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Josh_Kablack wrote:...Penny Williams has been kidnapped by Iraqi terrorists...

Quick, call Vin Diesel! A gamer needs rescuing!

In D&D, orcs have normal human skin tones plus some grays. If you bring in a bright green orc that's a consistency problem, even though it may seem "realistic" to people who play a lot of Warhammer. [br][br]Well I'll be... the MM says half-orcs are greenish, but full orcs are grey. :c...

Thanks, Frank. Back to the drawing board.

FrankTrollman wrote:Now the builds that are good are Cleric Archers, Tiger Druids, and Conjurer Wizards. Those are good, and despite the massive incentives put up for playing those character archetypes, people still play straight paladins.

What would happen if the cleric and druid used the bard spell progression, but all casters could select known spells from any list?

Thanks for explaining.

When you get some free time, would you explain what makes each of those classes good?

Thanks, Maj.

[br] Paladin [br][br]4th (Turn Undead --> Smite Evil Outsider) You give up turning dead for the ability to have a stackable smite 1 + Cha times per day. If you have no turning cheese, then take the smite cheese instead. [br][br]What bonuses does smite fiend offer? (I used up my feats on horsemanshi...

FrankTrollman wrote:In 3.5, the Holy-Word type spells have gone from a stupid pet-trick to a no-save room clearing spell.

I never noticed that. Thanks.

FrankTrollman wrote:Pelor is the best God in the PHB, and gives the best PrCs, not worshipping Pelor is manifestly a mistake.

I never realized that. Which domains make him the best?

1> Adjust death so that people didn't die very much, even from large amounts of damage. Probably as soon as people hit zero they should just stop there and exist in some kind of quasi-state where they survive or not based on some other kinds of rules. [br]That's always fun in video games. The chara...

I agree with Boulie. Fsck keeps the sentence flowing.

True.

It was just my best shot at making Lago's concept viable using the existing rules.

He never does any reasonable unarmed damage ... [br][br]According to the update in Dragon, they now do 1d6 till 5th, then progress 1d8, 1d10, 2d6. [br][br]The reasons I brought it up are: it's a little bit better than the plain old 1d3 Lago's cleric would have with IUS, it doesn't give up spell pro...

Essence wrote:...save at a reasonable DC...

Ah, 10+1/2 character level +key ability, IIRC.

As is, the logical extension of the rules and the supposed system of government is that the entire world is like Afghanistan... [br]Yeah, on another thread I noticed people wasting time arguing with you instead of working to fix it. [br][br]If scrying and teleport were removed, I think the High Pri...

K, if mages are superheroes, wouldn't Gandalf and Professor McGonagall have to wear revealing spandex?

So they fixed one thing and ruined another. [br][br]Would it help if dimensional anchor created a no-teleport zone, or is scrying the problem?[br][br]K's idea of replacing your druid's stats with the monster entry might work for wildshape, since she can only change into animals. (Right now we let th...

Then you'd have to switch Druids, Clerics, and Bards over to a Wizard-like spell acquisition system (you have to do that anyway), and then the spontanaity of the new Wizard would leave the Sorcerer completely redundant and you could drop it altogether. [br]I did that. I switched Paladins and Ranger...

Teleport ambushes.
Druidic tjeese.
Fabricate.
Magic-item dependency.

Were these always problems in earlier editions, or did the designers screw up 3e somehow? I never played much AD&D, and I'm still stunned by how different 3e is from Basic D&D.

RandomCasualty wrote:Hmm... well the problem there is that then TWF is almost useless at lower levels.... Because you can spend a feat to gain TWF and a +1 to hit, or...

Why keep the feat? Drop both it and Shield Expert.

If it's just a straight bonus to attack, then you'll never end up actually using the offhand weapon, so it won't matter if you're weilding a MW dagger there or a +5 shortsword. I'd like to give some advantage to someone wielding two magical weapons without actually giving them more attacks [br][br]...

[br]What if a group surrounds the guy, and he manages to use their positions to divert their attacks at one another while laughing at them and still getting his own attacks off? [br] [br]This should only happen if they fail to hit him. The fact that being flanked grants your opponents an automatic ...

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