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I'd say it differently. Low-intelligence monsters can't adapt easily to their basic whup-ass not working . If their basic basharoni is working, low-intelligence monsters are great. Ever seen a party dissolve in a non-intelligence Gelatinous Cube nobody say? I[br][br]Intelligence is a survival featur...

Yeah, makes perfect sense. Synergy is a whole nother issue, though, IMO.

It is also "defined" as follows: [br] A swarm of Tiny creatures consists of 300 nonflying creatures or 1,000 flying creatures. A swarm of Diminutive creatures consists of 1,500 nonflying creatures or 5,000 flying creatures. A swarm of Fine creatures consists of 10,000 creatures, whether th...

1083086545[/unixtime]]But the Monster Entries in the Fiend Folio carry over - the list of 3.5 updates for that book has been published, and the Viper Swarm is still a:[br][br] Medium Animal (swarm of dimminutive creatures) [br][br]with 5 hit dice.[br][br]So you can totally transform into one.[br][b...

RC, look at feats another way than as magic v. non-magic. Just pretend things work differently for lots of different reasons. Magic justifies some of them, and the laws of physics/biology/chemistry just being slightly different justify others (like flying dragons, suprafast monks, 6 arrows a round, ...

A thread on Nifty got me thinking about this. Most of the horrible, game-destroying spells, and a lot of the head-scratching, almost-campaign-destroying spells, are problems b/c of things they do outside of combat. Awaken, Fabricate, Calling spells, Rope Trick, and so on are practically useless in c...

Desdan_Mervolam at [unixtime wrote:1083090010[/unixtime]]You know... I was watching Army of Darkness again last night. Not the best gem of the silver screen, but it's a good (cheesy) movie that's inspired many a gamer.

Not the best gem? Them's fightin' words!

Well, at least you can make the DM pull out his or her hair arguing over whether your wildshaping into several diminuative creatures or one medium creature. That'll give you time to figure out what you want to do.

You could try an area dispel, and hope that you dispel the miasma instead of something cool.

As what, an Alter Self replacement? Otherwise, this just sucks. It's Enlarge Person, + natural attacks (generally not that great), + you can cast on any creature (again, wOot).

Reason for no new abilities? A lot of people like fighters that fight. If that's the fighter, and that's it. If that's what you want, there's not a lot of ways to add "new" to fightng the way you add "new" to spells. [br][br]Look at the fiasco those tactical feat things are. They...

Frank. I hear you. There's at least 1/2 dozen things blatantly stupid w/ 3.5 weapons, and another dozen that are just annoying. But I'm not revamping the weapons system here. Your commenting on an aside that addresses the contention that RM is "weaker" than polymorph b/c huge size comes w/...

"Leaving the battlefield" means having a destination that doesn't show up on the arena map. Ethereal travel's fine, as long as it corresponds to the material plan on the arena map. Astral travel's fine, as long as it's a teleport or similar that ends up on the arena map. You can go up or d...

Frank, I hate the 3.5 sizing rules as much as you do, and have been flamed aplenty for that. But, at the moment, they're here, they're weird, and we have to use them. So, jumping up in size really sucks for 3.5, even more than just the tactical problems 3.0 gave you.

I just don't see how a +16 str bonus, w/ a two-jump size increase to huge, is better than RM. It sucks to jump in size two levels. You have a -4 to hit w/ your weapons, assuming you can even use them. So, a fighter buffed to Huge w/ this version of polymorph has a net affect of +2 to hit, +8 to dama...

Got nothing against that core tournemant, but I wouldn't use their rules. It's an OK system, but it's basically fire and forget - and so not as tactical a match as I like.[br][br]Normal rules I've played w/ in grudge matches - [br][br]1. Any spell w/ duration of more than 1 hour can be cast freely, ...

It's also a little deceptive to compare the human to the dwarf, generally considered the most bang for the core buck. +2 to diplomacy and gather information, +1 to spot, listen, and search, and lowlight vision? Maaaaybe worth a feat.

I'd judge. Shouldn't take long.

C'mon. Gnomes have a place in the game. They have big noses and like dark practical jokes! How can you do that w/o being a gnome?

Which means you track two sets of hit points . . .

OK, you're starting to convince me it's not worth the trouble to ignore the hit point changes. What if hit points are added for con bonuses, but not subtracted for con negatives?

OK, who the heck is General Zelkor?

Welcome, Sanishiver. Enjoy!

Interesting take. I never really thought about the clerical charisma thing. I figured some clerics were charismatic missionaries, some were gruff evil-killers, but all needed the wisdom to know what Big Juju wants.[br][br]I wouldn't mind getting rid of Charisma. I hate the interaction skills, and th...

Keith, yes, you are right. You have successuly proven that a fighter that tried to enlarge w/ a reach weapon could, conceivable, keep up w/ a Mystra cleric that was stupid enough to get into melee combat with it. [br][br]Note, however, that all other fighters are absolutely and completely screwed.[b...

Several reasons.[br][br]One, I don't want wizards changed to fine creatures that have 1 hit point. That sucks.[br][br]Two, I don't want to have to two tracks for HP.[br][br]Three, I want this to be different from raging.[br][br]Four, if the effect adds hit points, it's quite a bit more powerful than...