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1170268322[/unixtime]][br] Change State: You may become Wary towards half of the battlefield as a move action. Draw a line through your square in any direction you choose. You can become wary towards all the squares on the opposite side of the line. You may not become wary if you take any action th...

Actually, that's about all of ff d20 that got typed up.

1170022681[/unixtime]]It's aggravating, though. Even overtly military fantasy like Glen Cook's "Black Company" books tend not to focus on walking tank-type fighters.[br] [br]Well, The Black Company didn't even focus on non-assholes anyway... Even Croaker was a jaded jerk most of the time,...

1164088385[/unixtime]]Honestly people heavily overvalue divine power. Yeah it gives you fighter BaB, but a cleric's base physical stats aren't going to be as good as a fighter's, since he focused on wisdom as a primary stat [br][br]Right, so you missed the part where Divine Power gives you +6 stren...

That's the ideal of buffs, but what they actually end up doing is show off how much we don't need the fighter.

1164053838[/unixtime]][br]Well, see that's the great thing about my system. It doesn't allow clerics and wizards to take over the fighter's role, at least not easily. Wizards and clerics need prep time, and not bullshit preptime, but real in combat preptime to get off their buffs. So yeah, maybe af...

1163993185[/unixtime]]But simply trading out attack for damage or AC for hit points just won't do what we want buffs to do, and that's to make wizards and clerics able to fight better. [br][br]I'm sorry, but that is something that I for one do not want. When we give powers to spellcasters that make...

1163716550[/unixtime]][br]It may make you feel better that your spell duration appears to be in scientific units, but you can't measure with a clock while the game is going on. Time passes entirely relative to how fast the DM wants it to pass, because there is no rigid time structure. In fact, the ...

RC, it looks like you actually do want to re-write large sections of the rules, and then run through the entire spell list (which is immense) and tag everything with whether it is a buff or not. That is more work than the suggestion of just giving people the various number buffs as by level abilitie...

You can't have a system where the durations of spells and the times you can cast them are both arbitrarily decided by the GM is a gigantic step backwards in game balance.[br][br]By setting buffs to a purely combat spell, you ruin them. Hell, what is the line being drawn on buffs anyway? Is polymorph...

Okay, here's how the exalted splats break down:[br]1) Dragon Blooded: evil, because they hate you.[br]2) Lunars: evil, because they'll kill you if you're in the way[br]3) Sidereals: evil, because every single one of them is a grand vizer.[br]4) Abyssals: evil, becuse they hate all life.[br]5) Alchem...

But Elothar is more than just an example, it's also a perfectly fine class. Not including it is a silly idea, since people actually take it in games without being excessively crazy.

It's good to have you back Frank, now I have someone to yell at again.

Tiefling True Fiend 9/Conduit of Lower Planes 3[br]STR 13 +5 Inherent=18[br]DEX 17 +2 Racial +5 Inherent=24[br]CON 13 +5 Inherent=18[br]INT 14 +2 Racial +5 Inherent=21[br]WIS 11 +5 Inherent=16[br]CHA 18 -2 Racial +3 Level +5 Inherent=24[br](4d6 drop low stats)[br]Fort: +11 Ref: +14 Will: +11[br]HP: ...

DP at [unixtime wrote:1155996866[/unixtime]]Is it just me or is the +16 abilty for subtle cut really terrible?

Well, that ability is save vs. Tekken Juggle so I don't think it's that terrible.

The thing about the parry magic ability is that it uses up the samurai's attacks of opportunity, which he uses for cutting people in half before they get to go. So the ability makes you decide which is more important, 1) slicing a melee enemy into ribbons or 2) practically auto dispell against any t...

1154825880[/unixtime]] 1154760124[/unixtime]] I'm sure someone will be along in a moment to point out the flaws in this system, but it seems better than what we have now. [br][br]Good call.[br][br]If Lawfulness is stagnation, it makes it pretty hard for there to be Lawful actions , doesn't it?[br][...

I'd only accept the 'DM decides' moral option if the DM has actually studied morality in any way, because otherwise we are actually following the third moral option:

make it up as you go along, or hey look over there.

The way that D&D is, my vote goes for no. I mean rais dead is something that actually happens so there is no reason to enforce not dying before one's time, and that same magic can't bring someone back who died of old age, so there is no reason to piss in the clerics cheerios about it. So the Mar...

Personally I think that the inevitables are a bunch of obnoxious jerks, I mean come on some of them 'enforce' the law that everyone has to die. For some people it's cruel punishment (read anyone who became immortal early, possibly through no fault of their own) as a CR 16 robot comes and cracks open...

1153923435[/unixtime]] 1153902348[/unixtime]]Well to be fair, the entire thing about the staking a vampire was so it would stop moving while you followed the four easy steps of vampire killing:[br]1) cut off the head[br]2) fill the mouth with holy wafers[br]3) burn the head and body separatly[br]4)...

Well to be fair, the entire thing about the staking a vampire was so it would stop moving while you followed the four easy steps of vampire killing:[br]1) cut off the head[br]2) fill the mouth with holy wafers[br]3) burn the head and body separatly[br]4) scatter the ashes[br][br]The fact is, that's ...

1153722108[/unixtime]]A vampire can be vulnerable to a staking and still be immune to critical hits. If you can drive a wooden stake in to a vampire with a mallet, he's already helpless anyways, so adding a clause that lets you coup de gras him regardless of his immunities (if you have the proper t...

1153717545[/unixtime]][br][br]I still don't get why some undead are suseptible to critical hits under your system. In undead in D&D don't have squishy spots- it doesn't matter if you hack off limbs or heads- they keep coming at you until you beat the crap out of them to the point where thier an...

Actually, if they can be treated as animals they can have awaken cast upon them an arbitrarially infinite amount of times, thus having an arbitrarally infinite charisma. Thus insane.