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It's such a pity Color Spray is pretty much useless after level 3-4, it would fit your theme very well.

They do, as a rule, have a standard action casting time.

After a day or so re-activating Unholy Aura every 18 rounds, it would be tedious. After a week, it would be nearly unbearable. After a month, it would be habit. After a year, it would be thoughtless habit. After ten years, it would be as natural as blinking is to humans. My pit fiends roll...

Put Greater Dispel Magic in a (or two) Ring(s) of Counterspelling. Cheaper, and leaves the Contingency for other uses. There was a thread not too long ago debating the use of Contingency to counterspell things; if you do indeed allow it in your game (I would) I'd use it to make a Greater Dispel...

I would say that he could take powers from any level. My reasoning is this: The player followed the rules as normal when picking powers for his PRCed psion (number of new powers per level, capped by effective psion manifester level), with the additional restriction of maximum level 6 powers...

Using Use Magic Device to get access to spells outside your specialisation school may still be useful for high level Wizard/Loremaster characters, as the Loremaster prestige class gets access to UMD. Thanks for the tip. :)

This is incorrect. The sound velocity of water being higher than air has no impact on sound waveforms, and as such does not impact how you hear things. The reasons you have problems hearing things underwater are different, namely; 1) Water compression due to sound wave propagation is not linear...

For rules regarding player characters, XP and levels, things like that, the PHB is the primary source, and thus the MM ruling is irrelevant.

That's the wrong ruling, because Shield Other wouldn't protect the casting cleric, it would protect the nameless minion. If the nameless minion cast it on the BBEG cleric in step 1, then I think it's the correct ruling. I see a problem with the ruling, yes. But I think it's one supported by the...

OK, so you can fill the area within a 35' radius around the center point of the teleport circle (assuming 30' max speed for the participants) with people, and each spend a move action getting to the teleport circle and a standard action activating it, all within the same round. That works...

Why be so dead set on defeating Knock? If your solution to blocking progress is doors, you will be tearing out your hair in frustration in a few levels anyway, when Dimension Door becomes available, not to speak of Passwall, Find the Path, Divination, etc. Doors and/or walls that are...

Well, the text says; "Additionally, the subject takes only half damage from all wounds and attacks (including that dealt by special abilities) that deal hit point damage. The amount of damage not taken by the warded creature is taken by you." So long as the warded creature has the spell active...

Doubly so if they share Vigor with their Psicrystal and manifest Share Pain with it.

I have the delay "action" delay the reset. I do not have the Ready action delay the reset. As far as I can remember it's never come up on ready actions though, and I can see how not delaying the reset on it would make it arguable that a character who readies should get two resets during the...

Right, sorry. I read that as talking generically about the ability that rogues get at third level (but generally have throughout their career; that it is not effective for one level is true but I didn't consider it), not specifically as talking about a third level rogue. Rereading it I see that...

Or if it is using an entirely different standard action than an attack. For instance a breath weapon, a SLA, or a spell.

Only if they trade away Uncanny Dodge. Dodge bonuses are lost when you're denied Dex bonus to AC, not when you are flat-footed (PHB p. 136). Rogues get their Dex bonus to AC even while flat-footed due to Uncanny Dodge. This is not to be taken as an argument supporting either side of the...

This. The turn-based combat in DnD is explicitly states it's intending to simulate simultaneous actions by all participants of the combat. You don't actually stand still outside your turn - it's an abstraciton to make combat move at a reasonable pace. Also, I would rule that this text means...

I agree, it's horribly worded. It is ambiguous as to whether you roll the original damage dice several times, for instance.

By implication yes, because that same page lists an exception: "Exception: Extra damage dice over and above a weapon’s normal damage are never multiplied." Edit: Rules compendium p.17 on multiplying damage states: "Roll the damage dice and add all modifiers multiple times. Total the results...