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That'll cause some serious pain to your players when one of them manages to lose an actual level due to level drain legitimately. For most practical purposes, making such a ruling in a vacuum is arbitrarily increasing penalties. The existing rule is really only a problem when someone...

Well, what the following guy said: Well, depends on what level you do it with, but yes, essentially. Yes. It's very much an unintended rules interaction, commonly referred to as "cheese". I called shenanigans on it when I was explaining how it worked in the first place. But RAW can be funny...

Ah, sorry. Missed a detail. I must have been thinking of the regular version of Restoration.... If you're worried about it, hold the charge for a round. It's a touch spell, so you can do that. The spell casting is then fully complete before it's applied, and you apply it to yourself...

In the case of a level that's specifically lost, this is actually explicitly defined in RAW: (emphasis added) This actually permits some funky shenanigans, normally. If you're, say, an Evil Cleric-16 with a Commanded Wight, you can: Have your wight hit you. Voluntarily fail the save to...

It's not specifically about thinking; it's about prediction. You have to be able to predict what the designer was thinking. In some cases, you need to do the obvious to proceed. In others, the obvious will get you killed. In a few cases with the 3.5 edition, you need to do something that's...

That's definitely one school of thought, and works for one set of groups. Of course, with the expected fatality rate of the Tomb of Horrors, that's expected to be quite a setback for most of them. Plus, if the DM isn't particularly grand at creating adventures from whole cloth, and they can't...

The 3.0 wording (page 252 in the Player's Handbook) is "The simulacrum has only 51% to 60% (50%+1d10%) of the hit points, knowledge (including levels, skills, and speech), and personality of the original creature."

As noted, it worked in 3.0, where a Simulacrum was 50+1d10% real, and there wasn't a limit to how many times you could apply a given metamagic feat to a spell. So a Greater Rod of Metamagic Empower, + the Empower Spell Feat, let a Wizard-17 make a Wizard under his absolute control that was...

Only in 3.0. In 3.5, As a Shadow spell, it's potentially enhanced by the Plane of Shadow, and a couple of feats common amongst Shadow Caster builds..... of course, it's not expressed as being a % real, merely half....

Eh, English is one of those languages that sneaks up behind other languages, hits them over the head, and goes looking through their pockets for loose vocabulary....

Wasn't their license to sell WotC 3.5 materials for download revoked when 4.0 came out? I mean, sure, they've still got 3rd party materials available for sale for 3.5....

That's debatable (1/2 your level when you're at an odd level puts the Simulacrum halfway between two levels - and hence, with half a level's worth of loose XP for crafting - although this is not a rock-solid interpretation). Even without such things, though, the Book of Exalted Deeds and the...

Yes, but consider: What happens if someone gets 20 doses of a particular low-toxicity substance (they swallowed 2 ml) vs. if someone gets 1 dose of the same low-toxicity substance (0.1 ml got into them through an injury). D&D abstracts a rather lot of things for relative ease of play...

Depends on what's considered a dose. When you're dealing with Human Commoner-1's or Human Expert-1's (most real-world people), you're looking at a Fort save of +0... and most people are perfectly fine with a sufficiently small dose of most toxins, beyond a pesky rash. DC 14 for a small dose -...

Yes, but one is significantly more work (relatively speaking) to put into a post than is the other, and essentially everyone knows what's intended, even if the detail that it's technically incorrect is lost on them.

Well.... there's around three highly useful Exalted feats for a generic Vow of Poverty character. For specific builds, there's more. A Vow of Poverty Druid, for instance, can benefit greatly from Exalted Companion - if nothing else looks good for some odd reason, the Celestial template means...

In all cases, "-" means some variation of "not applicable". Undead all have a "-" for their Con score. Mindless stuff all has a "-" for their Int score. "-" under "Level Adjustment" means "Not suitable for a player race". In that vein, "-" under "Advancement" means "do not advance this...

That's one way to describe two wizards coming together to duel. Magic, gathering.... Edit: On the plus side, the rules make it relatively difficult to get more than one Immediate action in such a sequence... possible, though.

Celerity has an Immediate action casting time, and you cannot take Immediate actions while flat-footed. So whoever ceases to be flat-footed first can cast it first. Hence, it comes down to initiative under most circumstances. If one of the wizards has a "never flatfooted" ability of some...

Does this mean that Elves get experienced much more slowly than humans, and humans are rather dim compared to Kobolds?