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Well, as has been pointed out, the dwarf is generally considered the strongest of the 0 LA races. The elf might also be worth a comparison, as it has some similar abilities. In the comparisons below, the D (dwarf), E (elf), and X (your race) are how I'd rank the races as I compare abilities one...

For one group I played in where I ran an evil necromancer-type cleric (so no channeled healing spells), we had some (somewhere between 4 and 6) wands of lesser vigor made. I used these to heal members of the party between combats (but within a particular combat folks had to survive). Wands of...

My general rule is that it has to fit within the campaign setting that I'm running. And if the creature is from a remote area of the setting, then they have to help come up with a plausible and reasonable explanation for why the race fits. I also tend to further complicate things by having the...

Another nasty trick would be using the Projected Image spell. Let the warlock try to figure out why the tentacles aren't affecting the other wizard as he appears to be lobbing spells at the warlock. As an added bonus, the tentacles will probably keep the warlock's friends from running up and...

If I recall, Frostburn and Sandstorm both had at least one Epic spell in them (Ice Age and Global Warming come to mind as the names). There might've been more.

I'm assuming that you're talking mostly about magic items here and the feats in the main Eberron book for reducing the cost/time/XP. Well, there are a couple of problems with the strategy: 1. The feats are marked in the table that you can take them multiple times. However the text does not...

Well, I can see several ways at going about this. First, you never mentioned what version of the rules you're using - I'm assuming that its some flavor of 3/3.5. If not that shakes things up a bit. One big question to ask yourself is what level you're going to start at? Are you going to start...

1982. I was 9 at the time. One of my friends brought the original red rulebook and the Keep on the Borderlands to school and we played during a lunch. I was hooked and bought my own copy with money I got for my birthday when I turned 10.

Beckon the Frozen (from Frostburn) lets you choose to summon cold versions of creatures which gain the cold subtype and do 1d6 extra cold damage on natural attacks.

So to clarify some of my thinking - the passage explicitly indicating that they don't stack is a really strong indicator that the enhancement bonus for the masterwork property and the magic enhancement bonus are two separate bonuses of the same type. Normally, if there are two bonuses of the...

Orion is right that the weapon doesn't actually change what it is when you apply the points. However, I think what he's really asking is whether he gets the +1 to hit for the weapon being masterwork when he pushes the entire enhancement bonus into AC. That's an interesting question actually. A...

So, having a particularly twisted thought about this one specifically, how about having an enemy wizard/sorcerer also cast levitate on the boulder while the wizard is dragging it around. If the PCs aren't paying attentention (or the NPC is invisible) they will have no idea. Just imagine the Wile...

So, one thought here is to throw in some red herrings. The NPC of evil alignment who has done absolutely nothing wrong. If the PCs just zero in on him/her because he is evil, let the real culprit run amok and do all sorts of bad things. Thought two: not all criminals are necessarily evil. I'm...

A few things that will help us help you: 1. What rule books does the DM allow? 2. If you've got your ability scores rolled (or the points buy) that is helpful. 4. Starting money (and any limits on how you can spend it)? 4. You mentioned that you are new - how new is new? Never played before...

From what I've seen, it depends a lot on the player. Less experienced players will often just delay rather than using a ready action, which doesn't usually get them the effect that they are after. Players in my games who are more comfortable with how the rules work often use the ready action...

As far as the an undead companion type ability, Unearthed Arcana had an option for the Necromancer to replace the familiar with a skeletal minion, if I recall.

Kind of interesting that you're considering this variant - I recall reading somewhere that one of the reasons we ended up with the d20 was that Gygax wanted a random roll that didn't have the bell curve results that multiple dice yielded. That aside, I'll concur with the armor class comment - a...

One metamagic feat that I've seen be a lifesaver combined with DMM is reach spell. The ability to throw a ranged cure spell in a pinch has saved more than a few characters in my games.

The only existing spell I can think of that does something like what you are looking for is the Axiomatic Creature spell from the Book of Exalted Deeds, which transforms the target into an axiomatic creature. Its an 8th level spell with a 1000 point XP hit, needs a 10,000 gp diamond, and...

I wrestled with this one for awhile myself, searching through a lot of rulebooks before finally concluding that the rules didn't contain any special rules about how a mis-sized reach weapon affects a character's reach. For creatures small and larger, wielding a reach weapon doubles your reach...