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The weapon is not magical. Heck, Smite Evil without specific phrasing would be affected by DR since it isn't a magical weapon attack, but adds to weapon damage.

However, a weapon attack WITH Smite Evil would be a supernatural attack, imho. Since you are making a Supernatural Attack, the weapon damage gets counted too before halving.

There's room to disagree here though. Heck, one could argue Smite Evil isn't a damaging attack at all. It's just a Supernatural Buff, and the resulting attacks are normal so long as that buff is active -- ergo, Smite Evil does nothing special against incorporeal creatures. RAW isn't clear.

I'll definitely agree with you there that the RAW isn't clear.

Am I about to make an FAQ request for it? No. Mainly because it's not likely to come up very often, but also because I can't shake the feeling I'd just be wasting the devs time. :)

I'm of the mind that these abilities don't count against the enhancement total, but I don't actually know. I'm curious to see the answer as well.

1. Make an Inquisitor.
2. Say "Yarrr!" A lot.
3. ????
4. Profit!

Ring of force shield also says it's treated as a heavy shield, so I'm gonna say you can't to that. It's not so much about the weight of the shield, as the amount of control necessary to wield it, and the amount of space in your hand it uses up.

Kind of like if you wanted to hold a sword and carry a platter full of food palm up in the same hand.

You could always drop the longsword as a free action though, and with a leather weapon cord retrieve it as a free action.

Unless my character was of an intellectual type, nature themed, or evil in some way, probably nothing.

That's far too much make-up if you ask me.

Well the other goblins shouldn't refer to them as long shanks for one. Personally I'd be more concerned about how the townsfolk would treat them, especially after the first chapter.

if you simply cast meteor swarm on level 9 you get the base 19 dc and 24d6 damage (84 damage, even assuming 2d6 blunt damage per sphere doesn't do anything)... that's without having either of the two feats vs. 60 damage with base 16 dc for a level 9 spell?

clearly a maximized fireball with dc 16 should not be a level 9 spell.

No metamagic feat is designed to empower a level 3 spell to be on par with a level 9 spell. Just because it's not as useful as you'd like, that doesn't make its definition wrong.

Besides, it can be entirely situational. You may be fighting high hd drow where a level 9 light spell is more important than casting meteor swarm because you have darkness spells coming out the wazoo and your true seeing was dispelled.

Maybe you don't have dominate monster so you felt it best to increase the DC of Suggestion. Maybe you just want your floating disk to be that much harder to get rid of.

It won't superpower your damage spells, other than to increase the DC, because that's not its point.