Here's a technique by which a psion might turn themselves into a sentient and inanimate object.
http://forums.gleemax.com/showpost.php?p=8570529&postcount=31
My interpretation is it's the spell that fixes the value of the diamonds, and, indirectly, gold. The fact that the gold values happen to be evenly divisible is partly because of how the weight was chosen and partly because of something very complicated in magical valance theory.
Here's the thing about spellbooks:
A first level wizard starts off with at least 3,300 gp worth of spellbook.
This is patently absurd. For that amount you could hire a small army and have them fight for you instead.
If I need to know the secret location of something, or perhaps the password to my doomsday weapon advanced landscape redistricting device, I will simply memorize it. There is no need for anyone else to be able to have access to this information.
Here's my prediction for the all new seventeen damage types:
Normal, Fire, Water, Grass, Electric, Ice, Fighting, Poison, Ground, Flying, Psychic, Bug, Rock, Ghost, Dragon, Dark, Steel
My legions of doom (Or ERF, if you prefer) will have a strict anti-drug policy. I will extend this policy to my visible secret police, and make it well known that they won't take drugs, even while undercover. My chemists will secretly develop an incredibly cheap and very addictive drug, and...
Reading that through quickly, I didn't notice that it was open to the air.
Although that wouldn't be much of a cave, really. More of a crater or crevasse
^ Agreed. Blast spells are some of the least effective things a wizard can do.
Granted, given how powerful wizards are, it doesn't matter that much. And blowing stuff up is always fun.
You guys are thinking to small. When they say "the math is different", they mean that it's based on fundamentally different axioms. We already got a taste of that with the "two doublings is a tripling" rule, and this is simply expanding upon it. Expect non-euclidean battlemats and klein...