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Nor are D&D Falchions falchions. D&D falchions are some kind of great scimitar. Real life falchions were heavy one-handed chopping swords.

No viable alternative? 1. Buying metal/plastic minis and painting them. This worked just fine for me until Wizards brought out their plastic minis (and I didn't start buying them until Angelfire/underdark since I didn't like the early sculpts and paint jobs. Six years in the 3e era and a good...

My argument is that their introduction to the game later indicates that SR was not initially intended to be largely inconsequential--nor was it initially inconsequential. Only the advent of the orbs and arc of lightning (and to a lesser degree, blast of flame), along with assay resistance made...

I don't think this is true. If we look at the items you list separately and your conclusion, they don't all add up: Summon Monster: 1 round casting time, limited summon selections, and frequently hampered by the other defenses of spell resistance monsters (DR, etc). Elemental Orbs: Remember...

Actually, with the polymorph change, I'm not certain that making them lose the outsider type is as significant as it was before all the errata. Certainly if you use alter self, polymorph, etc. you the type change is worth the LA, but without those spells, it's mostly immunity to the "person"...

All that changes when you take Exotic Weapon Master and pick up the Exotic Flurry ability. Since there is no other way for a fighter/barbarian type to get flurry of blows with a useful two handed weapon--or a one-handed weapon--it quickly surpasses other weapons in damage output at that point.

One presumes it works like any other readied action: the readied action occurs immediately before the action that triggers it. Attacking an opponent with a sword is an action. Once the attack is assigned, the dice are rolled, and the effect happens. Instantaneously. But, if I readied an action...

Hmm. for arcane casters: 3.5 Blink. 50% miss chance for the spell unless it's transdimensional. The archer solution can work for arcane casters too. If the arcanist is more than 40 feet from the rest of the party, odds are someone will get left out. If the archer kills the creature that is...

Depending upon the characters' levels: 1. Greater spell immunity: blasphemy. You don't have a better use of an 8th level slot. Oh, and you get to pick a couple other spells to be immune to. 2. Holy Aura. SR 25 is not insurmountable, but it will sometimes save you. 3. Spell resistance. Again...

I'm currently working on an experimental marshal mutliclass fighter type. It seems to me that the marshal class is eminently suited to heavy multiclassing: It has two good saves. Its hit points are adequate. It can partially make up for the BAB reduction by choosing a major aura that grants...

Actually, barbarian excludes neither paladin nor knight. Ex-Bbn 2/Knight 4/Pal 2/Fighter 14 is a perfectly legal build and would end up with the character moving 40 in mithral fullplate with no magical assistance. Fast movement, uncanny dodge, d12 hit points, and four skill points per level are...

Curiously enough, the core rules actually offer a mechanism for these partial successes.

I would suggest that you re-read the take ten and take 20 section in the PHB. Start with the example for take ten--Krusk climbing a cliff and read on. You'll find that you can take ten regardless of the consequences for failure. What prevents taking ten are either explicit rules in the book...

If you do that, you'll want to do it with a non-template undead monster. Vampires are, by the rules of the template, formerly living, so it is most likely that the example was created by taking an existing character and applying the vampire template to it. Thus, when it actually did assign its...

Check out the Arcanis setting. Use the various Val racial mechanics for people with the blood of gods. Use the Dark-kin for people with the blood of demons or of titans. Don't have dwarves, halflings, half-orcs, or elves. Use gnomes for the "dwarves" of the north if you decide to have the...

My take on it would be that the illusionist telling the party members it's an illusion would be a saving throw with the +4 bonus. It would not count as definite proof. On the other hand, a party member or bad guy making the spellcraft check to recognize the spell as it was cast (DC 16) would...

Corrupting the youth was the charge that Plato said his accusers brought against him. Plato also proposed punishing people who believed that the gods could be bought off and induced to excuse immoral behavior through sacrifice in Laws. One might also note a number of examples where people were...

A lot depends upon what you mean by "viable." A javalin is a very good choice for a low level fighter type who wants a ranged weapon but doesn't want to blow half his starting gold on a longbow. The javalin (and, to a lesser extent, throwing axe, and light hammer) continues to be a solid choice...

I'm playing a small, sort of strength based character in Living Greyhawk right now. She has monk levels, so I'll mention her; you can decide if she's actually a proper monk: Tallfellow halfling: Monk 2/Fighter 2/Cleric 2 (of Arvoreen--nobility and war domains)/Paladin 3/Pious Templar 2 (at the...

So that you know whether or not you are fully effected, partially effected, or not at all effected by unholy blight, etc. Sure, you could try to figure it out every time an ally or opponent casts a spell or uses an alignment keyed ability, but that's a lot more work than having it written on...