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I imagine that the name information is easy to get - for most people. Unfortunately, it's exactly the people who are hard to find that are commonly bad guys and criminals. Finding someone's name is easy, and it provides the least powerful effect. Finding someone's birthplace or birthdate is...

re: Hunger's Deconstruction. Yeah, Hold Person is comparable, and I thought of that. But the save every round is a huge bonus, and mind affecting, enchantments that are compulsions have tons of extra resistances. Plus, if you don't get killed while you're held, then there is no lasting penalty...

Cool spells! I really like Basalt Pillars. I might yoink it and see what my group thinks. For the Shadow of Damocles, I'd do a couple of revisions. First, up the casting time to more than can be accomplished in combat. It's very strange to give a major, permanent compulsion like that in the...

Thanks for the feedback. =] You've got a point with the level scaling, I suppose. We already have Siberys Heirs who finish at level 15, though. I wanted to make a comparable master of the dragonmark who isn't a Siberys heir. There might only be a few dozen umbral masters, and maybe just one or...

I agree with Falling Icicle on principle (but not execution). I don't necessarily know if his "mana points" proposal is the best way to do things, but the critical failure as a limiting factor isn't really workable IMO. It just lets spellcasters cast too many spells per day, and almost all of...

I wrote up this PrC for our Eberron campaign. It's exclusively geared towards the Elves with the Greater Mark of Shadow, who are (frequently) spies and assassins. The class expands on the supernatural link that these elves can have with the shadows, and represents them bending the magic to their...

Another very simple way to defeat true seeing is to stand more than 120 feet away. See invisibility works to whatever distance you can see normally, but true seeing only extends 120 feet.

Hypersmurf has pretty much nailed it. The fact that you usually know which square you were attacked from (barring reach) means that even an undetectable, incorporeal opponent might have his square targeted. A lucky swordswinger might even pick out of a hat and have a shot. The situation I'm...

This question is pretty short and simple: Is it possible to get multiple miss chances on the same character, once from concealment, and a second miss chance from incorporeality? On one hand, going higher than 50% miss chance is usually impossible, because just swinging randomly has a 50% miss...

First of all, there is no "duplicate" per se. Any spells you cast while you are astrally projecting are used normally. Astral Projection is (thematically) sending your consciousness out of your body to go and roam the planes, while leaving your actual body safely behind. The spell creates a...

Dead is pretty much correct. Planescape says that the true natives of the 9 Hells are the baatorians, and the baatezu came later and took it from the baatorians. The evidence is that lemures are not naturally formed from the fabric of the Nine Hells, but larvae are. The larvae have to be...

I played in a game (recently) with a group of 20th level characters, and a Balor on a ECL 30 progression. The Balor was woefully, disgustingly underpowered in this game. We revised it to ECL 26 or 27, I believe. I think that's probably a pretty good call. The Savage Species rules are...

On the topic of Bob's House... I would allow you to find Bob's house if (in the caster's mind, anyways) "Bob's House" was a specific place. Bob need not be present, and Bob could even be in a different house at the time, or Bob could have sold the house unbeknownst to the caster and moved...

Gatekeepers know better than almost anybody else on Eberron how important it is to defend the material plane from extraplanar invasion. Druids are frequently seen as "backwards" by outsiders, however, and aren't taken seriously by the more urbane city-dwellers. Knowing how much power the...

I say neutral, for a lot of reasons that have already been said. Riddick strikes me as the type of guy who doesn't go looking for trouble... trouble finds him. He's definitely not a nice person by any stretch of the imagination, but he doesn't go out looking to hurt people or even to make his...

I may be the only one, but Darguun reminds me a little bit of Israel. The goblinoids lost most of their former glory when the humans arrived on Khorvaire, but at an opportune moment, they managed to sieze a little bit back. The population quickly swelled when boatloads of goblinoids that nobody...

While I think this is a pretty interesting topic, I agree with what Psion said earlier. The Bible is the literary largest literary basis for fantasy, vis-a-vis the fairy tales of old. Most symbolism in western literature is strongly based on the Bible, as well. A division between the earth...

I don't mind hardskin sufocating the character, since it can be dismissed as a free action. It's intended to be a short burst of invulnerability. Really, hardskin is just a fancy tower shield that doesn't take any hands to use (and has no check penalties). I almost think hardskin should cost...

I like these a lot. Consider them yoinked! Actually, I think I'll make their origins part of The Mourning. Something along the lines of, the planar energies that allow positive energy to be conjured to the Mournlands got shoved out. In the process of expulsion, the Tears were created from the...

I'd give it +5. The abilities I rank at +4, the flight at +1, the DR at +1, but the crappy land speed and monster hit dice subtract 1 (or even 2 for an LA of +4 for really crappy HD like fey).