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When reading Anauroch - The Empire of Shade, I found that Shades in this book have slightly different abilities than the Shads in Forgotten Realm Campaign Setting have. For example, the shades in Anauroch have low-light vision and Shield of Shadows ability. Was Shade template updated further...

Assuming a creature using Mirror Image steps into a square with caltrops, should all the images and the creature be attacked separately? Or, should caltrops attack only one of images and the real creature? I guess the former is the case, but want other DMs' opinions.

Thank you all for the cannon information and interesting point of views. I am planning to use a kind of "true" remnant of Suloise Empire in my current campaign. They are the descendants of Suloise whom escaped into the Plane of Shadow just before the cataclysm and living there since then. Now...

Actually, as written, Draegloth does not have spell resistance. Draegloth may have Darkvision (from Outsider type) but it is not specifically written. On the other hand, they do have spell-like abilities and those are written in separate paragraph.

According to the stats block in Monsters of Faerun P.59, Draegloth meant to have "drow abilities" special quality. What are they? What kind of abilities of Drow race meant to be included? Does any other books or sources suggests something?

Is there any way for a Favored Soul 4/Sorcerer 4 to gain 6 ranks of Knowledge (religion)? Say, by taking some heritage feat and such?

In the next adventure, I will use a 10th-level Shade (outsider) wizard with a Hell Hound familiar. Both the shade wizard and the familiar is a 10HD outsider. And the wizard's caster level is 10th. He can cast Polymorph spell. Assuming they are fighting in a dungeon room, what is the best...

Do you have some experience on using Shadowcaster standard class in Tome of Magic, either as a PC or a NPC? As my current campaign involves the Plane of Shadow and creatures from there, I am interested in using this class (possibly, shade shadowcaster villain). But reading through the class...

Yes, the Scarlet Brotherhood itself was always a bunch of monks. What I want to know is, why the descendants of a magocracy empire became a bunch of monks.

As far as I know, ancient Suloise Empire was magocracy and the ruling nobles were wizards. Now, the Scarlet Brotherhood, which is a bunch of Suloise purists, is full of monks, not wizards. Why this happened? Did any of the past supplements, adventures, articles and such described the reason of...

For the next game, I am looking for a creature who can provide free troops for an army, I mean, something who can use Animate Dead as a spell-like ability (thus, no need of material component). As that is a 10th-level adventure, Ak'Chazar Rakshasa (CR 15) is a little bit too strong. Some...

In my upcoming 3.5e game, I am trying to use the Keep on the Borderlands (AKA Kendall Keep) as one of the adventuring sites. Now I got a copy of the good old B1 The Keep on the Borderland module and borrowed a copy of Return to The Keep on the Borderland. Reading through those 2 modules, I...

Game mechanic wise, unless a PC choosing some classes or feats which need one to be good aligned, being neutral is much better. In most adventures, many opponents are evil aligned and thus adventures often meet anti-good attacks such as Unholy Blight or Smite Good. On the other hand, neutral...

Now I am thinking about making a pinch hitter DMPC for my 3.5e, in case some players could not attend a session. My current choice is a rogue/bard build as such a character is an ultimate jack of all trades, and thus can complement various roles needed for the party. The campaign uses 3.5e...

WotC is selling older editions in PDF format via driveThru RPG. http://www.dndclassics.com/ It seems that some of the rulebooks and supplements are not sold here. For example, while I can buy Keep on the Borderlands, I cannot by Return to the Keep on the Borderlands. Also, most editions...

From SRD, There are spells which enhances fly speed, swim speed and such. But I am not sure if there are spells which enhances burrow speed.

Traditionally, Were Bear is LG in D&D. Possibly inspired by Beorn from Hobbit. Anyway, what prevents a country or kingdom from using Were Bear lycanthropy as a kind of Vaccination? If all the humanoid children were infected by this lycanthropy, most of them will grow up into LG people. And they...

Possibly. The rule says "Most burrowing creatures do not leave behind tunnels other creatures can use (either because the material they tunnel through fills in behind them or because they do not actually dislocate any material when burrowing); see the individual creature descriptions for...

Let's assume that a bunch of Underdark humanoids (Drow, Duergar, Orog, etc.) form a small battle company, say 150-200 humanoids and some additional monsters, and try to march up to a surface. They want to dig a new tunnel instead of using caverns and such. What kind of creature will be the best...

After several days of thinking, I came up with another interpretation of this rule. It says "light", not "illumination". And the rule is not using usual rule term regarding illumination (either of 3.0e nor 3.5e). So, in this case, "light" may mean "light source". I mean, this SP ability (need...