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PhoneLobster wrote:You are aware that Frank is not in fact a professional game designer?

O rly?

Edit: Not that I think being a "professional" is in itself meaningful without demonstrated skill, since really it only means that you get money in return for doing something.

By the current 3.x rules you already get more carrying capacity for being Large or larger than you get for being Medium, even with the same Strength score. A Large creature has a carrying capacity of three times as much , while their weapons and armor (footnote 1 in both cases) weigh twice as much. ...

If we're talking 10th level or higher, I've seen the "half-dragon wyvern" method proposed before: First, get a wyvern (Large, but not Huge, so a Medium humanoid can potentially ride it). Then apply the half-dragon template or ... the half-dragon class on these boards that I can't seem to f...

A couple nitpicks/concerns, assuming you're going forward with this... Sense Kinship (Su): Evil calls to its own; a Vengeant Knight is considered to have the effects of a detect evil spell on his person at all times, except that he need not take any actions to gain the information, the range is 30ft...

The thing is, an abstracted system has less need of a map to effectively communicate than a more concrete system does. If using a virtual map program is user-unfriendly enough, the existence of such programs does nothing. Also, IMX, maintaining and coordinating individual battlemaps is enough effort...

Abstract vs. concrete positioning is a spectrum. D&D 3.x's movement system is considered "concrete", at least in this discussion, but it has abstraction - you're in a particular 5-foot square, but it doesn't really care *where* in that square you are. A completely concrete system would...

Is "Where'd He Go Now?" intended to be a (Teleport) effect? As currently written, you can take the 40' movement even while under dimensional lock and forbiddance . I doubt that's too devastating since it's only 40 feet, and can't bypass/can only barely bypass nonmagical teleport protection...

You are right insofar as 3.0 doesn't have tables that link the specific stats of an amorphous, purely-stats monster to CR. What 3.0 DOES have is a system wherein you can take a preexisting monster (in this particular case, an Ogre), add class levels to it (7 levels of Barbarian) and get a CR and sta...

There's a third option (assuming core 3.5 warrior-style classes) besides moving out of the archetype and artificially capping levels early; just have the campaign, or at least your participation therein, end at L10 or thereabouts and make sure it's known that's what you're doing ahead of time. That ...

I didn't say KO. I said "out of action for a few rounds". This includes such obscure and bizarre effects as "lol I casts fear".

For example, if your four-person party gets hit by a fear effect, the fact that only you made your save is a big deal to the party's survival. Honestly I don't care who you are. If you lose 3/4 of your party, you should be fucked. The full group of monsters against 1 PC is pretty much a slaughter i...

To Prak's issue, you could choose to use a modification of the "Ur Priest" approach to spellcasting. The cultists worship the entity or something, and that in itself siphons off a trivial (to it) amount of its power, which they can use to cast spells. The entity doesn't know they are doing...

I figured it would, but honestly, do you really want some guy having an ability that lets him get crazy amounts of wealth? I mean if you can buy something for half and sell it for double, then you don't ever need to even leave town, you can just become a merchant and retire. Free Wishes – the follo...

That's why Frank called him a cleric. Right, that's the point. We seriously don't know what Gandalf is. Just because he's called a wizard in LotR doesn't mean that he's automatically a wizard in D&D. And if we can't give him a class, we can't give him a level either. We just don't see enough of...

Equipment Spotlight: Micro Transceivers Transceivers are the 2070's descendants of modern day digital radios and cell phones. They only transmit on low density signal and usually come preloaded with a hundred hours of pregenerated one time pads. The processing unit is housed in a sealed faraday cag...

The key weakness of Asymmetric Code is that by its very nature anyone who really wants to can have both plain text and encrypted text of their choice. Simply take plain text of your choice and encrypt it with the public version and you can do “math” to decrypt it out and have what is essentially th...

Aid Another: You're fighting something with high AC and high DR. Your buddy has a weapon that can bypass its DR; you don't. Your attacks do crap. Your buddy's attacks hurt it, but he's having a hard time hitting. Give me a monster from the monster manual (any monster manual) where this is true. Cau...

A fighter in 4e can fight with two weapons and with ranged weapons. Do fighters actually have any abilities that let you attack with both weapons in the same round, beyond spending an action point to get an extra round? I've seen only one such ability at all in the game (ranger's Twin Strike). If a...

Not really a balance issue, but... Protection of the Ancestors (Su): Hitodama often linger in the material world to grant aid. At 8th level, When in Hitodama form, you may radiate a Protection from Evil or Protection from Good effect as the spell. Beginning or ending this effect is a free action. Do...

I'd argue that the mace overrides DR/-. The DR example cited says that no weapon can *negate* DR/-. However, the Mace of Ruin says that it *ignores* DR/-. This is effectively the same as, say, hitting a barbarian with a dragon's breath weapon or acid flask. The DR isn't negated, but it simply doesn'...

According to the CME:SEDR rule, if you have two secret page s altering the text on the same piece of paper, the last one applied overrides the others. But since you can suppress the text-changing effect of a secret page , you can switch off any text-overwrite effects that you don't want to read in f...

The way I understand it...[br][br]Secret page lets you change the contents of a page. So if you want to use secret page to transcribe an nth level spell, you cast it n times. You get a command word which switches between "this secret page is active" and "this secret page is inactive&q...