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Hmm. I'm bored, and this looks fun. Swap arms and legs. Sickened, and every now and then you puke up a water elemental that tries to kill you. You can no longer handle currency in any manner. Anything which you intend to use to use as money passes through you as if you didn't exist. No bags or pokin...

Doesn't that mean that you can't really use social kombat against someone unless they think they're winning though? I believe so. The tradeoff is that doing this makes the other guy really, really angry at you. It's basically ending a discussion by telling the other guy to suck a barrel of cocks. Y...

This is the problem right here. You're at a tavern, kicking back, and then some guy at another table (who you know to be in the same league as you) looks in your direction and starts casting a spell. That's generally considered aggressive, and can result in you stabbing him, teleporting away, or ot...

Except there isn't actually a "diplomat" class in D&D that's bad at combat. There aren't any classes that are excessively bad at combat, except by mistakes in design. If social kombat can be equally devastating, I would expect there to be no classes that are bad at it, either. There a...

A legendary Bard making some random bystanders give him all their stuff for nothing, that's fine. But the legendary Bard doing that to equally legendary but not particularly social people - not good. And even if you do manage to keep it entirely on the RNG, that kind of ability should be rare enoug...

If I might offer a dissenting opinion, at higher levels you do want to be able to do that sort of thing. A high-level wizard can blow up cities (without those cities being able to fight back), and a high-level warblade-type can single-handedly raze cities (without those cities being able to fight ba...

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Rent some ebooks from your local (or not local) library's website, then turn the computer to "super super battery saver". I recommend Harry Dresden.

Agreed. Good flavor ("Something nailed down and on fire , lol) and organization, and the math seems to work out on very, very cursory inspection. I like it. A few questions: Combat Focus feat: are the hits gained from combat focus in addition to any rolled by those 4d6, or do you not roll the 4...

Psychic Robot wrote:

- Mounted character who attacks with Ride-By Attack (ignoring stealth errata), Power Attack, and some charge multipliers.

OTP.

I see what you did there.

Otherwise, you might as well just make tanks NPCs or something because it's not very interesting to be the tank in a pen and paper game. I actually played a DND campaign where we did this. Everybody played a primary caster and their meatshield. In-game, the casters had mind-raped and were telepathi...

1) You can't tank without the class features to do so. Just having sufficient hit points or AC doesn't work any more; you actually have to be able to prevent people from attacking a zone. Eh, if you're talking high level battles, then tanking isn't even all that important a concept. Rarely do you s...

So, I agree that this has pretty big advantages. However, a few concerns. 1) You can't tank without the class features to do so. Just having sufficient hit points or AC doesn't work any more; you actually have to be able to prevent people from attacking a zone. If there are only six zones, that's a ...

Speaking as someone that so far has been uninvolved (and thus can offer a pretty good facsimile of a random visitor's opinion), I'd support a limited form of this. An absolute ban on non-gaming material might be going just a bit too far, but I would like to see a dramatic reduction in off-topic flam...

This class is incredibly simple. Even compared to something like a fighter or a rogue. Just write down your damage and update it every time you level. You look it up once per session and remember the result for the day. Compare to running a wizard where, you have to look up an actual spell definitio...

Another option would be to penalize people for having buffs active at the start of combat. Say, for every buff active, you have to wait two rounds before you get to change abilities. You can start with as many buffs active as you want, but you're going to be at a huge tactical disadvantage if you do...

Wait until the wish economy, then build yourself a Death Star (build a several-mile sphere of adamantine, cover it in several billion magical ballistae crewed by tiny earth elementals, animate it, give it a fly speed, then go around getting statistical kills on gods). edit: Granted, this isn't exact...

True. I could pass quite a bit of the parsing off to XML. Turn ability definitions into <ability><name>Ability 1</name><type>Ex</type></ability> or something, make the class definition file a big chunk of XML, etc. Do the parsing and transformations using python, but organize the data initially usin...

Unless you're going for very, very large values of [range here], I still think that it's easier to build a room underground. Especially as in an underground chamber you'll get even less matter (because the solid matter of the tower itself wont be there.) If you put up the range high enough to make ...

Neat. I considered doing it with a transformation language, but eventually decided on the programmatic approach for the extra power. It also gives me the ability to put every ability under source control individually, which is nice.

And same here.

Yet another update . More feature additions: Full support for recurring abilities. For example: Ability definitions can specify a unique name for each occurrence of the ability The ability to insert the levels at which the ability is gained, either as numerals or ordinal strings. For example, in an...

Why not combine the above idea with the idea from Vebyast's latest post. There's a special type of permenacy that you can use on mage's private sanctum . It gives the sanctum unlimited spell use with a very small area, so long as the mage is there ALONE (excluding summoned and called creatures--thi...

Another update , this one mostly to fill feature requests. New features: Ability definitions have a separate line for their type (Ex, Su, etc). In Wiki mode, this generates an internal link to the proper page. Spell List and Skills get sorted alphabetically When in wiki mode, automatically changes ...

New version is up. Fixes a few bugs, adds a few new features, and adds an output mode for DNDwiki. It's kind of rudimentary right now (no support for custom columns, and it has some problems with knowledge skills), but it's more or less usable. Link at http://pastebin.com/K4DD3tiF , sample output at...