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Forgive my ignorance, but can someone please quote me the rule that states Int is not retroactive for skill points?

Does anyone know a good web site from which to order back issues of Dragon magazine? I'm only looking for some relatively recent ones (all from after the 3e cutover).

Sorry if this was already covered in a past thread, but I'm afraid I don't know the answer: When a character reaches a level that allows an ability score increase (let's say 8th), and they put that point into Intelligence, and that point changes the mod for Int (let's say from Int 15 and a +2...

Do you know the URL that contains said advice? Obviously it's at www.montecook.com, but I don't know how to find it within his site.

So how would I determine this for a given creature? Let's say a guardian naga or a rakshasa.

I have a question about the Leadership feat. How does one compute the "Level Equivalent" for Special Cohorts, such as intelligent monsters? I would have thought it would have been just their CR, but that doesn't seem to be the case, because table 2-27 in the DMG lists a werebear (CR 5) as...

Thanks, that was useful. Anybody had any balance issues they might want to warn me about ahead of time?

The Psi Handbook already limits metamagic feats. It says you can never put more pp than your psion level - 1 into them. That's why you can't just jack a power through the roof for the "big baddie".

I am a DM, and for those of you who are experts in the Psionic Handbook rules, I have a question for you all: Metapsionic feats seem to coincide with their magical counterparts (i.e. there is a Quicken, Maximize, Extend, etc.). But an Empower Power feat is conspicuously absent. Now one of my...

Do using some class-given, supernatural abilities, such as a paladin's lay on hands, or a monk's wholeness of body provoke an AoO?

Is this an oversight in the rules? Surely the game designers didn't mean for a bonus that could stack with everything (except Dodge bonuses, but they go out of their way to talk about those). Is the familiar bonus supposed to be a particular kind, but was accidently left out? Is this "unnamed...

Umm... can someone explain this to me? What the heck is an "unnamed bonus"?

For example, if you have a sorcerer with a toad familiar, this give the master +2 Constitution score. What kind of bonus is this? This is important, cuz I need to know if it stacks with other bonuses (like enhancement bonuses from an amulets of health).

Anybody have 3e stats for a bone golem? Either from some 3e product or something they converted themselves? Can someone post the stats here?

Hahahaha! So, you're saying that a paralyzed character that invokes a spell-like power provokes an AoO from anyone threatening him. BUT if he does nothing, they get no chance to AoO him? He's not moving an inch either way! Haha! If that's really true, then the rules are very silly.

Good point about darkness requiring a touch, so I'll change my example to the drow using their dancing lights. I am the DM, so I do have to find out. Plenty of players want character races that have ECLs and spell-like abilities (like drow), so I kinda need to know.

Does anybody know how this works, according to the official rules (or errata/sage advice/etc.)? A character that is paralyzed or held can still take "purely mental actions, such as casting a spell with no components". Does that mean that spell-like abilities could be used? Do spell-like...

I am the DM in a game, and I have a player that wants to make an item that gives a bonus to only one type of save (Will, in this case) as opposed to a "... of resistance" that gives bonuses to all saves. I certainly think this is an acceptable item, but does anyone have any information about how...

Can somebody cite a rule about the two checks?

And here is the second part of my question: Suppose that a wizard is casting a summon monster III spell (a full-round spell). He doesn't provoke any immediate AoOs, but later in the round, before his turn comes up again, he is hit by a magic missile for 4 points of damage. So he immediately...