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First guess would be Frostburn, but I don't have that book. Our DM does. If not, then maybe Liber Mortis.

And, if you max out concentration and have a decent Con, you eventually won't need to roll to cast spells definsively at all. With Combat Casting and a Con bonus of +2, by 5th level, you won't need to roll for 1st level spells and by 9th level, you won't need to roll for 5th level spells.

Awful...

if a warlock could chuck undead? but seriously... How much undead can a Warlock create with 'The Dead Walk'? The invocation is kind of vague and I didn't see much in the FAQ.

Well, usually it's going to end up with jail time, especially as this kind of thing would be pre-meditated. First degree murder tends to get long sentances. Bargaining down to 2nd degree murder might be possible. I suppose you could alway try for an insanity plea, but I honestly doubt that'd...

Short answer is: Any that they have the feats and skills to create. They just need someone else to provide the requisite spells as per the crafting rules. Note that I do believe it's possible to create an item using a spell from a scroll, if you have the scroll and make the UMD check. If you...

Oh, yawn. Early RPGs, like the much touted 1st Edition, were nothing more than 'combat simulators' as 4th Edition is so called. Look at most of the rules of 1st Edition and what do they deal with? Social encounters? World Building? Storytelling? Hardly. Combat and placing monsters in...

Branching off of a thread from General about Harm not being able to kill someone: Compare the way Harm is written to this way: Harm charges a subject with negative energy that deals 10 points of damage per caster level (to a maximum of 150 points at 15th level), but it cannot reduce the...

That's silly. PCs don't have a sense of taste, smell, or touch. They just have vision and hearing... (Yes, having only spot and listen instead of a 'perception' skill that covers all the senses *really* irks me about d20.)

Only if someone makes the save. If a PC or NPC doesn't make the save against Harm, it most certainly can kill. Unless you're talking about the 3.0 or earlier harm, which can't kill anything.

About time, too. Law is not the opposite of Chaos. Law is the opposite of Anarchy. The opposite of Chaos is Order. There can be a set of 'Chaotic' laws. Just becasuse there's Anarchy, doesn't mean people can't be Orderly. "Law vs Chaos" has been misnomered for so long, it's about time to...

It's funny there's so much dislike for Dinosaurs, considering two prominent D&D Settings have them (FR and Eberron). Also, I can kind of understand the gunpowder thing, but it's no more wonky to me than a repeating crossbow (and gunpowder is also featured in FR). As for me, there's not much...

I've always had a problem with HP, but when playing D&D, it's just one of the things I have to put up with. There's no really elegant way of reflecting damage in D&D with all the other tropes that occur in the game (such as armor preventing one from being hit, not reducing the severity of the...

To be honest, getting swallowed is almost a death sentance. I'm guessing that most people don't realize that a swallowed character is considered grappled. Unless the character already has a light weapon available or can inflict piercing/slashing damage in some other way, a swallowed...

I love the Bo9S classes. I've never played a straight PHB fighter before as I found the class to be too... boring. I always ended up multiclassing. However, I'd play a Bo9S class all the way to 20th.

To be honest, it really doesn't matter where the characters are or the animal companions they want live. Re-read how druids call their animal companion. They pray for 24 hours and it just appears. Nothing is mentioned about climate, location, or anything else (except for the very spicific...

While the designers knew what it was (and were keeping Harm similar to its AD&D and 2nd Ed versions), the spell was most definitely broken. A 6th level spell that could potentially eliminate 500+ HP from its target, yet can't kill a 1st level commoner ever? Sorry, but that's just not working...

Dragons already do this sort of thing. It's called a "Crush". The damage varies from 2d8 for huge, 4d6 for gargantuan, to 4d8 for colossal dragons. I doubt very much your player weighs more than a dragon, and dragons obviously train or prepare themselves for this kind of thing. I'd say it's...

Bracers of Armor are *very* much overpriced.

I'd really like to see Mystara in that lineup, too. Since it seems 4e is trying to capture the BECMI feel, that setting would be right at home.