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At 20th level, you could have all published fighter feats , including all of the tactical feats, and all the weird crap like grenadier from splats. And you'd still suck. Right. How many times can you cut your way into the belly of the infinite devourer and sever his attachment to the seven realitie...

C&C skills are pretty good for an AD&D-alike. DC 18+HD, roll d20+level+stat mod, +6 if it's a class skill (sort of, they just use stat checks and favoured stats (part class, part choice) for everything). HD being the monster's HD, or the likeness of monster that an inanimate problem is simil...

Interesting. Here's more what I think you need to be in the game. Fighter: All Combat Feats as fixed class abilities, at whatever level they're minimally achievable. 5/4 BAB, +1/4 AC, all good saves, heavy armour ease. Crappy spellcasting (Pal/Rgr, maybe as PPs) for basic anti-magic and divination a...

My friend, you need to understand Heh, good one. that if 20 level 3 characters can figure out the theory of everything, they will figure out EVERYTHING of equivalent difficulty and perform EVERY act of equivalent difficulty. They will also figure out and perform EVERYTHING of lesser difficulty. Why...

It makes you ignorant, and apparently proud of it. Go read the wiki article. Your problem arose in believing I had suggested that low level types could predict the future of everything all at once forever, when I had suggested no such thing, but had accidentally talked above your level, and then fai...

WTF? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_everything fully explains and links together all known physical phenomena, and, ideally, has predictive power for the outcome of any experiment that could be carried out in principle. You'd have to know everything already to have a ToE let you know everyth...

So, snipping the stupid part of people's arguments is frowned on around here too? It basically tells us that until we exhaust every possibility and search every corner of the universe, you can't actually disprove something as general as the concept of God. So, your answer to there being obviously no...

I do equate "all day invisibility" and "wrestling lions" to discovering the TOE. Things which human beings have wished to do for millenia, but have never been able to achieve, even standing on the shoulders of giants. In a 20-level system, that's a 17th-level wizard at minimum. A...

you can't actually disprove something as general as the concept of God. Sure you can. The concept of god was invented by people. We have a pretty good understanding of how they went about doing it, over a very long period of time, starting from animism, and understand how that all interfaces with t...

Valor; you seem to desire a model of "exceptional human" level PCs, say level 3 or so, that limits them to doing nothing obviously fantastic, ever, not even with a very small chance of success. This in a fantasy game, operating alongside perfect all-day magical invisibility, and men who ca...

Untrained penalties if you care to ban laymen doing anything interesting. -5 works. But 10 first level math-Wizards with +5? Nearly a sure thing. If there's some reason you want it to not happen, the quickest route is to require 3 consecutive successes, each taking 3 months of study (or a year each ...

Twelve impossible things before the day is through. You can visit the lands of the dead, chat with the generals of hell, find the soul of the lost emperor, battle your way past a grand fleet of space pirates to get to the world of the great old ones, retrieve the seventh fallen star from within yog-...

Mine. Throw out take-10, take-20, and opposed rolls. You get +5 when not opposed or pressured for time, but there are no retries, ever. DCs for ordinary folk start at 5, household budgeting and shit, 10 is for complex double integrals, 15 is proving relativity from first principles, and 20 is findin...

Planetar's easy, it's a bog standard 17th level Cleric, with all the normal domain, item, spell, and cheese bonuses built into it's statblock (where someone accidentally wrote "natural armour", 20 Con, and such). Hell, I'm sure people could cheese up a 14th level character with 17th level ...

If space expands at a rate of 1.1 lightyears / year between galaxies and light only travels 1 lightyear per year, that light will never reach us. It can't make up the extra distance, ever. This bit is incorrect. See, the space halfway between the galaxies is only travelling at 0.55c wrt either (or ...

If space expands at a rate of 1.1 lightyears / year between galaxies and light only travels 1 lightyear per year, that light will never reach us. It can't make up the extra distance, ever. This bit is incorrect. See, the space halfway between the galaxies is only travelling at 0.55c wrt either (or ...

OTOH, here's a method that works for natural weapon monks, basically. Armour spikes act like "armed" unarmed strikes, same as the spiked gauntlet, because otherwise it's fucking stupid. Well, it's still stupid, but not stab-yourself-in-the-eye-with-a-pencil stupid. To use an unarmed strike...

Pfft. God done built a 13 billion year old universe in seven days, 6000 years back, full of things that had been evolving for aeons, on any number of planets which naturally accumulated from the ruins of old, giant stars. It says so in the Bible, which God made people's brains develop out of ancient...

Time is a byproduct of the big bang, there is no such concept as "before" it. As to where matter came from, it's just energy that's stuck in a hole it can't normally climb out of. Energy came from the same place as space and time and forces and physical laws and fundamental constants and a...