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My Paladin player is actually playing a Swordsage. This ability: "Parry Magic (Su): at level nine, the Sword Saint doesn’t gain Hero’s Heart. Instead, she may use her Ancestral Weapon to parry magic that is targeted at her. She may use an Attack of Opportunity to make an attack roll against an ...

Campaign is still going strong and I have some extra questions. How are the wildshape feats supposed to work? For example magical beast shape “does not grant you any actual spellcasting ability the creature might have.” It works like alternate form here? https://www.d20srd.org/srd/specialAbilities.h...

Thanks, that's what I thought, I just wanted to confirm it.
Yeah I was talking about slippery mind.

Tome Paladin reached level 6 and had the normal iron will in his character sheet, got confused for 7 rounds in combat.
Its the tome one right? So he had slippery mind?
https://dungeons.fandom.com/wiki/Iron_Will_(3.5e_Feat)

I will bequeath answers upon you despite my disdain for feats yes including this thing which is my own doing . Interesting. May I inquire why? Too much complexity for not enough value/fun? Originally it was written in to a couple of Disgaeagame classes that they can apply the Enhancement Bonus of a...

Powerful Spell For the cost of +4 Meta-Levels, you may instead maximise all damage. Why nerf maximise spell, is it that abusable? Can't speak to the rest, but this is using the Alpha Nerd Metamagic system. What this means is, if you can cast 5th level spells, you can cast first level maximized spel...

Hello my players are using these and I have some questions so I might as well ask them here. Might and Magic has "Requirements: ability to apply the Enhancement Bonus of a type of equipped weapon to your Caster Level, Spell Penetration, Spell Duration, spell attack roll, spell damage or Save DC...

Wow nice, awesome, thank you!

Thanks for responding, tbh I care only about the original authors opinion, I also wanted the general dens opinion.
I will probably make another thread for the monk. I am not sure how to treat the Styles when out of combat.

I guess can't evaluate how much "Having 'the right spell' is less of a potential problem since the spell list is heavily focused on combat options." is true, so I generally defer to the intent of the author since he likely understands the class better. We are level 3 now and I allow sponta...

I am actually using this in 2025, does anyone know if the spell casting is spontaneous or do you need to memorize the spells?

Ok, got most of what you wrote Chamomile, some further clarifications: Usually I recommend to groups that they play my stock Pathfinder campaign Sihedron, which is Frankensteined together from a dozen-ish different Pathfinder APs in such a way to make them more open and sandbox. A dozenish? I have t...

Thanks for answering! I use aspect classes for NPCs and recommend new players use them for themselves. The preconception that core is more accessible than anything third-party is evidently so extremely strong that it overrides even me directly telling people that these classes were specifically desi...

Likewise, the vast majority of people want me to run an AP, and while I do clean up APs a bit, I mostly run them as they're printed, both because people pick them for a reason and while the AP writer may or may not deliver on that reason, I don't really know what that reason is (and players are rar...

from the monk's text: These bonuses to AC apply even against touch attacks or when the monk is flat-footed. She loses these bonuses when she is immobilized or helpless, when she wears any armor, when she carries a shield, or when she carries a medium or heavy load. So yes it is supposed to stack wi...

Ok it seems your mp are your wisdom score and likely your will save. So lets say around 20 wisdom and 12 will save at level 20. 32 mp's? That literally less than 4 9th level spells. Maybe knowing extra schools/spending slots in knowing extra spells should increase your mp?

Is it just me or are armor and weapons not worth it?

If trained saves add their effects immediatly, like spend a slot to get good reflex and add it your ac, then they are no brainers.

Propably sth like 2*hp, all saves(3), +level to spells readied, divine class group, transmutation would be ideal?

Ok certain things I am seeing, because I propably haven't delved into and liked the Tomes enough. Or my style of play is much lower power than the board's. -Heal at will from first level for the Crusader is bold, but I guess it cuts the bullshit needed to deal with the game. -The AC on the monk on l...

Hmm pushing someone towards the rage route means pushing them towards the strength based melee route and I think there is an easy way to make being dex focused worth it, while barely increasing the wordcount. First just by the virtue of having sneak attack you push them towards dex, so maybe it shou...

This is interesting, I have my own rules for an only core 3.5 game, so I can appreciate this. Hopefully you will have fun with this. Some thoughts: - If we are using core feats, aren't your own feats no brainers? Everyone would want an animal companion and the Knave will be pushed toward the rage ro...

I actually have more nostalgia for the "focused" spellcasters (Healer, Warmage, Beguiler, Dread Necromancer). I feel like that's how spellcasting SHOULD have been done (for the most part, Healer and Warmage came up lacking mechanically but the concept pleases me). Also I liked Warlocks. A...

You can never really lose your character in MMO's, so maybe that explains the level of focus on max level gameplay. In older dnd if your fighter could reliably kill hydras and giants single handedly he had already reached the point people conceived back then as the absolute maximum. All that said no...

I necro this thread! I have been reading Spheres of Power lately and though I find it interesting I haven't really made up my mind about it. Sure, you got a lot of the usual sorts of "We didn't actually read the book that closely when we made this" sorts of things. Like, as a Mind Speciali...

I have been of the opinion that feats should not have been included in 3rd edition at all for quite some time. I can see including them as a reward for class levels gained, but there is no excuse for racial hd to have them. On monsters they increase complexity and make monsters harder to use without...

Adding more feats is the solution advocated by the people who came up with the concept of Scaling Feats in the first place a decade ago. As an aside Monte Cook did exactly this back in arcana unearthed days, too bad he couldn't get rid of his unrelenting boner for spellcasters for it to actually ma...