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Annual here. Cheers, -- N

If you take generally useful feats in addition to Natural Spell -- an item creation, a metamagic, and stuff to enhance your Summoning spells, for example -- then the only thing you can suck at are things you can change day to day. 1/ Spell Selection. This can be hard. You will want to spend...

Banning all non-full casters is another way to balance 3.5e, and IMHO a more interesting choice. - Archivist - Artificier - Beguiler - Cleric - Cloistered Cleric - Dread Necromancer - Druid - Healer . - Psion - Sorcerer - Warmage - Wilder - Wizard Cheers, -- N

By being a spellcaster, right? Though honestly, a spellcaster can grapple a humongous scorpion, thanks to spells like shapechange and divine power and righteous might. I bet one could make a game in which Fighters were better than useless just by limiting the class selection to "tier 2" and...

Straight Druid is a fine choice. Nope. There are a lot of PrCs which will lower your power level, but very few that will keep it even or increase it. If this is your first shape-changer, it's way easier to just stay straight Druid, and you will PWNZORX just fine as a straight Druid anyway...

Perhaps he's thinking of the 1st level grease spell.

It presumes you have no other options than melee, because the hydra isn't going to let you use archery for more than one round, and you have no way to stop it from walking right up to you and eating your face.

Clerics, Druids and Wizards have plenty of options vs. those targets. Okay, so Reflex-targeting evocations like fireball are off the table -- that only leaves 80% of the spell list useful. Summoning, conjurations, buffs on summons and self and party, illusions, environment-changing effects...

Actually, no. The hydra has 10 ft. reach. If the Fighter starts his turn adjacent to the hydra, it gets all its attacks of opportunity on him when he tries to leave his second square, which is still within its reach. I repeat: if the hydra ends its movement adjacent to the Fighter, he's...

Yep yep. The analogy to time-shifting is even plausible: if I wish to browse the Compendium from my laptop while flying somewhere, it could be argued that I'm doing exactly the same thing as if I'd wanted to watch a football game that I had recorded earlier. (Space-shifting doesn't really work...

rediculous, adj. - arousing or deserving rosiness : INCARNADIGOUS, RUDDIFYING.

In my game I remove the Dietary Requirement (rice) restriction, but I still make them either talk funny, or the player can delay his words by 1-3 seconds from when his lips start moving. Also I impose a -2 penalty on attacks if the player fails to yell "HAI-YA!" when rolling. Cheers, -- N

Archivists can be amazing, especially if you're starting at high level with a pile of gold. What you want to do first of all is look at the rest of your party: you can do pretty much anything, but that doesn't mean you should try to do everything. Look at them, and figure out what you want your...

Yeah, racial paragon classes are very cool, especially in a game like E6 where they can be fully half your mechanical identity. Anyway, regarding E6 PrCs... You can squeeze two levels of Warshaper onto a Changeling. Master Specialist allows 3 levels since it only requires 3 to get in. You...

What level are you playing? If it's above 10 or so, class is where you kill him, not race. Play a Cleric Archer. Cheers, -- N

Are you genuinely misunderstanding me, or trying to pick a fight? Look, I didn't say "LEVEL 12 IS AWESOME, YOU SHOULD TOTALLY TAKE IT". No, I said I'd never, ever, ever take levels 13 or beyond. See the difference?

8th level grants +6 BAB, +6 to all saves, and 1d10 unarmed damage. 12th grants 2d6 unarmed damage, +40 ft. bonus to speed, and it's another level where you get a nice bump to BAB and saves (before 13th which grants no save or BAB increase).

IMHO the good exit levels are 2 - 4 - 6 - 8. The highest I'd go in Monk ever is probably 12. Cheers, -- N

Dimension door is the gold standard for escaping grapples. Only component is V, so you don't need any freedom of movement to cast it.

That's a good call. Monk PrCs can be great, and they generally only require a few levels of Monk. Cheers, -- N