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Psionics doesn't use "some silly spell points system"--it's used power points from the very beginning in 1e, so D&D spell point systems are copying from it rather than the reverse. I'm going to have to disagree on this one. Having different disciplines based on different abilities is a good...

Essentially, the rule for stacking bonuses, metamagic, etc. is that it stacks in the most beneficial order. What this ability does is let you replace your class-based CL with character level-based CL and add modifiers on that, so instead of cleric/sorcerer CL + Practiced Spellcaster + UM +...

It's a wizard with more spells, a bigger list, and a better familiar. I hope you're not expecting anyone to play any other class in a game where this is available.

Regardless of how he gets them, a factotum's spells are in fact SLAs. Being able to use normal metamagic feats is an exception that doesn't change that fact, just like a warlock having an arcane caster level for PrC purposes only despite not actually being able to cast arcane spells. That's...

Not in this case, no. A character is able to use eternal wands if and only if he can cast arcane spells; the warlock's SLAs suffer from ASF, and there's the clause in CArc that lets them qualify for PrCs requiring an arcane caster level, but as far as eternal wands are concerned they might as...

Factotums use their spells as spell-like abilities, not actual spells, so they're not actually arcane casters.

Rephrased, then: optimized gishes get both of those. The point of the duskblade is to give you a passable gish that works out of the box without jumping through hoops. The bard isn't a gish, really, it's a support caster at best; gishes are meant to buff themselves up and enter combat and...

Note that duskblades only get spells up to 5th level, while most arcane gishes go for +16 BAB and 9th level spells. A sorcerer, before bonus spells, has more spells than a duskblade after bonus spells assuming the same ability mod, using a better list and higher-level spells. The duskblade...

They shouldn't get new spells, but I believe it was suggested in one dev interview or new spells section that they be allowed to replace spells on their lists, so they can take advantage of new books but don't expand their list at all. They're...not overpowered at all, really. The reason that...

If you had actually read the link provided, you'd realize that they are in fact right. You can prefer scallions to onions all you want, but you're plain and simply wrong. The following stacking rules come into play when determining the results of a spell. If you have a series of spells that...

Dragon #354 has the elemental ninjas.

If all you want is to give the BBEG more action points, there's the unfettered heroism spell in Races of Eberron--5th level sor/wiz, 1 round/level, you gain a free temporary AP every round and can spend multiple APs each round, but are fatigued at the end of the spell's duration. Each AP has to...

You could put the city in some sort of impeded- or wild-magic zone; shady folks would congregate there to avoid being scryed on and captured, high-level casters would avoid it because their powers would be diminished, and thus a gritty low-magic-ish situation would naturally develop.

Here are the Rings of Wizardry V-IX.

The OD&D and 1e clerics were very heavily inspired by Christianity, down to weapon choices, spell lists, and even pictures in the books, but after the 1e D&DG and UA came out and broadened things a bit, the 2e priest was dissociated from Christianity and became more strongly pantheistic with the...

If you gain multiple templates, you gain all the benefits and penalties of each, regardless of how logical (or not) their stacking would be. He's immune to both fire and cold.

So if you don't want the rogue dealing ability damage, and you don't think casters should be doing as much ability damage, do you want to just remove it from the monsters too and get rid of ability damage altogether? By a certain level, someone is going to be able to do a lot of Con damage, and...

I won't comment on your assessment of the warblade's power level, since its relative power depends on how your group plays other martial characters, but I do object to this characterization of it as some sort of "weeaboo anime class" that seems to be all over the place. The swordsage is most...

In your initial reply you said "My problem with the ambush feats is that they are very hard to balance. Disembowling strike would be a case in point. I wouldn't allow it in my game. Are there better things to spend a feat on? Probably not if you do 4d6 or more worth of sneak attack damage...

I'm not trying to shut down debate; where did I say or imply that just because I feel you're being too hard on the mundanes that your opinion is invalid? I do, however, think that calling ambush feats too powerful and objecting to status effects or lots of stat damage is unwarranted when...