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Sounds like it went a lot better than my last near-TPK. I was a level 1 PC rogue, and after some dropping of party members and enemies, it got down to me and a zombie. Our party was pretty unbalanced, because we only had three people, and the other two had some inclination to both be clerics...

Would it work in your campaign for all of the clerics and good-natured people to actually be evil? ;)

Well, I don't know. It seems that some people are just inevitably rooted in the belief that there should be fewer skills at the expense of logic and realism. If you really want a game where quadrupeds (good balance because of the extra legs) and gymnasts (good at tumbling) are proficient with...

I've never had that difficultly. Hide lets you avoid being seen, Move Silently lets you move around without being perceived. I assume a Cloak of Elvenkind would give a bonus to Sneak, since it previously gave a bonus to Hide. But to move across a group of sleeping orcs wouldn't require...

It's a bit counter-intuitive, but it's simply true. Another example is how some people don't think steroids would make a baseball player a better hitter, but it sure seems to work. Everyone else has pretty much hit on the mechanics, like weapon control. Some weapons can be guided effectively...

It wasn't anything specifically against your list, but you were the first to actually have a list. Everyone before you only made a few suggestions. I apologize for the appearance of specifically attacking your arguments, if you perceived it. Rarely used skills are completely subjective. If a...

I really don't think there are too many skills to handle. Feats may be out of hand if you use every single sourcebook, but otherwise, they really aren't either. The Player's Handbook doesn't have an unmanageable number of feats, and it's a foundation to build on. If a campaign focuses on...

That's five feats for ambidexterity, and none of them actually bestow ambidexterity to the character. If there was a 6th feat, say Perfect Ambidexterity, that's 6 feats for a +4/+4 attack bonus. I realy don't feel that's worth it. Look at TWF, and contrast these feats.

How would a lich without a phylactery work? I don't think that's possible.

Not necessarily - two-weapon fighting is just plain difficult compared to normal fighting. Less weight makes it easily to do. That doesn't make any sense. You're saying that fighting with two weapons gives characters an off-hand as a penalty. The penalty given by TWF is the -2 to attack...

The cheapness of the warlock's abilities compensate pretty well for his mediocrity. The Dead Rise is an incantation that raises corpses as undead. Without a material component, they only last for 1/min per caster level, if I remember correctly, but still, the ratio of enemy-defeating to price...

It doesn't appear that anyone has yet brought up the fact that True Strike can (normally) only be used a few times every day. If we have an item that gives true strike as many times as we want it during a day, that's still far more than a wizard or sorcerer could muster, even if it can only be...

Because people who are ambidextrous don't have an off-hand. That's what the feat should give players. But, the fighter could potentially use an ambidexterity feat that eliminates the off-hand penalty to increase his 2-handed damage. I don't know about that - to get full bonuses to attack, a...

To anyone who still thinks that full strength bonus to the off-hand should be called ambistrength, that simply doesn't make sense. Ambidexterity is the lack of an off-hand. If there exists ambidexterity in the game, people who are ambidextrous should not have an off hand. As far as whether or...

Don't forget that the DM can give feats besides the 1-feat/3-levels that PC's get. Working the quick-sheathe feat into a campaign could be difficult, but if the party (or one member thereof) studied under someone who excelled at sheathing, it could be done. Maybe it would coincide with the...

That's how epic spells work, is it not? You have to make a spellcraft check to develop the spell, and then make a spellcraft check to actually cast it. I'm not sure what DC's you'd use for each non-epic spell, but epic spells have DC's based on the seeds that they're created from, modified by...

Knowledge (religion) of 14 requires the PC to be level 11, which makes a 10th level prestige class impossible to recognize without reaching epic levels. I was looking at making some prestige classes like this anyway, because I wanted a class that led into the Half-Celestial template in the same...