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Ok, so beat down the troll with your trusty sword, finally getting it's subdual damage above it's hit point total. Now what? Sure, you whack it a couple more times to put it at "negative infinity", but that doesn't mean it's going to stay down. If you have just one flask of oil and pour it over...

If a character is poisoned but is in Gaseous Form ten rounds later, does the poison just go away with no chance of causing additional harm? The spell says that the character is immune to poison. So does it just go away, or does it go into "stasis" for the duration of the gaseous form and then...

So "Light fog; moderate darkness; & light foliage" all grant a small amount of concealment (one quarter). But you cannot Sneak Attack a target with any concealment at all. How many DM's inflict this on their poor rogues? Trying to backstab someone in a shadowy alley? Too bad, that's moderate...

Some of the armor in Oriental Adventures looks like it is better than the druid-fare found in the PHB. And it looks to be made out of kosher materials, for example: Leather Scale (light armor with 3 AC) and Dhenuka (medium, rhino hide with 4AC) Do you think a druid could wear these? If you...

This spell is found in the Manual of the Planes and is meant to prevent interplaner "intrusion" within the area of effect (which is very large and lasts 10 minutes per level). Last session, we came up with a disagreement about how to interpret the text of this spell. I'm sorry that I don't have...

Sorry for the waste of bandwidth but this info is not in the SRD. >:( . I am making a 2nd level character and need to know what the suggested amount of starting gold is for such a person (half-orc druid if that matters).

So it is clear that 6th level fighter could attack, step, and attack. I also believe that a 3rd level ranger with two weapons could make his primary attack, step, and then make his off-hand attack. But could a gargoyle do his claw, his other claw, then step and do his bite and gore? I'm...

So it's my understanding that they meant to erratta the sheild spell but just didn't get around to it. If they had, what were they going to erratta it to? Was it 1)"Provides a +7 Cover bonus to AC" (but no actual cover) or 2)"Provides a +7 Cover bonus to AC and +3 on reflex saves" (but no...

A druid can hurl stones from a sling without penalty. But if he throws one using his hand, he loses all his druidic abilities for a day? He can swing a club just fine, and can swing it in two hands just fine; but he can't use a great club without breaking his vows (profficiency penalties...

It seems to me that poisons do damage to a stat, rather than applying some sort of "Poison Penalty". Therefore they should "stack" just like hit point damage does right? On a similar topic, doesn't the "Bestow Curse" spell also stack since it causes a "-6 effective decrease to an ability score...

The SRD says that druids are "skilled with shields but must use only wooden ones." So clearly they can carry one around for the extra AC. But what if they want to hit someone with it? Would they need another weapon profiecency to avoid a penalty? Would it violate their oath about only using...

Can you use the Power Attack feat when doing this? Since it's an automatic hit, it would seem pointless not to max out the power attack aye?

I was just reading the feats "Falling Star Strike" and "Freezing the Lifeblood". They say that you can make an unarmed attack against a humanoid opponent to blind or paralyze them. Does this mean that you can try one of these on every unarmed attack that you attempt? If so, could you do both...

Is the challenge rating for an NPC equal to his character level? I thought that it was but I'm looking at a gang of 1st level rogues compared to a gang of hobgoblins and the former just doesn't seem twice as challenging as the latter. Same goes for a Hill Giant (with 102 hp) versus a (20 hp)...

I'm not real clear on exactly how many chances to attack a summoned critter should get. My first thought was that it would basically be 1/level. But the mechanics involved here make me think it might be 1/level + 1 instead. It is a full round casting time. The player (a 1st level caster) starts...

I notice that these require only a ranged touch attack and allow no saving throw to the victim hit. they are automatically blinded for d4 rounds. As a rogue, these seem pretty awsome. Sure the range increment is only 5ft, and yes you'd want to keep them in a padded place in your Haversack, but...

I'm trying to design a rogue that can make good use of her sneak attack ability by about level 6 or so. The goal, I suppose, is to set her up so that she can get extra attacks from something or other. The first thought was the old ranger-route, but I'd rather avoid multiclassing. Second...

So what if she is blind but her attacker is not (otherwise) invisible? Is being blind the same as making everyone else invisible? Or does the fact that you can still see your surrounding etc. make fighting invisible opponents a little easier than fighting while blind?

A character in our campaign has a nifty set of shoes that are both Spider Climbing and Striding & Springing (yes, it cost double to put the second power in the same slot). Last game, however, we ran into some rules ambiguities: 1) Are Slippers of Spider Climbing use activated or do you have to...

So, how would one go about specifically trying to poke a hole in someone else backpack while engaged in combat? Would you use the Sunder rules? It seems like it would be fairly easy to do with an arrow in real life; but in D&D-land I can't think of anything short of the Ranged Sunder feat that...