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For me, a good Fighter-Mage is not about maximizing class skills and feats, but taking advantage of great Feat/Spell combos that other classes have a hard time pulling off. Every time I build a fighter-mage character, I ask myself, what kind of crazy feat-spell combos can this character do? For...

If the party is unable to survive 3 rounds of combat 1 man short, its going to be a TPK anyway. It does not take much of an ambush to render the fighter-mage useless... Basically any time he has not had 3 rounds to buff himself up. The rest of the party can hold their own for a bit...

While buff time is important for all spellcasters, it is probably least important for the Fighter-mage. Why? Invisibility. The good old 2nd level standby. When the enemy has the drop on the party so badly that the fighter-mage is utterly useless, he can simply go Invisible, walk 60 ft. away from...

I guess I'm one of the rare few who agree with the DM on this one. The ring provide sustinence, not enough for a growing child. My thought have been summed up by others preceding me, I will instead dwell on another issue: An adult is constantly burning the food energy that the ring provides, a...

Can a Wizard who has their opposing School Necromancy become a Lich? The rules do not state what spells the phylactery comes from, or what school of magic it eminates. Flavor and Consistency of rules lends me to believe that creating the phylactery will require at least one necromancy spell...

I am trying to come up with some new and unique ways of telling a story through a DnD session. I'm quite bored with the tried and true method of coming up with a plot, and the players may or may not ignore it. So, I got to thinking, what if the campaign was not one story line, but two, and they...

Its not that I dont like the current crop of divination spells, its that a spellcaster specializing in divination really lacks choices. Almost all the divination spells fall into the category or scouting, identifying, finding, and speaking. Each category is quite useful, but a caster really only...

I want to make a suite of new divination spells so it will no longer be the red-headed stepchild of the arcane schools. It seems to me that a spellschool that gives the caster the ability to see into the future should have no problem coming up with some good utility spells and good combat...

It seems very reasonable to me. As long as the person donating the XP is present for the entire time the item is created. Being the only caster in a party and every other party member wanting magic items can set the caster pretty far back. This is especially true if you are running a low magic...

The DM is always right. This is beyond a house rule; but a fact akin to 1+1 = 2. 0: 30 point buy, HP are avg. rounded up. (As Maggot stated before, the rule applies at character generation, so it's hardly a house rule that impacts the game) 1: All 1 Min/Level spells are changed to 10 Min/Level...

Generally I don't enforce the striking cover rules, but in this case cover is a living creature. So I take the original attack roll and check it against the mount's AC. If the attack is successful, the mount takes damage. Of course this makes barding quite useful.

I like the idea of skill groups, I just have 1 quick question: When I take a second class, do I get another skill group (E.g. a fighter taking a level of sorceror might want the spellcaster skill group)? I can only assume I do. But could this lead to abuse as higher level players started...

Gah, you're right. Total lapse of thinking on my part. I totally forgot about water walk. And being a level 3 spell, and taking into account Caliban's statement I am inclinded to agree that the disk does not cross water more than 3 ft deep.

Like c47, I too am waiting for a real reason why the caster cannot ride on the disk. I have always seen the caster being able to ride the disk. Generally, a spell (or use of a spell) is considered "Unbalanced" if it: A) Can be used to emulate the effects of a higher level spell (alone, or in...

Incorporeal Undead versions of past party members, enemies, maybe even the monsters they fought last session. Easy to include such creatures into the plot.

I have always seen the 3.0 and 3.5 Monks as the ultimate in spellcaster killers. No other class is better at killing off another character who relies on magic better than a monk (Wizards, Sorcs, the and the spell-centric clerics and druids). At lower levels the monk does not have a lot of...

Ha ha, yes the glass beakers might hurt a bit. I dont see the potions as needles so much as splashing the person on impact. Maybe if the potions are painstakingly loaded into eggshells. This could lead to some hilarious situations where a character carrying a bandoleer loaded with these fragile...

What I don't like with some of the spellarms listed here is that they are not much different than wands with ammo instead of charges (All style and roleplaying reasons set aside). I would probably never create a character that used such an item there is very little benefit, and it can be easily...

I really like it. My only problem with it is that I am not convinced that a requirement of 19 wis. add to the feat any. While it is designed to make the feat hard to aquire, making the requirement above 18 forces the druid in question to have devoted at least 1 (and probably 3) ability points...

IMC we say a hardy yes to that one. It follows the spirit of the rules quite well, and it also gives the mage a good way to avoid being grappled. Since casting spells while grappled is hard to impossible to pull off anyway, grappling the enemy mage is a tactic as common as casting detect magic...