Q 69: Is there any way to intercept attacks meant for another player (IE, jump in front of the sword)? Shield other doesn't work for my purposes, the person trying to take the hit needs it to hit them.
There is also a Luck feat, Good Karma out of Complete Scoundrel p78. AaEG p128 has rules to make items that grant feats, with a cost based on the feats prerequisites. ~15,000gp.
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There are Brown Dragons in Monsters of Faerun. It's 3e, but none of it should be very hard to convert to 3.5.
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Damn Ninja'ed.
To update any and all 3.0 FR monsters to 3.5 you can look in the web enhancement for PGtF.
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/we/20040313aQ 71 Is there a rule somewhere saying if an NPC with a higher point buy system than a PC should be +1 CR than that of one using the elite system? Just read an adventure and all of the villainous NPCs either have a 36-38 point build, or the person who made it rolled really well with his 3d6.
The closest I can say is the DMG p39 talking about when and how to modify the EL/CR for experience after the fact. Honestly, if you want to be fair to the party CR requires a lot of "eyeballing" as it is, since there are things with a high CR that a party should be able to deal with easily (Assuming Tier 2-3 average), but things that are lower CR that could overwhelm party (unless Tier 1 majority).
CR is a lie, so I would just make the enemy, look at whether I am tailoring it to the party or not. Judge the product of the creation as to if I think the party should be able to take him on or not. I use the "listed" CR for initial planning, then adjust afterwards based on how hard it was.
As a monstrous example, I threw a 15HD Summoning Ooze (MM3, CR 9) at a 5-man, 10th level party. With it's SM6 at-will, I just had it summon large earth elementals, which is by no means the best thing it could have done. One revive, two healed-from dyings later (the party had made some grievous errors), I gave them XP for a CR 13. Two sessions prior, this same party had dealt with a EL 15 encounter with Shadesteel + undead with only limited issue.
Listed CR is a joke, DMG p39 is an absolute necessity to be fair. So don't worry too much about the RAW for adjusting the ENPC stats, so long as you think it is still a fair fight.