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What about animated shields? They're fairly cheap, and once you've got access to them do they not make Sword and Board obsolete?

Add in Karmic Strike insanity for Barbarian types, and you actually have some characters that opponents will be loathe to hit in the first place. :bash:[br][br]You also have TWF using a THF weapon and Spiked Armor. Which also costs nothing. And does indeed pay off if you are a Rogue/Fighter with hig...

In the previous version of the D&D game, having levels in a prestige class never caused you to pay the experience penalty for being a multiclass character without uneven class levels. (The prestige class levels didn’t count when checking to see if you had a penalty.) The section on prestige cla...

I never noticed that Arcane Strike works on all of your natural weapons. How retarded. You imply that Arcane Strike still works as written in this game (even though Divine Strike wouldn't). So, what about an Eldritch Knight polymorphed into a Rukanyr or something else with tons of natural attacks, w...

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Some contemplatives, rather than devoting their lives to a deity, strive to conform themselves to some other abstract principle such as an alignment. Their mission is no less divine than that of contemplatives devoted to a deity, and their methods substantially the same. Many such contemplatives it...

Yes, if the build is being used to prove some point. But in this case, it wasn't. So why even bother bringing it up? I think anyone who can count can see that there are mistakes in that build.[br][br]The post that brought it up in this thread was great though, as it proved that Monte Cook and "...

Yeah, but there is a big difference between incorrect spelling and screwing up a build. Tight min/maxxed builds with emphasis need to be spot-on.

The numbers are screwed up. You can't enter Mystic Theurge without at least 2 levels of Ur-Priest, and the additional divine spellcasting levels beyond 10 do basically nothing (which isn't actually illegal, I guess).[br][br]It's obviously just a mistake. I don't think Frank was asserting that you ca...

My question is this: how do opposing wizards who successfully spellcraft the illusion spells react towards the illusion? You have to differentiate this from "interaction" with figments as well. From what I recall, Spellcraft checks and Interaction are separate mechanisms. [br][br]The toug...

Frank, this build is bogus.[br][br] * If you are willing to be evil, you can be a cleric archer without ever being a "Cleric" at all. A Wizard 5/ Mindbender 1/ Ur-Priest 1/ MyTh 10/ Hospitaler 1/ Contemplative 1/ Master of Shrouds 1, for example, has a Wizard caster level of 16, and an Ur-...

Frank has mentioned before that Illusionists are definitely the strongest specialist wizards out there if there's a player who knows how to use those spells creatively to the point where mirror image and the invisibility spells are among the weakest in that particular school. We've also established ...

Oh, that's funny if that's what you're hung up on.[br][br][br] "If you are a monk, then you add your wisdom bonus to AC."[br][br]and[br][br]"If you do not add your wisdom bonus to AC, then you are not a monk."[br][br]Are actually the exact same thing."[br][br][br]One is a di...

Yeah, there gets to be a point around character level 12 or so when it becomes completely feasible for most encounters per day to habve your entire party airborne (via spells and/or items). By later levels, it should be happening all the time.[br][br]I dont know if this is common in the metagame or ...

Interesting note: in 3.5 you don't lose class abilities of PrCs if you lose the prereqs of the class. In fact, you don't even lose the ability to take more levels of that class. [br]not true, Frank. see page 16 of the Complete Warrior book.[br][br]not sure what happens if a Blackguard becomes "...

Dumbass me stated --- wrote:He can summon 3 Huge Air Elementals (16 HD each) who can each cast 3 Cone of Colds for 15d6 damage

I meant to say, 2-5 Elementals ... not 3.

At low levels you are getting a celestial hawk for a round or two. Yuck! That's pointless. With such a weak effect I am not even willing to spend an action on it, let alone a spell slot. Those things are valuable and can contain things like Sleep which might actually turn the tide of battle. [br]I ...

Ah! but the odds are, the Eld. Knight with Arcane Strike is already using Bull's Strength himself as well. Eknights are inherently very selfish with their spell allotments. So in all probability, he's reserved a Bull's Strength (or made a wondrous item) for himself for the expected 3-5 fights per da...

I wonder what the new metamgic Rod of Persistent Spell will look like. Or if they even remember to post a revision!

I still think Quicken Spell will be decent replacement for Persistent Spell for the Cleric Archer.

First off, an 8th level Wizard isn't gonna take Arcane Strike. An Eldritch Knight will take Arcane Strike at either levels 12, 15, or 18. At a point when his higher BAB (than a pure Wizard that is) will get him multiple hits in a round. Compared to the considerably lower BAB total that the Wizard ha...

I don't see your math working out right in your Bull's Strength example, FRank.[br][br]Also note, I think Arcane Strike works better in a Blackguard Demonbinder build than in a Wizard Eldritch Knight build. [br][br]Paladin1/Blackguard10/NarDemonbinder1/Spellsword1/EK6/xxx1[br][br][br]A build like th...

Arcane Strike ain't that bad. It lets you take prepared spells that have no relevance to a survival situation in a given encounter and actually turn it into something that might save you.[br][br]It's more an insurance policy than anything. A good wizard needs to still think smartly about what spells...

[br] The EK has only two tasks: To survive and crush foes. And I think that there's some potential there. [br] [br]And sadly, that doesn't mesh with the team concept of D&D. EK's are selfish primary spellcasters. All their spells are about self-buff or sacrificing to Arcane Strike. If the EK is ...

I can't see how one of these things makes a strong fighter.[br][br]Arcane Strike is cool, but you've got to keep your spellcasting stat way up in order to use this, which kicks you in balls as a fighter. This is irrelevant if you're polymorphing, but when you're polymorphing into something with 9 na...