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I am, and I am sure many of you are, a tactical gamer at heart. I love seeing a good plan come together. I don't want to speak too soon for a new edition, but compared to 3.5, 4E introduces a lot more randomness into the game. Many, many splatbooks made 3.5 a breeze to find options to...

I wrote up this PrC for our Eberron campaign. It's exclusively geared towards the Elves with the Greater Mark of Shadow, who are (frequently) spies and assassins. The class expands on the supernatural link that these elves can have with the shadows, and represents them bending the magic to their...

This question is pretty short and simple: Is it possible to get multiple miss chances on the same character, once from concealment, and a second miss chance from incorporeality? On one hand, going higher than 50% miss chance is usually impossible, because just swinging randomly has a 50% miss...

Gatekeepers know better than almost anybody else on Eberron how important it is to defend the material plane from extraplanar invasion. Druids are frequently seen as "backwards" by outsiders, however, and aren't taken seriously by the more urbane city-dwellers. Knowing how much power the...

I created some new elemental-infused armor enchantments for my game (though they will probably only be in the hands of NPCs for a while yet). I hope you guys like them, I'm mostly interested in if you think the prices are balanced (They are mostly ad hoc, I looked at the cost of crafting...

The expanded knowledge feat allows you to take one additional power from of any level less than the highest you can manifest, even from a different list or class. From a different list is pretty simple, it is already in the format of a power. How does one learn a magic spell (arcane or divine)...

I'm wondering if anyone has experimented with allowing Gestalt characters from UA into a normal game. I think it's a mild oversight that there is no LA determined for Gestalt characters, as the level of power gained is pretty consistent over all levels. My first ad hoc instinct is to say +2 or...

Disjunction is one of the most problematic spells in high level D&D, this is well established. I'm throwing around a house rule on it to make it still nasty as hell, but not permanently crippling. What do you guys think? ---------------------------------- Mordenkainen's Disjunction Level...

This question is pretty simple. If a character has a spell-like ability that allows it to use some spell, is that spell considered "on that character's list" for the purpose of spell completion and spell trigger items? For example, Pixies can cast Entangle once per day, but do they have the...

Siva had battled fiends before, but never one of this variety. His eyes glowing with magical fire, he gazed into the magical essence that bound the spirit of evil to the material plane. "Hmm," Siva thought, "it appears to favor fire attacks, though it is very careful to remain outside the...

Qalare is a wizard of some renown, though his homeland is a mystery. He is known as an elementalist, an artificer, and a sage. Enigmatic and powerful, his tactics are as outlandish as they are effective. He fights tyranny and the wicked, yet is thought of as a troublemaker and an upstart. While...

Background and description is forthcoming. ---------------------------------------------------------- PC Name : Scourge Aetherjaeger ---------------------------------------------------------- Player Name : nameless Email : cnlmyou@yahoo.com...

With the new ability to provide (Su) abilities in 3.5, what are the best forms you can find for Shapechange? So far I've come up with the following: -Beholder: Awesome tactical abilities. Disintegrate at will, which will absolutely destroy fortifications, or allow you to tunnel through solid...

This is one of my favorite spells out of the book. Instead of bothering with interrogation and extended lie detection magic, a Mindrape caster just forces his way into the brain, grabs the info he wants, and then moves on. It also allows complete and instantaneous reconstruction of the victim's...

Is it me, or are they seriously underpowered for their listed CR and LA modifiers? At LA +18 (or maybe LA +11, not sure...) the Sillit is pathetic. At first I thought I was missing something important, like spellcasting or somesuch, but there's really nothing there. What makes the LA and CR so...

I sort of feel the need to rant on the situation with Prestige Classes for the least magically inclined of the base classes (except maybe Barbarians). Namely, there aren't enough. For fighters, you tend to have either the "Elite fighters of organization X" (Fist of Hextor, Ravager, Knight...

This class is kind of a modified Gunslinger/Battlemind cross. He uses semi-psychic powers to wield guns. I tried to make it cool without really stepping on other classes' toes. Kind of inspired by some magic guns from the defunct Rokugan 2000 series by Rich Wulf. Hanged Man Requirements: BAB...

With the release of Savage Species, a lot of outsiders other extraplanar/supernatural creatures will probably get a lot more scrutiny; PCs obviously need a great deal more detail than most NPCs. So what ecological considerations should be made for various outsiders and elementals. Do they eat...

I feel dirty discussing min-max in public, but call me masochistic, it's just damn interesting to me. In my time with 3E, I've seen the same level combinations for min-maxing before taking a first level in a prestige class between levels 6 and 10. It seems to me that there are definite breaking...

I was sitting by myself one day going, "Self, why do we have rules for ECL based on ability scores and such, but not for characters with extra magic items?" Yes, I sit by myself and say these things. The question is, how much extra wealth would you need to grant an ECL of varying ratings to a...