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I can just imagine someone "wishing for a rocketship"... Question: The Storm Trooper's "Arrival" ability reads like the surprise round is dependent on having frag grenades - which isn't universal for Storm Troopers (if they choose Chainsword, they don't get the 'nades). Does this...

I approve of having vehicles, especially flying, because that plus Grav-chutes = DEATH FROM ABOVE!

Although I wonder if there's actually a benefit from having multiple Tinkers...

Tirel "Fixer" Montrain, Storm Trooper/Deep Strike Assaulter Name: Tirel Montrain Age: 25 Sex: Male Race: Human Background: Armageddon Class/Level: Storm Trooper 3/Deep Strike Assaulter 1 STR 14 +2 -- -- DEX 16 +3 -- -- CON 12 +1 -- -- INT 15 +2 -- -- WIS 8 -1 -- -- CHA 10 +0 -- -- Hit Poin...

If we can make mice glow in the dark, when the hell are we going to be able to get [<snip>], and most importantly getting humans glow in the dark? Oh, that's easy. When we get permission to perform genetic engineering on humans. The main reason we can do it with mice is because there are more mice ...

Benefits: You may take any feat with the [Fiend] subtype. In addition, you radiate faint evil, have either two claws or one bite natural weapon, and have Cold Resistance 5 or Fire Resistance 5. When this feat is gained, you also gain the [baazetu], [tanar’ri], [yugoloth], or [demondand] subtype . T...

Shadows are not particularly high-level foes, and were mentioned in the example. Ok. Remind me why being able to affect things 7 levels lower is important. Because if you can't, you're about on par with the Core Monk? :D A large group of 7-levels-lower creatures is within the CR guidelines for equa...

Yeah, Naga with crafting feats are totally easy to get ahold of. And absolutely everyone accepts that you can convert divine spells to arcane spells that way. All of that is before I even mention that Necromancy is one of Vaarsuvius' barred schools . Correction for the sake of, well, correctness: Y...

Wind Walk is out (too high level). Whutwhut? It's Cleric 6, and I thought we were dealing with an 11th-level Cleric, aren't we? That's a 6th-level spell and a bonus per day... or are you saying that it's too high a level to bother with, rather than too high to cast? Plane Shift + Wind Walk for all-...

Now there's a question, how does Tome/Book of Gears handle monks/natural-weapon users and DR/magic? Greater Magic Fang can be used to give all natural weapons +1 enhancement, and the Monk Fighting Style list includes the ability to bypass all DR and hardness. Getting DR/magic, however it happens, w...

Except that the sensates are not focused merely on pleasant, beautiful experiences, they seek new experiences of all types: , but those few senates truly in touch with themselves know that each event, no matter how unpleasant, can be a valuable learning experience. Thus, despite their hedonistic re...

I tend towards Ysgard having Draconian Morality, due to it being conducive to a "freedom or death" philosophy. Arborea having Aesthetic Morality seems closer to me than Hacker Morality. It's mostly that the plane is Sensate HQ (and I haven't seen much non-Planescape stuff about the upper p...

Seeing as there is quite alot of different builds, which one do you people think I should go for? SunTzu's build seems quite solid, tho I'm not expert at these things tbh. I don't have access to my books right now, but... Clerics and druids tend to have a better class chassis than the wizard (for w...

As it stands, the first 4-rank ability is better titled "Cryptanalysis" (since it doesn't enable you to write in your own code). It would probably be helpful for both the ability and world-consistency if the ability included creating a code; perhaps making the DC equal to (Ciphers bonus + ...

Since you mention ghouls, those could fit pretty well with a nature-themed necromancer. Cannibalism occurs naturally in several species, and that and pure carnivorism is ghouls' claim to fame. Also, ghost brutes from... I think Savage Species and probably some things since then. Nothing says "I...

Inherently the wish economy problem is that while you can't buy those magic items, you can very well have a wizard craft them for you with your infinite gold. So it means that item crafters get infinite scrolls and shit and fighters get hosed. And it's just another reason you have to kneel down and...

I don't understand why people think the ability to make something of value every day qualifies as an infinite wealth loop. It's just a job. Whether it has any meaningful impact on the overall economy or not is mostly dependent upon how much the value produced on a daily basis. But I remind you that...

Rape necessarily includes removing the victim's freedom of choice, so each act itself is worth 2 Dark marks at least.

[quote="Mister_Sinister]Then why not just call a spade a spade, and only limit uses of the non-abjuration spells? Why encourage stealth mechanics when you can just call them what they are and make things easier?[/quote]

True enough, that would be the better solution.

True, the abjurations at-will aren't such a big deal - imprisonment maybe since it's a SoD, but since you're a resident of crazytown by 18th and you can get SoDs on each attack as a Monk... not so much. My real concern is the spells that aren't abjuration - with the Advanced Learning-like ability an...

Counter spell absorption can be abused by counter spelling your allies 1-st level spells and turning them into a 9th level spell. Otherwise I like it. This is the biggest flaw I can see in the class - it's otherwise pretty well-done. To elaborate - the big (or at least blatant) problem with chargin...

I don't have much practical experience with the Dread Necromancer, but I'll do what I can. Widow queen qualifications: Unless DNs for some reason don't get Knowledge (arcana) in-class (in which case you can switch it out for Knowledge (religion)), the biggest hurdle here seems to be web . You could ...

Ah, okay. I'd seen Frank's bug classification system before - didn't remember that it had a class for "preference bugs". Still doesn't feel right calling it a bug, but I'll cede the point.

Where's me denying or attacking houserules that could fix it, or for that matter, where did the exact opposite go that no one sees it? We're not, we're (or at least just I am) bitching at a Class 'D' bug in the game and you're just the lightning rod because you fully laid out the case for why it wo...

2.) You will have people making trip attacks (or what have you) with daggers (or similarly situationally inappropriate weapons). This goes away if you have the "exotic" fighting styles involving tripping or whatever be some of the rarer weapon-specific styles. That way, the students of Bu...

EBD isn't that there are normal rules for attacking and a creature has an ability where it doesn't tap when it attacks. EBD is when a creature has its own attack rules written in full on its card. 1001 Blank White Cards FTW! Excuse to doodle stuff. That reminds me of a game I played in college... &...