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Eh, you could always cut out the middleman and just make damage itself mess you right the hell up. Penalties and fail chances and lost actions and all that jazz. Then people might actually care about things that deal hit point damage.

Alright, here's a version of Hasty McHastealot. I've left out the requirements and much of the fluff text to show how mechanics can evoke fluffy feelings. Also, I am moderately drunk and may edit in such at a later date.[br][br] Prestige Class: The Chrono Legionnaire [br][br][Description would go he...

1175378620[/unixtime]]The real problem is that at no point in the game design did the designers actually set a balance point. At all. So you can go ahead and write the RoW fighter, and be "right" about balance and Kolja can write his peice of crap Swiftblade and be "right" about...

1175362101[/unixtime]]This means that the older Dragons really CAN sleep on gigantic piles of gold... and it doesn't even matter, because gold's pretty much worthless at that level. [br][br]Beyond the splitting of currency providing a thematic divorce, it also serves as a padding against logistical...

1175296438[/unixtime]]So where's this flavor that the class supposedly has? Seriously, is there some other source of flavor material about how getting the ability to cast blur on yourself while casting a mass party buff in combat is extremely cool looking? That's not actually in the class writeup o...

Wow, I've always had an unrelenting hard-on for the haste spell to the point of wanting a class based on just that spell as well as enjoying playing characters who couldn't decide if they were spellcasters or combatants to their great detriment.[br][br]Finally, there's a class for me! Nevermind that...

1175194772[/unixtime]][br]The exotic weaponmaster's exotic reach ability counters this tactic, which is why I consider it a necessity for any decent AoO-based tactical build. Of course, that doesn't help fighter 20 any. Yeah, don't get me wrong - from abrupt jaunting gishes to maneuvers to other th...

1175100981[/unixtime]]I love how Argaud keeps thinking that losing 6 HD will somehow give you skill checks as good as a 12th lvl anything. [br][br]But suggestion is just OMGWTFBBQPWN ! You can be the hot sexor and totally frigging rule over all sorts of encounters and have legions of thralls and br...

This is why difficulty 10 is and always has been bullshit. And why they introduced the ideas of botch-only-on-no-successes and nuts-to-difficulty-10-use-difficulty-9-and-a-threshold. Also, magic dice that deviate from statistical trends are always a bitch.

Depending on how harsh low-level survival may be, you might consider Faerie Mysteries Initiate and Abrupt Jaunt if doing the wizard angle. Particularly if retraining is allowed for the former down the road. 9 hp and the ability to negate (full) attacks 5/day can be helpful in getting out of level 1 ...

Heh, then there's my "favorite" argument seen over on those boards. "If I can show a [trait/classification X] character who can [reach target benchmark T], that proves that [X] [doesn't suck/isn't underpowered/is awesome]!"[br][br]Seriously. That's like saying that C + X >= T sho...

Yup, the group seems pretty much double wrong there. Wizards choose to use SoDs and spells subject to SR because(/when) they work. If for some reason they didn't, they wouldn't choose to. They're wizards - they've got plenty of options (core and otherwise) for deploying their spell-borne resources u...

Judging__Eagle at [unixtime wrote:1174163337[/unixtime]]Really, you'll need some rather challenging encounters to test this character's mettle.

Um... Can we use totally broken technical applications of the monster improvement guidelines as if they were hard and fast rules?

Catharz at [unixtime wrote:1173560744[/unixtime]]You're wearing a suit and tie in your avatar, and that's good enough for me

Bah, foiled by my own avatar! I should have seen that coming.

1173558637[/unixtime]]If you think that telling a player that he can't play an elf is equivalent to going Confucian on him and his family, you've got some serious problems which need to be addressed outside of gaming. I don't suppose you might be familiar with the concept of looking at formal aspec...

1173548747[/unixtime]]I don't really get the point. Isn't it the job of the DM to outline a campaign setting and say what will & what won't be allowed? Look at it this way:[br][br]It's the DM's job to make sure that the party members mesh well and fit the game and story.[br]One way that the DM ...

Wow. That second thread is trash.[br][br]I have a highly fleshed out and expansive homebrew setting as well. So while I understand the existence of certain concerns, I wholeheartedly reject the notion of them leading towards or being an excuse for the behavior and mindset detailed in that thread.[br...

1173459590[/unixtime]]Just when you think that the people on the Wizard's Boards make the funniest stuff, the people on wizards.com go for the win. I looked at the title, pictured what they would say, and quite honestly couldn't bring myself to read the article. After reading this gem , I would not...

Honestly, how this sounds to me is:[br][br]"Hey, I just designed my game and my setting with a level cap of 5 in my mind. But I never admitted that to myself and I forgot to apply it when I ran my game. Something must be wrong!"[br][br]In any event, this is why I like using my own characte...

Guest (Unregistered) at [unixtime wrote:1173121643[/unixtime]]Right, which is why +Spellcraft items are supposed to be Epic.

You see, you woulda had me on board if you have said, "Which is why +skill items are sorta bullshit." But I guess opting for saying something totally wrong is another way to go.

Heh, I remember that thread. [br][br]Thorak had a lot of arguments. My favorite part: You can tell that secret page forms words by writing because it inscribes. And you know that it inscribes because it writes. It is good to know the assumption that your reasoning is based upon. In the end, we have ...

1172877140[/unixtime]]Well, he's probably thinking of going in one of two ways: Especially given the materia we've seen, I'd say there's a third option where he doesn't obviate the mandatory nature of these items but instead ties a concurrent selection of scaling utility.[br][br]That is: yeah, you'...

Hm, these sort of things make me somewhat conflicted. I liked the article, figure maybe it's even something to bring up when people advance the idea that WotC designers never learn.[br][br]However, I don't know if any of the ideas there will translate unmarred over to the end product. Sure, they may...

1172673513[/unixtime]]...I must be a masochist to jump into this...but does anybody here play with a DM who just doesn't allow this kind of stuff, by using "Rule Zero"?? Sure, plenty of games run with different setups and limiters. It could be anything from freeform house-ruling, a gentle...

So... Swashbucklers basically get access to "Making Friends and Influencing People Through the Ancient Art of Dry Humping"?