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You could also take a level in warlock. The invocation See the Unseen grants darkvision plus the ability to see invisible, at all times. It's subject to dispel magic, but if it gets dispelled you can bring it back as a standard action. In fact, it might be a good idea to go rogue/warlock...

Retroactively house ruled to what? Every PrC I know of that grants darkvision already does make it stack. For instance there's the Horizon Walker in the DMG, and the Dark Hunter in (I think) CW.

cmanos, taking 20 represents trying and failing multiple times, until you finally get it right. You can only do that on a task which has no penalty for failure-- and "falling to one's death in a ravine" does count as a penalty for failure. :) If you're not rushed or distracted you can take 10...

Remember to allow for spellcaster intervention. Even first-level spells can sidestep this kind of puzzle if used correctly. For instance, if they have access to animate rope they needn't descend the ravine at all. They can just animate the last 50' section of the rope, lower that end near the...

A glove that can store 10 potions is much more useful than the regular glove that can only store one. Multiply the standard price by 5 or so. On the other hand (heh), a glove that stored 10 specific one-use items might be worth a price break. That is, the glove would come pre-loaded with 10...

If you're asking which PCs have been raised at least once, 10% is a good estimate. But if you're asking what percentage of deaths have been reversed by magic, it's somewhere above 90%. In my group it tends to be the more fragile characters who get killed, and they tend to die multiple times...

Ha! Bonus points for any DM who successfully borrows a plot point from Superfriends. :lol:

Note that the spell's power is based on hit dice, not on CR. For that reason it's less effective against dumb, strong monsters, because they have lots of hit dice for their level. Heck, even some skeletons and zombies can ignore the spell. A wyvern zombie has 14 hit dice, making it immune to a...

Yes it would, as well as a Disguise check in most cases, but I didn't want to clutter the issue. Impersonating a lower-level person is just one example illustrating the original question. The OP asked whether you could turn off the benefit of Weapon Focus. I think the answer is "No, but you...

That's easy enough. Remember that a high attack roll doesn't automatically mean you hit your opponent; it means you hit what you were aiming at. If you want to miss, aim your weapon at a point two inches east of his head. Say we're talking about Robin Hood in disguise at the archery contest. He...

The RAW appear to be silent on this issue. Your magic missile is still expended, but the book doesn't specify whether you know that it fizzled.

Do you have an example of a situation when you would not want to use the bonus? I can't come up with any at all.

Looks like it. I think they meant Mithral Body. That counts as medium armor, which doesn't prevent a barbarian from using fast movement.

Nail, by the rules the caster gets no special information when he's picked an invalid target. I agree that would be reasonable, but nothing in the RAW says it works that way. Come to think of it, there are even more possible results than I had thought of: The spell is successful The victim...

Your character does not know whether the target saved. Here's the text from the Magic Overview section of the SRD, under the Saving Throws heading: I've bolded the important part. Scry is an effect spell, so you do not know whether the subject saved or not. If you want to know whether the...

Does the damage bonus for Weapon Specialization apply to non-hit point damage? Say a Ftr/Wiz has WS in rays and energy missiles. Does his enervation spell do an extra 2 negative levels? If he casts ice knife, does it do 1d8+2 regular damage and 4 points of Dex damage (instead of 1d8 and 2)? If...

Ah, it looks like I was working from an incomplete transcription of the SRD. It's missing everything after the first sentence. Thanks!

When attacking with a ranged weapon, you take a -4 attack penalty when firing at a target in melee. What counts as being in melee? Does it just mean that your target is in a threatened square, or is it more complicated than that? Two adjacent humans armed with longswords are clearly in melee...

A commonly repeated line: "The door says NO!" This was inspired by an extremely minor detail in an adventure I threw together. In the basement level of an evil wizard's stronghold, the party came across a barred stone door that had the Goblin word for "no" scratched on it. One player figured...

Only in the real world. Physics in the D&D universe don't work the same way, so it's entirely possible that a silver hammer will be too brittle or too soft or otherwise unsuitable for a weapon of any kind. Anyway, even if it worked it would be kind of pointless, because it wouldn't penetrate...