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OK, here's he level by level. Note that I consider a damage bonus to be equivalent to a to-hit bonus:[br][br]1st: +2 (switching to an exotic weapon is worth about +1 damage)[br]2nd: +1[br]3rd: +1[br]4th: Very weird ability here. It is either much less than a +1 to-hit or much more than a +1 to-hit, ...

How was it ruined going from 2nd to 3rd?[br][br]In 2nd edition, and earlier, it caused aging - a cost which is like a credit card. You buy it now, but you don't pay until later.[br][br]In fact, in any campaign there is a finite amount of aging your character can sustain without suffering any adverse...

BAB? I'm assuming it is excellent (1 per level), but you don't actually say.[br][br]Accuracy is exactly the same as bonuses to-hit. In fact, since the character will almost certainly have Power Attack - it is exactly the same as bonus damage. And it's cumulative.[br][br]Impact Control is pretty lame...

It's in a transition period right now - I'm just going through the Complete Warrior now. Or rather, I'm not going through it because all of my final exams are on Monday . Time spent updating the cheese (and it's gotten really complicated now - the new Druid builds have gotten no less than 6 new infi...

Why is it craptacular to take an empty level of prestige class, or to not accept the "trade-off" of getting a lousy benefit now for a better benefit later, but it is perfectly acceptable to negate an ability received earlier with a more powerful version of that ability? [br]For the same r...

The problem with that is fluctuating values. When a modifier goes down, you hopefully would have to drop one of those chosen skills. When the modifier returns to its original value, you'd get to choose a new one.[br][br]Any time you have to choose a set number of things based on a potentially fluctu...

Of course it really doesn't matter one way or another.[br][br]A class feature which becomes larger in absolute terms if you gain it later than if you gained it earlier is bad design. A class feature which can only be used once ever and is then gone is also bad design.[br][br]The Vassal's monetary ab...

From the pages of Final Fantasy d20. People should do this for all game design:[br][br] Characters should not become better or worse by taking the same abilities in a different order. Furthermore, nothing a character gets should ever go back and invalidate a choice made earlier. The reasoning on thi...

[br]Likewise, if you break your vows you no longer qualify for the class, which means the money, as a class ability, is lost. [br][br]It's a 3.5 class and thus, that is simply a false statement.[br][br]As previously noted in this thread, losing class prereqs does not cause your class abilities to g...

My point is that nowhere in the rules does it day that the DM MUST make this money go away. [br][br]The rules also don't say the DM must let you play the class. In fact, the rules specifically don't say that the DM must do anything at all.[br][br]That's the Oberoni Fallacy. As soon as you rely upon...

1070602970[/unixtime]] I mean, what's going to stop me from using it every round? [br][br]Nothing, except that a full-attack with sneak attack dice involved is often going to be more lethal than a single attack made over a full round, even if that attack has an attached save-twice-or-die effect.[br...

When I rewrote the Assassin class so that a player could use it I simply let people use a limited number of Death Attacks per day - like a Monk's Stunning Fist.[br][br]You made a normal Sneak Attack, expended a Death Attack Use, and the victim had to make a Fort Save or die.[br][br]It's really not t...

GK - so your basic point is that the DM can change things as he sees fit, and is well within his rights to let you walk off free and clear with 9000 gold worth of platinum whether or not you take this class.[br][br]This is true. Trivially so. It's called the Oberoni Fallacy - please shut up now.[br]...

"The Dying" is from AEG's UNDEAD .[br][br]You get cursed with a sickness like unto Mummy Rot, and get a bunch of cool abilities while you slowly wither away and die. Onc eyou take the class, you can't stop taking the class. When you get to level 10 - you die.[br][br]Don't expect an Epic Le...

I cannpot believe how needlessly complicated people are making this.[br] [br][br]By "people" you must mean "Galahad Knight".[br][br]The guidelines are simple: if the PCs get a pile of money that exceeds their current wealth/level guidelines for any reason , the party gets relati...

There's a difference between treasure and a class ability.

Not when the class ability is just a pile of treasure.

-Username17

Interesting note: in 3.5 you don't lose class abilities of PrCs if you lose the prereqs of the class. In fact, you don't even lose the ability to take more levels of that class.[br][br]So if you are evil, become an Assassin, and then think better of it - not only do you not lose your Assassin skills...

Here's what the rules say on enforcing treasure by level:[br][br] Monitor the progress of treasure into the hands of the PCs. For instance, you may want to use lots of high-treasure or low-treasure monsters, yet still hand out a normal amount of treasure overall. [br][br]So the guidelines indeed sug...

No - I just forgot how lame the original text actually was. Considering that most of the authors seem to as well - and Subdual Substitution is actually used on Force Effects repeatedly in prepackaged stuff - I never gave my "house rule" much thought.

D'oh!

-Username17

Most specifically, a skill check is going to have to be much more firmly defined if you go this route. The most obvious use of this ability - gaining insight into the workings of Diplomacy, Profession, or Craft - are unclear. After all, the bonus is for the check made next round - but the skills are...

The Exalted Feats chew, with the exception of a few crazy ones like Vow of Poverty - which as one of its side effects causes you to get a Bonus Exalted Feat every other level for the rest of your life (thus making a 1st level Ascetic about a gabillion times better than someone who becomes one at 15t...

Note also that while Vassal sucks big from level 4 on (Dragon Wrack is like an ability, only smaller), the first three levels aren't bad. The thing where you get 7000 gp in a pile is meaningless, but +120 foot darkvision is a fairly substantive bonus (as is the x4 low light vision).[br][br]So you'd ...

No. It's not.[br][br]At 15th level you can use most of your 1/day abilities (Pass Without Trace and Improved Invis) to get one attack at special bonuses, which if it hits makes the target makes a Fort Save at about DC 26 or die.[br][br]And you have to be alone to do it. And your BAB is only +10.[br]...

Well... she buys +1 Arrows of Spell Storing in the store (at 160 gp a shot), and then she casts Greater Magic Weapon on them every day. That gives 50 of them a +5 enhancement bonus for 24 hours.[br][br]And the rest is her massive list of spells she casts upon herself.[br][br]This was written in 3e. ...

Church Inquisitor, Contemplative, and Sacred Exorcist are all from Defenders of the Faith.[br][br]Divine Disciple is from the FRCS book.[br][br]All of them are there in order to give a Prestige Domain, and for no other real purpose at all. After all, the character is replacing her BAB with her chara...