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It gnashed its teeth with a sound like clashing swords. The wyrm, all fangs and claws and armored scales that sliced the air like shards of ice, was hoary the way the mountains were ancient, a relic of a time when gods walked the earth and humanity raised its feeble arms in fearful supplication...

Actually, this kind of makes my point. Should a 1st-level spell--even an empowered one--be capable of taking out a CR 10 monster? I don't think so.

What I want to know is, why would you complain on the one hand that the book is crap, and then admit on the other hand that it has 70-something pages of value to you? I think that photocopying such a substantial portion of the book is unethical, not to mention cheap.

Let's see what I can come up with off the top of my head. Bbn 1/Ftr 18/Rng 1 Improved Critical (greatbow) Improved Favored Enemy (appropriate monster group) Weapon Specialization (greatbow) Greater Weapon Specialization (greatbow) Rapid Shot Improved Rapid Shot 16 Str plus +4 girdle of giant...

So the question then is, is ray of enfeeblement still too good for a 1st-level spell, even if it doesn't stack and can't crit?

We adopted your house rule some time ago, and it definitely makes for some agonizing (and exciting) choices. I'm statting up my new 5th-level cleric for an upcoming Greyhawk game, and the most fun part has been choosing my spell list. Just look at the spells I dropped--my 3rd-level spell list is...

Yes, we use them. Human racial paragon is quite popular.

Agreed, for the same reasons.

Because the strength of the d20 system is uniformity. Change it if you don't like it.

Funny. Not only does that strike me as lazy on the dev's part, but it's also not RAW. Toughness can't be taken as a fighter bonus feat. As for the MMIV, I'm not liking what I'm reading. I'll reserve judgment until I see it, but this might be the first MM I don't buy.

Yup. I plan on it, and integrate this ability into my adventure design. You just need to make an internal paradigm shift to "acceptance," Q. It's not a big deal.

A powerful wizard long ago used trap the soul to imprison a demon lord within. Anyone who keeps the gem close to them for a period of time begins to feel certain perverse urges, not the least of which is "destroy the gem" (which would free the demon).

Cool group, man. I love it when players create non-optimal, unique characters. I'm digging on the swashbuckler/wizard. :)

I find that hard to believe--you only need ten feet of charging space to use the feat, same as on foot. Lances widen your zone of control, so you can pop a charge attack over the head of an ally in melee. The biggest problem I noticed with mounted-charging type PCs is that they had a tendency...

I'm told that I'm overdue to update this thread, so here is my first offering of 2006--the winter men, the white-furred savages who shadow the PCs during their trek up Askjer Pass. The greybeards among the Oski claim that the winter men are canny hunters, and hunt large prey in packs. They have...

Super cool! One of these days I'm going to finally play my gnome paladin whose holy steed is a saint bernard! :D

No. Wild shape is broken because it's based on polymorph, and polymorph is broken. They are broken in that they are too powerful, too versatile, for a single ability/spell. So shapeshift, while admittedly a head-scratcher at times (no aquatic form?), is uniform and balanced. Don't like it? Don't...

I make it a point to include opportunities for mounted combat in my games, meaning that dungeoncrawling (indoor, on-foot adventuring) takes up less than half of my adventures. I make highly mobile NPCs, some of whom are mounted combtants themselves. Given all that, my players tend to prefer the...

The story hour is so far behind events in the actual campaign that the characters still haven't caught up to the stats offered in the rogue's gallery thread. The current group is knocking on 11th level, and there have been some significant developments (to put it mildly) since they discovered...

They approached the crystal spire with apprehension. The gigantic bones which ringed the structure at erratic intervals seemed to be the ribs of some great creature—or a multitude of great creatures—stood on end, and seemed to serve no useful purpose other than to inspire dread. Closer to the...