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In addition to dealing lethal damage, the DR rules suggest that a flaming whip should harm armored opponents normally. I think the most plausible model for a whip's inability to damage armored opponents is DR, so any abilities that would take effect even if an opponent's DR negated all of a...

A little redundant, but, hey, can't win 'em all. Mostly I'm impressed by how fun and balanced that ability actually looks.

D&D? Not really the game for simulationists. Evaluate weapon statistics by (i) game balance; (ii) intuitive feel, not (iii) history or physics.

Now that you've said that I'm never going to forgive my parents for not naming me Alvin, and my two brothers Simon and Theodore, respectively. (My current favorites: XY => Felix; XX => Clara.)

On this interpretation it wouldn't stack with the normal versions, but would stack with both greater versions. A fighter with a nonstacking MWM, WF, WS, and GWF in the longsword would get +3/+2. Once he got GWS, he'd finish with +3/+4. Plausibly, this is so counterintuitive that it provides...

ZOMG AWESOME. I love that half-orc. In a sense he's Belkar's true equal and opposite, rather than the kobold-of-the-week.

I'm certainly sympathetic to this line of thought: I'd feel awfully sorry for some poor kid who was stuck with Legolas, or Jayne, or even Leto. But, purely as an intellectual question, where should you draw the line? I think it's great to give kids names of political figures, as long as those...

I'd have thought you'd have hung out with geeks enough to know that very intelligent people can often have trouble applying their smarts to personal relationships...

Nifty. I'm all for splitting the benefits of Weapon Supremacy over a number of feats. But this prompts an obvious question: does it stack with Weapon Supremacy?

I think it's a little too good, since it's straightforwardly better than the longsword. Consider lowering the crit to x2.

For the love of god, IMPROVED CRITICAL.

This I'd totally buy, though I'm not sure what that would do to Greater Focus/Specialization, which might seem a little redundant afterwards.

And, moreover, the big beef I have with Melee Weapon Mastery isn't that it's overpowered, exactly, but that it balances fighters in the wrong way--by being much better than other feats they could have at that level. In effect, it's punishing players who aren't astute enough to pick the feat, and...

I totally agree, for characters who spend their whole careers as fighters, which I agree might've been the intent. But is it balanced for 6th-level single-classed fighters (who have +3 attack/+4 damage with their favored weapons), compared to other 6th-level characters? Is it balanced for a...

I feel compelled to point out that while there are lots of great ways to make the fighter stronger, creating massively powerful feats that are available to anyone with four fighter levels and that are so much better than anything else available at that level to all but mandate their selection is...

Again, I don't see any reason not to use the swordsage, because there's no good reason to avoid the medium BAB. The swordsage is a very, very powerful combatant despite his attack progression. On the other hand, I'm skeptical of the efficacy of posting almost any ToB-related material to House...

On topic, though, I'd go with a Samurai, Healer, Spellthief, and Beguiler. The Beguiler's not a bad class, but it's too specialized to serve as a primary blaster.

I always thought that since ninjas could turn invisible at the drop of a hat (though a limited number of times per day), their sudden strike could come into play really often.

So what's up with that Infernal Master on the left having purple eyes as opposed to yellow ones? Anything?

More prosaically, it can put characters in a position where they can make full attacks with much less fear of retribution. If someone without reach charges me (so that I begin my turn adjacent to them) I can take my full attack and then move back ten feet, requiring them to either pursue without...