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1082602036[/unixtime]]Having Con Bonuses not affect hit points is retarded.[br][br]It also brings up a fundamental probelm with the way bonuses are handled in D&D. In D&D you have a Constitution bonus to each of your hit dice which is immediately modified to the new bonus as soon as your Co...

Yeah, good point about the bonus type. Meant to call it a size bonus. [br][br]I disagree about the con bonuses. It affects a lot of things - saves, the poison DC, a lot of conditions. I don't want it to affect HP - and only HP.[br][br]What if the str bonuses scale more? Huge has to give you somethin...

1082592130[/unixtime]]The cleric/archer in the example has a bow and a wooden mace. Easy Sunder material if the fighter uses Adamantine weapons(which at 20th level, he is). [br][br]The fighter also can use reach, and a two handed weapon to get to use his weapon outside the field. There's no ruling ...

1082592277[/unixtime]]Free Will doesn't mean anything unless the gods are some combination of:[br][br]1> Not All Knowing[br][br]2> Not All Powerful[br][br]3> Not Opinionated[br][br] relative to the entity whose free will is being questioned. The ant in the maze doesn't have free will because the op...

What do you think?[br][br] Polymorph [br]Transmutation[br]Level: Sor/Wiz 4[br]Components: V, S, M[br]Casting Time: 1 standard action[br]Range: Touch[br]Target: Willing living creature touched of small, medium, large or huge size[br]Duration: 1 min./level (D)[br]Saving Throw: None[br]Spell Resistance...

1082587072[/unixtime]]DR 5 is nothing. Really. Not when you take into account the amount of damage a fighter can dish out. A level 20 fighter can easily be riding his flying horse, charge, and do 100 pts of damage with one attack.[br] [br][br]Don't you get it? The cleric has an AMF. That flying hor...

I'm just not following you here. Yeah, gods are all-powerful and don't need PC's. So what? They do their god-things, PC's do their PC-things. Unless the gods are interested in what the PC is doing, they might as well not exist except as a general source of divine power.[br][br]Sum total of the effec...

1082579776[/unixtime]]Gophers still drop you - they just take longer to devour your corpse.[br][br]That's not a solution, it just lets players wake up the next day every time they get severely mauled by a pidgeon.[br][br]-Username17 [br][br]lol - you meant pigeon, right? On the boards, ya never kno...

C'mon, Frank. Any 17th level wizard or 18th level sorcerer can kill any PC, and be aware of any PC, that they're interested in. The key is interest. At low levels, no high-level NPC, including gods, care at all what the PC's do.[br][br]For me, 14th-15th level is when attention generally starts getti...

1082582277[/unixtime]]What DR?[br] [br][br]At a minimum, from Righteous Might.[br][br] You gain damage reduction 5/evil (if you normally channel positive energy) or damage reduction 5/good (if you normally channel negative energy). [br][br]None of the fighter's magic junk is worth squat. The cleric...

1082580243[/unixtime]] The text says things only double, not cube. [br][br]Perhaps we are reading a different spell:[br][br] Your height immediately doubles, and your weight increases by a factor of eight.[br]...[br]All equipment you wear or carry is similarly enlarged by the spell. [br][br]We aren...

A 20th level cleric rocks, w/o any magical items. So, if the cleric's spells work in the AMF, and the fighter's magic items still don't work in that AMF, that fighter is dead meat. Right?[br][br]That cleric can have a +12 str (at least), fighter BAB, +5 weapons, +5 armor, be a size larger, have a st...

Right, but once you recognize that, isn't it pretty clear that any stat replacement system suffers from the same basic problem? You can change the bonus from "unlimited" (3.5 version) to "extremely high, based on how much you suck" (new stat replacement system). If you think the ...

RC, you do see that polymorph grants an almost unlimited buff to strength, dex, and con, right?

That's why a +16 just doesn't bother me. If a wizard can get a +27 to strength, a +16 to a fighter seems OK.

1082569671[/unixtime]]It still works on Awaken.[br][br]:shudder:[br][br]-Username17 [br][br]Anything that includes "Awaken" is just so wrong. [br][br]If you want to blow a feat and a 7th level spell so that you can maybe be slightly better at buffing your party and taking out low-level cr...

1082563356[/unixtime]]*The 50% spell failure means that he'll use double the slots for all his persistant spells, and not be able to cast his spells relaibly in combat. He has to cast them while in the AMF for them to work in the AMF, [br] [br][br]You'd let the cleric use Persistent Spell? COme on,...

Frank, have you seen any good uses for 3.5 empower? Just curious.

Frank, there's always something bigger and badder than the PC's that could just whipe the table with them, if it wanted to. So what?[br][br]We have a fundamental difference o' opinion on what the gods do. As you said earlier, the deities "cancel out" on a macro level. The bad guys get litt...

WTF? You're ignoring the fact that each deity has a specific ethos, and an alignment. Although in sum they may all cancel each other out, for any worshipper of a deity, that deity is the lawmaker. The D&D mythology isn't a consensus. If you decide Vecna's the god for you, Vecna's doctrine guides...

IMO, there's three basic things wrong with the godless cleric, assuming you want it to work basically as a cleric and not eliminate it completely like Frank.[br][br]First, godless clerics often get huge advantages b/c they can pick any two synergistic domains. In FR, maybe not so important, but to c...

1082497781[/unixtime]]Also, I'm not quite sure what you're suggesting, because as I said before, I'd like to be able to use bonuses to do this. It's a much cleaner system, I agree. But I can't find a way to make that bonus in such a way that it does what the spell is supposed to do without making d...

That's a good point. You could break those down to combat-based and non-combat based bluff and tumble. Bluff kind of makes sense, actually. Why should the same skill let you get by the guards by saying, "These are not the droids you're looking for," and feint with your rapier?

Do you guys read KODT? Remember the episode where Bob and Dave got mauled by a squirrel? That's why Frank makes so much sense here.[br][br]Desdan, that sounds interesting, but I don't think HP translate at all to real life. IRL, wounds either are flesh wounds that need bactine and a bandaid, somewha...

Fighters need more skill points. OTOH, I never seem to miss those skill points when I play a cleric. Too busy casting spells and praying to make diplomacy or search checks, I guess.

K, you can normally cast spells in an antimagic field. The effects are just suppressed. You can cast bull's str, etc., no problem. Per the normal rules.