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Fighters make excellent archers. In fact, if you want to use archery to deal damage, your best choice--by FAR--is a single classed fighter (at least until 12th level). The +4 damage on every shot from greater weapon specialization (going up to +6 if you toss ranged weapon mastery into the mix)...

In any game I control, no spiked chains. It's not because I think that they're too powerful--IMO, all of the balance problems with the spiked chain come from the Exotic Weapon Master Prestige class and it's ludicrous flurry of strikes ability that it grants only to spiked chains and exotic...

In answer to the question about the figures, see the top of the post: Unfortunately, I redid the math and it's not entirely correct so you were right to ask me to show my work Against AC 20, Roy hits on an 11: 50% chance to hit. That's part 1. Part 2 is the damage. Roy will stagger the...

It's important to note that DC 15 and 25 are not the only relevant checks for Tumble. Tumbling at full speed (DC 25 and 35 respectively) to avoid AoOs is also quite important in the game. (For that matter, the 17/19/21 and 27/29/31 for the second, third and fourth opponent tumbled past in one...

I don't think this is actually the case. I specifically excluded Cleave from my analysis above. The point of it is that what you want to do is not inflict as many hit points of damage as possible; what you want to do is drop your foes. Let's take that intermediate hit point foe you're talking...

I'm trying to figure out if slashing fury is a beneficial feat: The basic premise of my caution is that the heavy attack penalty may eliminate the feat's benefit. The simplest way to do the comparison would be to compare it to the other easy way to trade attack bonus for damage: Power Attack...

Are you looking for mechanical advice on making the character more powerful or making the character seem like a noble? For more power: Remove the aristocrat level. It's a dead level that will hold you back for the life of your character. (Sure, it will qualify you for spellsword, but a level of...

Check your PHB. IMPROVED PRECISE SHOT [GENERAL] Prerequisites: Dex 19, Point Blank Shot, Precise Shot, base attack bonus +11. Benefit: Your ranged attacks ignore the AC bonus granted to targets by anything less than total cover, and the miss chance granted to targets by anything less than total...

At 7th level, it would be competing with elemental body (yeah, I know, a sor/wiz spell, but everyone knows druids are just as effective as sor/wiz in nearly all of the spellcasting roles anyway). Elemental body offers better protection (immunity to flanking as well) and bonuses (earth mastery...

I've done some thinking about this on my own and, combined with strategy from the miniatures game, I've come to the conclusion that maximum average damage per round is not the same as optimal use of power attack. The optimal use of Power Attack is the amount that gives you the best chance of...

An interesting and, IMO, inconsistent feature. (Though I suppose consistency could be introduced by saying that "Good" and "Evil" represent our evaluations of the character and beliefs of the gods and characters rather than the in-game analysis of it). If, for instance, Pholtus in the Greyhawk...

I think reasonable humanoids are few and far between, in the context of moral reasoning, generally tend to be defined as "people who agree with us." Would a reasonable person approve of early 21st century western sexual morality? Maybe if the reasonable person is a 21st century westerner or a...

I would tend to say that you cannot be a good coward. Courage is the form of every virtue at its testing point and a coward who does not have courage will not have the other virtues either--at least not for long. Is a single act of cowardice sufficient to define a person's alignment? When I'm...

Funny thing is... I've never used or seen a necklace of fireballs used in any manner except all at once. Toss the darn thing at the bad guy and have your pal fireball it. Then watch the explosions....

I have a bit of difficulty reconciling the Conan of Beyond the Black River or a Witch Shall Be Born with level 1-5. For that matter, the Conan of Hour of the Dragon, Sword and the Pheonix, Red Nails, and IIRC Queen of the Black Coast doesn't seem very 1-5 either.

Neither necessary nor sufficient. One needn't look to the blood war for examples of individuals who, though they fight evil are not good themselves. History is replete with examples of this and literature has even more. In Phil Foglio's webcomic Girl Genius, for instance, Baron Von Wolfenbach...

from the SRD: Lesser restoration dispels any magical effects reducing one of the subject’s ability scores or cures 1d4 points of temporary ability damage to one of the subject’s ability scores. It also eliminates any fatigue suffered by the character, and improves an exhausted condition to...

The spells that are useful will depend upon your feats, your party, and your playstyle. For instance, spiritual weapon and sound burst are both good offensive spells. Spiritual weapon works best if you have a high wisdom but works well even if you don't. It works best if the rest of the party...

To echo you, "Not true." I believe you're missing my posts (though they were a long time ago). I played with it for three levels or so in Living Greyhawk (which takes more play time than three levels in a typical core rules campaign--IIRC it was six to eight months and may have averaged a game...

Well, some would argue that being good is an advantage itself. (Socrates, for instance, maintained that a virtuous man is, by definition, happy, regardless of his present circumstances). On a less philosophical slant... -you can use spells like holy word and holy smite without being a part of...