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I would like to play a sorcerer that becomes a lore master. So the sorcerer has the pesky problem of only having knowledge arcana on the list of class skills. So I have come up with 2 alternatives playing a human with one level of marshal for the class knowledge skills and the able learner...

The bard spell Modify Memory can be particularly useful with the secret police. Implant the memory of being betrayed by a love one. Or implant a memory of cracking under torture and telling the police everything; then have the police torture the victim and demand the victim reaffirm everything...

Well if you want a skill monkey and if you do not mind indirectly contributing to battles a straight bard could be effective in a group with so many fighter types. Take improved initiative and get your party hasted then follow up with an inspire courage. You can easily be responsible for the...

I’m curious what energy a fire shield spell cast with an energy substitution of acid or electricity would protect from. Would an acid “fire” shield protect against electricity and vice versa?

If you are playing with a buff dependent party you might want to consider solid fog as your forth level spell. Also I’ve always like reduce person whenever I play a small character. If you play with (PHB2) give up that familiar.

I always thought charisma or force of personality was more appropriate for resisting compulsions then wisdom.

Giving a cleric access to all spells makes a cleric much closer to a jack-of-all-trades sort of character. I think the suggestion of using the bard spell progression or 6th level spells at level 20 is about right for a jack-of-all-trades. I would say cleric spells tend to be more useful then...

A cleric has a faster spell progression then a favored soul, I'll score this as +1. An additional spell can be learned per feat. So every 2 levels of cleric the pc is getting total number of cleric spells - favored soul known. So with all the splat books, I'll estimate 100 cleric spells a...

Four Frenzied Berserkers; aka there can only be one party. Oops Frenzied Berserker is a PRC not class.

I was thinking about the cure dieses ability of the paladin. I would prefer it to be an option of lay of hands. 10 hp = 1 cure disease. That way the paladin would still have the ability and wouldn’t need to track a once a week ability. If you treat the entire lay of hands as a pseudo mana...

If the arena is a relatively enclosed area; buff everyone with the ability to breathe underwater and move underwater. Put up an obscuring mist and open some ever smoking bottles. Buy a hundred decanters of endless water set off as many as possible while running around and see if you can't...

If druids don't want their languages learnt by any nondruids they need to be very careful not to speak in druidic in front of anybody. Any PC with 15+ ranks in languages would be a gifted linguistic sponge and likely be able learn another language with relative ease. The exception to this is...

If your AC isn't protecting you, you might want to switch to a Ring of blink with a cloak of minor displacement. Blink 50% etherial miss chance Cloak of Displacement 20% displacement miss chance You'll only be hit 40% of the time when the DM rolls a 20. Plus you can blink and step out of a...

If your paladin uses a mount, I find the horseshoes of a zephyr to be a good buy for 6000. Your paladin can really be devastating with ride by attack and uneven ground where your enemy’s movement is hampered. In addition the paladin's mount can walk on water, lava, or acid without actually...

In games that I have played in charisma seems to be the favorite dump stat for mechanical reasons. I always thought that creating a dull heroic character was a little bit weird but then again I tend to like charisma focused characters. I like to choose wisdom for my dump stat because in...

For 4500 gold a Circlet of Persuasion gives a +3 competence bonus on all the wearer’s Charisma-based skill checks. This of course includes UMD.

Does detect evil notice anything about a good aligned wizard with False Life cast? The spell as listed does not have the evil descriptor on it so I'm thinking no. But on the other hand since the wizard is harnessing the power of unlife; does that make him sort of undead?

Have a door with a magic mouth and a Glyph of Warding. The mouth would give a really really easy riddle, "speak the name of the beast which is there and not there". The party should come up with the answer "Displacer Beast", have the words "Displacer Beast" be the trigger for a glyph of...

Another way to compensate for less then 4 PC is to increase the wealth of the party. They will have less actions as pointed out; but with better equipment they can be more effective. Another way to decrease the difficulty level of an encounter is to give the PCs an advantage (higher ground...

Slave pricing Using a little accounting you can determine the value of a service for a extended time. For example: assuming 10% interest rate a kobold working for 6 years at 1 sp a day is worth 365 sp * (1 + .1)^6 power or 64.66 gold. Or hiring a human for 30 years is 365 sp * (1 + .1)^30 or...