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So when an evil outsider gets hit by a holy word, they have to make a save with a penalty or be banished. The wording of the spell seems to indicate that if they get banished they still get hit by the status effects of holy word. However, I think I remember reading here that if the outsider...

If you are a player in my campaign please stay out of this thread, as it will ruin things and make your character death swift and terrible. That being said, I've been working on statting out a demon lord for a coming epic (not epic as in the ELH) confrontation in my game. He's the...

So last night was our first encounter with oozes. Well, ooze. This particular brine ooze had the ability to split, like the Ochre jelly from the MM. First this is what the ability says: It says identical, but does that mean they stay the same size? If they have half the hp it can be argued...

Recently while reading in detail about the alter self spell, and what you can and can't do I came upon a strange discontinuity. There seems to be a very blurry distinction as to what is a humanoid, and what isn't a humanoid. The extreemes are easy to spot. A human is a (humanoid), a minotaur is...

So after a particularly boring evening I deceided to go about creating a Nymean Lion. I think I made something pretty good but I have no idea what CR it is. I wasn't aiming for anything in particular with the CR, I made it and now I'm stuck. After checking on the jump from Dire to Legendary...

Imagine we have 4 creatures on an empty plane. We have Bob, the pc. He's of whatever class (except a fear immune class), it doesn't really matter. We have Antibob the big bad villain. He's a cleric (doesn't really matter but helps with spell selection.) We have Antibob Minion1 which has...

I've been running a homebrew game and it's been going along nicely. Eberron has been interesting but has yet to inspire me in anyway to do things with it. The way alignment is handled was interesting but I paid it no mind. Heroes of Horror just came out and I picked it up and like it very much...

-Players of mine, go away- So the title of the post is slightly misleading since I dont want the title to give away exact details incase my players come across this post. I'm adding one more thing to the mix. Rideby Attack, Flyby Attack, Mount and Rider. In the game I'm...

Amongst my group of friends, none of us has really ever taken the Leadership feat. Last night, one of my players deceided he'd like to go with that route. There's only three of them, so I'm okay with them having access to leadership. The thing is, I've never really seen leadership in action...

I've fiddled with the idea of creating a continuation to Divine Might, and I submit it for your critique. ------------------------ Divine Prowess (Divine) You can channel even more divine power into your melee strikes increasing the damage you deal in combat. Prereqs: Str 13, Cha 15, BAB...

If you're a player of mine and still reading this, get lost. That having being said: With bard inspire courage, the rules state once a bard is inspiring, an ally only needs to see and hear the bard to gain the bonus, and when the bard stops, the inspiration continues for 5 rounds. What...

Back when I was a noob in 3e, I played a few lycanthropic characters. Since apparently didn't quite understand how things worked, we only ever applied the +3 LA and then modified the character to have the appropriate bonuses and forms. What we never applied was HD. So now, after reading the...

I bring up this topic because as a player and DM, item identification really has only ever been pay the standard fee to learn the crunch. In general we're all wary of new items and never touch them beyond stowing them in the pack and having them properly identified later. Every new item costs...

I hope this is the right place. In complete divine, the creation domain gets two spells Minor Creation and Major Creation at 4th and 5th level. But I can't find those spells anywhere in the book, nor in the phb, or in deities and demigods. Funny enough, the same problem exists in deities and...

Is the DMG 2 worth buying? I saw it today on the shelf at Barnes and Noble and hadnt really previously looked at it. There seemed to be some pretty nifty information in it but the $40 pricetag was far too high for me to just buy it on the spot. I read the review for it and the author spoke...

I've always liked the Asperi from the MM2. Unfortunately this is 3.0 and kind of out of date for use as special mounts or companions. The asperi have some abilities that make them nice mounts and very special rewards to those who can tame them. The question I pose to you is thus: What level...

I'm not sure if this should be house rules or not, but I hope that here is fine since it's a mechanics question. There's a prestige class on the wizards website, the arcane duelist, that gains an ability that somewhat functions in the reverse of power attack, and I thought it would be a...

As the title suggests, I am curious about the worlds where the DM either choses to throw out alignment in favor of encouraging heroics, or where the rules of alignment are far less stiff than the rules as written. How do you have your specifically alignment based abilities work there? Throw...

Which feat or ability allows one to buy cross class skills at class skill ranks, but keeps the cap on cross class skills the same? Also, where is that feat or ability found?

I'm thinking of playing a half janni soon (as the last campaign was put on hold), as I really enjoy the concept. However, I was wondering if one were to drop the planar jaunt ability, if that would be sufficient to drop half janni ECL to +2 instead of +3. On a side note, I find it funny that...