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"Would this work?" "How would this work if I did...?"

3.5 prep time is only long if you think you have to make every encounter and NPC like a PC. You don't Most NPCs don't even need a full set of skills or skills by class. Know what your PCs are capable of and make your encounters to suit. This may take some practice. As long as your end product...

Wait...the fighter is being effective and you want to punish him for that? /facepalm

In my campaigns curing is ("white") Necromancy, my second choice would be Evocation, not Conjuration. Conjuration: manipulates space/time (ok, more space and not so much time...) to bring creatures or objects to your location or to allow you to rapidly travel great (and small) distances...

I do not see this as a problem mechanically. The Wizard wants to heal? Great, let him do it. Every Cure-line spell cast (in combat or out of combat) is one fewer Battlefield Control, Save or Die, or Direct Damage spell cast later. Fluff dictates that healing is the province of the divine...

Hmm. Not mention Summons...

I can't pick just one and I just know I am going to neglect excellent books from each edition. Ah well... 1e: * Legends and Lore: for a kid who loved reading about ancient mythologies, this was an amazing find in my youth. * Unearthed Arcana: so much good stuff. I used this all through 2e. 2e...

Any of the above is fine, depends on the context of the setting.

Before level upgrades, "items", etc... and assuming none of them have templates. Reed Richards (and possibly Dr Strange): 18. Tony Stark: 17-18 Peter Parker: 15 - 16

Sure, sure. I don't tend to play realistic people in D&D. I play Heroes (and sometimes villains).

A Corrupted and Violated SLA, say Cone of Cold for 40pts would deal 10 Unholy, 10 Unholy / Vile, 10 Cold, and 10 Cold / Vile. The cold immune victim would be immune to the latter half (both of which are still Cold dmg)... making it Vile does not make it less cold. Vile is not a damage type of...

Well, perhaps unfortunately, there is a "right way" to make a Fighter (for example). High Str and Con is far more effective than say going with Dex and Cha (swashbuckler style?) Until that changes, expect players to want certain scores in certain stats for certain class configurations. This is...

IIRC, you roll stats, then choose race and class. So if you get an 18, why bother with percentile when you can just choose a race that gives +1 Str and have a 19? Elf had a subrace... Wood or Wild that gave +1 str and +1 dex...

I don't roll for stats either way (PC or NPC). Randomization is great for combat, but I am over it for character creation. And as a DM I just give whatever stats makes sense to me at the time. Mooks are generally pretty average in everything but what I need them to do. NPCs of note are built on...

Which is why (I presume) Dandu also listed Corrupted SLA. 1/2 damage is Unholy and Vile and half would be Cold and Vile. The cold immune critter would be immune to only the Cold/Vile damage and not the Unholy/Vile half.