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1109615343[/unixtime]]The basic quest hook "The big villain [Fillinblank] can only be defeated by [Fillinblank], which is why you have to brave a bunch of monsters and ancient traps in the Dungeon of [Fillinblank] to retrieve it." is essentially the search for an item which generates a hi...

Not whips and chains, but just some constraints. [br][br]Playing CoH last night, it occurred to me that one of the problems w/ 3.5 is that there are no external restraints on how the game is designed. There's nothing telling the designers "this shouldn't be done" except for their own judgm...

I was going to say that this version of PAO seems kinda bland. It seems to be a very limited, if higher level, version of Rary's Mnemonic Enhancer, in that it lets you blow an 8th level slot to get the choice of casting one of a small number of lower-level spells. I generally don't see that as a goo...

Easiest way to make Catpeople work? They're humans. Except w/ fur, pointy ears, and funky weird eyes. Take Blindfighting w/ your feat to simulate seeing in the dark. Put your highest ability in Dex. Done.[br][br]I've never really understood why you need ability score mods, weird feat and ability com...

Which of hte catfolk races fly again?

I agree w/ Josh, Flight isn't any bigger a deal than a Monk's uberspeed and a longbow. It's keeping things at range that borks CR values to nothing.

Oberoni at [unixtime wrote:1108965392[/unixtime]]My (least) favorite example of this is the Investigate feat from the Eberron setting.

Worst Feat Eber! (couldn't resist)

1108753243[/unixtime]]How about a Wish and Word logo, as Essence suggested, and have the shirt say:[br][br]I was banned from an open contest on the CharOp forums for no reason and all I got was this T-Shirt.[br][br]Game On,[br]fbmf [br][br]lmao [br][br]edit -should it be:[br][br]"I was banned ...

Hmm. I'm sensing. . . Lawful Neutral perhaps?

The main reason I asked about the barter is that a lot of historic societies had bizaare rules about who could trade w/ who, but even the most totalitarian usually observed those rules mostly in the breach. Just curious about Redarkan's take.

Sounds interesting. I think your talents are wasted on whatever it is you do. :)[br][br]Some questions.[br][br]What do the redarkans think about barter? It seems like it'd be foolish to try to stop every villager from trading a couple ears of corn for a fish or something.[br][br]Is there an aristocr...

1108675364[/unixtime]] 1108659783[/unixtime]]There's also illusions, too. They allow the BBEG to give their speeches and not be there, but look like they are, and look like they can Teleport . [br][br]Hmm... though is there a projected illusion spell that you can cast somewhere without line of effe...

Good idea. I use that mostly for a laugh, though.

That works for Sleeping Beauty, but many of my adventures involve a BBEG that evolve over time. At first, the BBEG seems not so bad (Maleficent). Here, we can get off a good Evil Plan + Bwa-ha-ha-ha moment. But I don't want to give away the whole evil plan - the players need to figure that out. This...

Good point. But still, in the "ideal" game, you should be able to have a near-infinite number of deck types. The goal is to have a character that's the equivilant of a burn-horde-control deck that's playable. Maybe it loses out in the min-max wars to other characters, but it's playable.[br...

Plus, pecan pie is for the true pie aficionado, not for amateurs. [br][br]I really don't see the problem w/ having multiclassing. If you can balance a classless system based only on abilities, you can have multiclassing, which is nothing more nor less than balancing a bunch of linked abilities. And ...

As a rule of thumb, I always let the highest level Summon Monster summon one of something the players have recently fought (or are fighting). For example, in Eberron, they just finished fighting a bunch of Living Spells, the most uber of which was a Living Cloudkill. Later in the same adventure, the...

I see what you're saying, but I agree w/ Mr. Weasel. It's the difference between having to shop for something, which can take some time, and making it yourself, which takes time and some more creativity to actually do it. For instance, when I want pie, I havethe choice pf baking my own pie, or buyin...

Here's a side question. If D&D didn't have alignment, and so there was no reason to debate how many baby kobolds a paladin could kill before turning evil, would the WotC boards only have posts about screwing over wishes by players?

Then they throw empty beer bottles at me!

Not the same. Personal confrontation is awesome! How lame would it be if Darth Vader told Luke "I am your Father," through a TV screen instead of in person?[br][br]I'm not saying there's nothing to do, it's just one of those things. No matter how much Negative Energy Protection, Spell Immu...

I love that too, but some of my players don't. Sad DM moment: The BBEG gets set to make his uberspeech in the climactic battle, and in midphrase the sorcerer says, "I cast Polymorph and turn him into a banana slug." One fumbled save later, the adventure ends . . .

Well, I'm opposed to the "can't do it" school of hiding, or any skill for that matter. Whatever a player wants to try, I'm going to let them try. If a player wants to climb a glass wall covered w/ oil, wearing flipflops and her hands tied behind her back, I'd let them try. Same with trying...

I'd go w/ 2. Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to debate how many baby kobolds a Paladin could kill and not be evil. I'd miss that.[br][br]Josh, could you run a Good v. Evil campaign just be making up some mechanics as easily as just taking out the mechanics if you didn't like alignment? I'm not sure.

1108006241[/unixtime]] If I'm juggling flaming torches while singing the Star Spangled Banner, it has to be harder to hide than if I'm actively trying to avoid attention. [br][br]Go back and read Frank's post, three above yours. [br][br]Multiple people have made this point.[br][br]I don't know what...

RC, potential for abuse is not abuse. What we're saying is that you can add crazy mad nuts powers that aren't out of line w/ the otehr crazy mad nuts powers that are there, and there won't be abuse.[br][br]Assume we made a whole bunch of crazy-ass powers for all the non-casters, and we made them all...

1107988684[/unixtime]]Edit: Under Feudalism, if you kill the local dragon and are not working for the government, you are the government. No exceptions.[br][br]That's why kings are so completely willing to give large sacks of cash money and/or marriage to family members to heroes. If they didn't, t...