The Gaming Den

Being in Japan currently, Koumei, leaving the 'w' off 'wa' is not girly - leaving the 'w' off 'watashi' (I or me) is girly. The former is speech-impaired.

The key, socrates999, is to use it efficiently. Have your base armour be a +1 stupid insane crazy armour of stupidity . Then, suddenly, for free, it becomes a +5 stupid insane crazy armour of stupidity . That's not bad at all, I think, and, for the price normally required to achieve this, you can ea...

Or, for that matter, a beguiler? They basically do the whole shadowcaster shtick, and heaps better, too.

Ah, ok. In that case, normal dragon and skeletal giant eagle, or something, will have to do. Thanks K!

I was just re-reading the material from the Tome of Necromancy and Races of War, and I wanted to ask about this little interaction: Say a Tome knight becomes a bone rider, and then decides he is a dragon knight, too. What exactly should/would happen there? Is there any way of combining the benefits ...

@the_taken: I fell out of my chair.

As usual, Frank, you speak a lot of sense. However, what I meant by 'concept' was 'mechanically'. For example, the feat choices available in 3.5 DnD make it impossible to play a sword-and-board dude without royally sucking. I consider this a form of straightjacketing, as it forces the player to choo...

I have salvaged this from the WotC archives to post it here. Bear in mind, the language and design was tailored to the idiots on the Classes board, so if this feels weak by GamerDen standards, forgive me. I will happily take any and all suggestions for its improvement. I'll be honest: I was not init...

I'd like to add a vote of thanks for Frank and K. Your Revised Necromancer's Handbook taught me everything I knew about optimisation, and, despite having little in the way of skill or talent, it gave me basic principles which still guide me to this day. It helped me understand how fundamentally brok...