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Yeah, thats pretty much how it works in my games. At high levels, even a TPK isn't necessarily the end (though the bad guys getting to loot the PCs is certainly a major setback).

Yah, I've seen enough "inflict spells are evil but cure spells are neutral, so bad guys can use both but others can't" to be annoyed by it. The biggest problem with that ruling is that neutral clerics that run into undead often enough are going to go sliding one way or the other. Neutral gods...

Blech. At least there isn't a double-standard in that ruling, Is that ruling not being official too much to hope for?

Divine Might, Divine Might, Divine Might. It's a mandatory feat for melee paladins. You'll need Power Attack to get it, and you should take Cleave while you're at it. After that, just do whatever. Go for mounted combat if you really like the mount. With a base Charisma of 19, you should do...

Hmm. Rebuking is always an evil act, but Turning isn't always a good act? I can guess which option neutral clerics are supposed to be taking... The thing you get from a Summon Monster/Nature's Ally spell can't actually die, and returns home no worse for wear. Divine casters can't bring forth...

Do wild shape and polymorph actually change your type now? If they do, then my druid will be very happy when he gets access to Animal Growth.

We tried to have a good ol' fashioned tavern brawl in a campaign I was in about a year ago. Sadly, the cleric screwed up everything by casting Obscuring Mist. It's kinda hard to have a brawl when no one can even pick targets.

No, the spells wouldn't end simply because the caster died.

Rejecting humanity can be fun.

I'd just throw half-celestial onto a half-elf. I've certainly never heard of there being a specific half-ghaele template. I guess you could fiddle with the numbers of the template, though.

Ogre Mages would be another "low HD but high ECL" race, wouldn't they? Ogre Mages are so different from the normal ogres because they're really Japanese Oni, and an Oni is a very different beast from the slobbering hulk that an Ogre is. The Pen and the Sword are both in that thing's blood.

Paladin. I just really like the guys, even if a cleric with the destruction doman is functionally better.

Fighter-types should be able to win opposed grapple checks against monks -- or just rip the monk a new one, if he's going to try to stand his ground. A monk is going to think twice about trying to grapple someone with Shocking or Flaming armor spikes. Grappling is strong, but that compensates...

Um, what? Becuase I think summoning celestial elephants would not turn an evil wizard good, I'm a bad roleplayer?

Agreed; most governments in my game are Lawful Evil by default. The Slaadi aren't any more prone to being good than the Formians and Modrons are. Which is to say, they aren't prone to being good in the slightest bit.

L7? Your druid is a frontliner, and he'll be a damn good one if he does it right. I've actually DM'd a party that was composed entirely of spellcasters; they used summons and guerilla tactics to smash forces that would have slaughtered them in straight-up combat. Just let them do their thing...

1. It can be. That's up to the DM. 2. That'll only make a difference if the new Ali puts the cleric in conflict with the boss. 3. If I remember right, the caster's level determines how much HD worth of critter he can control, so yes. 4. If the party is evil, sure. Granted, an irate...

I don't buy minis, so the price hike is irrelevant to me.

As has already been stated, the vamp should basically monitor and perhaps even assist the PCs in small ways (or leave small clues for them, anyways). But he should come down on them like a sledgehammer once they've acquired the items he wants. If you can actually trust the player to keep it...

I can think of only one of the player's actually being in the habit of naming his weaponry, and he usually gave them Japanese names. So no, no "Skull Breakers." Actually, my kung-fu knight had a falchion +1 named "The Wimpcleaver," but weapons generally don't get names in our games unless...