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Is it me, or does it feel like the creations in books prior to the Races of War almost pale in comparison? Y'know, it feels like there's power creep going on here.

I mean, how is a Jester supposed to compare to a Fighter?

Judging by the existance of the Wish-economy, the romping about of high level adventurers and all their stuff, what do the low-level adventurers actually fight? How can there be a bunch of ogres harassing the townsfolk when you have wizards that can teleport all over the land and obliterate anything...

Why must I ignore any ideas I have and go with what someone else has done?[br][br]If you look at one of the Dungeonomicon's options, my spells are fairly similar to Frank & K's ideas (version 2 in particular). Their arguments and opinions aren't invalidated, I'm accepting them as good points to ...

Y'know what? Fine. Let Constitution give you your hit points.

Y'know, if you really want to do a menu of stuff to choose from, go right ahead. Or just use the innumerable examples already created. I consider the menu option to be overly complicated, more like doing your taxes even if it's very comprehensive.[br][br]If you just want a pure combat buff, then I t...

If you really think that polymorph should grant bonuses to Strength and Dexterity, I don't think it should be horribly based on what form you take, as that just sets up the original problem of Polymorph getting better with every single new monster you ever create. It's already got a little bit of th...

Granting the strength & dexterity is, more or less, part of the slippery slope that caused our balance concerns inthe first place.[br][br]The intent is that Change Shape is supposed to borderline illusion based, and all it does is magically shape your body to look like your subject. Since type a...

I myself am a big fan of the idea of changing Polymorph to instead grant the following to the caster.[br][br] Change Shape [br]A creature with this special quality has the ability to assume the appearance of a specific creature or type of creature (usually a humanoid), but retains most of its own ph...

I don't know if one should conclude that the Modron March is an effectively randomly-occurring event simply on the basis that the only adventure/story that talked about it was off-schedule.[br][br]The time frame of the setting (less than the several century period mentioned) doesn't allow for room t...

Judging by the fact they likely combined skills into one another (Spot, Listen, Sense Motive, all one skill), and it sounds like there will be the occasional opposed rolls with them too, there are probably very few non-scaling skills.

Your character starts at level 3, and there are few ways to keep people from just charging you if you do that. Works fine against the non-melee types, of which there aren't many.

Oh, they have a severe limitation on having 'allies' (purchased animals, Planar Bindings, etc). You basically can't have any with a CR higher than your Level-4 (minimum of 1) in the fight with you. Note, this doesn't count the Summon Monster line of spells or similar. And I'm certain they'll use tha...

Believe me, they've inspired me now to start trying to do that stuff. Just need to get someone with Use Magic Device high enough. There is a possible problem, they're willing to instate house rules on rare occasions to keep the game 'balanced & fun'. For instance, Gate is completely banned in al...

Basically, it's D&D Fight Club. You creat/post your character, using only the SRD for rules (which includes psionics). Every week, you and everyone else's characters are paired off for arena combat, where you send your tactics to a third party who then runs the fight using the tactics from both ...

I can't believe this, this is some of the worst rules-lawyering I've ever seen.[br][br]I made a character that used Forced Share Pain on his opponent, and then jumped into lava. They were initially at a loss, because they normally have a rule to avoid fights that end in a draw, which happened when m...

The basic idea is that you can summon an efreeti with Lesser Planar Binding, and then have it grant you wishes. If it resists your spell and attacks, it's a CR 8 creature against a party of readied level 9 characters. You have all the time in the world to get it or the next summoned efreeti to do yo...

Phalanx Wall [br]Prerequisites: Proficiency in heavy shields, BaB +1[br]Benefit: With a move action or while using the Total Defense option, you may grant yourself improved cover (+8 cover bonus to AC) until the beginning of your next turn. You give up your standard shield bonus to AC when doing th...

The Savage Worlds has an open-ended system with its dice, meaning any time you roll the maximum value for a particular die, you roll again and add to the prior roll (doing so again if the die rolls maximum). The system only counts the 'single' highest die roll in regards to how successful you are.[b...

Well, the DM finally got a looksie of my ability scores and allowed me to upgrade the 7 to a 10. And since I'm getting flak, how does this look...

Str 8
Dex 12
Con 16
Int 17
Wis 8
Cha 14

That's one of the reasons I chose Craft (Alchemy), and the RP reasons are there too. Also, some of the supplements have various alternate items that make the skill useful (Auran Mask from Complete Arcane, for example). I forgot to ask if poison would craftable with the skill too, and if it is, there...

Well, I think I'm modifying my design a little bit. I'm going to be a gnome illusionist, and I managed to verify with my DM that he won't stealth-nerf illusions (they have to interact/action-investigate to get a save).[br][br]I have the followed rolled statistics to mess around with (pre-racial)...1...

Figured this would be a better section to ask, especially since I believe the Wizards forum would be suggesting I be an evoker...[br][br]I'm going to be in a campaign soon, starting at 1st level, and I'm wanting to play your stereotypical wizard that researches magic for magic's sake.[br][br]I have ...

I'm curious as to what kind of hidden power lies in illusion I see K talk about every so often. I'm aware of the strength inherent in Color Spray and the Shadow line, but there seems to be a deep respect for even stuff like silent image , even being placed in his personal "spells that fvcking k...

Wouldn't you not get the shield bonus if you attacked with it for that round?

I didn't mean the twist was that dwarves are allowed to be necromancers, I meant that necromancy was a major aspect of their culture. One doesn't think of dwarf when you hear the clang of the smithing hammer, you think of dwarves when you see a skeleton walking down the road with a letter in its han...