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The main problem is that the rules for retrain are a big pile of shit. eg, those rules allow a character to be a mono-classed mysthic theurge; it isn't even difficult. Knowing if such a character get spells is left as an exercise to the reader. And no-one knows if it's intended, since they make so m...

Yeah, I like the 'monks are mage killers' shit particularly. First it means that one of the opponents has to actually be a mage (spellcaster with low AC and hp), and needs to be less than level 5, where it can cast 'fuckyou' (also spelled 'fly'). That's the conclusion I drew from many internet disc...

I mean, for fucks sake this is 4E levels of lame mythic. Actually... No. Epic powers in 4e have at least an epic fluff texts. The technical effect is full of shit, but the description is something like " you shot powerful lasers with your eyes, disintegrating anything in your line of sight &qu...

Archmage Joda wrote:The two posts you made look good. I'm just wondering, though, if there's anything on the same vein for wizard? Like, Evocation (Admixture) specialists?

Admixture specialist and preferred spell. This makes the blaster sorcerer looks like a small piece of shit.

Rawbeard wrote:I'm not sure what you a trying to argue here.

I try to understand why the zen archer is considered as very good on some forums. I agree that comparing zen archer and ranger is like arguing about a parasport competition.

Why can't a ranger makes use of haste attack?

Way more attacks. Only at high level. At level 2, they have the same attack sequence. At level 6, both gain an iterative attack, and the ranger gains manyshot, which is essentially an other attack at max BBA. At level 8, the monk gains an other attack (at -7), and he is still not on par with the ra...

Rawbeard wrote:I'm not even talking about infinite Ki. Zen Archer for example is stupid good. Not Wizard good, don't get me wrong. Dishes out the hurt like it promises and you have to try to be bad at it, since the archetype gives you everything you need.

How is the zen archer better than a core ranger ?

I'm talking about how an "Elven Rocker" spends 9 skill points on singing and harp (yes, harp , for a rocker ) http://www.hipharp.com/graphics/index-graphics/index-generic-vai-bea-2013.jpg I think Deborah Henson-Conant got her electric harp before 1992 (ie before the publication of Shadow ...

Pathfinder is disliked because every splatbook is more full of shit than the previous one. And not only because of balance or some other abstract concept: they are poorly written and never playtested. Seriously, there are archetypes which have more errata than their whole archetype description, arch...

Drolyt wrote:Huh, I feel kind of stupid now.

Me too.

hp 165 (10d8+20+100): So, he has 10 HD, but gets bonus HP from two different sources, one of which I don't know what they are. I'll just have to roll with it. [...] Also, Base Attack +17? What the hell? He only has 10 HD, and he only gets two attacks on a full attack and not four. So, obviously, th...

They're built to very different guidelines. Your cyclops is the same CR and type as a fire giant, but superior in almost every respect. I pulled a couple completely random examples and got weird results, but lets look at your example, eh? The mighty cyclops is a regular monster (cyclops) with a tem...

How is it a feat at all?

Isn't Bluff intended to deceive jailers (and any other peoples)?

The race book isn't about creating balanced races, it's all about arithmetic exercises. You create a race, then you make some additions and obtain a number. That number has nothing to do with anything, it doesn't represent the power of your race or anything useful: it's just a number you obtained us...

tussock wrote:[*] This shoe-horns high level play into the space where being a sword-guy is still a thing anyone cares about. You simply stat everything such that sword-guy is valid.

You really want to give hit point to investigations or court intrigues ?

"But it's for a great RP opportunity!"

...because you know, having the ring of your father, and selling it at each level to buy a new one is "a great roleplay opportunity".

Fortunately, PCs never encounter an evil party. Only lone necromancers with useless minions. And minions can't be low-level monsters, they have to be high-level minions. You can't fight a Ringwraith at low level, and then a group of Ringwraiths a few level later: the group of Ringwraith have to use ...

Well A) Why wouldn't it. If the PCs want to try to take advantage of the BBEGs cooldowns being on, why is that a bad thing? It could work. Let's say your BEEG has two lieutenants and 10 minions, everyone has cooldown ability, the DM has to track something like 20 cooldown. It makes your idea shitti...

Oh yes, cooldown-classes can be balanced with unlimited-classes. And cooldown-classes are a shitty idea in a tabletop RPG - it's a cool idea when a computer tracks the cooldown, and a shitty idea in tabletop context. But it works in tabletop if the cooldown is, for no explained reason, "until t...

When the limited-class has to stop, what does the unlimited-class? If the unlimited-class has also to stop because she needs the help of other characters, then the unlimited-class is shit. If the unlimited-class can continue and finish the dungeon all by herself, then the limited-class is shit. Eith...

So I guess the question is Synthesist: The best Pathfinder character, or merely very good? It's probably the worse Summoner archetype. A regular summoner has two characters with something like 90% of the power of a non-full-caster, while the synthesist has only 1 character with 120% of the power of...

In case anyone wants to look into some of the crazy in more depth, I found the pdf online here . There's a table about there level: 1d3 Level compared to PC 1 lower (3 or fewer) 2 equal 3 higher (3or more) How is this piece of shit supposed to work? Do all elf in the work level up so that 33% of th...

infected slut princess wrote:Elves are gay.

They aren't just gay, they are gayer than you.

If that's how you read it...I dont. If you wake up and spend 5 hours hiking across the countryside and killing goblins, you no longer have "a clear head gained from a restful night's sleep". You have a tired mind from hiking and goblin-killing. At the least, you need to do it relatively s...

Because Arcane trickster is better than straight up rogue :) and being a Straight up Wizard wasn't an option. I had to make a sneaky/disarm traps/trapfinder character. Rogue 1/wizard N-1 works better. Or at least, a bard archetype with trapfinding (like sandman). There are no actions and turns unti...