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In a vacuum, the solution to an absurdly overpowered Wizard is to throw absurdly high CR encounters at him, and then have the world stand in awe of his meteoric ascent to power. The problem is that what was already one of the most overpowered classes in the game is now absurdly powerful, thus presum...

Yay dads.

Maybe the god-power is to mind control others into doing whatever you want, and the more you do it to the same person, the more their own will is eroded until they're dependent upon your direction to do anything at all.

Let me get this straight. People rejected "Vital Force" powers and Tome classes for being too weaboo, and instead proposed a class that is even more weaboo . :confused: Seriously, WTF? Anyone rejecting "Vital Force" because we called it "Chi" first is either mindlessly...

Gathering new pieces of equipment as you go is a staple of the Metroidvania genre. I also like the idea of making a class that gets more effect than normal from magic items.

A couple more ideas for moral gods-without-powers: 1) Magic damages the universe. Every time you save a life by snapping your fingers and wishing up some food, another life is spontaneously snuffed out to pay for it. If you want to actually increase the sum total of happiness in the world, you have ...

Yeah, and if you were emulating this character in D&D YOU WOULD MAKE THIS CHARACTER AN ARTIFICER BECAUSE YOU HAVE A FINITE AMOUNT OF SPACE TO WORK WITH . Great. Next time someone wants to play a DMF in one of your games, tell them to try an Artificer with unusually Fighter-ey flavor text. Probl...

I think you've pretty much forgotten what the topic is. It's SlutWalk, not sluts. So Slutwalk was the main topic of conversation for the last 5 pages, and Harley Quinn's outfit, and the gender issues of comic book women was just an aside that was thrown in the last paragraph of a post about slutwal...

A) Give them a schtick any ol' schlub can do but then arbitrarily exclude everyone else from doing it. As Sokka said, he's the only one who can come up with a plan because if Katara or Zuko do then he's made doubly pointless. This is extra suspicious because if Sokka gets killed off then Katara and...

While that's a start you'll want to prune spells that make casters better rogues and fighters than rogues and fighters. You also want to craft adventures where the adventures will need to spend more than 15 minutes per day adventuring so the casters can't have all their buffs all the time. I try to...

I got the arguments, I'm just not seeing the relevance to the Slut Walks.

I don't really see how this is related to Slut Walks, except tangentially. Granted, all I've heard of them is hearsay, but isn't the point of Slut Walks that some police guy said "don't dress slutty to avoid being raped" and then everyone got all worked up over it? No one, except perhaps t...

The key to success is waiting for a chance victory and then claiming that all of your previous blunders were part of an elaborate plan.

Even granting an extra two BAB and damage, that doesn't really class them as 4 CR higher.

You think Harley's OLD costume made her look less vulnerable and more competent than this one? Yes. She wasn't significantly competent/tough, but the implication of vulnerability was subtle . Much like the Joker himself is subtle. He isn't splattered with blood or wearing the teeth of his enemies a...

Ok, so she's sexualized. I don't recall dissenting against that (though I may just be forgetting my own words). But again, my real question is, why is that an issue? Makes her harder to take seriously as a character, makes her appear significantly more vulnerable, less competent, less like a villai...

If that's true, it's brilliant. Would redeem WotC as a competent company in my mind.

Um... that's totally not a fight pose. Why are you critiquing it as such? She's flourishing, not rearing for attack. You're right, it's not a fight pose. Find me promo material for a male superhero who isn't in either a fight pose or some kind of ready stance. She looks like she's posing for a porn...

IIRC you literally can't have level 2 Giants of any kind. Even a first level commoner Giant would be at least a level 5 character. Assuming that they're barbarians or fighters, level 5-6 is pretty reasonable and +1 attack isn't going to change much about the calculation. This holds true for D&D...

Your analysis hinges on the assumption that the frost giants are all level 6 Fighters. What on Earth makes you think this, when we have never seen them fighting any opponent who might offer a baseline or do anything except fight enemies whose level is currently called into question? Why can't they b...

Oh, wow, had to go into full reply mode just so I could read the responses from the Topic Review window. Broken forum is broken. Just give the guy super powers, call it "Vital Force", "Ki" or whatever synonym of Not-Magic-that-you-get-by-doing-push-ups you want and call it a day....

I've seen drunken frat boys more intimidating than Harley, there. Seriously, brief rundown of everything about her that's the very opposite of intimidating: 1) She's showing off an incredible amount of skin, especially in the parts that are most vulnerable. Granted, throwing on a shirt wouldn't actu...

Again, it raises the question of why this needs to be its own separate class rather than just an adjunct to gadgeteer. A question that should hardly survive its statement, because the answer is as simple as "this one doesn't have any gadgets, just one ultra-weapon." You may as well ask wh...

Pretty sure I've got the gist of it from the name, but how exactly does a Condition Track work?

And then you have the problem of you still being better off killing that worthless fucker, giving the sword to the party paladin or ranger, and replacing the VAH with a real character. Unless you give the Fighter a class feature of 'only they can use artifact swords and they're guaranteed to find o...