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Yeah..i got it was directed at WotC. I was referring to "arcane necromancer" hence a wizard or mage that specializes/studies in the field of necromancy. Maybe herein lies the confusion? My assumed definition is quite viable for your description though, but if you would like to eleborate...

Actually yes there is precendent just not from WotC. Mongoose Publishing's Encyclopaedia Arcane: Tomes and Libraries...Secrets of the Written Word is a book about books if you will. Many of the books listed are kind of magical in nature and give a permanant bonus to a skill check. Or when doing...

Oh ye of little faith. Scales of Balance pg 136. Perfect for an a student of necromancy. Its a staff that deals with life and death. You get a few bad necromancy spells and you get a few good ones and its a double weapon if you need to use it for melee. So I found one for you. And no I...

Once again use the half dragon template and then pick the class you would like to play. You only give up 4 levels so you still get 80% of everything. This should cover any just about any character concept WotC has ever had in print. If that still isn't enough ask your DM for permission to use...

Well it looks like all your doing is a level progression for an adult dragon with a few more HD. You say you want it to be versatile but what can your dragon template do well as it stands? I'm not seeing a whole lot. It doesn't look like an up front fighter type as it won't have the armor...

Tip #1: You don't want a possesed item if your a non evil character. Tip #2: You still don't want a possessed item even if you are an evil character unless you plan on rerolling another character pretty soon. Ok here's the thing with possessed items. I recall doing some reading on them...

Best non core classes: Fighter types are probably from the book of 9 swords, The Warmage is a great offensive caster and so is the warlock. And even though I've never played one the Spellthief seems to have a lot of potential. Best non core Races: No clue. sorry! Best feats: Will vary...

I am probably wrong (as I don't know hardly anything about Conan) but, the one thing that immediately jumped out as a red flag as to why the rules could be conflicting is one is under the section "Optional Parrying Rules". And since these rules are optional they might contradict other rules or...

Ok..well this goes along with this discussion fairly well so no need to post a new thread. You say its the force behind the blade that helps sunder an object, not the blade itself. So how do characters with exceptionally high strength not sunder their own weapons when they attack others, or...

The spell Make Whole will repair any nonmagical item to 100%. Somewhere in the rules (maybe the DMG or DMG2) it states something about characters usually spending time everyday to do upkeep on equipment; such as using a whetstone to sharpen a sword. While I don't remember reading anywhere...

Well I don't really know anything about IH campaign but being a powergamer and having a DM who knows how to adapt to a group of powergamers I'd offer some DMing advice on what he does to us. Exploit your spellcasters weaknesses. If you want the campaing to have low magic give the monsters a...

I'd make them search to find the trap. That's half the fun of putting traps on chests in the first place. If they don't search for traps and trigger this one, they will search the next one. I do think you can take 10 or even 20 on a search check though but once again the PC has to declare...

Well after reading all the current rules on things it looks like 10 years ago when I used this bow for my character me and the DM interpreted the rules incorrectly. My bad! So yeah...I take back my recommendation for using this bow as it is really crappy. Sorry about that. Like I said 10...

I guess since I posted the weapon I should clarify how it works. It works on a spell trigger just like a wand and you must shoot an arrow for the spell to work. So you cannot "cast the spell this round then do nothing let the spell expire and then shoot an arrow at +20 next round" as you...

Something about your character just doesn't seem to add up on how a level 2pc killed a CR 8 NPC. I think there's more to the story here. HP alone you'd have less than 15 which is easily a single hit from a level 8 swordsage. But anywho. Martial characters. Usually go with fghter for all...

I found several feats in 3rd party books that let you take Diplomacy as a class skill. Most are from the 7th sea game setting. Let me know if you want them posted.

First off kudos for coming up with an awesome concept. I really hope your DM lets you do this. But if I were a DM here are some initial "problems/barriers" I see that you will may want to overcome or think about before taking it to your DM. I give these ideas in the hopes you do get to play...

Well since you said warlock stuff was ok here's some useful information that may greatly expand your options. Taken from Complete Arcane pg 18. " Warlocks benefit in a specific way from prestige classes that have a '+1 level of existing arcane spellcaster class' or a '+1 level of existing...

For your "elemental" fights you could incorporate themes from the planes that correspond to these elements. You could also make players go out and find magic items to even function on them. For example: the air combat arena...most PCs probably won't have wings so send them on a quest to get...

Like I originally said...I'm going to be the outcast on this position but let me demonstrate my point more effectively using the most basic of rules for which almost everyone plays by: Stat generation. Lets say using the rules from the PHB (roll 4d6 drop the low which I'm gonna guess a vast...