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This reminds me of another attempt to make some NPC classes with actual class abilities. The Noble IIRC had enough at-will spell-likes for two Spheres and half w/ scaling DCs, including always-on Sanctuary, handed out bonuses to everyone around, had a real army (Leadership score equal to character l...

How about Climb 19 granting personal Objective Directional Gravity, with or without a maximum range?

I second the substitution thing - I mean, find me a Sonic resistant creature int the lower CR range. How about grouping the energy types into "tiers"based on how common the resistances are: 1 - Fire and Cold, 2 - Acid and Electricity, 3 - Sonic, possibly 4 - Force, Negative and Dessication...

I'm siding with Kaelik's If you want fireballing to not work in melee then give it a minimum range, or make it so that it automatically effects anyone adjacent to someone else hit, or something. Previn, you are proposing that we simply take the players' ability to aim their spells and give it to the...

Alright people, I split off an new topic, let's move the alignment discussion there.

Orifinal post by PoliteNewb Well, that's the whole problem with Chaos meaning individualism - all leaders are Chaotic, their followers are Lawful, talking and acting in a given way is Lawful of Chaotic dependiing on and whether other people are doing it too, the whole system falls apart. Okay, I sai...

OK, let me sum up what was said here: "Curve" RNG argument: stacking bonuses/penalties gives diminishing results, multiple individually meaningful modifiers do not push you completely off the RNG. Obvious counterargument: similar result on a "flat" RNG achievable through a simple...

Well, that's the whole problem with Chaos meaning individualism - all leaders are Chaotic, their followers are Lawful, talking and acting in a given way is Lawful of Chaotic dependiing on and whether other people are doing it too, the whole system falls apart.

The "special cases asa basis for the story" trope is relly fucking annoying. When you are making a setting and then base the game/book/movie/whatever on something that isn't really part of it, you are just demonstaring your inability to produce stories using your own goddamn setting. On th...

Or the creation process simply uses up a Luminary. Frankenstein's monster won't rise until the creator finds a Luminary brain. The creation of a golem recuires a sacrifice of a special human. You can't build an android's program from ground up, you need a human ghost in the maschine, although you ar...

Lady of Pain isn't a Mary Sue. She's just The Ultimate Final Guardian of Stasus Quo in Sigil. She will kill you for trying to upset Status Quo and do nithinhg else. Othervise the city just cannot be what it is supposed to be - a neutral home base for the PCs to start adventures in.

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Dude, what we want is making interesting tactics the smart choice. Since focus fire currently the smart chouce because the game mechanic supports it (not like it's such a good thing IRL or something), we change the mechanic. If you like that aspect of the game as it is, it's OK, we wont make you cha...

How about a simpler answer: immortality is a pretty good goal for an evil character to have because it's simple, it's something everybody wants to some degree (thus making it universal), it's selfish but not really Evil so it doesn't create restrictions as fot what kind of persinality the character ...

What ubernoob said. It entirely depends on what they do and when they happen. Random 5% to auto-kill somebody or hit an ally is not fun. On the other hand, I recall a thread on a Mage: the Awakening board about meaningfully increasing the chance of critical fumbles because effects are cool.

Well, if you do not like the 5-round vulnerability, just remove it. You disappear and appear somewhere else later.

A pretty simple fix to teleporting: Teleport takes 5+ rounds to take full effect, has obvious visible signs both at the intended destination and teleporter's current position. Anybody being teleported cannot take any action, but can be attacked during that time. That should remove both the need to c...

Well on the other hand...
Suddenly... BARBARIAN DUELISTS!

Great, but I don't think it should be possible to combine the Duelist flurry attack with Two Weapon Fighting. You might want to specify that.

OK, so we have the following problems: - some spells need to get more powerful in order to stay the same in relation to enemies, while others don"t - the ecounter/daily problem which either encourages insane buffing, going nova and/or 5 min. workday because you"re spent so fast Possible so...

There's also the version of Metamorphosis Lycantromancer made (and the only Polymorph fix I know works): when you manifest you get a list of abilities with variable PP costs. Some do the same as other spells/powers/feats/class features, but this is always an inferior version. I'll give you the link ...

If you reward people for killing a monster, they will always seek to kill monsters, even if those monsters are waving a flag of peace (Every monster-death=XP system ever). Exept when you can expect an equal or greater reward for not killing someone that is not meant to be killed, or when the reward...

It's not like that. Players make that "20 years" delaration in, like, 15 seconds, and that gives them extra money when the actual game starts - pure gain. It shouldn't work because a) players are expected to have a given amount of money at a given level b) the characters must pay the costs...

Well, I was thinking more like "add a few things to Setting Sun discipline". I mean, it's an inborn supernatural ability only one person has - but simillar abilities would fit nicely with the rest of fightan magick.

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See "generic monster progressions". Already done, and done better.