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I can't wait to see what spells the iconic Cleric has memorised

Would government agents be sent to shoot him? Hell no. Fucking A, Amra's just a crazy conspiracy theorist telling us all that the evil government is not just evil but stupid, and regularly shoots people for no fucking reason. *sigh* You're wilfully missing the point, I suspect, but I'll bite this o...

Are we talking about telepaths who can just read minds or are we talking about those who can read minds, control others and change their memories? I'd been working on the assumption that we were talking about the former in the absence of any indication to the contrary. In terms of the latter, as lo...

Pierce Magical Protection would be a lot nicer if it wasn't melee only. Pierce Magical Concealment is interesting, but tough to adjudicate. As you say, it negates the miss chance due to an invisibility spell, but there's nothing there that suggests the feat helps you target the correct square. Like...

I want to know what sort of gimp ass character is only doing 32 damage with a x3 crit at those levels. Firstly: it was a comedy statement for comedy value. Secondly: an unbuffed, no-magic-weapon, thrown weapon character... you know, like the one I described in the post Thirdly: x3 crit? Finally: Ig...

Really? You don't think the temptation to use that to your advantage would make someone invested in the idea of protecting this person? Besides, this person has super powers, what makes you think shooting them in the face is even possible ? This isn't even an interesting discussion until you throw ...

The problem is that the telepath may well have a) deathbed insurance on those secrets, and/or b) sufficient telepathy to foil his shooter. As with most supers, antagonizing them is much riskier than just recruiting them. That just doesn't hold up. a) No. Any "deathbed insurance" they had,...

You're quite right, of course, I missed the 1-round effect on a successful save. Even so, with the example character I was working from - a character, moreover, weighted towards high numbers of attacks / low damage rather than high damage per attack - the monsters they're fighting will, on average, ...

What about telepaths? Given that there is current research into brain imaging to determine what people are thinking, what level of accuracy would telepaths have to exhibit in order for them to be recruited by police and government forces? Slightly more accuracy than they'd have to demonstrate in or...

Why would you assume they aren't buffed? They have gear, are smart, and some of them have spells. Very simple: because that way, madness lies. I assumed the character wasn't buffed either, so why not assume the monsters appear as presented? It is, after all, far more likely that a character will en...

I don't have any Paizo sources to draw from. However, sticking with the CR17 SRD monsters: Aboleth (10th-level Mage), fortitude +15 Amethyst Dragon (Mature Adult), fortitude +19 Arcanoloth, fortitude +8 Banshee, immune Brass Dragon (Old), fortitude +19 Bronze Dragon (Mature Adult), fortitude +19 Dea...

If I've followed correctly, it isn't a magical mystery miss chance, it's a chance that your attacks will miss. If you've got a 40% chance of missing the target entirely in a straight attack-roll-versus-armour-class comparison, then 40% of the rolls you make to confirm a crit will result in no crit.

The Ring of Wizardry hack is the Beguiler 1 / Wizard (min) / Ultimate Magus 10. You get 19 CL in 20 levels, and the Ring doubles spells from both sides of casting (which in turn fuels you metamagic for free). That's... a really interesting point. One of my current characters is a Beguiler/Focussed ...

Superheroes have to ignore white-collar crime, or the suspension of disbelief falls apart completely. In fact, the whole heroic trope falls apart because the sort of black-and-white morality that allows him to hurl super-villains into the sun doesn't withstand the slightest scrutiny once he starts g...

I'm not familiar with WANTED (beyond the movie) but... what sort of power-level are we talking about here, Josh? What sort of super-crap can the characters pull off? As for all the policemen in the world keeping a secret , erm, doubtless there's more to it than that, but I'm not feeling the plausibi...

This was very handy; thanks folks! I'm currently plotting a character's next few levels and I'm trying to build up sneak attack damage as high as possible. Thus far I'm up to 13d6 SA damage by 11th level, but I'm sure I'll be able to pull a bit more out from somewhere!

On the flip side, it is completely awesome to wig out and kill something "In the name of my best friend recently slain!" Heh; one of my fondest 2E roleplaying moments was when my character went on a total rampage after his pseudodragon familiar got killed in the Demonweb Pits (due to a co...

So what does superhero land look like? The most likely description of a land with "superheros" in it is "a smouldering wasteland". I'm not even joking. If your superheroes have world-altering powers, and if they are not exactly and precisely counterbalanced by super-threats, we'...

"Im-ho-tep! Im-ho-tep!"

Epic Bug-Filled Death Magician is Epic

Why would I ever buy a magic weapon when I can get a wand of caster level 20 Greater Magic Weapon for 900 gold per charge? Seriously, for the next 3 or 4 levels a party of 4 can run around with +5 weapons every adventuring day using just the trade-in value of +3 equipment. And in many ways, those w...

Heh, it might even go *some* way towards explaining the screwed-up economy of D&Dland... it doesn't make any sense because it doesn't *have* to make any sense. Everyone from the peasantry to the nobility is kept on the gold standard by the secret cabal, and magical items are available for sale p...

You could also quite readily imagine a Wizard New World Order type setup where the wizards actually are in charge, but the fact isn't obvious, just like certain crazy assholes believe happens in the Real World (TM) but with Wizard Overlords instead of Lizard Overlords . They let kings rule kingdoms ...

Some thoughts on a D&D "fix" for the Charisma/social minigame problem... I honestly believe that part of the trouble is that the system is trying to define Charisma as a single all-encompassing attribute, whereas we all know that it just isn't so. "Charisma" is a moveable fea...

On the original topic (heaven forbid) because a) I'm interested in it and b) I'm going to try to abuse what I learn here in-game, I believe Bracers of Armor to be mis-priced. They are not priced as items that grant an Armor bonus (because there doesn't seem to be any such category, oddly), they're p...

Isn't the Young White Dragon (Level 3 Solo Brute) problematic as well? The sonofabitch has 200hp, gets two claw attacks at-will with reach and can hover ... Surely that's going to turn into the grind-fest from hell, considering it doesn't need to take a move action to stay in the air and thus never ...