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Oh man, as the guy playing the wizard in our last game, I would have loved it if I could've wheedled myself an extra share of treasure. The best I could usually do was to get the party to kick a few hundred gp into pearls for Identify spells before the loot was divided up so I wouldn't end up...

And now you see why they say there are no stupid questions. ;) -- or was that 'ignorance is bliss'?

Another way you might want to try looking at it is that some people may want to see a feat like Quick Draw in their game, but for reasons like the ones you mentioned (no one's playing a member of the dagger-throwing halfling cavalry, no one's playing a polearm guy), it's just not getting used...

I don't see why that would bother anyone. It wouldn't bug our group, since prestige classes all have to be GM-approved anyway. There are just too many PrCs, varying too widely in power and niftiness, for any of our usual GMs to be comfortable allowing one into the game without looking it over...

^^^^Is putting a weapon away normally a standard or full action? Weird, I would've guessed it was move-equivalent. Yeah. Certainly the description in Kahuna Burger's question makes this sound like something almost completely innocuous; he's just switching from a melee weapon to a ranged...

It's an interesting idea, but it would make me very sad: I prefer humans to all of the other possible races. ;) Humans are barbarians. Ignorant, abusive savages with no respect for anyone but themselves (and very little self-respect at that). They're colonialist (or imperialist) thugs...

Actually, the description for Invisibility already makes it clear that any item picked up by the invisible creature or any material that adheres to the invisible creature remains visible. Period. If you weren't holding it or didn't have it on you when you cast the spell, everyone can see it...

I haven't done more than glance at Eberron in a store. It looked okay, but then, I think the main reason it didn't grab me is that I'm not actually in the market for a new D&D setting. I don't need one and I don't see myself needing one in the near future. Now, if someone else bought it and...

Hm. For the wizard I've been playing, far less than half of the spells I memorize are defensive. Generally he keeps a Mage Armor on, and hangs on to a Shield, a Mirror Image, an Improved Invisibility, and occasionally a Blaise's Iron Bead (Relics and Rituals 2; think "Stoneskin on steroids")...

Doesn't matter. The whole idea of alignments is centered on the idea that good, evil, law, and chaos are all objective things inside the game world. You are Lawful, hence Protection from Law works against you. That guy is Evil, therefore Smite Evil works on him. So it doesn't matter if you...

Actually, there's a lot of satisfaction in a well-executed hit-and-run, welby. Nothing makes characters feel as cool as identifying their objective, then going directly to it, accomplishing it, and getting out cleanly. Hard work and perseverance can make a victory sweet, sure, but there's a...

It would take too much space to list all the systems we've played in our group, let alone the games themselves, and no one would bother reading it anyway. So instead I'll just limit the list to what we're playing now and what games we're likely to be playing over the next year or so and the...

I had to go with "love it," but it's not a deep and abiding love. It's more of a "Hey, that's usually pretty cool" feeling. I don't have one big reason for feeling this way, though; just a lot of little reasons. For one thing, I've never really been all that fond of traditional fantasy...

Honestly, I'd look at that concept and assign it to "One-note Loner Character: spoiler, boring" and ask you to make him stretch out a little. Give him something he actually gives a rat's ass about, give him some kind of goal or plan, give him opinions about what makes someone a good companion...

Chalk up another "it depends; I only feel cheated when it's done poorly" over here. I don't mind if a GM improvises everything, provided that it's done well enough for the game to be fun and for me to feel like there's some kind of coherent plan behind it. It doesn't have to be a very specific...

What freaks me out about Feeblemind can be reduced down to one big thing and two small things. The big thing is what it takes to undo the spell; there is nothing that can be done for a Feebleminded character beyond Heal, Limited Wish, Wish, or Miracle. All of which, I will note, are...

You know, I've always thought that it's much more difficult to run a published adventure well than it is to run something you put together yourself. And by running it well, I mean that you fit it into the setting, you get the players fully interested in it, you are able to maintain a good pace...

It wasn't in our game, but then, we're weird. I'm also not entirely sure what makes it all that abuseable; the xp spent on a permanent spell isn't extra or free xp, it's xp that you earned the same way everyone else earned theirs. The only difference is that instead of using it to gain a level...

Man, that's the weirdest typo I've ever seen. Somehow you typed "porn video scandal" when you meant to type "porn video publicity stunt." ...or maybe I'm just being overly suspicious. Maybe there's no connection between her amateur porn tape making front page news just before her crappy...

Well, I suppose. ;) In practice, it never worked out that way. Anyone who spent a thousand of his hard-earned xp on a permanent spell and then got nailed with a dispel magic tended to set his 1000xp refund aside immediately, because he was just going to re-permanency himself at the earliest...