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1082528291[/unixtime]][br]Strength doesn't scale like other stats do - why is an extra +8 strength bonus such a bad thing? What's the big problem here? Righteous Might is crap and I've never seen anyone cast it, so jumping up and down and directly comparing the two is not relevent.[br] [br]Crap com...

Frank you really don't give gods much respect... you also are assuming they're morons.[br][br]If a cleric doesnt' show strong devotion to one god, he gets jack shit. the god doesnt' have to grant him spells, and the god basicalyl just won't. Just because you've got levels in cleric doesn't mean any ...

1082501736[/unixtime]][br]Just an aside. You can handle the uber-dragon pretty easily by just limiting the max size of polymorph shapes. For example, I'm thinking of a cap of Huge for polymorphed shapes. That would give a large creature a +8 to str, a medium/small creature a +16, and so on. A huge ...

1082490284[/unixtime]][br]You seem to believe that it is somehow OK for two characters with the same class, the same stat rolls, and the same equipment to cast the same spell and then have them come out exactly the same except that one of them has an extra 4 points of Wisdom and 2 points of Carisma...

1082477809[/unixtime]][br]The druid breaks the game because he replaces physical stats with stats which are only "marginally OK" for the purposes of fighting. He scan break the game even more by pulling abusive combos - but he's already broken just doing that.[br] [br]The druid breaks the...

I dunno, the godless cleric always struck me as lame and flavorless. If you're gonna have a godless cleric, they might as well be a wizard or a sorcerer, as Frank is saying. [br][br]The fact that makes the cleric different is that he gets his powers from a deity, and acts more as a conduit of power ...

1082474931[/unixtime]]So how is having a few buffs important? [br][br]Cause everyone else is hosed in the AMF and you don't care. you have GMW on your weapons, magic vestment on your armor, so you've got magic weapons... they don't. You've got divine favor and divine power, maybe righteous might......

1082460770[/unixtime]]If I understand Random correctly, all he is saying is that different people profit from different spells. The rogue doesn´t care as much about a bonus to STR when he can get Improved Invisibility for free sneak attacks, Krusk doesn´t care about a spell that resets his STR to 1...

It matters the extent of the powergaming in the campaign really. The more powergamed a character is, the more offensive oriented he tends to be and the easier he can kill his opposition in one hit. Thus for a min/max build, going first usually helps alot. [br][br]For the normal gamer however, I thin...

1082444326[/unixtime]][br]It's completely different. The example Fighter can't bloody well use his Charisma skills, can he? That Fighter is stuck with the fact that he's dropped his charisma, and he can't change his mind later on and retroactively not have dumped it.[br] [br]If you weren't planning...

1082444056[/unixtime]][br]A Wizard's spells are only good if they actually go off. If you win initiative and have a readied action - the wizard is rather unlikely to get off any spells.[br][br]If you full attack with some sneak attacks - the wizard goes down in one round.[br] [br][br]Frank for some...

1082407387[/unixtime]][br]Hitting things and casting spells both use up your action, it's the Mystic Theurge Dilema all over again. You can't do both things at once so any special restrictions on combining them are inherently meaningless.[br] [br]There is when there's a 1 action cost to enter comba...

1082409964[/unixtime]][br]And yes, not being able to make those computer use and gather info checks to find out about his target seriously hurts him, but that rarely keeps him out for long, witness any story that introduces a new villian to the Rogues Gallery. Batman confronts, realizes he's in ove...

1082406034[/unixtime]][br]1. Batman has elaborate plans for just about everything (read: The Dark Knight Returns to watch him chew through some DR good and proper).[br] [br]Planning is great when you've got some idea of what you're up against. If we assume both parties knew what they were up agaisn...

1082405142[/unixtime]][br]So much so, in fact, that there is no particular reason why you would be tempted to put a 12 in Strength in the first place, at least if you are in here for the long haul. So you'd put it into Wisdom instead.[br] [br]This makes some assumptions which may not be true..[br][...

1082391989[/unixtime]][br]He's mastered 11 different martial arts forms, but in a straight up fight he is screwed? :wtf:[br] [br][br]No magical gear. No spell buffs. He's a high level monk who doesn't even have abundant step or SR. Sure he's got some gadgets but so what? Unless you're talking about...

1082346826[/unixtime]][br]If you want to beat people up sometimes, you probably want to put some non-penalty stat into Strength. You should not, ever be punished for that decision when you go on to actually beat people up.[br] [br]And stat replacement doesn't really punish you, it just takes away y...

A +16 bonus and reach is pretty incredible for a 4th level buff spell. [br][br]The real question is if it becomes a must take spell. Is the advantage for fighters who have it too much over fighters that don't have it. What about fighter versus monster.[br][br]If you run it like a buff spell, you hav...

I think you really overrate batman... in a straight up fight he's screwed, and when not in a straight up fight, scry/teleport easily beats him.

Is there really any problem with having characters only need to spend 1 point on profession or useless craft skills to gain some decent benefits? [br][br]One thing I realyl think the D&D skill system should adopt is somewhat what GURPS does, and that's each skill is easy, medium, hard or very ha...

1082339886[/unixtime]][br]This is not a good point. D&D is predicated on the fact that even though a human does not get 32 strength right out of the box compared to a firlborg, he makes up for it with having skills, saves, class features, BAB, etc. If the human being changes into a firlborg, an...

1082332276[/unixtime]][br]The spell should be just as viable for Storm Giant Wizards and Ogre Magi as it is for Goblin Shamans - and that means that they need to be stat bonuses. Some "classes" are represented as "racial hit dice" which come with raw stat bonuses as their only m...

If you're going to say a kobold has 0 strength then it now gets a -5 to attack and damage? So it can't hit anything and now deals 1 damage automatically on all attacks. A big creature would have much larger strength and deal huger amounts of damage. [br][br]The problem with retooling strength is tha...

1082307362[/unixtime]]Gestalt underlines the fact that classes which don't give you an actual new and interesting ability every single level are craptastic.[br] [br]Bad class design is probably the problem here, I agree.[br][br]Though it's not so much empty levels, it's the fact that I'd rather tak...

What is the Maho Tsakai exactly anyway? I'm not familiar with it...