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At that point, pick a number and roll a percent die based on your class. Everyone has the same to-hit, but wizards hit 20% less, so they roll a d100 and if within the 20%, they miss.

Exactly. Well stated, DA.

Which leads me to think that the current glut of recently published sourcebooks (Underdark, PGtF, CW, CD, XPH, SerpK, Eberron, PlanarH, etc.) is probably a bit too much to absorb for the frequent posters here [br][br]May I be perfectly honest? I don't find the latest books worth spending the money ...

Yeah you can do 32d6 damage with a meteor swarm as your main attack spell. Somehow you are comparing 32d6 damage, an amount that won't even kill most CR 20 challenges, with the ability to automatically destroy every single creature on an entire plane with a weaker spell. [br][br]{sarcasm}[br][br]Ob...

In the games I play most often, it's rare to see an NPC class, though there are some NPCs who simply suck hard enough to have to be commoners. Depending on the world, the "average joe" on the street is between 2 - 10 levels.

And now it's the idea that powergaming and roleplaying are mutually exclusive.[br][br]You can keep your tough-love roleplaying worlds, thank you very much. The Tolkienesque genre of gaming where toilet paper hasn't been invented yet, everything ugly is evil, and you are just powerless enough to be m...

There are two degrees of unrealistic. [br][br]1) There are those things which you, as an individual, are capable of making up semi-scientific explanations for.[br][br]2) There are those things which you, as an individual, cannot find any semi-scientific explanation for and thus are impossible, unre...

And tall tales are generally not what D&D is about. I mean name the last adventure that had someone shooting down the sun or any of that shit? [br][br]We didn't shoot down the sun because it's a portal to a system of gates that take you around the universe (kinda like the paths in Wheel of Time...

Well, then... What they need to do is make putting your name in fifty thousand places significant to the results of the exam. They spend a few minutes (rather than four hours) saying "Put your name wherever it asks you to" and if a student can't handle it, they probably won't be able to ha...

Because you're playing D&D and the rules are not written that way.[br][br]When you don't like the system, you have some choices: [br][br]1) Find a new system.[br][br]2) Change the system.[br][br]3) Accept the system and abandon your objections.[br][br]Since D&D is pretty much based on the id...

What's this... The fourth or fifth time this issue has come up?[br][br]Glowing blue is just flavor text - you don't actually have to have a blue glow at all. As for the rest of it...[br][br]We find that concepts like the Forsaker are not feasible in D&D. Why is that? Because they eschew the one ...

And that fact scares me eternally, Josh... I mean, these are medical students. I'm going to entrust my life to one of them someday. If they can't figure out how and where to put their names on the exams they're taking, what are they going to do to me when I get to the hospital?

Ooh, Ooh...[br][br]Combine that with the wand of Fireball , RC, and not only do you have world-wide depression, but you've burninated the countryside so now the eternally depressed and unemployed peasants are homeless![br][br]There are a few things that I can think of that might help:[br][br]1) Toss...

You mean having to choose spells isn't deterant enough?

So maybe sundering and MDJ should supress the abilities of whatever you're doing them to for a certain number of rounds/minutes/hours/days/whatever instead of destroying them...?

Or maybe sundering breaks something, but you can actually use Make Whole or something on it...?

The system already is whenever the DM feels like leveling you anyway - considering s/he's the one dishing out your XP to begin with. If the DM doesn't want you to level, you won't. If the DM thinks it's OK, you will.[br][br]As far as I can tell, the only purpose the number on the character sheet ser...

From what I've seen of Frank's (and other's) builds, the soft cap for 20th level attack bonus is about +40. That means that a person with 51 AC will be hit about half the time. An additional +4 bonus to AC wouldn't really be overkill.

The more I read it, the more I realize we play that way. Often, our adventures are months and/or years apart in-game. We decide what happens to our characters in the interim, what new equipment has been purchased, what "signature items" are kept (nice term, Frank) and what our characters' ...

The only major issue I have with the originally proposed feat is that it breaks the rules for a Dodge bonus. Or maybe it re-creates them... Whatever the case, I see no reason to name the bonus at all.[br][br] Is this feat juicy enough at 1st level to consider taking? [br][br]I probably wouldn't, but...

If the monkish route must be taken, then I'd probably go with Shou Disciple and substitute SA dice for the bonus feats (page 58 of Unearthed Arcana implies that each die of sneak attack is worth a Fighter's bonus feat).

Flavor: No. The BoVD has nothing on a good DM who knows exactly how to target his players and what will get them moving. They are also largely ass because, in stereotypical fantasy fashion, everything evil is abhorently gross and ugly (unless it polymorphs).

Mechanics: No. They mostly suck.

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Ess, when faced with an opportunity to make changes to his universe, often turns them into a story arc so the players have the ultimate control in what they'd like to see, and so there's an explanation for tweaks to the rules.[br][br]So last night, my character (a deity), went to this meeting where ...

About the time you start persisting Time Stop, the Far Realms ought to be accessible for characters to use. Until then, they're just a legend.

The more I play this game, the more I see no reason for it to be point based. In fact, when Ess asked me what changes a newbie to D&D like me would make to the classes and races, I created a point based system disguised as a class system, and a point based race system - because anything else is ...