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If the best thing the sorcerer can cast is fireball and the party's up against someone that can cast Prismatic Sphere, then they'd be dead no matter what. The sorcerer being a wizard wouldn't change that. On the other hand, a high-level sorcerer might be able to cast Teleport enough times to...

A single class cleric had the classical cleric list of bludgeoning weapons, but a multiclassed fighter/cleric got access to the full weapon list, and could use all of them. The default cleric class in 2nd Edition could only use bludgeoning weapons, but specialty priests were allowed access to...

I'd just like to point out that 1st Edition fighter/clerics had no weapon restrictions. 2nd Edition is the only place I've actually seen the "clerics can only use blunt weapons, ever" rule.

Remember that unlike just about everything else in the MM, the CR for Dragons assumes that the party knows that they're facing a dragon, and have prepared for it. Red Dragons are incredibly arrogant and greedy SOBs that take victory for granted. Since any adventuring party actually capable of...

If I remember right, Psionicists can make psionic rings simply with their version of Craft Wondrous; they don't have to take a seperate feat just to make rings. I'd say that the Ring effects can't be done with wondrous items, just to make rings a bit more special; i.e. no Boots of Evasion or...

I liked the 2E names that they came up with; it so much easier to collectively refer to the Baatezu and Tanar'ri as demons; Baatezu vs. Yugoloth vs. Tanar'ri is certainly much more differentiated than devil vs. daemon vs. demon. The Great Wheel's older than I am, and I'm rather used to the thing.

I figure that sorcerers don't get the social skills simply so that they won't trump bards in both magic and social checks. My experience with sorcerers is that they actually come out on par with wizards in actual game play; the major area in which wizards can top them is item creation. A...

In my experience, a situation usually has to be stupidly complicated and obnoxious before the PCs will simply walk away from it. Granted, most of the players I know happen to like receiving XP. I certianly can't see the people in my group ignoring a town under assualt from ooze.

Vampire is restricted to "humanoid or monstrous humanoid;" fey vampires are technically against the rules. Is the nymph a classed druid with wild-shape, or does she just have the spells? The vampires could probably take her as a living hostage/drink machine, if all they need to worry about is...

Um, are you serious? Why would any evil warrior ever want to become a death knight, if that's the case?

Tome & Blood has an erratta of the spell that sets the hit die limit (with a cap of 15 hit dice), and sets several types (including outsider) off-limits. I can't remeber if Dragon was set off-limits or not, but turning into a young dragon and losing access to your equipment is a downgrade for...

Actually, this could be fun. *looks up Pitfiend in the SRD; first thought: +12 Init? WTF?* Wow. The pitfiends grew up. 4 3.5E Pitfiends should outclass a L15 party so badly that they can take the party prisoner. This should horrify the players, without engaging in the trouble that could be...

A rogue with a good UMD check and the right items can do practically anything. A bard could try, but rogues actually get good combat abilities and bards don't. Edit: I keep forgetting that UMD isn't class-exclusive anymore. So a Paladin with 1 level in rogue or bard (or the Cosmopolitan...

I was honestly surprised when I heard what the Hulk's budget was. The effects are about on par with most Godzilla movies -- everything actually looks cheesy and fake.

Hmmm. It had never even occurred to me that Sunder might not be substitutable for a normal attack the way Disarm is. Sounds like the Sage is simply fixing a mistake.

Ever fought Death in Castlevania? Scythes are percectly fine as throwing weapons :D

First off, I'm not a fan of either comic, though I've seen both movies. Hulk's special effects were absolutely horrible, but I liked the movie anyways. The plot worked for me, and there's something just neat about a huge green guy ripping the warhead out of a missile with his teeth. Daredevil...

My 3.0 half-celestial paladin rocked. Being able to pull off massive bonuses to Divine Might and Divine Grace more than made up for losing some HP and a few measly points off of Smite Evil. Also, paladins don't have any dump stats, and so they benefit from everything. I suspect that only a...

A nine-tuple post. I don't even know what the proper term for that is. But I'm impressed. Also, your XP handout seems a little low, but I guess that's not too bad for 15 sessions. The "normal" rate always seemed to me to be a level every 3 sessions, so I guess that works out fine.

It is a fairly safe assumption that the barbarian will take the HULK SMASH approach to combat. Even a Spring Attack barbarian can do HULH SMASH pretty damn well. It is up to the fighter to figure out how to survive this. I like the back-and-forth that's been going on in this thread.