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The "speak with Master" ability is a special ability that lets the caster and familiar speak in a apecial language only they can understand (without looking it up, I don't remember if it's considered SU or EX, but one of the two). This special ability doesn't develop until the caster hits 5th...

The Lantern Archon ally isn't a bad idea, but try Lesser Planar Binding instead of summoning, if you have it. If you can keep the little guy out of harms way, you will keep him around for a lot longer than the 10 round duration of your SM IV spell (more than one combat) Don't forget about the...

See, drawing inspiration from folklore and legend, when an ancient evil is left in a magical sleep under a swamp, you don't go and wake it up. That ancient evil has been dealt with, move on the to the next contestant. It's like toxic waste; nobody wants it in their backyard, but once it's...

A thought occured to me about the idea you've spoilered out: Advice for the original poster: get your hands on the inevitable Season 1 DVD, when it comes out (no official word on whether there will be one, but, come on...). The show is SO nuanced, you really want to watch it all the way though.

This seems to be a pretty steep penalty for a spell that still leaves a chance for a wrong answer. I was wondering if a Restoration spell could reverse this decrease, but I suspect the answer is no. The text of the spell never says it's ability score damage, just that if you fail your roll...

...or all of the above. If you get a +2 from Iron Will, +2 from a buddy's Owl's Wisdom, and maybe an extra +2 from a cloak of resistance, your will save gets boosted up into respectable levels. Because the will save really is your achilles heel at this level. And with just the +2 from Iron...

Break out the old Spelljammer 2nd edition books. Play a Giff; the giant, kind of goofy hippo-men who loved guns. Because, really, nothing would be more appropriate to an intrigue-filled campaign featuring fights in narrow Underdark tunnels than a Large anthropomorphic hippo with a blunderbuss.

Don't forget to tack Greater Magic Weapon on there, too. That will boost both attack and damage. And it has a long duration, so it can be prepped well ahead of combat. He's curerntly 8th level, yes? Are you thinking of splitting lcurrent levels between bard and a PrC, or adding more PrC...

Equal parts Gandalf and Dr Frankenstein, but taking a healthy dose of his personality cues from Mr Spock. His familiar, on the other hand, is a good mix of Calvin (i.e. Calvin and Hobbes) and Jerry Lewis. If you can call that a "good" mix...

I've been thinking about settign up a guild for my wizard PC, and I decided that Leadership is a good place to start, but not the best way to build a guild overall. The mecahnics of the leadership feat just don't jive with how I would imagine a wizard's academy would run. Mainly because your...

That would be fun. But definitely in house rule territory, and DM's call. I'm still processing the image of dropping 5 huge pseudonatural crocodiles on somebody. Ouch...

Thanks, all. I'm having a forehead-slapping moment now...I never even considered that I didn't have to alter the dice I was rolling, just the result. It's obvious now that it's been pointed out to me. Oy. I think I need to get more sleep, or more vitamin c, or something...

I want to use a summon monster spell to litter a battlefield with bunches of lesser critters to act as distractions/meat shields/ etc. I'm considering that a good way to boost the number of critters summoned per spell would be to Empower it, yes? But I'm not sure how the math would work...

Trolls have Int6, but Wis9. They're stupid, but they have just below-average levels of human cunning and common sense. They're clever enough, in other words, to realize that their minor injuries will heal in moments, and that they can pretty much disregard them. With that in mind, I'm...

He's a baby. Babies run fevers all the time... But you're right about his powers' "theme", as it fits in with the rest of the family's powers, they're the traits of an infant, on a superhuman scale. Babies moods' change all the time, and suddenly, and often without warning. Jack-jack's power...

I knew going into the movie that the Scouring wouldn't be in it, and a long talk with a theatre director friend of mine helped convince me that I was OK with that. The thing that really sticks in my craw about the end of Return is how absolutely, god-awful bad the effects are in the scene where...

Just saw it last night. Well, most of it... my wife and I brought our daughter with us, and she's still a little too small to sit through a feature length movie without getting antsy. So, that means...I'VE GOT TO GO SEE IT AGAIN! This movie ROCKED! A couple more trubutes that I picked up on...

I think it's like you were saying before...a cleric of a given alignemnt just can't cast summoning spells that are opposed to their alignment; those creatures are unavailable. A Good diety can't grant the caster an Evil spell, even if their intentions are Good. I was mostly thinking of...

This is true for Calling spells (planar binding, etc.), and it gets pretty wonky, too. One issue that was hard for me to wrap my brain around was that when you use Planr Binding to call an Astral Deva away from whatever heavenly derring-do it was undertaking, imprison it in a 10' circle, and...

Yeah, it looks good. With big-budget musicals like Moulin Rouge and Chicago having so much success, I figured this one wouldn't be far off. It's got just the right mix of romance and exquisite period costumes on one side, and evil, deformed madmen living in undergound labyrinths on the other...