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As a DM, I allow robes to be enchanted as armor to give an armor bonus. Robes have 0% arcane spell failure and give no armor bonus (unless enchanted).

Give dishonourable Dread Pirates the Intimidate skill, and give honourable Dread Pirates the Diplomacy skill. Easy fix.

It doesn't say you can take the feat more than once, therefore I would allow you to only take it once.

Balance, Climb and Jump are very weak skills. They are easily surpassed by numerous low level spells: Jump (1st - gives up to +30 Jump at 9th level), Spiderclimb (1st), Alter Self (2nd - change to a humanoid form with wings), Levitate (2nd), and Fly (3rd). The only real advantage with these...

Quote Acid_crash, "And add the Wisdom bonus to initiative in addition to Dexterity, or even strip it from Dexterity completely." Rogues with Sneak Attack need good initiative to catch opponents flat-footed. Dexterity is rightly the prime attribute of a Rogue for this reason - don't take it away...

Well, that happens sometimes of course. However, often the Rogue spots encounters before they happen, which puts the monsters on the receiving end and we aren't the ones making Spot checks. It also depends on the encounter distance - in dungeons, it will generally be short, hence this is an...

There is no way in except the front door. This also means there is no way out except the front door. Seal the front door by any means necessary. If they have a spellcaster who can summon food and water for everyone, or if the keep has such functionality, they will survive. Otherwise, wait for...

With skills like Listen and Spot, you need at least one character in the party who has good scores. Beyond that, you don't need everyone to be good at it - except when running separate watches, then you might want each watch to be reasonably competent. There's spells like Alarm that can help out...

I like to analyze this in terms of what +2 to an ability buys in terms of equivalents feats to get the same advantage. I will avoid discussion of abilities giving a bonus to skills until later. +2 STR: gives +1 to hit in melee (better than Weapon Focus) and +1 damage (+1.5 damage with a...

Magic items that give you the equivalent of a feat should be priced around 5,000gp to 10,000gp, based on discussion on various boards. However, be aware that walking down this path will allow high level characters with much gold to buy feats via magic items.

Slot restrictions will have minimal impact, except for skills that you want to use in conjunction. e.g. There is no penalty usually to swap a Ring of Climbing +10 for a Ring of Diplomacy +10.

Turn Undead is a Charisma check. Circlet of Persuasion gives +3 to Charisma-based checks and costs 4,500gp.

You should also be aware that epic play assumes skill bonus items and attribute bonus items. The skill DCs are generally hellishly high, which is only really achievable with at least a +10 if not more from a skill bonus item. The epic feat prerequisites often have ability requirements on the...

D&D traditionally has been a very magic item (equipment) and spell oriented game. Characters are severely weakened without their equipment. Spells can simulate or do better than proficiencies or skills. If you don't want equipment to define characters, can I recommend giving the players faster...

Incorrect. It gives progression in any one arcane spellcasting class and in any one divine spellcasting class. You could meet the requirements with Bard 1 (for Bardic Music)/Druid 6 (for 1st level divine spells)/Monk 2 (for Evasion)/Wizard 1 (for 1st level arcane spells) then Fochlucan...

I think you'll see more free actions being redefined as swift actions in future editions. For example, my DM house ruled that using a Glove of Storing (a free action) can only be used once/round. I think swift actions are a good way to limit activating and deactivating items, and to limit how...

Here's a quick summary of Shadowmind: HD d6. BAB 3/4. Good Ref/Will saves, poor Fort. 4 skill points/level. Gets +3d6 Sneak Attack in 10 levels. +7 manifester levels in 10 levels. 1st: Read Thoughts 1/day with reduced cost. 3rd: Cloud Mind 1/day at reduced cost. 9th: Mass Cloud Mind 1/day at...

One additional use per level in Master of Many Forms (listed at the end of the section on Improved Wild Shape). I'm not sure. It would make sense for them to have Disable Device. Then again, maybe it is intended that a Rogue be better in that regard, and that the Scout has to put in...

I have the book in front of me. Scouts have d8 HD. Ninja and Spellthief have d6 HD. You are correct. The movement restriction of at least 10' movement in a round is instead of flanking or that your opponent be flat-footed. Hmmm, that might well make Skirmish better than Sneak Attack, if you put...

Well, in Song & Silence, they had an explicit rule for spotting scrying sensors in the Spymaster description (DC 20 Spot check - it was a special Spymaster ability). I haven't seen anything anywhere else that allowed a spot check for scrying sensors (other than Prying Eyes, where they have an...