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1182936334[/unixtime]][br]Finally, there's my earlier point that I doubt very much that someone reading this adventure would consider a CR3 creature with a Swim speed to be an EL3 encounter, because of the creature's massive terrain advantage. [br][br]Yep, everybody knows that the shark's CR assume...

1182907677[/unixtime]][br] Sword and Boarder [Combat] [br]You block things with a big piece of metal. Or wood.[br] Benefit: You gain a +1 to your shield bonus to AC when wielding a shield. You also take no penalties from wielding a tower shield, and may use two-weapon fighting with up to a large si...

Is this intended to work with RoW?

also, don't ask people "did it remind you of teen titans?" that's kinxing thigns. If you must, ask a less loaded question, like, "what does it remind you of?"

I find it funny that many of the complaints about the 'unrealistic' Geisha class apply to the geisha class which already exists (the Bard).[br][br][br]Anyway, here's a gem I found on WotC:[br][br] What put Gygax in such a horrible, PC-hatin' mood to write that module? [br][br]http://wizards.com/defa...

What if time travel always prodcues the results which are most *dramatically* appropriate?[br][br]Suppose that there are fickle time gods that rule the universe and can rewrite history, causality, anything they want. Time travel machines constitute a plea for their intercession and a travel to a sor...

I kinda like the unknown future/unknown past idea, where you look at the certainty of an occurrence as being inversely proportional to its distance from the present.[br][br] [br]P ^[br]O \ | /[br]S *\ | /*[br]S **\|/**[br]I **/|\**[br]B */ | \*[br]L / | \[br]E<----+------>[br] Past|Future [br][br]It...

and in the case of magic, you frequently have to take a supernatural power to be allowed to start buying your magic skill from scratch

Well, the big difference is that when they release a bunch of sucky magic expansions, no one buys packs and they don't make money.[br][br]When they release a bunch of sucky D&D books, they sell just fine.[br][br]So, they decided to put a bunch of money into making their magic expansions not suck...

Write it. That's my suggestion. [br][br]Then, see if it's too derivative. If you're any good, it probably won't be. If after your first draft, it really does seem like "Teen Titans", add a new charatcer, remove a character, or come up with some new *themes* you can use while retaining the ...

Can we make that final encounter easier, and higher CR? I'm thinking some sorcerer and monk levels would round things out nicely.

Orochimaru's arms, cursed personally by Shinigami, were rotting away.[br]The pain had gotten so bad lately that he couldn't even move. Even the slightest muscular twitch or breeze of air against skin these days left him screaming in agony. All he could manage to do was lie in bed so very still, wher...

Maybe the water is verrrry salty. Salty enough that the PCs float!

Don't forget that the exponential XP system for 1e/2e meant that you could keep playing the Wizard Lottery every time you had a character death. Each new Wizard jumps on the exponential XP gravy train, and gets to level X-1 at the same time the party as a whole reaches level X. So, you can just keep...

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Any system can be optimized, regardless of the numbers. [br]Not being able to get excited about a number smaller than 100 is irrelevant.[br][br]Not seeing the importance of a "+1" which moves a target 20% down its damage track and increases the effect of the damage ~100% seems like a crit...

That's good to hear. The druid-who's-trying thing generally involves brain-mangling cheese and painful adjudication squabbles whilst the table disappears under a metric shitload of books, errata and Sage Advice printings. If you're really unlucky, your entire session implodes into a tautological si...

Someone, please, tell me I'm wrong. It looks to me as though the second you pull a Counter out of your ass, you then aren't going to be able to use a Boost until the turn AFTER your next one - you know, provided you haven't had to Counter again in-between - and you can't even be a Warblade and use ...

Oh, boy, is it time to talk about the Book of 9 Swords again?[br][br]Here's something to keep in mind about strikes.[br][br]Pg. 43: 'Because strikes allow for a specific form of attack, you cannot benefit from spells or effects that grant you extra attacks when making a strike (such as the haste spe...

Frank, while I do understand the reason for the warnings at Wizards Community, did you really just say that ignorance is good (from your own point of view, I mean)?

Psionics started out as a set of monster abilities. Check out your old monster manuals and you'll see that certain creatures have psionc "attack and defense modes." I'm not entirely sure what the rationale was. Said creatures tended to live deep underground, on the astral plane, or similar...

Yes, everyone knows that psionics before 3.5 was simultaneously eating shit and being shot in the head. Everyone knows that nova-ing with psionics is ridicolously easy, and its also absolute shit. Everyone knows that complete psi is the worst book wotc has EVER put out, no matter WHAT way you look a...

Okay, here's my updated rant on psionics and magic, inspired by Josh Kablack's excellent (if dated) rants on the nature of roleplaying games.[br][br] [br]2: There is no reason Psi should ever be treated as a different force from magic.[br][br]None. [br][br]While you can find works of fantasy in whic...

I've also never been warned by a WizO, as far as I can remember. Maybe that's because I tend to put consistantly stupid posters on my ignore list.

1182359472[/unixtime]]Here's the deal: the glossary of the PHB defines Caster Level as being usually equal to the level of the class. So until you find a rule that says otherwise, that's your caster level. [br][br]Er...but the entire discussion is about a rule that says otherwise, isn't it? :confus...