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Do you or do you not apply the two-weapon fighting penalties to your attack roll when making an attack of opportunity while wielding two weapons? What if you deliberately choose to attack with your offhand weapon? The "flurry of blows" thread reminded me of this question, because the flurry of...

A question about the ghoul's Create Spawn (Su) ability: What effect would beheading the corpse of someone slain by a ghoul have on this ability's effect? It says in the Monster Manual that casting protection from evil on the body averts the transformation. Would beheading the corpse do the...

How do you all handle spider climb? Does a creature enchanted with spider climb automatically succeed at its Climb checks? Or do you give it a fixed bonus to its Climb checks? The Player's Handbook spell description says that you can climb as well as a spider does. Just for reference's sake...

With the changes made to shield in 3.5, I would like to ask your opinion on what level a researched version of the 3.0 shield spell should be.

Are there any good d20 materials on sound player and monster tactics? I've been playing for a while, but now I'm DMing for players new to the game. I have a couple problems: 1. There are a ton of monsters out there, but I don't know much about their combat tactics. What I've been doing so...

A bard casts dancing lights in an area flanking a kobold that is fighting the bard's rogue ally. The kobold then fails his Will (disbelief) save. Is the faintly glowing, vaguely humanoid shape generated by dancing lights considered an ally for flanking purposes?

Aren't greataxe-wielding orcs too tough for their low CR rating (1/2)? It can do 4-15 damage to you with a regular hit or 12-45 with a critical hit. An orc can kill a level 1 caster with a single glancing blow and a level 1 melee type with just one solid hit. It can smack down a level 3 or 4...

Help! I'm not sure if this is the right forum (or even the right Web site) to ask, but here goes: My players are split up right now, each doing their own thing. This seemed to be a really bad idea. All of my encounters were tuned for groups of four level 1 characters (EL 1), not four level 1...

How do you handle the order in which the Area Dispel version of Dispel Magic attempts to dispel a spell on a creature with effects from more than one spell? This isn't an issue for the Targeted Dispel version since it attempts to dispel all spells with effects and durations on a target, but the...