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I see what you did there.[br][br]Anyway, there should probably be at least one iconic of each color, and a Gadgeteer is a given.[br][br]Another issue is whether there are going to be PC races not playable from level 1. Guys with flight, big elemental resistances, or 'flavor-breakingly odd' (if you w...

IMO very low levels should have the characters with very mundane abilities. Maybe you can animate a few zombies or shoot bolts of fire, but you can't fly, you aren't heavily resistant to any damage types (I'm assuming this system won't offer immunity), and you're pretty much stuck using mundane mean...

The neat thing about puzzles is that given the time and resources, anyone can beat them regardless of level. The difficulty lies in doing it quickly.[br][br][br]A bit of water can make for a good low-level puzzle:[br][br]A broad, quickly flowing river.[br][br]A cave entrance half-filled with water, ...

Alright, I'm sold on the attribute thing.

1198322612[/unixtime]][br] So I noticed that you need to use all of the attribute combos to get 15 separate options (which fits exactly the 5 colors & 3 classes per color). Which will it be? We could do something contrived like having every color get 1 phys/phys, 1 mental/mental, and 1 physical...

Heh, I've actually just been looking things over.[br][br]I like consistency, and I think that making them skill feats is a pretty good idea. At the same time, you might want to make the level 0 abilities include 'always considers X a class skill'. This does two things: it requires a small continuing...

I guess that's the problem with attribute-based systems. My bias is that I have trouble seeing physical attributes governing slavery magic.[br][br]Anyway, now that you've 'defined Black first', got a lineup for the other colors? I'm interested in whether it's going to follow the same pattern of figh...

Why not just have enemies act according to their inclination and intelligence?

Ok, get a blindfold of true darkness and an eversmoking bottle. And a good listen check.

1198270022[/unixtime]]Yeah I'd agree, a better fix would be to just say "Samurai gets +1 to critical threat range for slashing and piercing weapons every 5 levels" [br]Yeah, let's rape the shakuhachi-using samurai and make the pick-wielders even more deadly.[br][br]I really just meant tha...

Dealing with demons when there are monster wells is just a little odd. What is a demon at that point, anyway? The only thing I see Black doing which is especially heretical is actually selling their souls, assuming they'll be able to buy them back later.[br][br]But I know so little about how the fla...

What the fuck? How is that so much worse than elves currently are? I'll you grant that the aura is a bad idea, and the feat is pathetic, but other than that it seems fine. It's not perfect, but it's hardly worse than 3e.

1198264690[/unixtime]]The DM-altered stats for a katana in my game are acceptable (if inferior)[br][br]1d8, 20, x3[br][br]Note: also the same as a Warhammer IIRC.[br][br]Yes, it sucks that the Samurai is getting abilities like "Subtle Cut" when Dual-Wielding Extending Light Picks (probabl...

Then get a ring of darkhidden.

1198233507[/unixtime]]My thought is that the mana nodes should be bad . That is, they create monsters and make things go all flooby. There's valuable stuff there and everything, but it's dangerous and you can't really have a civilization there. [br]At that point, you might as well go to an 'interse...

Well, it is ironic that the closest weapon to a katana in D&D, the scimitar, is actually one of the worst choices due to kiai.

1198195471[/unixtime]] 1198192703[/unixtime]][br]The list of medicines that should be avoided or minimized when taking antipsychotics or antidepressants is very long. It's an important subject.[br][br]-Crissa [br][br]I find is somewhat disturbing that my shrink never at any point discussed that wit...

1198194606[/unixtime]]I have a suggestion for the Tome Samurai "Kiai".[br][br]Rather than auto-crits pushing optimizers towards selecting very non-samurai weapons such as the scythe or pick , it might scale better with a bonus to damage dice similar to the Tome Barbarian, or even a set am...

[br][br]So as for the setting itself, you've got a Magic-like world where major power & populations tend to be centered around 'mana pools' which, through incentive, limit travel?[br][br]I'm guessing that the pools themselves tend to occur naturally in appropriate locations (black - fen, green -...

SunTzuWarmaster at [unixtime wrote:1198187538[/unixtime]]
Shadowcraft Mage (they are fun, but be aware the the character will be casting a large of the wizard spell list spontaeously, many of which have no save).

Shadow *ation always allows a save (Will) and SR.

Dungeons and Discourse 4?

My suggestion is make it up yourself or use spiderweb or brigandine.

"Armored in Runes" -> "Runescribed Flesh". Why? Because Boneblade Reapers have "Deathscribed Flesh".[br][br][br]Other than that no comment. I've had a thing for runic magic since I set eyes on Wayne Barlowe's Inferno , but this is quite a different beast.[br][br][br] ht...

1198010100[/unixtime]][br]First, I don't know where a lot fo these spells come from, like binding winds, earth bind, earthen grace, wall of sand, wall of water, and of course summon elemental. [br]http://crystalkeep.com/d20/rules/DnD3.5Index-Spell-Summaries-byName.pdf[br]:) [br][br][br]As for their...

Got a race yet? Whisper gnome?