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Taking a dip into Mindbender is always good. Or Shadow Adept if in FR. If those are too "evil" for your DM, then Ruather (bullshit elf friend) for a one level dip before Beguiler 7 works. Or Unseen Seer is good. Lots of skills, no casting loss and the loss of caster level for non divinatio...

Vow of non-violence is only good against humanoids and monstrous humanoid. Very campaign subjective.

Exalted Arcanist looses a spell level putting you into cohort casting.

I prefer getting versatile spellcaster early so iI can abuse it longer.

With an Int of 21 I'd hold off on boosting DCs through feats.

1 versatile spellcaster
H still spell/sudden still /sudden silent (metamagic prereq)
3 sculpt spell

Use versatile to invert your spellcasting pyramid. More level appropriate spells FTW.

Not really a newbie question. but away from my books.

What are the rules/guidelines for what SR magic can and cannot do?

Trying to make workable Monk characters in 3.x that may or may not be actual monks. Also, making a Silly Dilettante Fighting man, who has no more than 2 levels in any base class and no more than 1 level in any prestige class. Yet has crazy high saves and lots of defensive abilities. Think Elan from ...

I compared them due to having essentially the same format, but if you want to compare them to whether "serious" gamers play, you could compare it to Dominion or Ascension. Yomi is more expensive, again, the kickstarter is even 33% more expensive than the first edition in stores. As someon...

I love Yomi. As a huge SF2 player and strategist, i love the fact that Sirlin has captured the feel of SF in a card game. I sadly don't have the reflexes for competitive Street Fighter, but i can kick ass in Yomi. I also like Puzzle Strike, since it is an analog port of Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo ...

Not sure where i saw the art for the AP as having a rounded triangle / trapezoidal front.

Now i see why the 5-7c became a machine pistol in 4E.

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Then there is the Grizzly which is the Civilian version of the Barret. Also, isn't the Ares Predator based off the Desert Eagle? From the side they don't look that similar, but the trapezoidal barrel / front end seems pretty distinctive of the DE. The Ruger Super Warhawk is a Ruger Super Red Hawk, w...

Genocide really never feels good, or at least it fucking shouldn't. Exception: (The) Blood Wood , and all the Blood Elves. You will objectively make the world a better place by accomplishing this. At the very least you will no long be confused by whether there is a "The" in front of Blood...

@Cyberzombie There is a difference between Superheroes and Mercenaries. Shadowrun has always supported the idea of running around as Soldiers of Fortune. You are stuck in an Urban thought loop. Yes, in an urban environment you don't have runners running around in troop carriers (except the armored B...

Now personally, I don't know that a cyborg ninja or adept ninja even conceptually has a super saiyan transformation available to them without going out of archetype and becoming a Hacker, Face, conjurer, or Rigger. The Cyborg Ninja become a Techno-Lich. He has the core meat (brain?)that becomes his...

Riggers: Reprise early editions and have riggers be mech pilots. They go back to being a subtype of Street Sam. They use drones to create versatility, but need to be physically riding a platform to get full use out of it. If they are remote piloting it, they open their equipment to being jammed / h...

I think that layered reality should be handled by plot twists ala a Die Hard movie.

Unless there is copious amounts of cannabis being smoked, i don't want to play Existenz the TTRPG.

Don't forget Darkstalker, a requisite feat for the mid to high level Rogue.

I like the idea for low level play of characters getting pumped on courage juice or purple drink, before they get their murder hobo on. Emulates plenty of real life encounters. Also combat drugs. I think that the requirement for Craft(Alchemy) of being a spellcaster is retarded. You don't need to be...

There is the Luckstealer, you effectively Hexblade curse someone and for that minute, you get 2 points of Luck, which you can use to boost your own rolls, or buyback spent spells. There is the Fatespinner, whose main ability is to boost save DCs. Both require you be be a full caster though. 3rd and ...

Perhaps you made a bet that you could travel the planes in 80 days and build a civilization in that time. You want to take over all teh kingdoms. You believe in Good and Justice and bettering the lives of others. They next civ over is expansionist and more advanced, so you want to halt them. There a...

Stability. Happy (at least not alienated) and Educated populaces are more productive and more stable. At the very least having sufficient surpluses from bootstrapping allow you to support a well trained and full time military so that you can throw the monsters out and keep them out of your kingdom, ...

The only way to fix magic's impact on economies is to not allow permanent effects. I could see this as something like "don't let people make permanent iron from walls", or something, but I don't see how it would stop magical fire from heating water to make steam. Once the steam has turned...

Gust of Wind can also be made permanent, so windmills anyone?

Problem with nerfing Conjuration to follow conservation of mass, is that it means dick all if you still have Evocation that can create energy out of nothing. If i can [magic] create energy, i can sure as hell research to [magic] convert energy into matter. The only way to fix magic's impact on econo...

Gears of War is a fun squad based co-op game. Difficulty is high though, which is probably why i like it.

I'm guessing because it panics or comatoses targets.

but at the level you get it, it doesn't seem that effective.

Maybe it's because it lasts multiple rounds, and you can use it as a free action (after 1st round) to debuff someone then hit them with a more debilitating spell.

For me it's been:

Rock n' Roll Racing for the SNES

Masters of Orion 2 for PC

And Baldur's Gate 1 in the BG2 engine