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Amra:

Would it be correct for me to state that we are in agreement, with the exception of what "for the purpose of casting spells" means?

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At least it seems like everyone is in agreement that A=A+B works in D&D in the same way as in most programming languages.

I can't claim any expertise in D&D rules, but I'm generally pretty good at understanding and following formalized instructions, and I don't see any way you can make that work.[br][br]According to the earlier quote:[br] A sublime chord's caster level for both her sublime chord spells and the spel...

Did anyone else notice that you add half your level to damage?[br][br][br]Anyway, I'm trying to come up with a good tanking build, and it looks like Jedi 5/Soldier 2/Jedi Knight 10 is the way to go (note that even non-Jedi can build lightsabers with the right feats).[br][br]Stat array something like...

1182268387[/unixtime]] So, when they say level in this specific instance they can only mean "levels in Sublime Chord". So, yeah. You add your "levels in Sublime Chord" to your "spellcassting level in another class" [br][br]Again... WHY?! WHY is it "spellcasting le...

TWF I'm pretty sure is a trap for melee characters. Yeah, you get 2x strength but the fact is you probably won't hit anyone with it 95% of the time due to the fact that people will just withdraw away from you and then shoot you (or hit you with their melee attack and then withdraw) because unless th...

1182224949[/unixtime]]Makes me wonder why they even bothered with HP anyway. [br][br]Probably some misguided desire to present the appearance of compatibility with D20M. The same reason that ships and droids have no Con score.[br][br][br]So many good things have been done already, the bad points re...

1182210220[/unixtime]]My bad, I meant (level + Con mod). That 3d8 is a bare minimum, and goes to 3d8+2 at strength 14, and you get another +1 every two levels after that. This doesn't even count feats or having higher than Str 14. [br][br]Right, I should have realized that. It does make your condit...

You're right, the bag of rats doesn't work. [br][br][br][br] 1182198573[/unixtime]][br]Effect: You're level 7 where if you sneak up, hit them flat-footed, and if a 3d8 exceeds their (Level+Con), they move four steps down the condition track (-10 to all actions & defense/AC). If you're not being ...

[br] Ah, you haven't been keeping up. That math was fixed more recently.[br][br]Quote: Judging Eagle [br][br]Second, you have to be either Essense or Void; you 'can' be both, but your tiers in each have to always be balanced. Since each tier always costs retarded (16 per tier and 16 per spell) you d...

1182017204[/unixtime]] 1182014811[/unixtime]]http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?t=867619[br][br]I might not have answered as thoroughly as the people here would have, but I thought I had good advice. At least, better advice than all the people telling the OP to play an occult slayer. [br][br...

There's also an incredible bag of rats. A tier-1 Scoundrel talent gives a standard action when you crit. Crit specialization is difficult, but Whirlwind lets you area attack. Assuming you can crit with that, it's just about the most delicious bag of rats ever.

Actually, getting (straight) Essence 9 is just as expensive as getting Essence 5/Void 4, which is why it works so that all your tiers of your lower True Element get absorbed into the higher one. Thing is, Essence 5/Void 5 costs as much as either one at Tier 10. [br]Interesting grasp of the math you...

I broke down and bought a copy off Amazon.[br][br]The crazyest thing I've seen so far are the 'force training' (or somesuch) 'talent' equivalents you can pick up as a Force Adept/Jedi Knight/Sith Apprentice. One of the talents is 'regain one spent force point at the end of an encounter'.[br][br]A ch...

I'm with the spoof. How can someone increase the wizard's daily spells by 20% (already counting no access to specialization) and claim the result isn't overpowering (not to touch the other changes, which are always improvements with regards to the wizard)? If you read his arguments closely, you see ...

Whatever was the award for stupidest class ever, this guy wins: http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?t=868384.

Will you be high enough level to get the Planar Binding spells, or are you starting from level one?

At level one, a Human Druid with Spell Focus: Conjuration and Augment Summoning who prepares Entangle is probably your best bet, but that build summons animals, not extraplanar guys.

1181364257[/unixtime]][br]Similarly, the IG are there in case you want to fight off invading aliens with the WWII Russian army. [br][br]If only this was true, it would be fantastic. If we fast forward to 1943, the preferred Russian units were masses of tanks (T-34s), which hard very large high expl...

But do you have any evidence that someone actually told them this (not to defend WotC; let's just say I have a Complete Psionic, and its editing is worse than anything you saw ...)? I wouldn't doubt that.

Grapple-fights. Grapple-fights are NOT FUN (tm). As much as I like rolling to do anything and then the monster rolling to do anything....[br][br]"I attempt to pin, pinned, I end my turn"[br]"I attempt to break pin, I attempt to deal damage, I deal 10 damage"[br]"I attempt to...

That's what I asked Amra: it is an obvious typo a "2" instead of "4" and nothing else. It isn't because editing was bad, it isn't because some designer drank too much - it is because the wrong key was pressed; doesn't that count for something?

Yeah, I had checked that too; seemingly, Jans Carton (or somebody that told him) spotted the bad math and did something about it (which was trivial to figure out).

No worries.[br][br] Strand of Prayer Beads [br][br]This item appears to be a normal string of prayer beads until the owner casts a divine spell. Once that occurs, the owner instantly knows the powers of the prayer beads and how to activate them. Each strand includes two or more special beads, each w...

Does your bet consider typo correcting as houseruling? Because that is a typo ; check the right price out there.[br][br]Also: I have no books here, and that's from the Hypertext SRD. I suppose it's equal to the DMG in the relevant parts.[br][br] Definitions Of Terms[br][br]Here are definitions of so...

Uh... sure. There are even times when facing non-existant counterspelling in which splitting your pool and manabolting somebody 4 times is a reasonable plan. But usually, that's a shitty plan. If the enemy has counterspelling it is almost always a shit plan. [br][br]When I was talking about this pl...