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I ran a 12th-level party through a modified "The Stink" with Large and Huge ooze paraelementals and plenty of metal-eating oozes, commanded by an alkilith demon. At higher levels, they weren't too much of a problem, principally because higher level characters don't need to rely upon...

My group used to spend up to an hour getting a sitrep of a place they were going to invade and working out tactics to get in, kill the bad guy/rescue the prisoner/steal the McGuffin, and get out without setting off the alarms or, at worst, with minimal fights. But their plans had a way of going...

"Hello Jerry" "Hello Newman"

Also, IIRC as the water comes directly from the Elemental Plane of Water, a bunch of ships using this as a propulsion method would eventually flood the planet... Ok, so it might take millennia... But those on coral and sand islands, BEWARE the curse of the "Ships that move without sails and...

Who says that the warlock's DR has anything to do with how tough his skin is? Spawn of Kyuss can throw their worms - this ranged attack never causes any damage, so the rule being quoting on what forms of "related" effects are blocked by DR doesn't even apply. In that case, one's confusing DR...

According to the SRD: The question is whether the word "removes" in the highlighted text is used in contradistinction to the word "suppresses", or whether the author was trying to use it as a synonym for "suppresses" in an effort to make the sentence "read better". Taking a literalist...

An "average" duergar has a Cha of 6 or 7, not 4. The MM uses the elite ability array for the duergar warrior, dropping the 8 from that array into Cha. This is what happens when WotC designer doesn't think about what he's doing, but just plays the numbers game. A humanoid with a Cha of 6 or 7...

A Cha 2 creature has very little self-awareness. It has a hard time identifying itself as an individual. It is also unlikely to identify others as individuals, although it will certainly try to categorise them in some simple fashion (e.g. friend or foe). A Cha 2 creature will usually only...

Aren't they the same as Guarder Robes, only better smelling?

Sounds like you have a problem DM - and I can't help but thinking from one of your other topic posts you might also be playing in a campaign where enchanters aren't an optimal wizard choice anyway. That is to say, you're going to be doing lots of fighting against undead and other creatures with...

Um, "rock heap", as in big pile of rocks? Insult, or some strange compliment known only to thaumaturgists specialising in Earth summoning? I'm actually intending to give my party of 5 extra equipment when they start. Like, you know, alchemist's fire... Cheers, Al'Kelhar

Clerics aren't as useful in as many situations as a properly prepared wizard. A wizard who hasn't prepared a useful selection of spells is a sack of meat waiting to be eaten. A cleric who hasn't prepared a useful selection of spells can always heal and mix it up in melee. I agree with those...

The reason I hate drow is 2E drow. You'd just got the hang of how elves were the uber-munchkin race to play, when along comes a kewl new elf subrace to trump all other elf subraces. Overpowerful, overdone, and over here. Cheers, Al'Kelhar

Unless your wizard is a mystic theurge, has mucho levels in cleric, or through some house rule has access to divine spells, he ain't going to be casting a contingent heal or freedom of movement on himself. Otherwise, I agree with Elder-Basilisk's analysis. My two personal favourites are...

Doesn't a masterwork dagger cost 302gp, not 317gp? So a +1 flaming dagger would cost 8302gp to purchase. Cheers, Al'Kelhar

Of course, this would all be solved by defining a new bonus type for attack rolls and damage: precision. Thus, sneak attack would be described as something like "an additional 1d6 precision damage", point blank shot could be a +1 precision bonus to attacks and a +1 precision bonus to damage...

Is the +1 bonus damage granted by the point blank shot feat considered precision damage for the purposes of damage multipliers such as criticals and the manyshot feat? That is, if an arrow from a longbow shot at a target withi 30' by a creaure with the point blank shot feat does 1d8+1 points of...

Purely a house rule - I let the caster designate one side of the illusory wall as transparent, so that it can be used to hide behind while providing uninterrupted vision of the world on the other side. Makes it so much more useful and worthy of a 4th-level spell. Cheers, Al'Kelhar

Then it's OK to mention Improved Grapple, Craft Rod, Rapid Reload and Large and In Charge then?

Maybe not so at the time, but that's damn funny. Presumably your character either made the Fort save, or had more than 1d6 hit points per level. Now if I can just convince my DM to permit fleshiver... Cheers, Al'Kelhar