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    Strictly by RAW, do Focus/Material component need a free hand?

    I just assume that having one hand free is good enough to do both the gestures and any manipulating of components required.
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    Can a Druid Wildshape into a Rat Swarm?

    And Eschew Material Components. You'll be casting all spells in slots 2 levels higher as well, although silence, grapples etc won't hinder you like they hinder natural spell, at least.
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    Wand of Cu Light vs Wand of Vigor, Lesser

    Lesser Vigor caps at 15 hitpoints healed (over 90 seconds). Cure Light Wounds at the same caster level heals 6 - 13 (average 9.5), maximized 13, empowered 9 - 19 (average 14), maximized and empowered would average 19... Now while a lesser vigor effectively heals slightly more on average than an...
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    Wand of Cu Light vs Wand of Vigor, Lesser

    So given that a creature without a natural armour bonus has an effective natural armour bonus of +0, then a spell that doesn't heal effectively heals +0. I see that as perfectly natural. I can see the counterargument "but its spelled out in the case of natural armour bonuses and it isn't for...
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    Can a Druid Wildshape into a Rat Swarm?

    I could maybe see it for a shifter (needs alertness, endurance and emphasizes forms over spells), but warshaper has no feat requirement, nature's warrior only needs track and even daggerspell shaper just takes weapon focus(dagger) and twf (1st and 3rd feats.. leaves 6th open). Given that spells...
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    Wand of Cu Light vs Wand of Vigor, Lesser

    Yes, thats why I believe I mentioned that I was paraphrasing. I take it, its also your position then, that a human dragon disciple wouldn't get the natural armour bonus ?
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    Can a Druid Wildshape into a Rat Swarm?

    I don't... it lets you cast spells in wild shape... thats a huge power boost. Sure they'll be a few that don't take it, but most druid players will pick it up as soon as they can, at level 6.
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    Wand of Cu Light vs Wand of Vigor, Lesser

    It has a prerequisite of 4 ranks of heal. But thats really irrelevant, it doesn't say "on any spell that heals damage it heals an additional +2 per spell level", it says "on any spell in this school, it heals +2 per spell level" (paraphrasing) There's nothing that says its hitpoint damage...
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    Can a Druid Wildshape into a Rat Swarm?

    The vast majority of druids will take that feat at lvl 6 anyway, so such a situation is really the norm, not the exception.
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    Would you have allowed this?

    The math may be basic ( x = 250 / tan angle), but memorizing the table in question isn't...
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    Can a Druid Wildshape into a Rat Swarm?

    Have you read gaseous form? It gives you dr 10/magic, makes you immune to poisons and criticals. Thats pretty much it, defensively. You're still subject to any and all spells, and your DR is fairly easy to bypass. It also disables any spells with any sort of component. Also the druid in...
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    Would you have allowed this?

    Hmmm... I'm not sure I'd expect a character in this sort of setting to have memorized all the sine/tan tables, which would be the usual way of working something like this out...
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    Horizon Walker

    "A horizon walker also knows how to fight dangerous creatures typically found in that terrain, gaining a +1 insight bonus on attack rolls and damage rolls against creatures with that terrain mentioned in the Environment entry of their descriptions." Named bonuses don't stack. Its either +1 or...
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    Can a Druid Wildshape into a Rat Swarm?

    For some game purposes. I think common sense should apply here. Remember this quote from alter self? "Any part of the body or piece of equipment that is separated from the whole reverts to its true form." Now with a rat swarm, you're 300 rats. 299 rats are therefore seperated... thats a whole...
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    Wand of Cu Light vs Wand of Vigor, Lesser

    The problem with that argument, is it doesn't matter. Mass Lesser Vigor is a 3rd level conjuration (healing) spell. It heals no damage. Augment Healing makes it heal an extra 6 (2x3). It now heals 6 damage, in addition to providing fast healing 1 for however many rounds. From a literal...
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    Aiming Fireballs soi they don't hit the party?

    My druid did that to my party's rogue once, unfortunately he failed the save and almost died... good times ;)
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    Wand of Cu Light vs Wand of Vigor, Lesser

    Splat Book power creep. One thing you might want to think about, why exactly is lesser vigor, mass a 3rd level spell? cure light wounds, mass is 5th level... As to the useability issue, they're both equally useable by your cleric sure... but if your cleric got knocked unconcious, then a ranger...
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    Horizon Walker

    Its probably a bit on the underpowered side, but I'm sure there's a few ways to take a few levels specifically to abuse one or two of its powers (note: most of the good powers require planar terrain mastery, which you don't get til 6, so even this is extremely limited).
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    How to Find an Invisible Character

    "A creature can generally notice the presence of an active invisible creature within 30 feet with a DC 20 Spot check. The observer gains a hunch that “something’s there” but can’t see it or target it accurately with an attack. A creature who is holding still is very hard to notice (DC 30). An...
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    max strength bonus for composite bows

    I was replying to HellHound's 3.5 houseruled version... where normally a small longbow/medium shortbow maxed out at +2 and a medium longbow/large shortbow at +4, with provision to increase the figures by 50% with special materials etc.
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