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1091755061[/unixtime]]You can have fighters that don't use shields be and not be down 7 points of AC and or melee fighters that don't need to be stronger than Fire Giants just to stay remotely competitive. [br][br]If you can get the same AC as shield guy while useing your two handed beatstick why w...

1091488319[/unixtime]][br]That's all I'm saying a story-XP system needs. It needs a framework to start with. Seriously, if you don't have something that says "Do X, you get Y XP," how will any new player know what XP should be? [br][br]Right now its meant to work out to 13.33 encounters o...

1091402545[/unixtime]]So it´s an automatic silent stilled spell, and your casting first level spells at level 4. I´m not sure if the ability to cast spells while being grappled and looking like a floating drinking horn, makes up for the loss of 3 caster levels against a wizard, or even against anot...

Loseing levels is a dumb mechanic.

Catharz, your complaints apply equally to the current xp system. Only since it also includes xp costs its even more messed up.

1091292358[/unixtime]][br]It's not really important what part of the character comes from the equipment and what part comes from the character - as long as MDJ wipes out part of your character you're still going to be left playing some kind of broken shell of a character when the MDJ hits. Whatever...

1091205545[/unixtime]][br]An Orc w/ a longsword, and +3 to hit and damage;[br] [br][br]Din, ding, ding, ding, ding.[br][br]Thats how you reduce reliance on equipment. If magice swords did cool stuff instead of straight bonuses you'd use a sword for the cool factor, not becuase +1 to hit and damage ...

Guest (Unregistered) at [unixtime wrote:1091204129[/unixtime]]avoiding all the traps and monsters in the Black Tower by throwing rocks at the archmagi's window until he decides to walk outside and see WTF is going on is not cool.

Sounds like good tactics to me. Therefore it is cool.

Count_Arioch_the_28th at [unixtime wrote:1091020952[/unixtime]]Bypassing encounters grants you the exp you would have gotten for killing the thing.

But not the loot.

I'm anti blanket immunities. Immunity to sneak attack sends a rogue from best balenced class in the game to dodgy in undead heavy games. Immunities can easily generate too great a swing in power. This makes balencing abilities harder.

I assume you work on it at port since I doubt you'd be posting from a sub on patrol. Whats her name?

Lago_AM3P at [unixtime wrote:1090373297[/unixtime]]
Something better than 'it uses negative energy, and negative energy is EEEVILLE!!!'.

That'd be a perfectly good explanation, if negative energy was evil in the first place.

1089922705[/unixtime]]Sure you can. A +10% to hit is a +10% to hit. If it's better than what you had before, you can certainly get excited about it. The ability for your allies to teleport to other planes doesn't really influence your ability to fight, and remember under this system you'd have lots...

How should I know? Why one of the rare few magic swords in your game would be a flavourless +2 item in the first place beats me.

CD is just plain crap. I hated it more than CW. The only thing in CD I liked was the fluff text for the rainbow servant (or whatever its called), the mechanics for it suck hardcore.

You have a huge list of simple bonuses already. They could be consolidated though so there'd be only one increase to each number rather than several smaller ones. If lvl 15 characters need at least an AC of 35 to not suck then thats what they should get. There isn't any point into having multiple na...

1089240834[/unixtime]][br]I think that's all Draco's saying. Level power doesn't need to be based on wealth; if AC needs to increase w/ level, make that a level-based mechanic, not a hurdy-gurdy wealth adjunct that scales roughly with wealth. [br][br]Thats it. Why do rings of protection and cloaks ...

Those accent marks are funny. I was talking to some French guys and the question "How do you know how to pronounce cafe?" came up. Here everyone knows its pronounced kaf-ay not kaf but the idea seemed to weird them out.

Correct, but I was talking about level equipment which dosen't get any of that either. Signiture items are the only ones people care enough about for any of that to matter with the proposed system.

To be honest I'd rather dump level based equipment completely. It makes no mechanical difference if your AC is good because you have a ring or a class ability.

rapanui at [unixtime wrote:1088931777[/unixtime]]Max Payne and his dual Ingrams (uncontrolled fury?),

Someone actually uses those? Assault rifle all the way.

If signature items are going to be optional then characters who don't want them should get some other benefit instead.

Having cash should stop being the same as being able the get a scad of magic items. Merchants, kings and Dragons are meant to have lots of money. Its really lame when they don't just because the PCs would get too powerful. The PCs would leave behind most of the loot if it was useless to them.

RandomCasualty at [unixtime wrote:1088111212[/unixtime]]
Sure it does. D&D has divination spells, sense motive, search and gather information, and that's all you really need for a detective plot. In fact you don't even need divinations.

Replace need with want.

He means magic beasts.

Warforged have been getting called underpowered elsewhere. Wheres the cheese?

Magic as tech: Flavour complaint, boring.

Dragon marks: unless you can abuse these for PrC entry they're underpowered IMO.

Pretty much. The rules changes aren't that big.

The camo pattern on WW2 warships is another example. Vertical stripes mean you don't look like a long object with the expected profile.