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I like the Kantian paladin (maybe cuz I have a philosophy degree) but I have to admit that I really like IGTN's take on smite. I would make a small change to it, though: it should be expended on *any* successful hit, not just against evil creatures. Otherwise it acts like an infallible, unblockable ...

Honestly and truly listen to me on this one. I used to be like you. I opposed Kaelik about 'fighters' and redefining them for the game too. I thought that you seriously could just rewrite what fighters were expected to do in the game and people would fall in line with it... ...You even said it your...

Thank you for the links, Lord Mistborn. Although I have been trying to focus on the Foil Ability of the Tome Fighter, it is good to put it in the broader context of the role of fighters in the game.

So my question is why do you get such a fucking hard on for the Tome Fighter that you refuse to just use some other class with abilities designed for the supernatural fluff in question? D&D to me is a wizard, a cleric, a rogue and a fighter on adventures together. I started with the Red Box, an...

Stop being so frozen fast you blithering idiot. What has defined the mundane archetype in this shitty thread and the five hundred other shitty threads on their is that their fluff is shit. You can not write fluff for the characters nocker virgil fap too because those characters basically are Captai...

Although I hate derailing a thread about comic books, I'd like to know how folks think the fighter's Foil Action ability could be fluffed. I can see that it is tied up with problems about fighters being "mundane", but I think that can be separated out. Suppose that the Fighter were a 5th l...

However, I'll third the thing that Mguy and Zugschef said. The Fighter doesn't really have a place in D&D anymore. Actually, I recall a thread where this conclusion was drawn more than once. Even the class name is retarded when you think about it. Is this the thread? The reason why fighters wil...

Actually, it appears that if the mark is "you have a giant dick drawn on your face", then Polymorph would turn you into a newt with a dick drawn on its face. Similar to how some myths about shapechangers give them some form of "tell" that is always there no matter what they do. ...

And of all the magical abilities I can think of, a Jessica Sorrow-style "Unbelief" kind of mechanism is closest to what we recognize as mundane. No. You're right. The direction of fit is wrong; skepticism is an procedure whereby we figure out what is really out there. It is not like somet...

I've enjoyed the pantheons of Elizabeth Moon's Paksenarrion series: Paksworld Religion . The evil deities are sort of abstract, but I think there is good mythic resonance in how they work. Nayda the Unnamer is not bad just because forgetfulness and the wearing away by time is bad, but because people...

Dunno if anyone is interested in the thread after all this time, but I doubt it will hurt to post... I was thinking about this class in connection with the whole linear vs. quadratic thing. Tome fighters are quadratic; they get more feats as they go up in level, and the feats scale, so they get more...

This explicitly breaks the fluff of actual VAHs people want to play, like Conan, Batman, and Madmartigan. I agree, but the conclusion I draw is that a Conan game should not have 9th level fighters in it. If you want to hold characters to standards that real world characters could conceivably live u...

So what I'm hearing is that we need fluff for Foil Ability that doesn't turn the fighter into Captain Hobo. Hmmm. With all due credit to Simon Green's Nightside (and Jessica Sorrow in particular) how about we say that it is the Fighter's power of disbelief that negates actions? The (ranged) touch at...

talozin wrote:*: Disclaimer: By most post-SPI definitions of the term, I am also a grognard.

post-SPI? I don't recognize the acronym.

@Ice9: I love your description of "Captain Hobo syndrome". The moral being, I take it, that it is better to have no fluff than bad fluff. I find a similar moral in the thread about MTP (Magical Tea Party): It is better to have no rules than bad rules. Of course, the best thing to do would ...

use an AOO to cancel an AOO It makes sense when you put it like that. And it makes sense flavor wise, too. After all, if your reflexes are quick enough to take advantage of an enemy's mistake, you should also be quick enough to recover from a mistake of your own. Unless your enemy is much better th...

To address the wizard>fighter balance problem you either have to nerf the wizard or boost the fighter. Nerfing wizards is hard - you can make them less interesting to play, but unless you get rid of every broken combo they are still broken. And so I was really excited to see the Tome Fighter. Even w...

Any reason why the ninja class is Koumei's old ninja rather than his Ninja Mk III?

I think Koumei's changes improved the class, and it should be considered the definitive version.

Fair enough. I wondered if it was a Pelor, the Burning Hate kind of thing. But then I thought maybe I had missed something in a Den thread about alignment and behavior.

Yeah, Viscount Hathoway is the one I thought was a jerk. Kannon I liked. :) But how do Lawful Goods get to do vile and murderous things? If there was a shitty thing possible that could be done with a loophole in their precious code, they would do it... [angels] are cool with the idea of raping and k...

You're welcome. I tried to write a review that would have persuaded me to buy it. I'm suspicious of 5-star reviews that only mention the positive. If there are lots of reviews I start with the 3-star and 4-star reviews and see what the problem was. If it is a little problem, then I feel confident bu...

I see Antipaladin Blues finally came out! I got a copy on Amazon - my review is up!

When is the sequel?

Thanks for the link! This board has some of the best theory I have ever read. For ease of reference I'll repost the relevant passage: Polar Ray is an insult to god and man. It's not a long legacy, it was introduced in 3.5 and before that it was merely one of several options for the much lower level ...

Armoured Combat [Combat] You are more comfortable in armour than out of it. BaB +0: As a non-action you can cause an Attack of Opportunity made by an enemy to automatically miss you if the enemies BaB is lower than your Armour bonus. This uses an Attack of Opportunity from you. Once used this abili...