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I know. It even says you can ignore one prestige class requirement in the knightly order class feature, but as shorthand, "The last ten levels of knight," worked better than, "The prestige classes that the knight must take after he completes the knight class at level 10." Sorry f...

I'm starting a combo Tome game (using PHB feats and a few Tome classes), but I've a player who'll immediately gravitate toward the knight. Before I can start making my own campaign-appropriate knightly orders, however, I really need an example of one or two. What do the last ten levels of knight loo...

I'm look at the jester's cruel comment--should that be a morale penalty, or is it supposed to be able to give a foe a -12 to attack rolls, saving throws, and all other checks for one round if it's successful the third time?

What skills are, in your opinion, pretty much universal to any game taking place in a heroic fantasy era? What about modern era? Steampunk? Obscenely high magic game? First, you have to define skill --and that's no easy task. In D&D it's shit that ain't class features. In Spycraft 2.0 their thi...

There's another way (and it might've been mentioned on page 2). Warren Ellis's Black Summer puts forth the idea that a lone superhuman--John Horus--can violently murder POTUS (hi, DHS!) and then rally all of the U. S. against him , that is, John Horus. This serves to break down party lines and force...

If I may, I'm the Robert Harris in the thread linked to on the Paizo boards. I want a good game. Is that so much to ask? I guess it is, from the Paizo POV. They'd rather a note on the front of their books that says, "This game was designed by nice people," than one that says, "This ga...

Solitary intelligent monsters often get into the same boat as the Kuo-Toans. Since the Roper really has no society (and possibly the most obscure language in Core D&D ), it's very difficult for it to understand the possible ramifications of offending pan-humanoid society. This has been bugging ...

Does wall of thorns block line of effect? Passages from the SRD quoted below for completeness.[br][br] Line of Effect: A line of effect is a straight, unblocked path that indicates what a spell can affect. A line of effect is canceled by a solid barrier. It’s like line of sight for ranged weapons, e...

There are Rituals, which are one-use, time-consuming plot devices. The only game mechanics needed are casting time and stuff to make the Ritual work. Oh, and you need to roll a Knowledge (Occult) check. [br][br]So with his uncapped Int-based Knowledge (occult), the scholar just pumps all his ranks ...

If you want to kill Wizards, get 'em while they're young.[br]Seriously, a low level Wizard is a shit class and a bad time to be alive. [br][br]Except even at low levels they're toting 1-2 save-or-dies and can still coup de grace with their crossbows. Given a halfway decent decent Dex and Con, even ...

Pardon my ignorance, but are you saying that casters generally have the capability to disrupt the casting of an equally-powerful enemy caster, on that enemy's turn, as a side effect of casting an already-awesome spell? [br][br]Yep.[br][br]DM: You won initiative.[br]Player: I ready an action--I'm go...

I'd like to see less government officials mixing and mingling with corporations. I have no idea how to put that in there. [br][br]That's easy: A constitutional amendment that says the following: Corporations are not people. Done.[br][br]I'm actually down with Australia's mandatory voting. I think t...

The problem with that is that it's still a net loss for the counterspeller. If you have to give up the spell that you just used to counterspell, that means you could have, instead, readied the action to cast the same spell, which would have both resulted in your casting the spell at the baddie and f...

...But counterspelling as a tactic right now is so shitty that requiring a feat to unshittify it is the wrong way to go.

There's gotta be a better counterspelling ruleset out there to start from before trying to revise it with a feat.

Whoah. You're checking out an online forum to determine what people think about your pulp novel, and you're surprised and offended that folks are ripping it? To such a degree that you complain to the moderators and get it shut down?

You gots no business writing books. Seriously.

I just hate the name. The Power Attack feat should have something to do with--I dunno-- attacking not damaging .[br][br]I've always thought it should be a bonus to hit in exchange for a penalty to Armor Class, sacrificing defense for offense. Then you could combine it with the Expertise feat and eve...

From my limited understanding, isn't the ability to do anything with quantum entanglement except talk about it still entirely in the theory stage? Wouldn't that be like one of those discussion wherein someone goes, "Well, if we could go faster-than-light, then...," and nobody says, "W...

I once again trot out Spycraft 2.0 , which has weapon entries for both the "chainsaw, light," which uses the edged weapon proficiency, and the "chainsaw, heavy," which uses the exotic edged weapon proficiency.[br][br]And, yes, if you wanted to, you could dual-wield light chainsaw...

So, wait. They're celebrating the 69th Kristalnacht anniversary?

Are the neo-Nazis in Prague big, like, Bill and Ted fans or something?

Just for clarification, I know there were things like, "Paladins and monks should have multiclassing restrictions because, like, they're special." I know that was playtester feedback that was integrated, but I mean things like, "Dude, the two-bladed sword is so overpowered by weighing...

The easy answer: A Rog3 could have taken 2-weapon Fighting at level 3 and, instead of wasting that full round studying his target, attacked. In fact, made a full attack--twice. That's +8d6 damage, instead of the assassin's +6d6.[br][br]A Wiz3 could simply cast invisibility , which requires no die ro...

I don't understand DMPCs at all. Why have them? Why not just make the cleric NPC an NPC instead of someone who must ally with the PCs for no apparent reason? I mean, really, if the group needs an NPC cleric why not just give them a cleric with his own agenda instead of an icky hybrid DM-PC agenda? W...

I agree. What does playtesting actually entail? Finding the brokenest things you can do under the rules and explaining to the designers why they're brokenated and having them fix them prior to the game's release. When my buddies and I were playtesting Spycraft 2.0 , we did exactly this, which meant ...

If you take 'less powerful' decision for roleplaying reasons, that doesn't make it less optimal, you have merely decided to optimise for fun, rather than for greatest power. [br][br]I'm playing in a game now wherein I'm running a Clr3/Wiz3/Mystic Theurge 5, and I was originally aiming for archmage ...

Oh, yeah, I don't get the Aquaman hate either. If all he could do were talk to fish, then he'd be stupid. But Aquaman, like any character who gets his own title, becomes more and more boss the more you leave him alone.[br][br]And, hell, nobody mocks Namor, and the Avenging Son (or whatever) can't ev...