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If so... how could a person with the ability to control space, time, matter, and minds not be tremendously more powerful than somebody who can punch real hard? Is there a system that manages to balance this somehow, or could there even be such a system? The DC superhero rpg took a shot at this in p...

Heh. What's practically the motto, hereabouts? That a character's mundane abilities are typically worth less, in-story, than a character's magical toolkit, right? Be it information, or transportation; or offense, and defense; or bypassing some problems with stealth, in between solving others with we...

Just bringing this back because something jumped out at me: I'm looking for ideas similar to the Beguiler, Puppeteer, etc. Can you make an fantasy diviner class that isn't just a big middle finger to the plot (or from the plot, depending on the DM's railroad tendencies)? Obviously they'd get detect ...

People: -alignment (see: Detect ___) -what they're thinking (keep in mind that when you do this over an entire room of people, you will get dirty looks. Anyway, see: Detect Thoughts, Brain Spider, Telepathy) -spells affecting them (see: Arcane Sight) -pierce any illusions and see through shapeshift...

Monkey Kata. You gain Chinese, Begging, Acrobatics AND Gymnastics, Prowl, Climbing and Taoism. So basically you get a handy unique stance or two (sure, it's just a stat change, nothing particularly special, but whatever), a good bunch of stat boosts (note the skills) and they put some effort in. I ...

Kaelik wrote:That is a tremendously pathetic list of out of combat contributions.

You skipped over free-action Aid Another for double the bonus.

Also none of them can do fuck all anything outside of combat to actually justify their inclusion in the game That's a bit of an overstatement, isn't it? Even leaving aside the ability to forge magical gear, the bonus feats (plus Problem Solver) set the Tome Fighter to always be actively searching, ...

There's three, maybe four kinds of Clerics in 2nd edition. They're all pretty good, mechanically fight-winners, other than how your class has a gotcha where the DM gets to ruin your party even harder than everyone else's. [*]There's the basic core dude who only ever casts Cure Light Wounds, Hold Pe...