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I can't find the rules anywhere for commanding summoned creatures. Previously, in DMing 3.5, I was pretty lax about actions in combat, but now I want to get more strict. I can't find the rules anywhere in Pathfinder! I think it's something like: move action to command a summoned creature...

Hi all. I haven't played any d20 in about a year and a half now, and we're getting back into it with Pathfinder (after a lot of exhausting high-level 3.5 play). I guess I've been crowned DM, and I'm starting with the Shattered Gates of Slaughtergarde, and hoping to get a smooth transition in...

Hi, could someone point me to some good wilder builds? I'm not (necessarily) talking about min-max char-op (though it would be interesting to see what exists); I'm mostly interested in workable PCs/NPCs. No one IMC has ever expressed interest in psionics, so I haven't bothered to learn. While...

My game is right now (Saturday night), and in an hour or two I will need to rule on this: One of my players has an item with antipathy against CE red dragons on it. Does this also affect half-dragons? (CE, and red, otherwise) Thanks! edit: OK, the first fight took muuuuch longer than I had...

The rogue IMC has a demolition crystal, which allows her to sneak attack constructs. She just picked up the crippling strike special ability which deals Strength damage with each sneak attack. Should I allow her to deal Strength damage to constructs, which are usually immune to ability damage...

If I am left hanging in midair at the end of a round that I am jumping (say, over a chasm that is longer than my remaining move), then I'm just...hanging there, right? I don't fall because if my jump check is long enough for me to keep going, then it is split across the round boundary. What if...

Can the benefits of Melee Weapon Mastery apply also to a natural attack? For example, a bite is listed as bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing. If someone has MWM of any flavor, can those bonuses also apply to a secondary bite attack?

a rakshasa swordsage: what's its initiator level? The discussion of multiclass characters and initiator level on page 39 of the Tome of Battle says that you add half of your other class levels to your initiator level, but what about monstrous hit dice?

There is language at the end of the spell description that states Do these sentences apply to only the fifth-through-tenth rounds of the spell, or to all ten rounds? If the latter choice, then why the heck didn't they put these sentences at the beginning of the spell description?

whoops! Have I been doing this wrong? Does an off-hand weapon use only half of the Strength modifier...even if it's a double weapon? I hadn't bothered including that tidbit for, oh, the last five years or so. I guess I figured a double weapon didn't have an "off-hand." thus: Joe has 18...

OK, so Thing failed its save vs silent image during combat with the illusion. What if it strikes the illusion? (an illusion's AC is 10+size modifier) Is that good enough for another save, or for evidence it isn't real? If the invisible caster of the illusion is on hand to concentrate on the...

Since "you strap a shield to your forearm and grip it with your hand," do you drop it when you are stunned?

What if a 20th level paladin or ranger has a Wisdom score of 20? He gets two bonus 1st level spells, one bonus 2nd, one bonus 3rd, one bonus 4th, and...he "should" get one bonus 5th, but there aren't any 5th level paladin spells. Can he apply that 5th-level bonus to a 4th level spell? Can he...

example: Medium humanoid using a Large shield? a Small shield? What sort of penalties are there? Does it matter if the shield is heavy or light? What if there were armor spikes on the shield? Can you put Large spikes on a Medium shield?

The Boots allow you three extremely short-range teleports per day, as greater teleport. so...this means you can take along a (large) group of people? Is this balanced or not? I think it's interesting that this is not a dimension door effect. If you can take along others, do you use the CL of...

Giant Size (Complete Arcane) didn't make it into the Spell Compendium. Does this mean that it's problematic somehow? Like, the SC only compiles "worthy" spells from the earlier books? I'm going to allow one of my players access to it (via miracle), but I'm wondering if there's something of...

Kudos on wielding the banhammer http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=201808 It seems that most of us took more offense at promotion of $30 software theft than at the, um, reasoned response further down the thread. It seems like this is not uncommon behavior for this particular user; feel...

Am I allowed to put a link to my wife's internet store in my .sig? I don't know the rules around this. There aren't any listed on the .sig-edit page.

for DonTadow Jerry Falwell has died closed for blatantly breaking the no-politics no-religion rule. I am frankly surprised that the thread made it past Umbran's visit. Despite Jesus_marley's disclaimer, it can easily be argued that starting that thread gets him membership to the Troll Hall of...

Graz'zt is conniving. Drow are mean. What more do you need to know, really? Since I'm currently running my party through the Harrowing, I'm a tad sick of demons and drow, so I won't go into too much detail here. I will tell you what the book touts: "224 pages, 50 major encounters, 14 new...