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Erm...no, just giving out abilities for essentially, or eventually, free isn't a good idea unless the abilities are practically worthless for the level you get them. Besides, almost all the D&D material designed around here is meant to be compatible with the Tomes.

When it comes to Tome classes, or playable WOTC classes, everyone can easily afford to be good at one or more social things.[br][br]PhoneLobster, this really doesn't seem all that hard to me. Is assigning appropriate bonuses or penalties really harder than just arbitrarily deciding what the NPC thin...

I just got RickRoll'd, and until now I didn't even know that was a thing.

1197164396[/unixtime]]In WoD, do some or all Vampires see humans as nothing better than cattle? Are Vampires that still have Human friends, empathize with humanity, etc., common or rare? Do all Vampires/Werewolves have to pledge allegiance to a clan/tribe? Could they try to live a normal life in a ...

Prak_Anima at [unixtime wrote:1197158240[/unixtime]]The idea was for it to be a class feature that fighters come from some sort of colourful background that gives them knowledge, and not make them spend skill points on being able to do so.

What, like Bardic Knowledge? Called Mercenary Connections or something?

Actually I was thinking more of the numbers, some of these feats are giving out +3 two three different skills as the base or +1 benefit and maybe something else besides, that got to be toned down; and there are places where things could certainly use some powering up too. I didn't go over them piece...

Charm should work that way, but Compulsion should turn you into a slave(that gets to make will saves to break your control)[br][br]Maybe in my system Charms and Compulsions could give you a number of extra d6s equal to the spell level; that way you probably could convince Joe Schmo to do just about ...

I dunno. Once the Wizard understands the concept of SoDs and battlefield control, they are usually pretty easy to run. There is no reason you can't just get someone to make your daily spell selections for you.

A good things about the system I just proposed is that what idea you are trying to convey and the person you are trying to convey it to gives, sometimes rather significant, modifiers on the check.[br][br]Once that system has been ironed out we can do things like add templates to NPCs based on their ...

You guys need to find a balance point, cause these things aren't balanced against each other, the RoW feats, or the [Skill] feats found here.

I like the idea of social combat, but I don't think it should work the same way as regular D&D combat. Here's how I envision it.[br][br]The basic premise is that at the base-line for people with a stat of 10 and no ranks get to roll 1 d6 when proposing a roughly neutral proposition that the targ...

1197114721[/unixtime]]Well IMO Rogues should get Bonus Combat Feats in place of Sneak Attack increases, and Sneak Attack become cumulative feat(s).[br][br]With this setup, the only difference between the two is in skill versatility, which is easily widened with INT, and Hit Points, which are easily...

1197117420[/unixtime]][br][br]Christianity stole the fish symbol from the Philistine's cult of Dagon, along with the 'fish on Fridays' deal, and the shape of the Bishops' hats (which is a fish's mouth).[br][br]Just sayin'. [br]All of those are Catholic. Not Christian. Catholics are only slightly cl...

Draco_Argentum at [unixtime wrote:1197100660[/unixtime]]Sunder screws people who like their character to have a signature weapon. Insert Catharz's bit about success chances.

Yeah, and SoDs screw people who like characters that are capable of dieing. What's your point?

1197097237[/unixtime]]Mearls is right. Sundering does fuck up the game, assuming the DM puts treasure on NPCs such that corpse-looting PCs will have exactly the right amount of crud per level if they take everything. And that's how the game is apparently intended to be played. [br]Even a DM with an...

1197093902[/unixtime]]In Crissa's defense, I betcha there isn't one person on the boards right now who couldn't use a good lay.[br][br]Seriously, you there. Yes you, the one who's reading my post. If you had the chance to get a lay from someone you found sufficient to lay, and had enough time and e...

Sunder is a bad thing because it destroys things that a lot of your enemy's power is tied up in, but Sunder would be perfectly fine if it could destroy things in which none of your enemy's power was tied up in instead.

You'd have to be a total asshole or a moron to come to that conclusion.

Wait, why a dozen? ...on second thought, I think I'd be happier not knowing.

Didn't realize there're six incarnations of Doctor Who.

As in "5 out of 6 doctors recommend"?

Is it odd that I find it annoying that Frank is consistently compared to House when it's been established that Frank is a joyful, fun person to be around IRL, while the character House is most definitely not? Just wondering if it's strange that I care enough to be annoyed.

before...now?

Shut. Up. Anyone who spends a week or two here quickly finds that this place is a den, not only of gaming, but of dark and/or acerbic humor where such statements are not to be taken seriously. We are all adults here with at least moderately thick skins, shit can be said and relationships, such as th...

:jawdrop: Capn'...the Edge is explained in the first page of this very thread.

Take a look at the Warchanter prestige class in on of the early complete books. It has some worthwhile combat buff songs.