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1203586087[/unixtime]]I've just snagged a copy and I kinda like it, having a large mech with a powered chainsaw and periscopes to give you total cover from mages is a cool trick for the 'fighter-y' types, but some of it (like the clerics just arbitrarily not getting spells on certain days) is stupi...

Edit: SHITFUCK.

I've been having trouble with forums. Stuff keeps getting posted in the wrong threads...
This post was meant to go in "threads that make us laugh/etc/whatever."

1203535102[/unixtime]] 1203529128[/unixtime]]Funnily enough, hating your government is patriotic for Americans. Seriously, this country got started by hating the then-current government.[br][br]And as my 11th-grade honors History teacher explained, the Founding Fathers wouldn't object at all to peo...

He should be fine with it.

It actually looks a little sub-par compared to the other Races of war feats, but the tactical options it provides are interesting.

So if he can accept whirlwind attack and TwF...I can't find any reason he'd reject this.

1203386532[/unixtime]]My DM, a guy obsessed with Eberron, allowed me to not only switch out of the flabtastic Fire Mage mid-campaign, but allowed me these changes to my character:[br]- A custom race. It's between a Tiefling, Feytouched, Faun, and Sun Elf. I call it "Devilfaun", half the g...

1203095783[/unixtime]]Nope, but I hate my government. Is that good enough? [br][br]Funnily enough, hating your government is patriotic for Americans. Seriously, this country got started by hating the then-current government.[br][br]And as my 11th-grade honors History teacher explained, the Founding...

1203520894[/unixtime]] Painful Reckoning (Ex): The Revenant Paragon's very existance is driven by the burning desire for revenge against one person, who is unaware of his peril should. Not sure how this line should end.[br][br]How many targets of later Painful Reckonings can there be at once? New P...

Eh, I ended up scraping something out. He wants to play as a Revenant killed by one of the antagonists. So I ended up stealing some features of that old Ghostwalker PrC into something that's hopefully appropriate for the character.[br][br] Revenant Paragon [br]HD: d12 BAB: Good (as Fighter) Fort: Go...

Someone thought of using fabricate to make stuff more quickly, but designing a mech is a long process. The DCs for even a small one are high, and there's still a lot of Craft checks involved, along with skills that ordinary wizards don't get, like Mechcraft and so on. That's why magic users tend to ...

Dragonmech exclusives [br][br]The setting has a large number of exclusives, as you might expect.[br][br]There's new weapons and armor that fit in with the steampunk setting (including some pretty awesome powered armor), there is, of course, the mechs, and, boy, they have spells.[br][br]The setting ...

I don't make any pretense at being good at exploiting DnD, but...[br][br]Divine Power. Level 4 cleric spell. +6 to Str, +1 hp/level, and BAB equal to your character level. It's good for showing the fighter up.[br][br]I'd have to check the spell list, but if you want to be party-friendly, you'd be go...

In this case, it's not much of an issue. Telekinesis gives 25 pounds of lift per caster level, and you can only Violent Thrust a number of objects equal to caster level, max of fifteen.[br][br]A Large Greataxe weighs 24 pounds. At level 10, 10 of them would weigh 240 pounds when your max capacity is...

[br] Revenants[br]"Fear me first before all other evils under the heavens. Before even Death, for I am hatred and do not die."[br][br]A revenant is the victim of a murder driven to avenge their own death. A game master might allow a character to return from the dead as a revenant if their ...

If I were telekinetic combatant expecting to fight a r.o.w. Barbarian, I'd invest in a Colossal Greataxe (damage: 8d6) and this time take the time and money to get it enchanted--which costs no more than it does for a normal-size item, I'm given to understand.[br][br]And I'd probably shell out for a ...

Quick number crunching. Given our possible stat sets (which can include an 18) and if I used my 49k gold to maximize Charisma, My BAB + Cha for this would be 18. But that's putting both ability point increases and 36k towards a Cha-boosting item.[br][br]...[br][br]And I just remembered I can get at ...

[br] Playtest it out. I'd be interested in the results. [br][br]I think I'll do that with my DM tonight.[br][br]Some comparisons between the Acid-flasking Rogue, a Wizard with Scorching Ray...[br][br]...And I seem to have just invented the Sandbag monster, inspired by the Super Smash Bros. Melee hom...

So it looks like I'll be playing this class for an upcoming game. So I don't make the other players *too* mad, he's going to be an emotional cripple.[br][br]However, since starting level is 10, he's going to have the full slate of at-will spell-like abilities from the word go, which is very...intere...

Mechs [br][br]The Dragonmech rulebook explicitly says to forget about mechs in anime, and instead think more medieval. Mechs are big, they're lumbering, and hitting one is like hitting a barn--easy to do, but you may not do damage when you make contact.[br][br]Mechs have strength and dexterity scor...

Crunchy bits [br]The d20 core classes are still used, but they make some changes, only one of which is actually mechanical:[br][br]-Barbarians, sorcerors, and paladins are mentioned as being more common these days. Barbarians because there's not many places to provide the formal training fighters n...

I may as well slap this up. I mean, I like the setting and it contains some interesting mechanics. I'll break this down into those well-known divisions, fluff and crunch.[br][br] Fluff [br]The world is in trouble.[br][br]The continent of Highpoint used to be a pretty typical fantasy setting, with a ...

[br] I'd have to say my favorite game was Rifts, but more because of actual experiences than system(although I've tried the d20 version, not as fun). However, I'm in a beast wars (white wolf) game online right now which is fun, andI'm going to have to check out Dragonmech and the Dresdan files games...

[br] I never said it made sense... I just took it to mean such.[br][br]Next up on my list: Making said campaign setting. It'd be like Dark Sun, except deadlier, but also happier.[br][br]Beer has that effect. [br][br][br] True. Also, the heat (dehydration and sunstroke) and beer can explain any dumb ...

[br] P.S. (read as "pre-script"): I wanna check Dragonmech. [br] [br][br]I just checked out their website. They have some cool freebies on the website.[br][br]http://goodman-games.com/WW17600preview.php[br][br]Including a list of their core classes.[br][br]http://goodman-games.com/download...

[br] 350 gp for all that? Sounds sorta like Rifts, where you've either got powered armor or you suck. [br][br]It's not exactly like that. The mechs are supposed to be a response to the badass creatures in the game. Lunar dragons max out their CR at, like, 27 as a Great wyrm and well into Collossal s...

As a setting, I'm partial to Dragonmech. It's d20 fantasy base, but rather than magic being the path to ultimate power, technology is more cost-effective.[br][br]Take, for example, a magic sword. Let's say it's a +2 enhancement. Not a bad sword. But it costs 8,000 gp. That's a good chunk of change, ...