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But running with a sling in one hand is.[br][br]Unless you are on a contrived timeframe or in extremely specific terrain, there is a single strategy available to beat zombie encounters - stay out of melee range and use ranged attacks.[br][br]And since even a gnome in full plate is capable of moving ...

3.0 Mind Flayers or anything else that could use both Astral Projectonion and Planeshift (either 3.0 or 3.5) are probably broken. Depending on interpretation, those spells used in conjuction probably duplicate all of your equipment permanently although the duplicate equipment is subject to dispellin...

On the underpowered/overrated side we have:[br][br]The Shreiker: effectively an Alarm spell trap - save that there might not be anyone listening. Still worth XP despite being immobile and having no attacks at all.[br][br]The Greater Stone Golem. It's supposed to fight 16th level parties and yet it i...

I'm with da chicken on this one.

But I'd also like to add "The given standard in the settings does not match the potential of the mechanics!!"

They already ditched Improved Invisibility in 3.5

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It's now Invisibility, Greater

The ethical code is iron clad, and contradictory on many points.

Wow...it's almost as if they based their philosophical reasonings on any one of a number of real-world religions. :tonguesmile:

In 3.0 the Ring of Chameleon Power is a crazy-go-nuts +15 unnammed bonus to hide that comes with a smokeless ashtray full of at will change self.

This is kinda weak cheese, but it's core only and it's probably a good starting point for a real piece of cheese:[br][br]Start with at least a 14 Wisdom. Play an elf. Take level 1 as ranger, selecting "Human" as your favored enemy. level 2 as wizard and levels 3,4 and 5 as ranger. Select a...

[br] Casting Time: 1 standard action[br]<...snip...>[br]If you use this spell to create a disguise, you get a +10 bonus on your disguise tjeck [br][br] [br] Casting Time: 1 standard action[br]<...snip...>[br]If you use this spell to create a disguise, you get a +10 bonus on your disguise tjeck [br]...

"I have come here to do two things: chew bubblegum and kick ass - and I'm all out of bubblegum" - What'shisface from They Live.

I tend to side towards the elf/dwarf side - make the races meaningful and distinct from each other in mechanical ways.[br][br]Of course, I could also see the Genasi approach (pay a level for +2 to save against spells that don't exist) working for settings where race was defined more by flavor than b...

51.45,[br][br]Although that quiz pissed me off, in that it was heavily D&D-biased (crits, level-drain, etc), heavily player-based (your character), biased againt towards nerftastic DMs, and unfairly biased against metagaming.[br][br]Is asks bullcrap loaded questions like if you have:[br][br] &qu...

Lion's Charge from Savage Species - a nerfed Haste that's actually still frequently worth casting on your fighter buddy.

Improvisation from Song and Silence. (Bard 5)[br][br]It gives the caster a +2 per level luck bonus to an attack roll, skill tjeck, or ability tjeck. You could split it over a couple of rounds like they suggest, or you could be an idjit and use it as a 5th level True Strike , but really, the point i...

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If the server is lost, then the email I sent to your old addy didn't reach you.

At least in the 3.0/MotW rules there was an argument based on capitalization of keywords that Frank's interpretation of Elelmental Wildshape was incorrect. (See Harzatkeraze(sp?)'s Shifter FAQ on the WotC Boards for details)[br][br] Unfortunately, this particular argument fails miserably because at...

Ouch.

Here I was hoping that this was a thread about dustbusters and black holes.

I seem to have a folder entitled pokemonrichtext.zip that contains a half dozen files.

Bah.[br][br]Gandalf is not one, but two different Death Slaadi,[br]Aragorn was an incubus, Frodo is a doppleganger, Elrond is a Kolyarut, Eowyn was a Rakshasa and Shelob's webs are actually Mimics.[br][br]And until you can point me towards text from the book that indicates they were hit with Dispel ...

Wasn't there some half-assed Sage ruling about adding bonuses based on stats only once, despite the usual stacking rules..? If anyone remember this ruling better than I do, would it apply to class abilities which grant unnammed bonuses, (Such as Divine Grace and Dark Blessing) or was it only to prev...

And yet Frank has only described one axis of suckage when there are, in fact two.[br][br]We don't even know if Law and Chaos are reciprocal or not, and have an even harder time pigeonholing real-life people on it. [br][br]The alignment system is horrible, and yet mechanicly integral to the 3e core r...

It's so stupid you had to ask it twice? :wtf:[br][br]Well, piercing is ever-so-slightly worse than slashing as damage types go (no damage against 3.0 alpha skellingtons (2000 survival kit in 1st printing PHB), keen/keen edge errata issues, no special ability type unquie to piercing (such as vorpal o...

It hinges on the assumption that with quick draw you can not only draw a weapon as a free action, but shift from a one handed to a two handed grip as a free action.[br][br]Since dropping a weapon is also a free action, and since you can do free actions in the middle of another action, and since atta...

But both Dropping a weapon and Quick Drawing a weapon are free actions. So why exactly would you ever actually take the -1 to AC with this weapon..?[br][br]As it is a partial-two handed weapon, you can already abuse the 3.5 Power Attack grip-shifting weapon juggle trick with it.[br][br]For true fine...

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