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Lago PARANOIA wrote:I am actually genuinely sad that 3.5E took out some of his jokes.

I never played 3.0; what kind of jokes would those be?

Cynic wrote:Dead Gods. It's got hack n slash and rp but it's also a helluva puzzle module with puzzle monsters that took our group ages to solve.

I've heard this before, but don't know anything about the module besides the general plot. Could you give a few examples of the puzzles/puzzle monsters in it?

You could have aid another grant a reroll instead of a bonus, first because a lot of luck-based things grant rerolls rather than luck bonuses (and aid another could easily be described in a way to make that work) and second because it doesn't send you off the top of the RNG with a bunch of people ai...

Whose goodwill did they earn? PF is treated as Yet Another Crappy 3.5 Variant on every board I frequent, except for Paizo's. GITP, rpg,net, here, and /tg/ in particular. (/tg/ and GITP being the most hateful, but those are pretty hateful boards.) I don't exactly frequent GitP the way I did the WotC...

Even if all saving throws had a DC of, say, 20 all the time, I'd consider that to be a mild improvement simply because then it'd be consistent. I'm not even entirely sure that the DC should scale up with level, because then the scaling DC and the scaling bonus cancel and you don't get a truly lower...

I was working on something similar a while back, and here's how I handled saves: 1) Pick a standard DC that you'll use for the monsters'/items'/etc. abilities. I arbitrarily chose 10 + 1/2 level to keep with 3e's standard, but you can really pick whatever. 2) Figure out what the modifiers would be i...

Yes and no. It's balls terrible to cause a Wizard that for some reason got knocked unconscious to lose all his buffs for the day, even ones on other people. Even worse for all Cleric buffs to disappear if he goes unconscious. It basically means adventuring is done for the day. But yes, something li...

Are you paying any sneak attack dice to force a save or is it just free? Even free, it's not super great, and I have no idea why it's based on Wisdom when all Rogue powers are based on Intelligence or Dexterity . Oh, and I know I advise against feats Voltroning up one side and down the other, but r...

I assume most folks here are familiar with [Ambush] feats, the ones that let you give up sneak attack dice to do other stuff? Well, I was linked to a debate over them on EnWorld--someone started a thread asking for help beefing them up, and one of the first few replies was from someone who thinks th...

You know, the impression I get from this review is that you could salvage parts of Chapter 2 if you just removed any feat tree/retiring feats prerequisites from them and made them all take a single feat slot-- Right Bastard , for instance, looks like it might not be half bad if the only prerequisite...

You know, on the third look over, I think I'd have no problem at all with this class if it was named "Chameleon". That's really what it looks like to me: the chameleon done well. I don't follow. It's not a Chameleon. It doesn't gain the powers of any of the races except the Sahuagin. In e...

Double post.

I heard that MMV had a lot of creatures that radically changed their battle style when they were reduced to a certain hit point. While that sorta undermine the Critical Existence Failure vibe of D&D, it could be mildly entertaining. It does, many of which trigger off of being less than 1/2 HP a...

God_of_Awesome wrote:Oh, okay. I misread that. I thought one robot = one Unseen Servant

While leaving it vague as to how many robots there are is better fluff-wise, I think an upgrade to servant swarm (or whatever the "1 unseen servant/level" spell is called) at some point would be a nice addition.[/i]

I'm running a game at college this semester, pretty much as Josh described--though we're all in the same dorm and know each other from last year, so meetup and chargen is significantly faster. Because 6 of my 8 players only have one prior campaign under their belts, and because we're trying to let e...

I'm going to vote for the 3.5E core rulebooks. It's probably the most damaging book out of that entire miserable edition. It[...]destroyed a perfectly functioning subsystem and replaced it with unadulterated shit,[...]and got rid of Monte Cook's jokes. Which subsystem did you mean (I saw several th...

Isn't the purpose of pre-reqs to limit when in your level progression you can join a prestige class? Max one level dip means that you can join any prestige class at 2nd level making it impossible for prestige classes to grant high level abilities and remain balanced. This, of course, could easily b...

Depending on the randon number generator the game uses if you can get your numbers high enough you can effectively be under the effect of death ward or whatever, though, since you can't really fail and the target number you're rolling to beat doesn't move. So it would just be a fixed DC for saves o...

You suggest having a rating against each effect, but never quite lay out what it would do. Is the rating a save bonus against the effect? Is it a static DC to save against? Is it the equivalent of "At level X you gain the benefit of death ward , at level Y you get mind blank , etc."? Does ...

I probably don't want to have too many special ability tables. I'm thinking of possibly just having warrior, caster and gimmick as special ability categories, so there aren't too many tables. And each role actually just points you towards a special ability category that that monster uses. Some role...

I want to make a warrior NPC. FIrst I want him to be CR 8, so I choose that. Now I can choose for him either a role of tank or brute. A tank is obviously more heavily armored, but brutes deal bigger damage. I want this guy to be some kind of barbarian berserker, so I choose the brute. Here's one of...

The problem is that now you're dealing with something that has new restrictions on how it can spend its spells, so now you need a separate "NPC wizard" table that says how many combat spells the wizard has. And then you have to go and define a combat spell. Does invisibility count as comb...

And that's generally the main problem with partial construction. Unless your system subdivides combat and noncombat, you can't effectively handle that stuff, because where you stop making your partial NPC is entirely arbitrary. And at that point your NPC abilities are in fact different from your PC...

Unless you directly compare that million years to the hundreds of thousands of years, in which case....

Titanium Dragon wrote:Depending on the phrasing, that could well mean more than a million.

So...why wouldn't they say "more than a million"? Yes, a million is technically 10 hundreds of thousands, but wouldn't they be more inclined to give a higher number to support their point? EDIT: Ninja'd by Frank.