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PS, you do know there is two translated TV series of One-Piece running concurrently, right? Shonen Jump's One Piece is random segments from 'their adventures' and is a different series than the One Piece which we get in two pieces (ironic, yes?) on Cartoon Network, yes?

-Crissa

None of this balances the party.

Nor does Frank answer why six stats is worse than five, aside from theatrics.

-Crissa

Actually, stats are salvagable.[br][br]But only if they mean the same thing to everyone - no one stat is better than another.[br][br]Having one caster type per stat is fine - except when one stat says 'you get lots of skills' and the other stat says 'you get to make spot checks better' and the last ...

1122078295[/unixtime]]The bottom line is that you wouldn't allow a 1st level character to blind a 20th level fighter by throwing sand in his eyes, so you shouldn't let a 1st level illusionist do that either. [br]Why not?[br][br]It doesn't matter if the wall is 1st level or 20th level, it's still op...

Why is a problem that 1st level spells are still useful at 20th level?[br][br]The Warrior still uses his last attack, doesn't he? He still uses trip, yes?[br][br]Buffs are fine - if they're limited, predesigned, and aligned to mesh with the debuffs you will find in combat.[br][br]There's no damn rea...

Girls dig Giant Robots.[br][br]We'll never get to see real episodes of One-Piece and Tokyo Mew Mew as long as they have them. But their party mechanics work the same: Make sure each player has content to work with or against their powers and abilities.[br][br]That's the GM's hard job.[br][br]-Crissa

Then, if an illusion (figment) isn't just a trick of the mind, then it really is light and sound, and shouldn't it be an evocation?

And if it really is light and sound, why are you making a will save to disbelieve it?

-Crissa

Why does everyone's suggestions always delve into 'remove all the fun stuff, give all the toys to the fighter'?

How come no one has ideas like making Paladin spellcasting stack with Sorcerer?

-Crissa

Boo.

I actually sit there for six hours and watch everything from Teen Titans to Paranoia Agent.

Of course, my new TV allows me to watch the latter in 16:9. ^-^

-Crissa

However...

Are llusions just in the eye of the beholder, or are they holograms?

-Crissa

I've been waiting to kick this rant out of Frank for ages , but...[br][br]...How do we play the game today?[br][br] Make new spell lists. Make abilities scale with level. Make each fighting class special, remembering that they have to compete with the spell list. Throw out tonnes of stuff. [br][br]I...

K: Change the spell list, and these classes balance.

Okay, okay. So no one has any other suggestions aside from changing the spell lists? (And some spells themselves)

-Crissa

So, to make a long post short, take all the fun out of casters, and then they'll be balanced.[br][br]If you take all the casting out of a class, then it's obviously terrible.[br][br]Do you guys play any class other than Cleric and Wizard? Sheesh.[br][br]And lastly, no one has any rule tweaks which d...

Geez, you'd think I'd gutted the class. How is a spell-less Druid now less powerful than a Ranger or Monk or Fighter? They all get abilities every level.

Anyhow, that's not the point. The point was 'how do you deal with spellcasting?'

-Crissa

1121624975[/unixtime]]So explain how someone would actually want to play a druid *before* they get wildshape capability. [br]People play Monks and Bards, too. And Clerics who forget they have anything but heals and a mace. Why not?[br][br]They still get feats, skills, and a .75 BAB. I did say it wa...

I rather like da_chicken's rules... IE, if there's a fault in the illusion, then that could give a skill check not to find the illusion, but to find the fault. The draft from the door hidden by a figment.[br][br]How do you interact with sounds? You listen to them. Actual sounds have actual sources, ...

Merry, fighting, battlefield?

He wasn't as good a fighter as Samwise, but that seemed because of stats, possibly xp, more than anything.

-Crissa

I rather liked how in Chinese/Japanese mythology, undead are any corporeal/incorporeal dead people; and the corporeal ones are supported by some spell or other... And the 'soul' or sentience animating a corpse has no reason to be the original holder, and in fact usually isn't - hence why corporeal u...

I'll go ahead and show what I mean.[br][br]I have two basic solutions; tweaking and frobbing.[br][br] Tweaking :[br] Sorcerer: Move chart up a level at 2nd level; give spells at 1st, 3rd, 4th, etc.[br] Allow Metamagic to reduce spell level.[br] Druid: No longer a spellcaster.[br] Use Frank's altered...

Okay, while I love various spellcasting routines, none is as quick and simple as picking a few spells, and tossing off the 3x5s at the GM when casting - and that's what d20 is.[br][br]So, since we all play d20 at some time or another - which system is so widely known and played? - we all have out li...

Well, it's relevent since I only have 3.0 books... But the fact that he couldn't say, 'hey, it's on page 211,' just frustrates the heck out of me.[br][br]I tried looking up Templates and then I tried looking at the entry for Celestials and then I tried to look up the references in the Manual of the ...

Honestly, it sounds like you want the BESM d20 book, dbb.

(Though Frank's ideas are always golden. If he published, he'd have his rent covered.)

-Crissa

Okay, I read the books.

But I still didn't find the templates.

Why does advice like http://www.3rdedition.org/agimimnon/viewer.asp?ID=26 exist at all?

-Crissa

I have to agree with Kitten Corrigan, Murtak. I don't understand your system.[br][br]A simpler system like yours should have:[*]Cap on total spells in a level;[*]Grant spells each level, whether or not it's a spellcasting level;[*]Not care the order by which levels were taken.[*]Rely less on Algebra...

Thanks, dbb.[br][br]Anyone want to tackle a specific item on the list?[br][br]My GM is more worried about the mechanic problems - Like Combat and Balancing Clerics with Fighters. As he hasn't run 3.5 before, he's a bit timid to go into the game with some players novice to the rules and some players ...