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Obdurium (from the Stronghold Builder's Guide) has hardness of 30 and 40 hp per inch of thickness. You can get that to a hardness of 40 via the hardening spell (from the Spell Compendium), which is permanent so you just do that eventually. Adamantine only pierces hardness up to 20, so even with ada...

I don't have the original calculations available anymore - I debated them here (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?174987-Spellcaster-Magic-Immunity-3-5) and did the original calculation here: (http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19864558/Playing_the_unbeatable_wizard?pg=1)...

What? Why would the weight matter? It weighs as much as a cloth cone weighs while shrunk. Nope, it just has the composition of one: You are able to shrink one nonmagical item (if it is within the size limit) to 1/16 of its normal size in each dimension ( to about 1/4,000 the original volume and mas...

How about the Wizard's Hat/Tinfoil Hat defense? Antimagic Field is dangerous, but can be defeated with a bit of prep. You get a tall metal cone, big enough to stand in. Then you cast Shrink Item on it, turning it into a cloth cone which you wear as a hat. When you enter an AMF, it snaps back to ful...

If anywhere in 5e states how to get a friendly golem having a single clay golem will deal with 90% of the problems in the Monster Manual. That's actually a thing - the manual of golems in the DMG allows you to craft a golem that's loyal to its maker. The MM even helpfully points you to the item in ...

Screw all that nonsense. What you want is the Echani Training and Slammer feats, and the Heavy-Duty Actuators and Hammerblow talents. Echani training doubles your Strength bonus to damage whenever you make only one unarmed attack in a round. Slammer is a Standard action attack that deals your base u...

Ok, you can pick DR at low levels in 3.5 if you're willing to play the robot splatbook race and spend a feat anyway, or if you pick one of two pseudo-caster classes from a widely banned splatbook. You realize that those are not exclusive lists, right? There are other ways to prove you wrong, those ...

Like, actual medieval ship battles had hundreds of people making boarding actions at once, including armoured knights crossing on horseback and forming up to charge down the line of contacting enemy ships. Not to mention the scores of archers firing from cover-providing towers to soften up any resi...

Is there a list of spells weakened in PF(glitter dust)compared to spells improved in PF? Rule of thumb: Every spell from the 3.5 PHB that was save-or-lose has been nerfed. "Death" becomes "pile of damage", crippling conditions come with new saves every round. No spells have been...

Do people on the internet ever apologize for anything? I think you'd have better odds of murdering someone and making buddy-buddy with their surviving family members than you do of getting someone on the internet to agree they might have been wrong. Well, it's not an apology, but definitely an admi...

Pike, have you read the studies? On average the temperature is rising slightly, that is not what I dispute. Some yes, the problem is that we lack enough data to plot really term trends. it would be like if you only had the weather data for Texas for November and nothing else about the earth's data ...

so....you would trust what anyone at Wotc said about anything no matter who it was? they must love you in advertising. you might have a point if we could put numbers to the likelihood, if we KNEW there was a 95% that 4e was a failure then sure you would have a point. but we do not. We lack the data...

your assuming Wotc would only make good decisions, this is not true, as they are human. also what is good for the exec's is not always what is good for Wotc. So maybe....one of their not good decisions .....was 4e? Maybe its a little fucked up? Just a little? At best their actions tell us at least ...

your assuming Wotc would only make good decisions, this is not true, as they are human. also what is good for the exec's is not always what is good for Wotc. So maybe....one of their not good decisions .....was 4e? Maybe its a little fucked up? Just a little? At best their actions tell us at least ...

Just because you are incapable of processing data that is not spoon-fed to you doesn't mean other people can't put two and two together and get fucking four. Get your head out of Mike Mearl's ass and think about what you are saying. Your argument is seriously that it is more likely that WotC covere...

For the druid, it sounds like the best way to go would be to have the power level of the spirits you get randomly go up as you level, while your lower-level spirits become at-will(-ish) to represent your increasing mastery over them. "Yeah, it used to be that air elementals were too capricious ...

What propaganda are you talking about? I should have been more clear. Please provide a link to your data. Anything Wotc or anyone who works for them says that has not been verified by a trusted third party is propaganda. Same with any other company unless they are admitting to something so heinous ...

For that matter, D&D is stingly with outside of combat time resurrection, too. In Final Fantasy, you'll be okay as long as your allies can drag your corpse to an inn. In D&D, the time it takes a Cleric to rest and refresh his spells would render you unraisable. You'd need Resurrection, a 7t...

To 'splain: The dip of Scout is to get Evasion. Dean mentioned this .... In a separate post on the iron man which I admit I didn't bother with, but not in the initial post I was going on. To be honest the assumption that when Dean said the Ironman was straight soldier he meant "no dips into sc...

So, tell us, where is the pile of lame incremental talents this build relies on? Evasion is about as nice as core talents gets. But as "straight soldier" isn't getting it and I have no idea why you put scout 1 in there. So, you admit you didn't actually do more than skim Dean's posts so y...

PL, you know what talents Iron Man has taken by level 7, being a Soldier 6/Scout 1? Dean didn't post a build and I can fucking tell you what it should have: Evasion, Armored Defense, Improved Armored Defense, and [whatever the fuck you want]. The last talent is a free-roll here. Personally, I would ...

That helps me very little. Off the top of my head: Metal is very rare (don't expect to start with it). Arcane magic is intensely distrusted because it can be used to literally suck the life out of your surroundings (and there is an absolutely broken feat that allows you to no-save nauseate everyone...

... nope. You're trolling, that is the only explanation fro what you just said. Maybe you should let the people who are codifying the idea finish fucking codifying it before telling them that they are clearly wrong about their interpretation of the thing they just fucking wrote. I am all for not as...

For those, probably, but there are other monsters that more explicitly go through stone. Specifically, the Delver corrodes stone away with acid for a burrow speed of 10' per round. In this particular setting, they were probably employed to cut tunnels through bedrock to enemy strongholds in the War...

OK, runestaves are fucking weird. There's shit like shield on the already printed ones, but the guidelines on creating runestaves say this: If you want to create a runestaff of your own design, it should have two to five arcane spells associated with it, and the spells should be thematically linked...