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I tend to love Ability damage/drain, but I would advise any DM to reserve it for important/climactic battles that you want to be memorable.

I'm thinking about running an online 3.5 campaign, and I was considering altering the Saves to more resemble the Defenses of 4th Edition to cut down on the amount of back-and-forth. At the table, exchanges of course go much faster. Resolving a saving throw will only take ten seconds: "And...

Well, I tend to run games in the 5-15ish range, so that works out. Point taken about Pernicious Magic. Thanks. =)

First, I'm thinking about running a solo campaign online (more role play, less battles), and it'll be Gestalt to give the player more resources to survive alone. The theme of the campaign is servants of Shar working alone to carry out the Dark Goddess' will from the Shadows. So, since this is...

My advice: 1.) Keep things simple. Keep things moving. Do not use complex monsters/NPCs. Maybe run only a Core-only game for your first one so you have fewer books to rule-hunt through. Start small, simple, and learn the craft of DMing before tackling epic battles in the middle of a...

It's kinda funny, at the time I posted the question I knew I had read the rules somewhere, but couldn't find the damn thing. Now that it's been pointed out, I dunno how I missed it. "Where did I put my keys?" "In your hand?" *sigh* Thanks, btw.

Oh, good call. I didn't even think about Golems. I officially change my vote.

I can't think of any source that has covered it, but then again I've never even considered it so who knows. If it came up in the middle of a session, I would use the price of Mwk Full-plate armor as a base. It scales up and down as the size increases, there's rules for pricing non-humanoid...

Wow, I was going to write out a lengthier post about the game mechanics side of Gestalt, but StreamoftheSky pretty much nailed all the points I'd of brought up (and more.) Good post. ;)

One thing I forgot to say: D&D is a game of general rules and many exceptions, and as the DM it's your job to figure out what those exceptions are using common sense. The general rule should be "a character has to be incapacitated going into the encounter (battle or trap) to not get XP."...

Well, by a very very strict literal interpretation, you are correct. However, it's not very practical, and sooner or later a player will feel someone else wrongly got more XP than he did and put you into an uncomfortable position of justifying your decision. It might result in hard feelings --...

Personally, I'm never running Gestalt again unless it's a game with one or two players. In my experience, a full party of Gestalt characters yields stupid gameplay. For one, the party functions less as a team and more as 4 individuals rushing in with their own agenda ("Hey, I'm a Fighter/Cleric...

Book of Exalted Deeds has a small section on Exorcism that more or less lists a series of spells and abilities that can function as Exorcism. Also, Heroes of Horror has rules for a more ritualistic Exorcism, but it's written for dealing with a Haunted Presence or a Haunted Site. Lastly...

Clarification: There is no attribute tied to Shadow Illusion at all in the text, hence the question. So, I turned to the prereqs for Shadow Dancer as guidance, and those are almost exclusively Dex based (Dodge, Mobility, Combat Reflexes, Hide, Move Silently) which, in my mind, makes it the...

What's the DC to disbelieve the illusion when it's interacted with? I realize there's typical formulas most DCs fall into (Sp Lvl + Modifier, 1/2HD + Modifier, etc). The Shadow Dancer's Shadow Illusion seems awkward because the PrC's isn't a caster class at all. It's primary modifier is Dex...

I have a player asking if he could take Improved Unarmed Strike as a Weapon Group Feat (Unearthed Arcana variant). For this particular player and character, I'm not so worried about balance issues; however, I'm wary of setting a precedent I'll later regret. Specifically, I'm worried about...