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I should note starting off that the charmingly dry description of vorpal weapons ("Most other creatures, however ...") might be my favorite bit of prose in the D&D rulebooks. I'd say greater vorpal missile actually pretty good for a sixth-level spell, especially if you target all the missiles...

Thanks for the extended discussion, and, yes, absolutely -- it goes without saying that any feat that gives you a really big benefit once is too good if you can somehow trade it out for some other feat. I should've been clearer -- I'm curious (for purely academic reasons) about whether this...

Do you think this feat is balanced? Would anyone take it? (I know the name is really lame, but this is only half serious proposal, and half mechanical experiment.) What about this version? Better, or worse?

I was just about to note that the scout's in trouble as far as that goes, since they don't get proficiency with any martial slashing weapons other than the throwing axe and the handaxe, and that this was the only time I can think of in which the elf's longsword proficiency is actually useful for...

It's also worth noting that an elven lightblade and a devanian rapier are almost identical mechanically.

Perhaps you're thinking of Races of Eberron, in which you can get "shaders" for a silver piece, which are "goggles of a sort that fit over an orc's eyes with a loop of leather tightened behind the ears. Made from a piece of wood or bamboo with a thin slot carved in it to see out of, shaders...

Not quite, because most of the agile exotic weapons aren't more damaging than comparable martial weapons: they tend to have other benefits, like enabling unorthodox combat options or being lighter. I'd represent an elven thinblade as a devanian dire rapier, or something like that. Yep. Arcana...

Nothing. Dwarves make great knights as it is, despite their Charisma penalty -- their waraxe familiarity makes them excellent at weapon-and-shield combat; and their Con bonus, stability, and save bonus make them terrific defensive fighters.

See, I don't think the stacking interpretation necessarily follows from Andy Collins' post. The prerequisites for Melee or Ranged Weapon Mastery aren't that high: they're way lower than Greater Weapon Focus and Greater Weapon Specialization, but a stacking Weapon Mastery is better than both of...

The changes mostly favor "battle clerics" who use their domain spells and combat ability to overshadow other characters, like wizards or fighters rather than to help the party. (The three domains also mean the cleric is an ideal "dipping" class, but you could fix that by staggering the third one...

Ah, but it doesn't say so in the description of the sorcerer class, either. It's clear from the description that KarinsDad quotes that the PH intends for the metamagic rules to apply to all spontaneous casters.

I think your DM's request is pretty reasonable, because that revenant blade class ability is broken -- especially for characters who, like yours, have higher than usual Strength. When a player finds himself with a badly designed prestige class, and that prestige class is causing problems in a...

This looks really great. It does what you set out to do effectively and really does fix one of the implausible features of the system. Another approach, however, is just to award skill ranks ad-hoc, and simply say something like: "With time and steady practice, characters can advance ranks in...

Yep. To chime in: the post-PHB2 fighter is a completely different animal than his earlier incarnation, to the point that any discussion about changing or improving the fighter needs to take place in the context of those feats (either explicitly ruling them out or adjusting for them). Believe me...

Suppose the hexblade (a core class in the Complete Warrior widely believed to be underpowered) had a special ability progression that looked like this (assume that attack bonuses, saves, and spells are unchanged):Table: The Hexblade (Special Abilities) Class Level Special ----- -----------...

I've found that everyone wants a weapon master class, but almost nobody has the same expectations for what a weapon master class should be like, which might be one reason why the fighter's a good representation of one. (I feel compelled to plug the PHB2 here: the new high level combat feats can...

Ooh, try the "maralurk" in Sandstorm (p. 170), whose LA of +1 is probably significantly too low. Small monstrous humanoid, 3 hit dice, but it gets, pretty amazingly, +3 natural armor, a +2d6 sneak attack ability, great ability adjustments (+2 Str, +6 Dex, +4 Con, +2 Wis, and +4 Cha)...

A little, because a Melee Weapon Mastery isn't an especially high-level feat: it's not much tougher to get than some of the more powerful PH feats, like Improved Critical, but if it stacks with Focus and Specialization, it's much stronger than them. There are some good reasons not to like this...

As far as the dervish is concerned: although you might be able to make the case that a dervish's ability should extend to the double scimitar, you're aware that there's nothing in the RAW that commits one to this, right? Abilities that apply to the scimitar don't automatically apply to the...

That is interesting -- where's it written? (Player's Guide to Eberron, maybe?)