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When I was first introduced to 3.5 the people that taught me how to play (till i bought the book) used a house rule for max hp... pretty much you treat every hp roll as its maximum number. It wasn't till i read through the book that I noticed this was not the rule nor was it even a optional rule, and personally I think its just plain bad. The people I game with started using this rule because the people they used to play with cheated on hp rolls so they just gave everyone max (lol).

What do you guys think of this rule pros/cons (oh and this includes monsters getting max as well)

I just drew up a wizard for a friends game (my druid died) and I want to pay a cleric to use raise dead on the druid and in exchange I want him to teach me his druidic language (I have his dead animal companion as well, for a bargaining chip). So after a long discussion with my friends about the drastic steps druids will take against people for learning their language my question is...

What would a druid/conclave do in this situation and what are some examples of the steps druids will take to prevent the language from being taught or what to do if someone learns it?

So I'm a 6th lvl druid, my wild shape allows me to go elemental now (one of my favorite things to do as a druid), so I decide earth elemental and earth glide under my allies feet to heal him from the ground.

my question is how does this work and what benefits/drawbacks does an enemy adjacent to my ally get as far as AoO and Cover bonuses go

for the time being I use the rules for water (treating the ground as water for the purposes of the earth glide)

I've searched everywhere on rules for this and cant find anything, basically it boils down like this

Im a wizard flying 30ft. in the air and a ranger 15ft. away from the square I'm flying over wants to shoot me.

What would be the distance for him to shoot (for range penalties and what not) and how do you determine distance in three dimensions like that.

some help on this or rules references would be very helpfull

a friend referenced the pythagorean theorem but if you use that the book should have something about it