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Now you're talking game mechanics, not history (which I was going on about). Historically, no fighting style ever developed - as far as I'm aware - which made use of very long weapons in duel situations. Sure, duels were often at least as much a social and ritual situation as they were fights...

Which weapon was "historically" superior depended a lot on cultural context, and the weapons it faced at the time. For example, a lance-and-board guy with lots of heavy armor sitting on a horse is an unstoppable force - until the opposition whips out the long, sharpened sticks. Similarly, a...

D&D's weapon statistics have been kept simple for a reason: simplicity. Sure, you can add lots of little modifiers of this kind, but you're quickly going to realize that this kind of small modifiers is a) not going to have much of a felt impact in-game, and b) going to necessitate a lot of extra...

WotC should take a page from 3.5's PHB II Shapeshift Druid variant. It basically did everything right, up to and including rendering the Natural Spell feat useless. Love the variant, although more support in later sourcebooks (feats to take more forms, or to specialize in one form, or to combine...

You need to see your target clearly to make a charge. This one is often forgotten, and simple darkness/smoke/terrain obstacles/magic stuff can negate it. You need to have a straight line, and movement along that line draws attacks of opportunity. This will make charging impractical quite a bit...

Might inspire you to throw these ideas out there: Since Dragon Ally is what you want to cast, may I recommend just getting a scroll and casting away? It's not as if you desperately need a Wizard for anything else in your idea. Just pick whatever suits your fancy, and UMD it or have an...

No, it's just a relatively early Forgotten Realms supplement (gorgeous production values and very interesting villainous stuff, btw, good pickup if you can get your hands on it). Zhentarim Skymages are arcane casters working for the Zhentarim, a villainous mafia/military/cult organisation. They...

The Zhentarim Skymage from Lords of Darkness has Handle Animal, and it's a kickass class!

In Pathfinder, Half-Orcs actually make decent Bards...

I have to second this. My current PF Evoker rarely bothers buffing AC. When I think I might be focus-fired, I put up Mirror Image, but sometimes I just accept getting hit a bit. Taking one for the team and all that (Wizards in PF can be beefy enough to risk that). Having Fly and Invisibility...

I think the major problem with Truename magic is threefold: 1) Basing it on a skill is hugely problematic on its own. Truenamers will always max the skill as much as possible, by any means you provide them with. This is always just a tax. It's simply mandatory to put all your resources into a...

For the single best point ever made about this subject, see here. In my game, there's an arbitrary amount of information about "well-known" classes (an amount of information basically controlled by me, the DM), while "rare" classes are usually unknown unless you make a basic knowledge skill...

The OP pretty clearly stated that he specifically doesn't like the way bonuses stack in PF, and the way some characters in the hands of competent minmaxers can become very powerful compared to characters built using more of a laid-back attitude. Those are problems with the system in general, not...

These guys have nailed it. My (not entirely friendly, for which I apologize) first reaction upon reading the OP: "Imagine the chagrin if the Monk player decides to take another Sorcerer level and learn Mirror Image! Woe is me! Somebody needs to step their game up, or play a different one in the...

Class skills in PF provide a +3 bonus to checks made with it, as long as you have put at least one rank into them. But even though this incentivizes choosing class skills, you're not limited to choosing only them for your character. For example, if you're playing a Human Wizard with Int 16...

And why would a Wizard want to dip this? You have to jump through a lot of skill rank hoops for just a bit of a better chassis than Wizard, with a (rather mediocre, if you only dip) Lore ability to go with it. The earliest a Wizard could take this is at level 13! What I'd change about the...

The only fumble rules I found to have any value were the ones in Hârnmaster. It's a d% based system, and every roll divisible by 5 (i.e., the x0 and x5 rolls on your d%) is a critical success or failure: if you roll below your skill mastery level (expressed as a percentile), you got a success...

I don't see how this class adds any prestige to a straight Bard. Actually, I think this PrC is heavily on the bland and the weak sides. I mean this in a strictly mechanical sense, I'm not commenting on the flavor (which is great btw, but that just makes the class that much more of a trap for...

On the Dodge thing: the problem with the feat is not so much that it only grants a +1 bonus. It also only applies against a single opponent that you have to designate. Pathfinder's version of the feat simply gives you a +1 dodge bonus to AC vs. all comers, which isn't nearly as horrible. In...

Or just modify the ring (with a commensurately higher price tag) to work as the Greater Blink spell. Because I'm not too sure that daggers fired off into the depths of the Ethereal would have a way of returning to the material as you say...