The Gaming Den

First - the obvious disclaimer that this is just the opinion of a random dude on the internet, not a registered financial advisor. If you have no investments at all, AND if you have "actually pay income taxes" income level, you should dump it all in a RRSP. Your local bank branch will set ...

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I'm not sure spell combat works like that - basically, it's doing a full-attack while wielding a weapon in one hand and a spell in the other. If you can't do an attack, you can't be spell combat-ing. But even if you can, I think the logic would go: 1-Magus decides to attack; 2-Surprise rounds begins...

I dabbled in it around Kamigawa and the next block.

Mostly, I played Constructed on a very tight budget, which may be why I didn't find it all that amazing.

Lately, I've been checking out draft videos and think I might try it again. We'll see.

Yeah, the ebook market for the Kindle would benefit from a bit of trimming. I'd say that porn isn't the way to go to get rich, though - I read an article a couple of years ago about an "author" who wrote terrible fiction (as in, unedited crap) and sold it under titles like "The Dragon...

Mechanically, I tend to like the mid-age range dragons in Pathfinder. They've got fairly balanced, level-appropriate defenses, flexibility, and abilities that matter, plus just enough spellcasting to allow you to flavor a specific dragon. Unlike many monsters who end upeither mulched by action econo...

Designing high-level D&D adventures is made nearly impossible by the mere existence of the no-limitations full casters. It's not so much that their abilities are too powerful, but that they have too many abilities that allow them to skip (not solve, skip) encounters. I mean, if you define an adv...

Not much this year, actually. I'd say "found out about Dom3" and "started a gaming group that seems to actually not suck" pretty much sum it up.

We discussed the Paragon Surge fuckery in detail in another thread: http://tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?t=53724 Short version: 1-be a half-elf, or a human with the Racial Heritage: Half-Elf feat. 2-reach level 6, learn Paragon Surge. 3-Have all the spells. 4-Profit! It's actually not going to be that ins...

Hmmm... The problem is you need 2nd-level spells in both arcane and divine magic to qualify for MT. That means that you need a 4th level Oracle (or Sorcerer), which limits you to effective level 16 in your main spellcasting class - not enough to get 9th level spells even as a wizard or cleric. I thi...

It takes an hour a level to copy a spell into a spell book, if a Wizard doesn't have it memorized then paragon surge doesn't last long enough for him to do it. I think secret page can be used as a work around for this though so you can do it. Or Fast Study (memorize the spell in a minute, write it ...

Or levels of Magaambyan Arcanist - that'd work too. The third level ability would remove the need for Fast Study, and the fourth level ability gives us some spontaneity. Plus we get to poach druid spells and Good domain spells.

I sort of assumed that getting All The Spells was a downtime chore. The favored class bonus clearly says "add the spells to your spellbook", which implies that they'd stay there. If the accepted ruling is that the spells would disappear from the spellbook when Paragon Surge ends, then the ...

Oh, with a bit more research, the wizard can do it... sorta. Spell Perfection let you apply metamagic feats (such as Quicken Spell) for free. Cost: 4 feats total, including quicken spell (and Heighten Spell as we need it to for the trick to work). So we take it for Paragon Surge and can cast it Quic...

No dice, unfortunately. Expanded Arcana's wording specifies it's for a class that has a limited number of spells known. Although... I think a human wizard could take Racial Heritage (half-elf) and then qualify as a valid target for Paragon Surge. Then, using Paragon Surge, he gets to select Fast Lea...

It's not quite spontaneous, but for a feat a wizard can drop his prep time to one minute per spell.

At this point, I think it's posturing. Both sides know that whatever they agree to, their respective bases will hate them for it, so they'll meet for 20 minutes or something to pass it sometime during the holiday period. My money's on Friday night, where it will be be passed in a flurry of "it'...

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Messy, but the info should be there.

The Bramble Brewer (an half-elf only archetype) and the Grenadier bombing-related abilities. Neither of them is game-changingly awesome, they're both "sacrifice small bullshit you don't care about for small bullshit you might slightly care about". In particular, "being a half-elf"...

For a single level, Inquisitor might work - there's nothing epic in there but the judgment ability is fairly flexible, there are a few archetypes that replace the crappier level-1 abilities, and maybe you can find an inquisition that's better than a mere domain power. (Zeal is a nice trick, and Just...

I'd really like inside access to Hasbro/WotC communications at this point. I'm beginning to think that Hasbro has decided that D&D is not in their "get extra funding for development" folder anymore. It would explain a lot: the reprinting of classic material and 3.5 core books all screa...

Well, the recent ruling restores the monk to the power level that most people got used to - namely, it's back to being closer to the fighter than to the commoner.

And the monk can now do the job it was created to do, namely - be a two-level dip for unarmored, wisdom based low-saves builds.

For example, both Arkham Horror and Sentinels of the Multiverse are games I enjoy that have under a hundred pages of rules. Plus, reading the rules of Arkham Horror gives you an idea of what it's really like to gaze at Cthulhu. I love that game, and the rules aren't actually that hard once you mana...

It's for Pathfinder, but:

http://www.dunknet.net/pathfinder.aspx

First, we increase the range by 100% eleven times, for a range of 24576000 ft. DC cost: +22 I don't have the Epic Level Handbook on me, but, doesn't increasing the area by 100% twice just increase it by 200%? After a quick look, it doesn't specify (and the example doesn't help.) I'd say that your t...