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It works on hold portal too.

Okay. No celestials or deities are willing to fly down and directly oppose the plans of The Ultimate Evil, leaving the near-heroic mostly-good PCs as the kingdom's only hope. Yet these same PCs are interrupted in their important quest, because a demigod feels like persecuting them for their...

Wow, 36 posts and you've already been promoted to Moderator? That was fast. Your post-fu must be very strong. If you want to be pedantic about it, a critique of what belongs in this forum doesn't belong in this forum. Posts about posting are supposed to go in Meta. However, you brought up in...

We see AoOs just about every round. I've played in other campaigns where they are much less common. Their prevalence seems to depend on the level of tactics your party uses. If your every action is "I attack the guy in front of me" or "I cast magic missile" or "I attack the guy in front of me...

That's technically true, but you're missing the point. Consider what happens when a creature is flanked by opponents of highly varied power levels. My favorite extreme example is a Colossal dragon who is threatened on one side by four Rog20s standing side by side, and on the other side by an...

Officially, you cannot save feats for later. When you level up, you don't get a "feat slot," or a coupon that is redeemed for one feat at a later time. You get an actual feat, and you must choose which one at that time.

I play D&D because I like the system. If somebody were to buy out the company and change the system radically, I wouldn't bother playing it unless the new system was also fun. I certainly wouldn't spend money on "GURPS Greyhawk" or "Forgotten Realms Rifts" or similar, for the same reason I...

I believe the word was borrowed from Magic: The Gathering. It used to be their official term for what happens to a spell when its target is invalid. Their rules do specify that a spell goes away when that happens; they're real sticklers for the letter of the law, seeing as how theirs is an...

My warlock PC is probably going to die very soon, so it's about time to roll up a replacement. Unfortunately, I find myself without any inspiration on which character class to choose. I thought I'd ask you clever folks if you have any ideas. The party's current makeup: fighter, cleric, bard...

They're called Cansin, and they have LA +1. They appear in Dragon #297, along with lawful Axani and several flavors of elemental Genasi.

My first guess was that this would be the case, but it's not clear that the rules make such a distinction. In the "Special Abilities and Conditions" section of the SRD, the two are always listed together. Under abilities they have a combined subsection, "Energy Drain and Negative Levels." The...

You're mistaken; the race does not have the [Evil] subtype. A tiefling does not show up on detect evil unless he has an evil alignment or is a cleric of an evil deity.

Warforged are listed as being immune to energy drain. Does that apply only to attacks listed as energy drain, or does it apply to all negative levels? The situation I'm concerned about is when a character wields an opposite-aligned weapon. If a CE warforged uses a +1 holy lawful longsword, do...

Well, there are some answers. Five Nations doesn't explain the origin of the Lord of Blades, but it does include his statblock.

The various light sources list their radius in terms of human sight. For instance, a torch gives normal illumination in a 20' radius, and shadowy illumination in a 40' radius. To someone with low-light vision, those distances are doubled. So an elf sees that same torch as granting normal...

I like signed books, but I wouldn't want anyone to autograph my regular D&D rulebooks. It's not an issue of keeping them "clean," it's just that they wouldn't stay in very good condition. I use the books a lot, and I'm not overly concerned about keeping them pristine; I crack the bindings, I...

In the SRD, it's in the "Combat Modifiers" section, in the table of Armor Class modifiers. Look at footnote 3.

What book does that come from? Weapon immunity and percentage reduction were supposed to go away in 3.5, to be subsumed into the new DR system. (Instead of being immune to all but blunt weapons, the monster should instead have a high DR X/blunt.) The combo you describe illustrates the reason...

Nope. It doesn't.

It won't be too bad. You'll just need to keep your limitations in mind when you go out adventuring. As a Small character with 5 Str, your light load allowance is just 12 pounds. Regular clothing doesn't count toward that, but you'need to be careful about what else you carry around. (Note that...