The Gaming Den

Sorry for the absence; I'm trying to finish off a semester of grad school and haven't been as active on forums over the past couple days. I also have some Undead Qestions/Issues: Liches should use KOM for for Netherworld Grasp rather than Int? Mummy damage reduction is weak relative to other sources...

Since we've apparently got one of the designers posting here, is it intentional that high-level Tactician spells are crappy? Are characters focused on spell casting expected to take both spell tracks and Multiclass Flexibility? I'll give you that high-level Tactician spells are a lot less flashy th...

Thanks again for the criticism, particularly with such a civil tone. I should note at the top that when I suggest someone may be wrongly evaluating an ability because of a "3.x bias" that may not apply, it's also possible that I have an authorial bias where I don't think something is a pro...

I'm one of the writing credits on the book, and figured I could clarify a couple things and explain some of our methodology when designing Legend . JE, you clearly don't know nearly as much about history, anthropology, or much of anything else as you think you do, so you're on ignore. First, when ta...

Keeps you from getting shredded by sneak attacks.

You don't automatically get the actions, it's a cap on how many you can get. There are many ways to access more actions than that via magic, psionics, or minions, all of which wreck arena fights. So, the max number of actions is capped at a more manageable number.

What's up with that? Did people just fib a lot about their rolls/stats back then? Or did DMs just do something completely different for die rolling other than what the PHB suggested? The 2e group I played with in college normally used 5d6b3, 7 times, arrange the best 6 as desired. One of the first ...

The Summoner's on the bard casting schedule, so the spell level thing isn't really that bad. The problem is when its pet is demonstrably better than a Pathfighter at just about every level (it starts to even out at higher levels, but there's still a definite gap). The Witch is the real joke class of...

It's a reference to the TV commercials for freecreditreport.com. If you watch enough TV in the US to get the reference, it's a bad (but funny) pun.

What's being done for ability generation?

A single lost level of spell progression, for a wizard, is not a deal-breaker in and of itself. It slows you down to beguiler spell progression. That's it. Big deal. The question is if the class features you're getting from your PrC outweigh the disadvantage of being half a spell level behind other ...

Frank, the trick is to get Personal-range spells on a beatstick (alternatively, spells that aren't on your spell list) because the symbiont's spells affect you and vice-versa. OP, the easiest way to pull it off is via Shapechange, or possibly via Polymorph Any Object. No, seriously. It's a weird abi...

They generally nerfed spellcasting outsiders by making it so that caster levels weren't higher than HD anymore. Planetars might even be vaguely close to CR 16 now.

First off, if NPCs aren't built the same way PCs are, that tends to kill verisimilitude because even the NPCs that are supposed to be like the PCs aren't. It also tends to screw up your loot system, because what PCs get via items NPCs then get via arbitrarium. Second, 4e's NPC-generation system wasn...

What if utility magic only provided numerical bonuses to d20 rolls? So Invisibility isn't "you're invisible, if someone already knows you're there they're at a -20 to Spot anyway," it's "your form becomes translucent and you get a +X bonus per Y CL to Hide checks." That way, the ...

There's also Arcane Disciple, if you're a beguiler. Doesn't work for bards or sorcerers, though.

Isn't 17th level a little bit late to get any kind of dispelling? Either lose Reaving Dispel or put a lower-level dispel on so that the Spirit Shaman actually has that option.

4) What in the name of Jesus the multi-middle named Christ do you mean I don't get a fudging team?! Maybe for the cleric I can understand (summons and all) but at least he'll need the round to summon them (the surprise round should put him near death and most likely I'll be moving before him on the...

Probably Paizo's "Armor Training" fighter class feature; it gives the fighter a scaling mundane bonus to the armor bonus of whatever armor the fighter's wearing, as well as increasing max Dex bonus at the same scaling rate. Combine that with a Mithral Breastplate or something of that sort ...

How are you defining "civilization," Frank? Humans certainly inhabited areas frequented by brown bears prior to possessing firearms (most of the western United States, for example), so is civilization something on the order of ancient Egypt/Mayans/Greece and up? I'm honestly not convinced ...

Willow Rosenberg — Who shuns him and decides to become a lesbian instead when he finally thinks he want's a relationship with her. But her evil lesbianism witchery only leads her into becoming an evil monster woman and trying to kill everyone! Wtf? She shuns him, sure. It's in the first season, bec...

Winged boots take a standard action to activate. (Unless this was changed in Pathfinder) So does Spell-Like Ability: Fly Sure, but even if the winged boots last 1 min/CL (I'm not familiar with the item, and it's not in any of the Pathfinder .pdfs), the CL of the boots will likely be lower than the ...

I picked up NWN on a couple friends' recommendation late in high school, and immediately decided that as fun as it was, having a game that wasn't already programmed into a computer would be infinitely better. After that, it was just a matter of getting back from college long enough to meet up with t...

Krau Sigil Illumian (Races of Destiny) saves you from the last CL loss.

If PrCs are okay, Nightsong Enforcer from Complete Adventurer is +1 BAB, +4d6 sneak over 10 levels, and 4 skills.