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There's a 'Stealth and Detection' section, including spot distances, for most terrain types found here. The Underdark sourcebook for FR also has a table that shows how far away light sources can be seen from. I'm not sure if that's been reeprinted somewhere else.

If by 'canon' you mean Official, then yes, Dragon is 100% Official material. However, just because it's Official doesn't mean it's not optional, just like stuff from the many accessory books.

It has nothing to do with how HOF moves his weapon to begin with. It depends on whether HOF drops a foe. And, yes, it is a rules explanation based on the wording of cleave. And, it's a matter of 'training' via taking the Cleave feat. Not everyone has that training. The same kind of...

Finesse works with the offhand side of the weapon only. So, that'd be the secondary attack or attacks (with improved twf).

It's as Hyp said. There's no 'perception' involved on either side. Did the Cleaver do enough damage with her attack to drop a real (ie non-illusionary) creature? If yes: Cleave on the next creature within range. If no: No cleave allowed. Okay, first, that was hard to follow.. but I'll...

As others have said, the wizard would have become visible after finishing the casting of her spell. However, based on the described readied actions for the enemies, they should have taken their shots at the invisible caster (and either fully missing if they had no clue where she was, or with...

Nope. Which means.. if your knowledge check is a 24 (for example) and you recall no useful information, you still figured out *something*... ;)

Yeah, years after Monsternomicon Vol. 1 from Privateer Press already did that. It's nice that WotC makes their stuff better by stea... er.. copying from what other producers do right.

Right.. but my agreement with the post I quoted was that 'many people seem to think you cut someone in half' and then get the cleave attack, which implies killing (as being cut in half is not conducive to living) and is hardly necessary. Only dropping an opponent in some way is necessary...

I think you need a better example than Sorcerers. A Sorcerer may know Fireball as one of her spells (and as you mention, there's no need to learn fireball twice), but she can *cast* Fireball as many times as she has spell slots to cast it. Similarly, a Martial Adept only needs to 'learn' a...

Protection from [Whatever] gives a Deflection bonus to AC against whatever's being protected from (Evil, Good, Chaos, Poo Flinging Monkeys, etc.)

This is from the synergy section of the Tumble skill. There's no condition attached to either synergy other than having 5 or more ranks in the appropriate skill, hence, they're always active. Notice the difference from the synergy sections of handle animal and knowledges for example. They...

Okay, so if one PC become entangled for 2d4 rounds, and he "might as well slash his own wrists", how do all of you handle Entangle, which is a 1st level spell that affects a 40' radius and has a higher avoidance and escape DC, as well as lasting 1 minute a level, meaning at the *least* 10...

I'm still waiting to see how you've handled Entangle, because if TFBs are the equivalent of Enervation, is Entangle the equivalent of some 8th or 9th level spell in your book?

I disagree, only because the rules specifically apply penalties and/or bonuses when an opponent 'drops their guard'. Since the feat only allows an extra attack, but (by itself) provides no AC penalty or to hit bonus against the target of that extra attack, it can't be explained away by the...

Actually, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the point is moot, as the feat "Create Staff" doesn't even let you research a 'new' Staff combination. Compare that to wands.. So, unless new Staffs come out in official sources, or you can convince your DM to add a new staff, there's no...

I'll have to say that all of the scenarios for 'the opponents dropping their guards' *are* out of the spirit of the rules and not a good way of describing Cleave, as anytime the rules say opponent drops their guard, it's accompanied by something tangible (like losing Dex bonus to AC when flat...

Except that the extra melee attack is *not* only there because of an AoO. It's also there during the cleaver's 'normal' turn if she drops a mook. It's there *anytime* the cleaver drops a mook.

I'd really appreciate some thoughts on my questions posted above, please. These are spells I use all the time in a game I'm in, so it's fairly important. Thanks. :)

Mutants and Masterminds was the first game I know of to split BAB into both Ranged and Melee, only because some comic book heroes and villains are better at one of the two types than the other.