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I think the Tome of Fiends is pretty much Frank/K's take on the evil side of things. I know they're planning to write a Tome of Virtue, but it's slated for last, so I expect they'll finish sometime when I'm in the nursing home.

1179015565[/unixtime]] 1179014672[/unixtime]][br]Actually; (Nystul's) Magic Aura is a wandable spell (1st lvl) that hides all magic on a character for a day/level.[br][br]Most people don't do so, but spending 750 GP everytime you want to hide your magical gear's magical auras isn't too big of a dea...

1179072678[/unixtime]] 1179039711[/unixtime]]Shadowstriker: Another 3 level class. Full BAB, Good Will and Fort. Basic idea: Pelor and Heironeous worshipers who like to beat up the undead. They can actually give the undead the shaken condition. How does that even work? No seriously, shaken is a fea...

Shivering touch automatically kills dragons and other big things, but it's "only" 3d6 (10.5 avg.) Dex damage so there are a fair number of monsters it can't expect to take out in one hit; it also offers SR. There's only a handful of monsters ever published that don't have immunity to abil...

Faster subtle cut still breaks the game: a 10th-level character with TWF, haste , and that ability gets 5 attacks, so expects to deal 25 Dex damage per round with touch attacks, (so they always hit), possibly with touch attacks that deny Dex (so against AC 10 + deflection boni in most cases). 25 Dex...

A 7th-level wizard would probably get mobbed by 7 7th-level warriors , much less real PC classes. No matter what you do at 7th level, when the PCs have 9 tries against it, chances are at least one or two of them will beat it and then have the chance to apply the beatdown, which, because you're a wiz...

1177452082[/unixtime]]In a sense it seems bad design to give out skill bonuses with skill feats. For one, it's an excuse not to give an actual ability. For two, in increases the bonus disparity between a character with the feat an without. [br][br]This would bother me more if D&& weren't al...

I'm pretty sure that unless I'm remembering wrong, a classical vacuum is a perfect insulator, i.e., it won't conduct electricity at all. Air is also a very good insulator.

The RoW grappling rules are a big improvement on the core grappling rules. Using the Edge rules will save all of the meleers feats and make BAB more meaningful; it won't balance the game, but it might make meleers feel less useless.

No, Profession can't be used untrained.

I added a section putting Profession into its proper place in the skill system.

Is the hide check supposed to be opposed with a spot check or the attack roll in this instance? [br][br]The Spot check. Basically, the intent of the ability is that when you're hiding, unless their Spot is noticeably better than your Hide, you're still going to have some concealment from them. I tr...

I went through and modified Natural Empath to make it clearer, and nerfed Master of Terror and Leadership to (hopefully) sanity in terms of followers.

With some ideas and sanity-checking from Squirrelloid [br][br]The Book of Gears isn't out yet, and I don't know when it's coming out, and right now there are two huge glaring gaps in the revision started in Races of War: the absence of any way to handle all the weapons and armors inside the current...

Jester is fine . Seriously, you have Use Magic Device in-class, spellcasting, sneak attack, and class features that are pretty decent--what more do you need?[br][br]The Dungeonomicon class that I'm worried doesn't keep up is the cooler one, the thief-acrobat. It gets a lot of neat movement abilities...

Deep halfling is in the MM. Whisper gnomes are from Races of Stone, but I'm pretty sure the race is in the excerpt on WotC's website.[br][br]Elves' biggest liability for stealth builds is a lack of darkvision. Everything in D&D has darkvision, so if you're trying to sneak around with a light sou...

Yes, there will. I've been hoping to finish some other stuff first, but maybe I should just put what I have up.

The obvious is deep halfling rogue. Simple, reasonably effective, with some growth potential in the later phases of the game if that's relevant.

Why won't everyone play a rogue or a warlock?

1176231537[/unixtime]]D&D planar cosmology is pretty fvcked, in the sense that there's a 'negative energy plane' which (as far as I know) doesn't border Shadow. So if you're dealing "negative energy," you're theoretically channeling the negative energy plane rather than shadow.[br]Sim...

1176097055[/unixtime]][br] I want my character to be defined by who he is rather than what he has . The days of AD&D, where all Fighters were identical and people seriously showed each other a stack of index cards with owned magic items on them to demonstrate what their characters could do - we...

I generally think less bookkeeping is better, so I vote for weapons that scale.

My best guess at reading Frank and K's intentions is that there's no need to have scaling armor and shield proficiency feats: the shields and armors themselves grant scaling abilities, specifically to allow the standard armor/shield proficiency feats to work. That said, there's probably room for a s...

The reason sunder doesn't get used much is twofold. First, a lot of monsters don't have weapons, or the weapons they have don't matter (casters). Second, players are greedy.[br][br]Sundering weapons is actually easier than disarming weapons, in most cases. (There tend to be more ways to increase dis...

I think the reason a nightwalker doesn't keep up with other PCs at that level is that you're past the point where the game is playable. The CR tables become useless at high levels: only monsters with their own casting can keep up with action-novaing, contingency-buffed, instant-death-throwing caster...