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How did you figure out the cost of the weapon? Just curious what your reasoning was. I don't see anything wrong, really, with the stats and mechanics. It's unwieldy, but it's a double weapon of sorts, so that's to be expected. I could certainly see this being used in the right sort of game. I...

I've had to run a few battles like that during my campaigns. My preferred strategy is somewhat opposite of yours: I favor getting die rolls out of the non-PC fights completely, and just letting average numbers dictate what happens. In other words, assume every d20 roll comes up a 10, or 11...

Great example! We don't even know what that world's seasons were like, but clearly the three suns would have had some effect. And the triple eclipse happened once every thousand years, IIRC? One wonders how the world's inhabitants even measured "years," for that purpose.

I can't tell whether this is sarcastic, or not. If it isn't, then I'll remind the poster that BadWrongFunning another GM is Bad Form. I'll also ask: how many times has your game reached a level where it had divine PCs going around the universe making worlds of their own, hmmm? :)

Of course a year makes sense in a system where the sun goes around the world. That's how Earth humans thought Earth worked, for thousands of years, don't forget! The key point here is that the very idea of a "year" as a unit of time only makes sense in context with seasons. That was how and why...

Who said you have to? The "scientific method" as such is just the idea that performing experiments and getting repeatable outcomes brings you closer to true knowledge of how the world really works. So if magic works, then Wizards and others who do spell research, are probably using something...

Fair enough. But that doesn't change the answer for the OP, which is that under a Protection spell, the victim can act normally. The Protection spell prevents the Dominate from working. Therefore, the victim is able to act normally. :)

Yes, there was. And since I reread that book not long ago, I can say that I think the beings he's specifically referring to are the god-kings, which were originally unbodied splinters of cosmic consciousness that somehow got caught up and imprisoned in material reality when the Titans first...

If the world is a disc, then it could rotate on its own, which could have something to do with the seasons. And precession of the equinoxes is a good way to explain a shift between two cycles of seasons, if it happens quickly enough. Given that the world still has gravity, despite being flat...

That's not how Dominate works. The victim isn't a robot, and the Dominate effect doesn't mean that the victim can do nothing while not being commanded- what it means is that any command sent by the caster of the Dominate absolutely must be obeyed by the victim, without question, immediately...

Agreed. This is the way I prefer to do world-building, and it usually works out very well when players start asking the uncomfortable questions. I ran a game with PCs that were actually gods, for 2 years- and while some of the worlds they encountered were seriously fantastic, even difficult or...

If a year consists of 8 seasons, but it's just two cycles of the usual four that we have on Earth, then that begs the question: why is a year two cycles of seasons instead of just one? The original purpose of measuring a year, on Earth, was specifically to measure the seasons so as to know when...

If it's flat, presumably like a pancake or wide sheet of "ground," but it's in a universe where orbits actually happen more or less as they do in ours, then clearly it's an artificial construct. No natural object the size of a planet can form a flat shape, gravity causes them to collapse into a...

Synthesist does go well with Monk. And also with Paladin. And several other classes. It's pretty much the best Archetype of Summoner to be if you want to multiclass. Interesting thought though: because multiclassing with Synthesist is so popular, could a Monk Archetype be made which would give...

Yes. Most serious item-crafting characters would do this sort of thing as a matter of course, at high enough levels.

There's also the Witch-only spell Mask Dweomer from the APG. It lasts 1 Day/level just like Magic Aura, but unlike Magic Aura can be cast on a creature and has no weight limit on the object (if you use it that way). It has its limitations of course; it can only affect one particular spell on the...

It is indeed the class spell list that's meant- as you yourself pointed out, the other version doesn't make sense. :) Since it is an Evil spell, casting it is considered an Evil act by the rules, so it will indeed cause you to drift towards Evil alignment. However, this does not mean you can't...

Both could be very cool. I'd be happy to participate in either, myself. I ran two games using divine PCs (using the Immortals Handbook: Ascension rules that were released for 3.5, tweaked for the setting) that eventually merged right before the Big Finale. One game involved PCs in a...

The obvious answer to this question, regardless of Archetype on the Barbarian levels, is Rage Prophet. If you're multiclassing Barbarian and Oracle anyway, you may as well at least consider what you can do with Rage Prophet levels. True, as a 13th-level character with only one spellcasting...

On that last note, a fascinating thought: could a Sorcerer with the Undead Bloodline, which as pointed out by Steel_Wind can affect some Undead with Mind-Affecting effects, craft a Helm of Opposite Alignment and thereby have the Helm affect Undead?