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If a dart is a ranged thrown weapon, then do halflings apply their Dex modifier to attack roles using darts, in addition to their +1 racial bonus? If the halfling also had a modifier due to Str, would he apply that to damage? Those would be some nifty darts.

Interesting. I must confess, I have never read the 3.5 rulebooks. I just got back into D&D after about 11 years off, and I always used to play 2nd edition (and I'm sure we fudged on a lot of the rules back then). Hypersmurf, I can't really address your questions because I don't know how move...

The last time I checked there were no Rules Police who were going to come and arrest us for tweaking things here and there. Part of the beauty of role-playing games is how amorphous and adaptable they are. I bet even the most neurotic DMs, who try to conform to every single rule ever written...

It depends on initiative. If the wizard has the best initiative, followed by the goblins, followed by the fighter, then assuming the fireball is deadly enough to kill all of the goblins, they would not have an opportunity to attack the fighter. Also, unless the fighter chose to drive his sword...

As far as this particular aspect of the game is concerned, I believe I've learned it: According to the official rules, when it's your turn to attack, you make all of your attacks for that round. If you have higher initiative than the opponent you're facing, you make as many attacks as you...

I am in the process of writing an adventure/campaign to put some friends through. I don't know the official rules well enough to follow them religiously. I plan on developing a lot of house rules as I go along. Hopefully things will remain consistent. I am not sure exactly how I will handle...

Then aren't you also so skilled that, assuming you're surrounded by enough weak opponents, you should be able to make 24 attacks within 6 seconds?

So if you get 4 attacks in a round, and you hit an opponent with all 4 attacks, doing enough damage to drop him below 0 HP, then he doesn't get to attack you at all in that round? That doesn't make sense to me. I thought that a round of combat equated to 6 seconds, and EVERYONE's turn for that...

1. Well, if Trip, Grapple, and Stun are not easily guestimated, then the best way to judge their effectiveness is to see them in action, right? 2. If Cleave wouldn't be effective against a single monk, then I suppose whomever is playing the fighter character would be best advised not to...

Is there a way for us to set up a mock fight between a fighter and a monk? Eamon could play the fighter. Someone else (who knows a lot about monks) could play the monk. Each person would design an optimal character, starting out with an equal number of points to allocate between ability...

Can someone explain to me how attacks of opportunity work? Is it true that a monk could conceivably get 6 attacks in a round using attacks of opportunity? Would there be penalties or bonuses on those attacks? Also, I am having trouble understanding how reach factors into this. In the games...

Is it possible to combine weapon finesse with flurry of blows in order to get a Dex bonus to multiple attacks with light weapons? If so, it seems like a monk with high Dex/Wis would not only have a very high AC, but he would also strike quite often (albeit, not for quite as much damage as a...

I think there is a lot more that goes the decision whether to give someone a raise. A decision like that always involves a complex (though not necessarily conscious) cost/benefit analysis. Maybe the employee can be easily replaced. If that is the case, then the boss won't have much reason to...

Do monks get AC bonuses from Dex and Wis? Would a level 1 monk with 18 Dex and 18 Wis have +8 AC? If that monk took Vow of Poverty, would he have +12 AC?

For Scorching Ray, does a wizard get a second ray at 4th level or 7th level? The description says "one additional ray for every four levels above 3rd". Also, for spells like Scorching Ray and Magic Missle, where the number of attacks allowed depends on the level of the spellcaster, do you need...

The DC of a wizard's spell = 10 + Int modifier + spell level + any other bonuses the wizard happens to have (such as the Gnome +1 racial bonus to Illusion spells). I am a little confused about how to determine spell level. Many spells increase in strength as the wizard increases levels...

why keep abjuration Felix? what would you recommend I drop instead?

Thanks for all of your imput guys. Here is what I ultimately went with: Gnome Illusionist (prohibited schools: Abjur, Necro) str: 8 dex: 12 con: 19 int: 15 wis: 15 char: 13 I took a weasel familiar (+2 on Reflex saves) Feats: Scribe Scroll, Alertness (freebie from familiar), Collegiate...

Here is the language from the SRD that you quote, "In addition to having a high ability score, a spellcaster must be of high enough class level to be able to cast spells of a given spell level." That says the same thing that I've been saying all along. If your intelligence gives you a bonus...

Nifft, I'm not talking about spell slots that have "--" listed. I'm talking about spell slots that have "1" listed. For those slots, where you get a bonus spell, you get that bonus spell slot by virtue of having a high intelligence. You don't get it through experience. Look at the Spells Per...