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And also have to spend from your limited arcane point pool to use the class' core spell combat ability until level 8. That's a big reason why I think Eldritch Scion archetype is a big downgrade for Magus. The Eldritch Scion is a hate crime against Magi. And now that they've put a steaming turd in t...

The 20 = Hit mechanic introduced by 3rd is one of the biggest offenders...and they should have stuck with AD&D's 18 + Beat By Five. Consider this a learning experience in how AD&D was a shitty system and everything you remember as making sense is actually your old house rules. This discussi...

My wife plays healers, supporters and now caster beatsticks; she played one(1) martial character and quickly realized that having dick shit in your bag of tricks was boring as hell. She prefers spontaneous casters, because fuck spell prep. EDIT: Our mutual girl friend plays archer rangers, no except...

D&D never really got an organized gaming scene. Most people can't even fully agree how the D&D rules work for any edition. If I meet another MTG player, neither of us need to discuss shady wording interpretations or dozens of pages of houserules just to set up a game. That's partially becau...

D&D needs a campaign setting, like, yesterday. If someone picks up the pieces from 5E D&D, that should be the first thing that they work upon. Before they even hire mechanics guys, they should use their money to attract the most talented fantasy authors that they can get and spend several m...

Man, if you guys can find a disgruntled former employee, I'll chip in some money to get the PCP and assault rifle we need to get D&D back on track.

It just struck me that you could set things up so that the content threadmill grinds out character options that can't be chosen at character creation, only in post-creation play.

Small races play into the power fantasies of large guys, too. I've always been kinda huge for my age, regardless of age, topping out at 6'2 at 15. Sometimes you just wanna be tiny and cute rather than big and hulking. I developed a love for playing gnomes, but halflings work too, when people pay ze...

Prak wrote:This all just reminds me of the Dragonwrought Kobold and how shitastic that was.

Wat? Dragonwrought was balls-out awesome. Turning into a Shadow Dragon hatchling with Alter Self, abusing the definition of True Dragon to qualify for Epic feats...but yeah, the intended uses were all ass.

How do other card games fare compare to mtg? In Copenhagen, there are no other CCGs than MTG. Sure, I know a few guys who still play L5R, and the occasional yu-gi-oh kid, but calling Magic 99% of the market is probably rounding down. LCGs on the other hand are doing fine. Android and GoT have a sol...

tussock wrote: What's the cost to fixing up your caster level in Pathfinder with dipping anyway? A feat? There's got to better things to do with a whole level, huge numbers of prestige classes only take away 1.

Joining a guild and earning brownie points will fix your progression. Inner sea Magic, I believe.

Arrange sales to foreign nobles with too much money, and skim a little off the top of those sales to start working on your own little projects. So the PCs are encouraged to be corrupt governmental officials? The module gives you crap for treasure, and seems to demand withdrawal + item creation to s...

I am already getting a headache. "game over is looming around the corner, but you can't heve the rules, because your character doesn't know what the stats and costs and stuff is of building a kingdom." Any hints what to look out for? I got the impression you get shit all loot, but on the ...

Shit, you bearly need any feats to eat face in Wild Shape. Take the domain (and Boon Companion) whether you want to be a control caster or a beatstick. But really, you can be both.

@Rasmuswagner - yep, the summoner is a definite competitor. It got a nerf in Unchained though as I understand it & I don't know all the details. I do know that their spell list got nerfed into the ground with Haste becoming a 3rd level spell, among other things. Yes, if you are forced to use th...

We all laugh at Michael Bay; mostly because his movies have shitty plots, worse acting, and substitute explosions for character growth. But the man is a visionary genius in the fields that do interest him ... you watch Bay for the sweeping, panning, rotating shots. Too bad that doesn't constitute a...

If they were to make a D&D movie/series in the vein of LotR or GoT with the intent of making tons of money on serials, their options of settings and characters are pretty limited. It would pretty much have to be Drizzt. A movie needs a story brand, and that's their golden goose from the underda...

On another note, for what is essentially a "Supreme Conjurer", that is, good at most if not all aspects of the conjuration school, what would my best chassis be, a Conjurer Wizard, a School Savant Arcanist, or an Occultist Arcanist? The conjuration school doesn't have a lot of conceptual ...

Is there a list of spells weakened in PF(glitter dust)compared to spells improved in PF? Rule of thumb: Every spell from the 3.5 PHB that was save-or-lose has been nerfed. "Death" becomes "pile of damage", crippling conditions come with new saves every round. No spells have been...

It would pretty much have to be Drizzt. A movie needs a story brand, and that's their golden goose from the underdark right there. Anyone else would get you blank stares. I would not put it past them to do a gritty reboot of the 80s cartoon. Megan Fox is Sheila the Thief. Shia Labeouf is Eric the C...

Rawbeard wrote:Is he available online?

Preview: All classic spells on your spell-list are moved up to the spell level that wizards use. You get half the normal number of evolution points, but you also get a template full of bullshit to apply to your Eidolon. Everything else is unchanged.

Take 3rd edition D&D vs. 2nd, for example. The game moved away from many small fights and treasure focus in favor of fights taking up a greater amount of playtime. That's a deliberate design decision and a matter of taste. It moved away from the minutiae of logistics, with food, water, light and...

How does D&D 3.PF or Shadowrun handle different limbs being restrained? Like.... -Tying a person's hands together in front of them, but their hands are still free to say, hold a sword. -Like above, but their hands are tied behind their back. -Legs tied together (but arms are free) -One leg stuc...

Are you a big fan of the Skald DSM? It looked like ass on my casual glances and I spent more time focusing on the Bloodrager as a Barbarian replacement. Does the Skald do anything cool I'm not aware of? The Skald gets Spell Kenning, the abilty to spontaneously cast any spell from the wizard, cleric...

What's with the Brawler? http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/hybrid-classes/brawler It's an even shittier Monk. Like the PF Unchained Monk, it trades away "has the ability to make Will saves" for full BAB (that it mostly had already). Unlike the Monk, who at least justifies his existence as a...