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I am DMing a PbP with a guy playing one. The PCs are currently level 10, and have had one combat. I'm about to have one more against this guy one on one, since he split up from the party and an enemy has been watching and is going to take the opportunity to try and gank him. :biggrin: As far as eval...

Thanks for the detailed review ubernoob. Yes, the class gets a bunch of action economy shenanigans, but since that's about all it gets (other than being the party's magic schoolbus) until later in the game, I'm OK with this. For now, I am just adding a saving throw to Xeno's Paradox, and clarifying ...

Pixels wrote:Just a minor nitpick: you switch gender pronouns throughout, because the bits I wrote use female pronouns, while the bits you wrote use male pronouns.

You clarified a few of the abilities nicely, e.g. Spatial Sense. Mind if I nab your wording?

Of course not.

What about if I change it to something radically nerfed, but still fitting the same fluff, like: as an immediate action you may double the effective distance between you and an enemy. So it takes them twice as much movement to reach you as it should, etc. This would include reach, so enemies without...

Suggestions for fixing it? I like the flavor, and while I can pretty easily handle it as the DM by just having more than one enemy, giving enemies teleportation abilities, etc, I can understand why it is probably too strong as-is, especially at that level.

Other thoughts?

Earlier this year I found this class and really liked it, but it wasn't exactly what I needed. So I expanded it to 20 levels and rearranged things a bit. Here is the final result. You guys can feel free to tear it apart, ignore it, or whatever you want. A PC of mine has been using it in a game and s...

MGuy wrote:I only don't like ability spam if there are no other valid options. If spamming is just an option and I can reasonably do other things then everything is fine.

And a firemage has more options than a psion?

Much better. I might have to try this out.

Who cares? It's Dominate Monster at character level 9 , a full eight levels before the Wizard. I care. The Aguments (with errata no one has or uses) may make it good, even too good. But WITHOUT the Augments it ISN'T good. This is problematic because it means that when you first get it you are worse...

I do worry that the negative levels might be a bit over the top when they first come online. In a party with someone who casts Haste, this guy is throwing out 4 negative levels per round at level 5. He could two-round most of the things he'll be facing, if they're not immune to the effect. I guess t...

Koumei wrote: [*]Rainbow Sparkle Mage! From Colour Spray and Hypnotic Pattern to Prismatic Effects to whatever Illusions you think suit it

I vote for this one just because I think it would be hilarious to see Kaelik make one.

Lago PARANOIA wrote:And what will that lead to?

Lots of lawsuits, since it is illegal to age-discriminate against people 40+.

...but worse at mind control... Seriously? They get Charm at 1st level that becomes charm monster at character level 4 instead of 9 for a Wizard. They get a version of suggestion at level 3 that becomes a minor mass suggestion at level 4 and just gets better when the Wizard is getting it at 5 and n...

How exactly does negative energy control work? Can it only heal damage? Or does it give the target temporary hit points? If it is THP, is there a duration? Or can he just add a ton of THP to the entire party (who have Tomb-Tainted Soul) and their undead minions? Overall, I like the class. It's prett...

I mean fuck, Psionic domination, you know, mind control, is WORSE THAN THE CORE VERSION FOR NO REASON. A specialist brain dude telepath IS WORSE AT MIND CONTROL THAN A WIZARD. Technically that got fixed in errata. I know I raged when I saw telepaths being worse than wizards. This errata helps that ...

Special Only living creatures can use this feat. You can take advantage of this feat only while in your own body. Half of the abuses you talked about don't work because of this line. Of course, you can still burn your own stats down and them Metamorph into something and replace them, but you can on...

Cone Snails - Awesome idea. Already reflected in one of the puns I snuck onto my armor tweaks. But as they are a real-world animal with magic associations who shoot poison darts, the D&D version probably shoots magic poison darts or something. Those things are crazy. When I was interviewing for...

Mister_Sinister wrote:May I suggest an alternative?

No kidding. I just found that one myself the other day, and can't wait to play it.

the_taken wrote:You forgot Bedbug Sex

Edit -> And Suicide Sex

Wow. I wrote up a version of "bedbug sex" years ago for a race of intelligent humanoid insects in an RPG supplement, and had no idea that something like that actually existed in nature...

Damn cool class. But doesn't it seem like Chain Gun is better than all the other Greater Cogs - by like a truckload? Anything not immune to Con damage just dies, and if you have any per-attack stuff, then anything immune also dies. Wouldn't it still just be one attack, no matter how many needles (d...

There's a writeup here with kobolds having that kind of queen/worker reproductive setup.

I kind of like the whole "Words have Power" theme, that Tolkien used somewhat, and which can also be found in some D&D supplements (the Truenamer class, Words of Creation feat, etc). I've read an interesting interpretation of the bible that uses this, also (God said "Let there be ...

Thematically, Naga and Vampire need to be swapped. Vampires drain blood/energy with their bite. That sounds like bite+wasting to me. In D&D at least, Nagas are giant snakes that cast spells. So they should be Bite+Magic. I don't have much input for the names of your weapons at the moment. I don'...

Hypnotic Rump (Su): at level five, the Favoured Soul of Loviatar has a permanent Hypnotic Rump effect active. Any foe she moves away from, or who elects to gain a Flanking bonus against her, must save against the effect. This is the greatest ability EVAR! It's even better than the Chaos Knight's Su...

Koumei wrote:I'm interested in seeing your take on the Favoured Soul of Loviatar.

I bet you are. Who isn't?