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Where are you guys getting this "character level" business? I will have to check it, but I thought it was just class level +3. So, your first level wizard could only take four ranks in move silently upon taking a level as a rogue. If you think about it, this only makes sense. If it were...

My question is, WHY? There isn't anything about historical bards that would relate to skill with crafting objects. Bards were storytellers and historians above all else.

Another way to handle it would be to create a house rule, eliminating bardic knowledge altogether, and just giving bards a +2 to all knowledge checks.

Clerics and Paladins have access to the Divine Vigor feat, which boosts your speed by 10 ft. There's also the spell, Expeditious Retreat, which is accessible to wizards, sorcerers, and clerics with the Travel Domain. And of course, barbarians and monks get increased speed. The real question...

As long as it is a ring that does not operate perpetually, it should work fine. Basically, you trigger the ring to activate, it releases the spell-effect. At that point, the ring itself no longer needs to operate, since it has already activated the dweomer. There's no paradox. (We are...

Okay, my third level druid now has Animal Defiance and Animal Control. What I now realize is that it's a little bit odd, from a roleplaying perspective, to treat some animals as beloved friends while taking full mental posession of other animals, as though they were devoid of spirit. The way I...

Maybe I should have said "oral tradition" rather than "gossip," since the latter term implies that it only has to do with trivial information. I did not mean to imply that bard's don't have a genuinely sophisticated tradition of learning. So, I don't know if that would be a third option, or...

Tooo funny! Boy, am I glad I asked about other reasons! I love this stuff. A long time ago there was a thread about uses for a 10 ft. pole. Hilarious stuff. But I think this has potential to top that! I think my character is going to have to get a cohort to be responsible for taking care...

Silver Griffon's original suggestion was that it should be something worthy of being written about in song OR poetry or prose, which I find more reasonable than just limiting it to stuff that can be found in songs only. Check out some of the examples given in the player's handbook. Most of...

Great thread. I wonder . . . has anyone ever heard of a character taking along a barrell for any reason OTHER than carrying ale?

Yes, of course, I do need to talk to my DM, and he'll make the final decision in my case. But I wanted to talk to you guys just for the sake of having a discussion about the rules themselves and how they SHOULD be interpreted, regardless of how my DM actually decides to interpret them. If I...

Thanks for replying. You've given a possible litmus test, by saying that it has to be something worthy of being written about. It's still fairly vague though. As a player, it would be nice to not have to rely too much on the DM's discretion. The main reason that I am looking for more...

The idea of a 90 degree cone must be something from an earlier edition. There's nothing like that in 3E. As for the matter of line of sight, it really is not very clear, but it does say that you have to present your holy symbol. So, you might infer that the reason they are protected by cover...

What does Bardic knowledge give you exactly? To what degree does it overlap with other knowledge skills? Is there anything bardic knowledge does NOT cover? Would it be possible for a bard to make two checks for the same topic (one for bardic knowledge, and another for knowledge history...

Evil clerics can command undead. Druids with the right feats can command plant creatures or animals. My question is, what are the constraints of such commands? Can I command a creature to keep watch and report back to me every ten minutes? How about to follow an ally that I designate and...

Is there a feat that gives +2 to Use Magic Device and a related skill, like Spellcraft or Decipher Script? If not, what is that feat called that does that for any two related skills? I'm trying to boost my Use Magic skill as much as possible. The synergy bonuses from Spellcraft and Decipher...

I agree. While alignment may or may not be helpful for helping you roleplay, it is still an essential game mechanic. There are so many spells, magical effects, and class and prc requirements, that it would create a lot of problems to do away with it altogether. (Although some DM's might...

I thought (double check me on this, though), that a neutral cleric had to decide to be a channeller of positive or negative energy--one or the other. If that is correct, then this cleric is a channeller of positive energy (because she casts healing spells) and would be unable to command and...

I think that was Dreamchaser's point exactly. (I'm assuming that your comment is directed to him). It did not seem to me that he was condemning the writers for their error. In fact, I did not even hear much frustration in his remarks, although in my opinion, a well-tempered expression of...

AuraSeer, thanks for joining the discussion. I wonder if you have any more insights about how you determine whether you SUCCEED at commanding an undead more powerful than yourself. We know it can be done, because it says so, but we don't know HOW!