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It seems that so many 3.5e rules have eluded from my brain cells today. In 3.5e rule, does invisible condition prevent someone from provoking AoO? Or, does it just protect him with 50% miss-chance?

Against non-golem constructs, Disintegrate is almost like an instant-death spell, because they have very poor fort save and relatively small amount of HP total.

Well, Swordmage's Aegis power is Close 2. Thus, I cannot, say, move, mark, then charge. This is rather clumsy. Paladin and Battlemind have wider area for their marking powers. PHB fighter auto-mark the foe he attacks. And warden's marking ability is free action and thus he can use it after...

Arcane Channeling is good. But if you are to give spiked chain to a Duskblade, consider let him use some special attacks such as Disarm and Trip. Swift casting True Strike and Disarm will certainly remove PC's favorite weapon from his hand. And Duskblade has Stand spell in his list. Thus even...

Well, unfortunately, ToB would likely to be a banned book in the next campaign. When the book was released, we have examined the book and concluded that the book is a kind of 3.75e without proper editorial checks. Many of the materials in the book seem to be out of place in 3.5e and the book has...

Ah! Yes, right. Eschew Materials do nothing for a focus. Then, the true question may be.. Do I need a "free hand" to use M/F components? Or a hand which can hold something is enough?

Well, with Somatic Weaponry feat in Complete Mage, my PC can use a hand with a weapon (or a similar object) for performing somatic component of spells. But this feat does nothing for the need of material component or focus. I can hold something in a hand wearing a light shield but cannot use...

Thank you all for a lot of ideas. Now I am attracted by the idea of using Duskblade for qualifying for Abjurant Champion. How about this? Level 5: Human Warmage 4/Duskblade 1 (Battle Caster, Practiced Spellcaster/Warmage, another feat) Level 6: Duskblade 2 (bonus Combat Casting feat...

As Matt James pointed out in the first reply, Companion Character rule in DMG2 helps. A companion character is in overall less stronger than a PC. But they do their role at least well enough. And what important is, they are Not meant to be a DM PC which you want to avoid. They are meant to be...

Well, I have once "graduated" from 3.5e but likely to play a campaign again as a player within some months. That campaign will likely to start at 5th level and likely to go as far as 10-12th level. Now, I am thinking of playing some fighter-mage type, who can bash the enemy with his weapon and...

Thanks for replies. It seems that indeed the simpler, the better. This is an interesting option indeed. Maybe as a house rule, we can use the defense values based on level, like companion characters.

The online compendium says, When calculating a summoned creature's defenses, shall I add my Artificer/Swordmage hybrid's Swordmage Warding bonus to AC and Ref, or not?

I like the ritual rules as they are. But I don't like the way they are shown. It is harder to find useful rituals available to a certain character (of certain class, level & skill) even with online D&D compendium. Also, it is hard to grasp the overview of ritual systems in 4e. We do need...

AFAIK, no. And I guess WotC will not make such an update in near future. First reason is that Essentials versions of Warlock and Ranger don't have those class features. The second reason is the necessity. Amongst all the striker classes, rogue has been the most significant class which was...

Not at all. Once per round = Once you use something, you cannot use it again until the start of your next turn. Once per turn　= Once per someone's turn. You take (usually) one turn per round. And any of your allies and monsters (usually) take one each of their turn per round. So, pre-update...

First, in the following article. According to WotC, that article is indeed an official update for entire 4e line. Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (Changes Coming in Essentials) Then, you can find the same update regarding Sneak Attack, in archived update files...

I guess the result will be quite opposite. Now, if PCs tend to find less uncommon/rare items, they will try to upgrade lower level uncommon/Rare magic items they found (the newest update ensures that they can). Say, tries to upgrade their favorite +2 Radiant Fullblade into +3 Radiant Fullblade...

Well, first of all, I don't care if an adventuring party is mainly composed of non-human when the most of the "gentle folks" in the world are human. PCs are very special heroes anyway. Thus, can be "special" in various aspect, including one's race. So IMHO an adventuring party don't need to...

In this article (it is actually not just an article but an update, as the file name implies). Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (Changes Coming in Essentials, Part 2)

Right.