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Also, some additional semi-serious ideas: You could also have the powers of I Know a Guy , which lets the fighter pull some Deux Ex bullshit to move or push the plot every so often; and I Planned on This , which lets him pull necessary things out of his pants. Party is stuck and can't find the info...

Hint: search Amazon by author. Cordell, for instance, has to answer for the original Psionics Handbook, Complete Psionic and Weapons of Legacy. The question is, does Mearls get his own category? Ah. I thought he only did the 3.5 XPH. Looking at the book list, I can see why--the only book he did tha...

You want to put some reasoning down for each of these guys? It's kind of hard to say yes or no to each without seeing where you're coming from; Bruce Cordell, for instance, did psionics and did it well as far as I could see, so unless there's some horrible fuck-up I missed I don't see why he's in th...

They may well make a class specifically for that mechanic. And the life drain power will only do 2d6+bullshit. It might not even do that. I saw a "Will 4e get Dark Sun?" thread over on WotC where one guy was saying "It's not going to work, the feel is 100% wrong, races won't work, de...

Bucklers: (12" across or smaller) = 1 AC; that's 5% Miss Chance, and +1 Touch AC. Add your Full BaB to Sheild AC; with all the inherent benefits to Miss Chance and Touch AC Small Sheilds (24" across) = 5 AC; that's 25% miss chance, and +5 Touch AC. You add 1/2 your BaB to your Sheild AC, ...

1) Purely physical classes should have ever improving physical abilities. While casters and supernatural classes should have ever improving magical or supernatural abilities. Physical abilities in game terms = Extraordinary abilities. Magical abilities= spells/spell-like abilities. Supernatural abi...

Eating spiders and waving your hands at people also doesn't work well in the real world though. I say "rule of cool" it: 1 big weapon > 2 small weapons > sword and board > plink plink plink from 500' away. Well, the differences between throwing guano and sulfur around for fireballs and go...

We don't have any of this. You have been the only one endorsing this idea. Well, other than maybe Emerald. Additionally see Emerald's post to see I'm not the only one who likes the idea. Eh, not really. I was pointing out a houserule I'd seen so it could be used, not saying that I use it. There are...

Again, I`m not sure how it`s getting past a cube of force (who is actually inside the cube of force is irrelevant, of course). Waiting. The cube has 36 charges per day, and holding out creatures takes 3 per round. The elemental has a speed of 30 and can earth glide, so he can just tag along with th...

Yes, but in an ideal better balanced game system that seems like the logical option for high level fighters, not magical flying from their class. If your character concept is Joe 10th-Level Fighter, Most Awesomest Swordfighter In The Multiverse, should you have to pull out a bow to deal with a flyi...

MGuy wrote:-unstoppable evils. Same reasoning as RC with the gods.

Depends on the degree, I think. Aren't there tons of stories about heroes slaying a heretofore-unstoppable monster?

So do I believe that it is ok for a fighter to gain a flight speed? I'd have to answer: Depends on how. [...] It IS ok for the muscle bound barbarian to have the leg muscles to jump a 100ft in the air. It is ok for the sword fighter to be able to cut through steel. To answer "if not" beca...

MGuy, question for you: Is it, or is it not, okay for a fighter to gain a fly speed? Doesn't matter what level, doesn't matter whether you flavor it as growing wings/walking on air/jumping really high, doesn't matter whether it's classed as Ex or Sp or Ps or Su or whatever. Is it okay to get one at ...

If shield bash damage is comparable to TWF AND the shield guys get enhanced defensive capabilities, then why would anyone choose to TWF? That might not be a bad thing, actually; given that sword-and-board works well in the real world and TWF...doesn't, it wouldn't be bad to have the S&Bers outn...

I saw one set of scrying houserules that would let the scry-ee take over the sensor with spells or a Spellcraft check (assuming you could find him, because there were penalties to do so based on the target's location) and you were much more vulnerable to mental effects/attacks while scrying. I think...

Grek wrote:So... Don't do it like that?

The fact that it can be done is a flaw in the system, whether or not you have a gentlemen's agreement not to do so.

So, perhaps the spellcasters, even the easiest ones to play (Beguiler, Dread Necromancer, Sorcerer) rate higher on the difficulty scale than pretty much all warriors in terms of playability? I'd say they rank towards the middle, between the martial types and the sneaky types. Building a caster is a...

Unless an encounter is defined in a wonky way in the 4E rules, using the power like that will end the encounter....and then they can attack again. You're back to square one. Kind of. An encounter is essentially "until the end of combat or 5 minutes, whichever happens first...or last, whichever...

The upper end is, in fact, fastened to an extradimensional space ... Note: It is hazardous to create an extradimensional space within an existing extradimensional space or to take an extradimensional space into an existing one [...] Spell / Spell Interaction The Rope Trick spell is the only place i...

Was that sarcasm, Emerald? That has to be sarcasm. Mostly, yeah. None of these suggestions are ones I'd ever use (I'd go with the "drop SR entirely" option myself). However, if you want to have SR work like resistance as Vnonymous said, percentages are probably the best way to do it, sinc...

If you expect players and DMs to routinely do binomial equations (even simple ones) without jacking it up then you are out of your gourd. Who said anything about fancy equations? Multiplying by percentages isn't all that difficult, especially since you'd only be dealing with integers for the most p...

Does Pathfinder support Monte Cook's out-of-left-field 'negative energy TAINTz your immortyl soulz wif DARKNYZZ' interpretation?' I haven't heard this one before. Explain please? (This oughta be good...) Is the surprise round still in place? I didn't expect this to be fixed since very few people ar...

Is it just me, or does it look like anti-4e is pretty much 3e system and 2e DMing/houserules? All of these are in 3e: One player should not roll all of the dice during the action: spell damage vs. saves, AoOs vs. immediate actions, etc. Your choices at first level should be things you can outgrow: R...

I personally am a big fan of spell resistance working like fire or cold resistance. It makes spells less effective, instead of "doesn't happen at all". The only problem is figuring out how the fuck that works with spells that do things other than just deal damage(i.e. all the ones you rea...

Oh yeah, and are you going to make that thread that asks for a breakdown for exactly how and why Pathfinder fails? You should probably make one if there isn't one already; there's already the official "point people who like 4e here for a point-by-point refutation" thread, so there might a...