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Super powerful is OK so long as you can still roleplay and describe it. Wolverine or Professor X is incredibly powerful, but we can easily see them doing their thing, and we know generally what they'd do in a certain situation, so they're OK. [br][br]As for the matchups. [br][br]For a wizard/cleric:...

1082229006[/unixtime]] [br]The whole point of gestalt is to make people good at lots of different stuff - you shouldn't even have the option of just being good at one thing.[br] [br][br]Because heavily armored warriors are pretty much mutually exclusive, unless you want to be a cleric, and really, ...

1082228820[/unixtime]] It also means that ticks have a notable chance of knocking hobbits over. That's retarded as well.[br] [br][br]This is more of a consequence of the size system as opposed to the strength system. [br][br]Size should be more like a +8 or +10 bonus per catagory, but to make it so...

1082227892[/unixtime]] The gestalt rules do need some gestalt classes (that is they take up two class slots), to handle a full out fighter, [br]So why should people be able to trade their breadth abilitiies for "more hitting things"? People aren't paying anything for their character bread...

Well, the thing with the size templates is that you can really only shift one size to make it balanced. The best you can do is become one size catagory bigger, otherwise you're handing out a potential +16 stackable bonus to strength, and that's too much for any 4th level spell to be giving. A spell ...

1082161020[/unixtime]][br]I htink you might have Dim. and Tiny mixed up.[br][br]Also, it allows a medium creature to change into itself and get str. 16, dex 14 and get a bunch of cool stuff. That seems bad[br][br]Tiny/Dim. creatures w/ weapon finesse and the poison ability are annoyingly tough. [br...

The gestalt rules do need some gestalt classes (that is they take up two class slots), to handle a full out fighter, and they need to let you take caster levels twice, and add the spell slots. [br][br]Another idea for casters I had was a gestalt caster that allowed you to cast stuff spontaneously wi...

1082157427[/unixtime]][br]There is no driving game mechanical reason why a character who uses magic in combat should have to use magic out of combat and vice versa.[br] [br]Sure there is... spells are divided into levels, scorching ray and knock are both 2nd level spells. So if you can cast a scorc...

Survival is ok, but it's not really much of a noncombat skill. It's basically a way to avoid paying for rations, and while it's cool and all, a bag of holding filled with iron rations is just as good at high levels.

I agree fighters should have it however.

And here is the spell for a wizard, which I've named lesser shapechange. I tried to grant it versatility without being tied to the monster manual at all. It should be able to simulate most of your favorite creatures, at least the favorite creatures that a 4th level spell should be simulating. [br][b...

OK.. as I work on my latest attempt at a solution, I got to thinking about polymorph from the fighter side... [br][br]when you're a fighter, and you get polymorphed, what are you really looking to get. We already established earlier that natural attacks aren't very important, you want to use your eq...

1082137181[/unixtime]]The point is that being a "Fighter" shouldn't even determine what it is that you do from a noncombat standpoint.[br] [br]The problem is that that's not how a class system works. One class determines your noncombat and combat attributes. If you're a spellcaster, your ...

The thing is that the casters can do lots of noncombat tasks. A cleric isn't just a healer, he's also a primary diviner. And they do stuff that isn't even on the list, like teleportation. So casters are way more versatile than a simple classification can give them credit for.[br][br]On the subject o...

1082068598[/unixtime]][br]But Natural Attacks and Iterative Attacks due to a high BAB don´t mix. So by handing out Natural Attacks you start giving a larger benefit to multiclassed wizard than the straight BAB Fighter Type, which is why they didn´t find their way into the first draft. Furthermore t...

1082042673[/unixtime]][br]Well, +10 strength to grow one size and be all big is reasonable, actually. In fact, growing two size categories and getting +20 strength is also reasonable. And as long as everyone can do it - I don't have a problem with people going Huge sometimes and the Wizard getting ...

Sma:[br][br]Well first, you're missing natural attacks, and without those it makes any nonhumanoid form rather trivial.[br][br]As for bonus type, I'd say you either go with enhancement or a size bonus, those seem to be the best. [br][br]As for judging the points, I wouldn't have polymorph scale at a...

1081978047[/unixtime]][br]Personally, I'd like a list of abilities, like a boost in size, strength, stability, and various abilities like poison, camouflage, and disguise which have to be 'bought' ti fit the caster-level (or similar power mechanic). That way I can choose 'flight' and 'dex' and 'poi...

1081966192[/unixtime]][br]Why can't we do both? Look at it this way[br] [br][br]The problem is that a spell that lets a wizard compete fighting wise and a spell that buffs a fighter are drastically different in terms of strength. So if we try to do both with the same spell, we end up with essential...

I didn't think the book was that bad. It does have the problem of not being very mechanically well written as Frank pointed out, but balance wise, it doesn't strike me as any worse than any other book.[br][br]There are spells and PrCs you've got to watch out for also as Frank pointed out, but as a w...

Personally I would avoid feats that give a wizard more spells per round and warriors more attacks, because it gets to be tedious dice rolling. [br][br]For a warrior, it's pointless. Just give him feats to improve his damage instead. Same basic effect, and without all those added attack rolls. When y...

1081908366[/unixtime]][br]And if you don't allow them to the min/maxxers will have all of their equipment resized for giant form and become Giants anyways, what's your point?[br][br]Haven't you seen Ultraman? After a certain point, characters are supposed to transform into Giant Size every time the...

1081902627[/unixtime]][br]Infinite forms are infinite fun. Anything less is a purely limited kind of fun. [br][br]The problem is that the forms aren't really infinite at all when you get down to actual play. A player usually picks out the best form and just turns into that all the time, whether its...

So, expanding on Frank's forms, we get the following polymorph roles and subcatagories.[br][br]-Scout (Subtypes: Ground/Flying)[br]-Movement based (Subtypes: Ground/Flying)[br]-Combat Form (Subtypes: Ground- biter, Ground -claw/claw/bite, Ground - no natural attacks, Flying - biter, Flying -claw/cla...

If you use the buy-off LA system from Unearthed, LA really isn't the problem. However racial hit dice are... Racial HD I think need to be dealt with most of all. [br][br]I'm thinking doing something like counting them as only part of a level, like the monster manual does for calculating CR. Because ...

Ok, Frank has me convinced as well. The best way to do it would be to make it just pure buffs. [br][br]I suppose you could simply make polymorph an improved version of enlarge person. Instead of turning you into an ogre size, it turns you into a giant size, and gives a fixed amount of bonuses with i...