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Ring gates seem like a really fun, but confusing item. Reading through the description I was left with several questions that I can't find an answer too. Any help is appreciated.

1. Can you see through a ring gate? If so is it one way or bidirectional? I assume yes because you can cast spells through it.

2. Speaking of spells. Do you calculate LoE and LoS using the gate or does the exit gate need to be in range of the spell from you? If I have an unseen servant carry the ring is its effective range now 100 miles?

3. What about area spells and emanations? If I cast lightning bolt can it pass through the ring?

4. Pressure differences. Would a ring gate at the bottom of a lake shoot out water? Would the solid stream be a continuous item or would it clip at 100 lbs?

5. What happens when something goes in the exit side? Does it pass through harmlessly? What about if someone sticks their arm in the exit side and leaves it there? How would that affect normal use?

I am sure I will think of more. But if anyone knows about the above it is appreciated.

Recently in my game a tower shield specialist wanted to gain full cover from a stationary ranged enemy using a tower shield. For some reason I thought that a tower shield had to be set to be used in this manner, but reading the rules it does seem that all it takes is a standard action to gain cover from one direction until the start of your next turn. Does this mean that tower shield users can advanced on ranged battlements with impunity or edge along battle fields avoiding attacks of opportunity? I'm not sure that it is really too powerful to allow, but I wanted to know if there was any official clarification.

I wanted to make a custom item that gave uses of Elemental Body III or IV similar to the Earth Elemental Belt, though in my case it would fire. My DM is fine with it so I looked for a similar item to use as a base. I found the earth elemental belt and tried to break it down. The raw rules for pricing a magic item say that a 1/day use of a level 6 spell should be 23,750 gp (((6*11)*1800)/5). The belt only costs 24,000 gp total and is a +4 Con belt with force movement negation in addition to the elemental body effect.

I know not all items follow the pricing formula exactly, but that is a huge divergence. Most the items I found that gave you a polymorph effect had other abilities that made trying to figure the price of the polymorph part of the item hard, but they all seemed to clock in under the default pricing guideline. Is it because they lock you to a single form as opposed to picking per activation? Does anyone have a good example item to use as a base or know why there seems to be such a large discount on the effect. Insight and thoughts greatly appreciated.