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Hey all, The Innate Spell feat (Complete Arcane) lets you burn a spell slot 8 levels higher (permanently) to get a spell-like ability at will. However, if the spell requires an expensive component, "you must use an item worth 50 times that cost as a focus". My question is this: What happens...

Am I blind, or did I just find a loophole that (if permitted) lets almost any Core Caster get cheap, risk-free, low-value (for the level) treasures? We start with the Summoning subschool of Conjouration: (Emphasis added) (You can probably see where this is going already) So where's that...

So I was thinking about the game rules recently, and I think I found an odd loophole in the Core rules, revolving around the spell Greater Restoration, and critters that can Drain Levels in a controlled manner (such as, say, the Wight). So suppose you're a Lawful-Neutral Cleric-14 (or higher...

I was browsing through some books, looking for an item for a character, and came across a gem: I checked, and Clairvoyant Sense is a 2nd level Seer Power - which suddenly develops problems if you can use it at-will: With this item, you can fully map out a dungeon without ever stepping foot...

I've never run nor played the Tomb of Horrors... but it sounds like the thing for Halloween (Oct 31st), and I was looking for interest in a one-shot with it, run by way of OpenRPG. I figured a start time of 3 pm Pacific, 6 pm Eastern. I'd like to play the Tomb, but I'll run it if nobody else...

The cleric went about the battlefield, healing all the wounded with a single wand he invoked over and over. After the three hundredth time the Cleric did this, the wizard asked "What's powering that thing?" "They are." replied the Cleric. Spirit Wands A Spirit Wand acts much like a regular...

I started applying a few Core templates to a Core Creature - starting with a Colossal Monstrous Scorpion (CR 12), adding the Fiendish template (+2 CR), and ending with the Half-Dragon template (+2 CR), for a total official CR of 16; is this actually right, though? Colossal Dragon 40d10+160...

Hey all, I designed a DMM(Persistent Spell) Buff Bot Cloistered Cleric-15 for a short campaign (which is expected to be over), with the goal of him being an enabler - a buff bot, essentially. I considered him to be a success - two 15th level characters took down a CR 17 Green dragon (given the...

Flavor Text Source The Curse Without a Name Conjouration(Teleportation) [Evil] Level: Sor/Wiz 9 Components: V, S, F Casting time: One standard action Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels) Target: one creature Duration: Permanent Saving Throw: Will partial (see text) SR: Yes Somewhere, there's...

Forked from: Core Prestige Classes I was SO not referring to the Divine Focus aspect. That, I don't really care about for purposes of this discussion. You picked up on three words, and cut the rest. Seriously - did you even read the post you replied to? I was referring to the other...

I'm having a bit of trouble in Firefox. When I type some text in to make a post, it shows up as a marginally different shade of black than does the background of the text box where I'm posting. Mind you, when I'm quoting someone, their text shows up just fine (although the quote tags show up...

I was thinking on how to fix the Vow of Poverty - the issue isn't so much that the Vow of Poverty itself is weak, it's that the non-casters don't get the stuff they'd normally get through wealth - Flight for when the battle leaves the ground, teleportation and invisibility for when a fight turns...

The Blue Dragon, from hatching, has the Create/Destroy water ability - which, when applied against potions or attended items, grants a save to prevent the effect. But the DC is "that of the dragon’s frightful presence" - which, for a Wyrmling, is "-" in all cases. So, does a potion not get a...

I was browsing through the Magic Item Compendium, and ran across a weapon property: Vampric, +2 Equivalent, page 45. Unlike the spell it's based off, the Vampiric weapon property does actual healing, not just grant temporary hit points. Now, it's only 1d6, and you have to do more damage to your...

I was browsing through Complete Mage, and noticed something I'd previously overlooked on Alacritous Cogitation: it specifies that "Casting the spell requires a full-round action." ... with no regard to what the previous casting time was. Does this mean that, by the book, a Wizard using this...

Hey Fred? How the heck did you make that ring of Protection for me? There's no way you could cast the required Shield of Faith spell.... Well... there's ways around that.... Inventive Crafter Requirements: Caster Level 6, any item creation feat Benefit: When making any magic item that is not...

Hey all, I've got an upcoming game, and I need a party of four LN professional dragon hunters - CR 5 individually, for an encounter level of 9. A cooperative, balanced party would be ideal. These will be NPC's - I'd like full builds, including spells prepared, if possible. Any suggestions?

The Reserve line of feats require that you have a spell meeting a particular set of criteria available to cast in order to make use of the specific feat - e.g., Fiery Burst requires a Fire spell of level 2 or higher, Dimensional Reach requires a Conjouration(Summoning) spell of level 3 or...

The Shadow has a very special form of strength damage: Bearing in mind that damage translates between forms (and I as the DM read that as Strength damage, too) if, after taking a lot of strength damage from a Shadow, someone uses Alternate Form (or similar abilities) to become something that...

Sample Bodyguard Doll: Bodyguard Doll Clay Golem Large or Diminutive Construct Hit Dice: 11d10+30 (90 hp) or 11d10 (60 hp) (Doll) Initiative: -1 or +7 (Doll) Speed: 20 ft. (4 squares) Armor Class: 22 (-1 size, -1 Dex, +14 natural), touch 8, flat-footed 22 or 21 (+4 size, +7 Dex), touch 21...