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1186648842[/unixtime]]As for frequency of usage, I expect that there are ways to squeeze in better Access than Basic at level 1 [br]Nope.[br][br] 1186648842[/unixtime]]The first depends on a technicality: when making a True Fiend, is this a base class and race combined as a single race, or can it b...

Doesn't Pun-Pun have the Demilich's Magic Immunity(Ex)(which is different from a Golem's Spell Immunity and just shuts down any effects[specifically includes supernatural abilities] on not on the bypass list)?

1186510545[/unixtime]]I'm pretty sure that wall of stone is supposed to operate in such a way that you can't create the stone itself in an occupied square, but you can completely enclose one. If you try to do so, the creature to be trapped gets so make a reflex save to escape the area before you su...

Ah, so that's it, lasting impact on the fight beyond the original targets, Thank you, this has been most helpful.

Turns out the (New)Incarnate has approximately 1 BC option(and 1 Pseudo BC semi buff option) and it doesn't come into play until painfully late levels. I'll need to rectify this.

In the my efforts to re-write the Incarnum system I of course took a good long look at what kinds of options, and how many of each, the new Incarnate's Soulmelds gave him at various levels. Much to my embarrassment, while checking to see how many effective De-buffs(or Save-or-Sucks as you lot like t...

Okay two things, what in the heck did girl mean back when it didn't indicate gender, and how does having to take time off from school to deliver/take care of a baby morally relate to gay bashing?

1184533445[/unixtime]]But Warriors are much more fun then D&D fighters, because they have multiple schticks they can use. Wanna be the Tank? Wanna be the melee smasher that ruins the enemy? Or do you want to be the guy who can crit someone over and over and over and apply massive amounts of dam...

Aren't (Magic), (Combat), and (Skill) feats going to be unbalanced in a non-Tomes game regardless of XP free wishes?

Something tells me animal rage is a touch weaker than the other two, but I'm honestly probably under-valuing the defensive bonuses.[br][br]Dread Carpace's Heart Bind, a level 17 effect, giving a persisted version of a fifth level spell, with max essenita invested, suppressible as a swift action seem...

Well I like the idea of Earth being the healing magic instead of the more common and more nonsensical Water.

1184426008[/unixtime]]Exactly what about life? The meaning of life, the sanctity of life, what? Forgive my naivety. [br]Relationships, consequences of actions, reproduction, responsibility, money, cooking, fixing things; life type stuff. The ancient alternative to letting the TV raise your kids for...

Seeing as how you'd have to wait 'till level 18 to take the feat, and it would count as an XP-less Wish, thus lowering the abuseability, it doesn't seem so bad. I'm sure there're some spells that this would be too powerful when combined with, but I can't think of any off-hand, 'cept Miracle of cours...

There's always the option of parents actually teaching their kids about life, though that's been out of style for a couple decades.

Well as at a cursory glance, I have to admit I never looked at your class very hard, it seems as competent at melee as a Cleric that optimizes, but doesn't go crazy with spells like DMMP Delay Death, Death Ward, and whatever else you need to make yourself unkillable. Maybe better, I'm not really up ...

The class itself is going to take a lot of tweaking, I've got the skeleton down, but the meat and fluff have yet to be added. Thanks for the suggestions for the probationary soulmelds I'll take them into consideration, and no, Dread Carapace was actually supposed to be on the dropped melds list, I j...

So it is somehow wrong to say that Affirmative Action isn't good enough, we need something better; and that makes me an idiot. And a fool.

Right.

I think I'm altogether done talking to you about non-game related issues.

1184323777[/unixtime]]When you suggest that you should take a policy that is helping a down trodden minority and remove, just because you imagine that it stands in the way of helping anyone else or helping the same people differently, which it rather bleedingly obviously doesn't.[br][br]Then you WI...

I actually do eschew medication that only treats the symptoms, unless it's fever, since that can be actually dangerous.[br][br]And AA as it applies to college education is not a good system, like at all; you could really just take it almost exactly as it is and instead of basing it on race base it m...

Never bothered me, but then again a conversation about ethnic differences conducted in mixed company doesn't make me the slightest bit nervous either.

The class isn't quite finished, but I more or less finished all the alterations to the Soulmelds and binds in the book. Here's how it turned out:[br][br] Dropped Soulmelds: [br]Ankheg Breastplate, Arcane Focus, Blood Talons, Dread Carapace, Flame Cincture, Great Raptor Mask, Illusion Veil, Incarnate...

Damnit! I had a almost a whole argument written up. Fvck! I'll fix it later, I need to go to bed.

But two things first, I don't know what the "Osama Bin Laden Argument" is, and I'd like the question from my previous post answered if it's not too much trouble.

1183568427[/unixtime]][br]This is the problem with scaling buffs and why buffs shouldn't scale at all. They should just be flat bonuses. As Frank said, that just leads to divergence in the system. [br]When it comes to the incarnum classes, soulmelds and essentia aren't buffs, they're totally your c...

I've been wondering for a while. Is Communism a Meritocracy in any major way? And if so how? The idea of a fairly socialistic government based in heavy meritocracy has appealed to me for quite some time.[br][br]Also the left gets no respect from the right these days because you are viewed, and right...

Frank's observations are dead on as per usual, but you don't need me to tell you that.[br][br]There's no such thing as a broken good soulmeld as far as I can tell. Yeah even Landshark Boots, Girallon Arms or TFMotC don't seem all that crazy, though Landshark Boots do kind of push it.[br][br]Bigode: ...

Take a sharpie and just blot out certain soulmelds in the book. Some of them are literally that bad, most of the others can be tweaked or re-imagined to be balanced with a rogue power-level; to switch it over to the Tome series power level you need to change everything. I recently started working on...