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[CatharzGodfoot]

[For Valor]

Well, that's pretty close.

Still, nothing like Swarm of Arrows?
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[schpeelah]

Whirlwind is a level 3 Soldier melee maneuver. The Halfling Stance allows you to use any maneuver, even melee ones, with a thrown weapon, throw any weapon and triples the range increment of light weapons. It's more Rip van Winkle with a dagger than swarm of arrows, but still pretty cool.

[CatharzGodfoot]

[Kaelik]

I don't think the phrase "can reach" necessarily means the reach of a weapon. It's a generic english, not specific game rules term.

I think a soldier can in fact toss a dagger at everyone in range using that combination.
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[Koumei]

Hundreds of daggers, you say?


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[For Valor]

So no on the Whirlwind feat; yes on the soldier nonsense.

I'm just gonna say "You can take the [Epic] Swarm of Arrows feat at level 10 or above," and tag it as [Combat] then.
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[Red_Rob]

Firstly, while most of these are things that have been mentioned or bandied around in previous threads (Like the Combat School clarification), its nice to have them all in one place and the fixes, like the Fiend Size feats, are good.

Now, regarding the Errata. Metamagic Feats and ML; Should all the old ways of avoiding increasing spell level for Metamagic still apply? I.e. Metamagic from items still applied without adding ML, does DMM cheese still work etc? The Persist change looks like it will bring Clerics down a peg or two. Is that intended?

I remember some discussion about bad things happening when high level Sphere abilities are usable at will without limits, and some suggestion that the highest level ability you have access to should never be more than 3/day? Has that been considered for inclusion?

The magic weapon attuning rule nicely resolves the contradiction between "items take 15 mins to attune" and "bobby knife thrower can throw 8 magic knives one at a time". The "unless thrown" thing is a little clunky, I'd resolve it with "if they leave your hand they become unnatuned at the end of that initiative count" allowing time for thrown weapons to hit but not much else.

The bonus list in BoG had an entry for "+1/3 levels to whatever" which was too vague and could lead to brokenness, but I think the current defined list is a little restrictive. Some characters want bonuses to things that most people don't consider useful, like DR, so I would probably put something in about "You can have an enhancement bonus to other stats if you want, but nothing figured from a stat already on this list".

You mentioned wanting to power up the Jester and Assassin. One house rule we have implemented is that Cantrips are cast as a swift action. This powers up classes with awesome cantrips (like the Jester) without affecting other casters much.

Currently all Samurai use Picks or Scythes. There was a fix discussed in which any incease in threat range to a weapon increased the multiplier by +1 for Kiai, don't know if you want to include that.

Kudos for putting this together, its very useful for the game I'm running.
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Simplified Tome Armor. Tome item system and expanded Wish Economy rules.

[Kaelik]

[Koumei]

[TarkisFlux]

The assassin pulls spells off the wizard list without random level changes, but only only from the Divination, Illusion, or Necromancy schools. Their cantrips aren't all that awesome.
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[Mauver]

[Red_Rob]

[Kaelik]

Added a section on doors and trap searching.
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[VladtheLad]

Neat. This clarified a lot of things.

The save DC for your spells is 10 + 1/2 Character Level + Primary Ability Modifier, just like everyone else in the game.

Whats the thinking behind that? It does make things simpler, but it kinda buffs the casters (not that that's a necessary bad thing).

[Kaelik]

[For Valor]

[Kaelik]

I've been saying this for actual years since Races of War came out yes.

It takes like 30 seconds to slap together a Barbarian that wins MVP in every game that doesn't feature absurd cheese that ruins the game.
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[VladtheLad]

Makes sense. Thanks for explaining.

[Judging__Eagle]

[Kaelik]

[Judging__Eagle]

1) Watch the insults your ablist ass flings out. Some people get really bent out of shape, and they have a good point. You're no more clever than if you called me something racist or attack my gender or sexual preference or political or religious preferences (go for it, call me a bi trans hippy-wop and still say you can still feel clean afterward). We both know you're able to do better than use that word (try something that makes sense, or describes the situation/target); and you're only reinforcing pejoratives with use of that word.

2) Which specific long-duration buffs work best for DMM Clerics? I can think of things that are straight out of the PHB (Divine Power for full BaB and "fuck your Str belt"; or any of the Restoration chain of spells for "fast healing nao"), but there are probably some uncommon things as well.

p.s.

Thinking about that character again, I'll concede that the character wasn't a damage dealer. They were actually pretty anemic in the damage dealing capacity, and damage dealing wasn't actually their forte at all. It was one of their smallest abilities really (grappling, damage absorption and some other things were also lacking). Calling them a rogue, bard or monk with very high BaB and lots of RoW combat feats would be more accurate, and probably correct.
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[Kaelik]

[ubernoob]

The spell domain is actually incredibly optimal on a cleric. Greater Anyspell at level six is just right to persist draconic polymorph (you can't apply persist to regular polymorph). Plain old anyspell grants you wraithstrike should you care. When you hit level 13 you get to pop off limited wish at the start of the day when your CL is through the roof to get Hunter's Eye should you ever fight anything that isn't immune to sneak attack.

Granted, you're not a wizard, but wizards have to use incantatrix and runestaffs to pull the same trick. And as a cleric, you can do cheater of mystra cheese.
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[Kaelik]