell Anti-magic field is unclear on this point - the general description for Supernatural Abilities is not. This is all part of 3.5's attempt to make you look things up in a bunch of places every time you want any piece of information. If you look at the...

And caster level is almost always as high or higher than character level - why would that be a lower level spell? -Frank

Yes. The fighter only gets a handful of bonus feats in his entire life out to 20th level - and there are literally thousands of feats to choose from. Getting the ability to flush some of them on the Weapon Focus chain is not an ability at all. Of course they should get all those feats for free...

1> You are not in fact a Druid at that point. and 2> You still want Natural Spell because it will allow you to cast pre-combat buffs on yourself to prepare yourself to rage in Wildshape. Wildshape lasts for hours, so you are going to assume animal form presumably long before you enter melee...

Just pointing out that Monte Cook always said it worked that way in 3.0 and if you read the appropriate sections of the rules that is what it said. This, at least, isn't even a rules change of 3.5 - it's a clarification. Skip Williams and Monte Cook never did agree on what those rather unclear...

A Paladin cannot lie and detects Evil with the power of Truth. That he has detected Evil is proof - as good as finger prints or DNA. The real question, of course - is "so what?" Remember that aura strength is the big deal here - most everything Evil just detects as an "Evil Creature" - which...

I am genuinely confused. If you have a Lich's phylactery it doesn't matter a sheep's eyelash what the Lich himself is doing. If their big "plan" is to lure you into a fight by finding your phylactery and then not killing you - they are so stupid that you can probably run right into their "trap"...

OK, that's exactly the same as that part of Tenser's Transformation. Actually, it's worse because you can still transfer the spell to friends with spell storage devices and with a caster level based BAB characters could end up with a BAB much higher than their level. For that matter, it is...

You should put it somewhere with the slow time trait. Then put a dimensional alarm aournd it. If anyone gets anywhere close to your phylactery you'll know - and have about a day to figure out something to do about it (so you can prepare a bunch of spells and go in swinging). Protecting things...

The specific text on the Symbol spells that they can't be used as a weapon. If the Symbol is brought to a point where it would trigger - it doesn't trigger. -Frank

No. Things which don't breathe aren't holding their breath - they don't breathe. It's a Chinese charm to keep the undead from seeing you - holding your breath. Since it's an Oriental Adventures campaign - that's appropriate. -Frank

Pressing an abjuration effect against another creature collapses the abjuration effect. Symbols no longer fall under those general rules - but they do have special rules preventing them from being used offensively. A symbol brought into contact with a creature does not activate - the creature...

The rules for every other creature seems to imply that turning into a troll would turn you into an adult troll if you were already an adult. And thus, you'd have to turn into an adult dragon as well. But the Sage specifically said you could turn into a Great Wyrm dragon with Shapechange even if...

If you have a better explanation for why Ever Burning Torches cost more than 10 gold pieces, I'm all ears. -Frank

Yes, this is the part which made it look like it wasn't a joke. Weapons don't grow with your form change in 3.5. They either get molded into your form or just sit there as their normal selves. This is a major departure from 3e, and having a joke where it looked like you were getting that rule...

I disagree. Class balance happens at every level, not at some mythical hybrid level of all the levels combined. Noone plays at "1st through 20th" - they play at first level, and then at 2nd level, and so on. The part I'm not seeing is the part where supposedly they suck at low levels. At first...