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I don't really like your MT -- it seems a little *too* strong at the levels where it's *not* behind a spell level. What if it were designed for a Cleric 2 or Cleric 3? Have cleric spells at the normal levels, wizard spells a spell level behind. I have this concern too, but if it's a real problem, i...

NPC Equipment Wealth by Level Sucks Let's be upfront about this: the wealth-by-level system doesn't work. It's broken forwards, backwards, sideways, and a few other directions no one's given a name to. Consider some of the ways: Infinite Money Loops. These exist in many different levels and forms, ...

Caster Multiclass Patch PrCs Arcane Trickster " Your honor, it may be true that my client seduced the Baron's daughter with a charm spell and replaced the family's heirloom sword with a permanent image , but that does not prove she was the murderer! " The arcane trickster, of the core hyb...

Object Lessons in Writing Prestige Classes People Want to Play This is the first in what should be a short series of posts examining and reworking core (and perhaps a few splatbook) PrCs that no one in their right mind ever takes. My goal is to provide some insight into some of my theories of PrC d...

I've written some other material for 3e D&D. Unfortunately, I didn't finish before the time that 4e announcements started coming out or it was becoming clear I wasn't going to be in a D&D campaign any time in the near future. I never finished, and even though I started updating the section o...

1197241847[/unixtime]]A good feat based around Jump needs to address the problem that the skill stops being useful when everyone starts flying. [br][br]I'd turn this around, myself: the problem is that flying arrives too damn early. It's possible to fly at level 1, standard at level 5, and everythi...

My [counturl=127]Kantian Paladin[/counturl] and [counturl=128]Shapeshifter PrC[/counturl] are intended to be compatible with Tome material. (I've been meaning to editor the latter, but since I'm not playing in any 3e campaigns and 4e is approaching, my desire to work on 3e material has cratered.)

1195941166[/unixtime]][br]The MYSTARY race revealed: Dragonborn. [br][br]Couldn't they have chosen something less... stupid? I mean, half-dragon would count—it's not like dragons are so inherently awesome that a half-dragon couldn't be playable at level 1 if you wrote mechanics that didn'...

Clerics get full BAB, it's just listed in a footnote to the class. (Look under 4th-level spells.) They also don't need skills because they have spells. Seriously, take a look at the rogue skil list sometime and figure out how many 1-1 replacements for skills there are. Move Silently? Silence is wors...

1192211012[/unixtime]] Ability Scores [br]This is easy. You just have a Power or two for each Ability. If a character is strong, they choose the Strength Power, and if a character is agile, they take the Dexterity Power. Each of those Powers come with a list of specific benefits, which scale with l...

I wrote up a Diplomacy revision awhile ago that tried to make it into more of a bargaining skill, and less of a "I win the game," skill, here: http://bb.bbboy.net/thegamingden-viewth ... &postnum=0

I think it's pretty basic: sexual attraction works a lot on correlations. For people, especially male people interested in female people, youth is a big factor in someone's attractiveness, and since normally the only people wearing school-girl uniforms are, in fact, schoolgirls, the uniforms pick up...

1191552789[/unixtime]]However, a LGBT blogger famous for outing closeted conservatives broke the story and the mainstream media picked it up. A homophobic, married GOPer was soliciting for hot, adulterous gay sex. [br][br]Who is that, out of curiosity? This seems like a blog I should be reading, or...

1191856719[/unixtime]]Tempest Stormwind is fairly intelligent and reasonable, I haven't really seen anything to merit the ridiculous praise he receives on a regular basis over on WOTC. [br][br]I think it's because he has some understanding of the game, but doesn't go out of his way to shred WotC's ...

1191796258[/unixtime]]NO ONE HERE WILL EVER ACCEPT YOUR 4CHAN BULLSHIT SO STOP TRYING TO EXPOSE US TO IT. IT ONLY MAKES ME MORE HOSTILE. [br][br]Ultimately, fbmf is the one who decides what is and isn't appropriate here. And, as far as I can tell, Koumei's post is perfectly on-topic: it's mocking a...

1191362485[/unixtime]][br][br]Sounds awesome... like I said, is there a spell list somewhere? Or a few good spells that I should take a look at?[br][br]EDIT: Let's tack on, "Suggestions for a build to beat the shit out of a Psion mano-a-mindo at 6th level?" [br][br]Depends on what, exactl...

1190935230[/unixtime]]Force isn't the only problem here. We also have things like Freezing Sphere or a mundane hollow steel cube. There's no way I can see that a shiny pants type warrior is going to get out of something like that without either breaking flavor or relying on his phat loots; most pla...

1190912813[/unixtime]]And Iameki, that works in general, but what I'm more worrried about is a realtivaly non-magical hero escaping from a forcecage, or similar, without breaking it; not just bamfing around the battle-field. [br][br]This problem is a bit like asking what happens when an irresistibl...

1190913969[/unixtime]]I'm sorry if I act like "the Gaming Den is full of negative meanies who don't like any RPG ever." [br][br]Apologizing is good, but only if it means it won't happen again :).[br][br]The Gaming Den is a refuge of sorts for people who've listened to countless examples o...

I think that's one of easiest of all: you don't really need to justify teleportation, just omit details about how the characters moved. It's not like teleportation effects were particularly common in mythology and they're not even that common in fantasy literature, since they're all rooted in scient...

1190823877[/unixtime]]I know this might seem like a stupid question but is there no major issue with this guy getting multiple 9th level spells uses at 10th? I know you guys never heal in combat so all it really does is save on wands of cure whatever; but that is no small thing when everyone just g...

1190801875[/unixtime]]Oh snap, you're right. I'm not sure how they justify that one. Anyone with any more recent/in-depth knowledge? [br][br]The ancient Hebrews weren't monotheists in the way the term is used today. Later Christians justified the appearance of other gods in the Old Testament by say...

If I had more time/interest at the moment, I could probably do a fuller adaptation, but as it is, I don't, so I'm going to talk in general about adapting the anime to WoD. I'm going to focus on the anime because I don't know the manga half so well, and there a lot of subtle differences between them ...

1190132346[/unixtime]]Automagically, with very few defenses. Particularly the party's wizard. HPs < 150? Stunned [br][br]Not in 3.5--by the time powerword stun becomes available, everyone has mindblank up all the time so it never works.[br][br]There really isn't much chance for high-powered fiends ...

1189561413[/unixtime]][br]1. I have two casual players, two hardcore rules players, and one hardcore role-player. Is there anything that I should specifically look out for in a Tome game with such a group as opposed to a non-Tome game? [br][br]Bitching from rules lawyers who think they know a lot a...