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And the heavy armored guy can get mithril armor and gloves of dex at high levels as well. [br][br]A) No he can't. Mithral heavy armour is in fact medium armour. The second he puts it on he ceases to be heavy armour guy and becomes medium armour guy with a smaller background of investment in tumble ...

I somewhat doubt the psion levels achieve anything in that context.[br][br]For a start I suspect one could easily argue that to actually make a PRC advance their psion caster level, ever, one would first have to take a level of psion. (because the very brief bit of wording describing the stacking of...

No he isn't on the mark, he is specifically almost deliberately off it.[br][br]In effect he started with the premise that going off the RNG destroys the game and must be fixed.[br][br]Proposed a set of numbers which went off the RNG then told everyone it wasn't a big deal and they could just use a d...

Is that correct, PhoneLobster? [br][br]Nothing nearly so fancy and advanced as that, no.[br][br]Before I begin, this time I'm accounting for RCs adding level to everything thingy, despite the fact I don't have any idea if thats consistant for all characters, but thats his current pretense, so I'm j...

I'm obviously judging a War 10 by a different standard than anyone else. My apologies. My playtest experience does not stand a chance before your mighty theory. [br][br]Aaah, the super advanced totally out of the realm of normal real world gritty playtest experience mighty theory of...[br][br]...a ...

There are three seperate rule sets covering wealth and CR depending on whther you are a monster, PC, or NPC. [br][br]And you seemed to be suggesting a rather odd implementation of the NPC wealth rules involving some form of enforced crappy purchases.[br][br]It specifically states in the DMG that th...

If NPC class levels are genuinely "always non associated" (whatever the heck that means) then any assumptions that have been made as to wealth etc... are already exceedingly generous.[br][br]As far as I see there is no reason under the sun not to assume this is a PC warrior and give him ac...

The warrior 10 would probably have a much easier time qualifying for prestige classes what with that extra BAB and skills and junk (and very few would require more feats than he has).[br][br]In addition he is only ten crappy levels away from going all epic on the fighters ass instead of 15. [br][br]...

I missed the fence builders redirect while replying and posted it back on the entry thread, but.[br][br]I don't see why this is a problem, your build can easily have at least 27 ranks in hide by the same level it gets the 22 in a perfectly legal manner, even by Franks interpretation of what you can ...

Look its just fine under Frank's interpretation and barely interferes with your build if you do it like this.[br][br]You eat your hide skill at ECL 11. Under your rather, uh, non generous brain eating limitations this means that even though your CR or (real) ECL is higher thats an 11 CR treat.[br][b...

Gah, and I read "on this thread" and put a way too massive entry there. Ok, here is an attempt at my dumb entry "lite".[br][br]Big entry remains wasting space with only two or so minor errors.[br] here [br]If a more rambling ass of an explanation is required.[br][br] Psionic Illi...

So who cares? Seriously. So if you're tactically in the worst spot possible, have no defensive ability and are running around in your birthday suit, you're outmatched against a guy who has maxed out his attack...[br][br]Yeah, you totally deserve to be off the RNG in that extreme edge case. [br][br]...

What in all heck, do you even add these numbers together and put a thought behind it??[br][br] So you'll have an attack roll that looks like this: level (BaB) + ability modifier (I figure somewhere between +0 and +3) + weapon quality mod (+0 to +4) + attack buff (+0 to +3). [br][br]Therefore, attack...

Well, cumbersome or not I'm prepared to talk about to hits.[br][br]Not in the current system but in RC's proposed flat bonus utopia.[br][br]1) RC proposes magic item bonuses be basically a flat on/off afair that from level 1 add up to +4 to hit (yeah with some silly complexities but it boils down to...

I'm game to enter, especially since there seems to be a large chance of winning by glorious default. [br][br]But I'm shy, so rather than post a huge rambling build full of piles of niggling stats calculated and explained...[br][br]Here is my build in its simplest form, essentially a summary of its c...

Psionic wild talents in 2nd ed were based off of attributes, class type and possibly level (though I am unsure of the last), you were most likely to get a talent or several with a high mental stat non spell caster, but with the aide of an actual psionic you could double your chance, or with their as...

Umm...I would imagine you'd be eating something that allows you to change your shape. Then when you change your shape, you would lose your ability to change your shape. I'm really not sure which form you are stuck in at that point. Seems like a poorly considered rule to me.[br] [br][br]And bang, I ...

Dude, Phil Ochs, wow it never ceases to amaze me that anyone anywhere in this day and age has even heard of him.[br][br]The only reason I even know about him is that a close friend of my parents was working with another fellow to put together a compilation of all his work ever. [br][br]Sadly for som...

Brief question...[br][br]So where are we getting the Illithid Savant class from... I can certainly find it if need be, I know I have it somewhere and I suspect I know where, what I mean is is there more than one version of it in publication? And if so which one do we use?[br][br]And...[br][br]The ea...

I'd like to chime in on the "Gygax, what a bastard." side of things. [br][br]Table top role playing games were inevitable, they were going to happen one way or another, even if you credit him with producing the seed of the idea, which is inaccurate as the idea was pre existing, so what?[br...

Because "level appropriate" bonuses is a crappy idea in the first place. [br][br]Maybe it is. BUT the thing is if at level 1 where I am lucky to have a +1 BAB and a couple of points of damage bonus from strength I can either have or not have a weapon which provides +3 or +4 to and both yo...

I really cannot see how this idea can be a good thing.[br][br]Instead of having "level appropriate" magic item bonuses the system now pretty much by definition suddenly has automatically level inappropriate bonuses, at least at many levels.[br][br]So the lower your level the more likely th...

Ah, a mildly sucky cat folk implementation, (LA is an evil mechanic devised by satan that somehow simultaneously fails to make up for overpowered bonuses and also renders the character weak and nerf like).[br][br]I suspect a similarly sucky implementation of winged dudes, this time because of the ap...

Now all up I agree that we'd be better off with more selectable abilities and no fixed race packages. Which we don't have.[br][br]This difficulty satsifying pre existing concepts though... well they still wrote up the human, elf, dwarf, gnome and halfling. Breaking with expectations in places. And a...

I've said too much on this thread already, but this stuff is just...[br][br] The argument against catgirls is that monster mechanics are problematic when used by PCs, fanboys will do awful things with catgirls, and even if you gave them catgirls they wouldn't be happy so it its a moot point anyway. ...