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Those "armor" things need to be "in addition to the armor you are wearing". Seriously, people are going to play as these and they need equipment too. Also, in this way you can have something like Weapon of Righteous Destruction [BAB] 0 - Whatever weapon you are wielding is consid...

PCs vs. PCs, and NPCs. Monsters can be crazy-awesome (dragons, Call of Cthulhu) or very underpowered (kobolds, at almost in level in almost any game), and the PCs will respond to that appropriately ("Run away!" is an appropriate response sometimes). Most folks I play with don't know that t...

If, in the campaign setting, evil magic is a better and faster route to ultimate power than good magic, then Evil Wizard should grant power more quickly than Good Wizard. Otherwise the setting doesn't match the mechanics. More quickly gaining power is represented better by more quickly gaining XP. ...

Okay, what the fuck is up with the new people in this thread? Are you guys seriously spawning other accounts to try to make your goddamned points? I'm looking at you: Kobajagrande, and you: Frantic. If you are legitimate new people, then please feel free to make a point and have a net positive contr...

Okay, so I had the day off today, and I read through this drivel of a thread. thread pros: Talking about gaming systems that may be cool and worth investigating for Beer and Chips gaming. Specifically: 316 Carnage among the Stars and Kobolds Ate My Baby. Talk about good modules to play (in systems t...

Why isn't it enough to say: Small - +2 Dex, -2 Str, move 20. Medium - no adjustments Large - -2 Dex, +2 Str, move 40. Large creatures are slower and stronger than Medium creatures. Small creatures are faster and weaker than Medium creatures. Everybody gets a Size (+2, -2), and a Race (+2, +2). You c...

Ask and you shall receive... kind of...

http://www.devinweb.com/wizardspells.htm

Scattering Trap in PHB2 imbues 1 5ft square/level with a Teleport Trap (the square teleports d6 squares you a random direction).

<zoidberg> hooray </zoidberg>

Just to chime in:

I've always found it stupid that affecting dreams was an illusion ability. Hypnosis and Dream affecting have always belonged firmly in Enchantment to me.

4. I don't know anyone that likes or plays 4e. This includes both people that play dungeons and dragons, people that have heard of dungeons and dragons, and people that buy games at games stores.

Pretty much what Hicks said. However, I liked the simple fixes of "if you have +6 BAB, you have Quick Draw", and "all light weapons may be drawn as a free action". The latter rule was for allowing the quick-draw of daggers, after seeing that darts (essentially the same object) co...

Judging, we played it as 'first square only', because otherwise it is an active punishment for not using reach weapons. We decided a Samurai (has Whirlwind as bonus) using a katana should get the same number of AoOs as a Kasurigama Samurai, and that choice of weapon should not be dictated by game me...

True, that. About the best you can do in your turn is: 1. Not an Action: direct ghost dog to move next to the enemy (-2 penalty on saves and AC) 2. Move Action: wander up to them. 3. Standard Action: smack them in the head with Intimidating Strike. Take out a small penalty to hit. Intimidate them (...

if a warforged became a tome samurai, what would it's ancestral weapon be? it's hand? is that allowable? Being that the warforged are an ancient race of battle-robots from the last Great War crafted to wage war/destruction upon neighboring empires, I could probably make a good case for 'Robot Body'...

I love the build, actually. I tend to abuse actions, so my standard maneuver was to use a 4th level wizard spell to Quicken a 2nd level Beguiler Spell (Blinding Color Surge). In this manner, you can keep up the Invisible Blinding Assault for a while (use whatever highest level spell you care to, pos...

The Ring of Wizardry hack is the Beguiler 1 / Wizard (min) / Ultimate Magus 10.

You get 19 CL in 20 levels, and the Ring doubles spells from both sides of casting (which in turn fuels you metamagic for free).

I was doing a little reading and stumbled across this: "If the priest deliberately violates the goals of the god, then he's in real trouble ... The third time this happens, the god will immediately reduce the character to 1 hit point and change his character class. The priest will become an ord...

Why stop there? Just generate all of the powers from a script. Seriously, there are a limited number of effects, and a limited number of actions (ranged/melee/spell), and they all do damage as per level. You could seriously script them and name them (naming is a separate task, which may or may not i...

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A bonus equal to your level will probably be overpowered out of combat in a balanced system. Actually, that was the point. The idea was that the Seer would be as good (slightly worse) as a focused character at things that took a great amount of time (alchemy, research, lockpicking without pressure,...

What 3.x classes have sneak attack and a +1 BAB Honestly, it looked like you were willing to sack skills/feats for SA/BAB. Anyways, here: http://www.crystalkeep.com/d20/rules/DnD3.5Index-Classes-Base.pdf Scout and Rogue get the tasty 8 SP on that list. Spellthief gets you some SA... Aside from that...

You will actually be able to give a Pryomancer all of the spells on that list and not significantly add to his versatility in play. Although a Pyromancer or Summoner will have a number of different ways to set people on fire or summon monsters, they will still be fairly inept at the challenges that ...

You can make up your own, and it will work well. Coincidentally, I think Fire Wings is your jetpack spell... Also, you should probably just not have level 0 spells, instead opting for a domain choice. Something along the lines of: Air - you have mastery of air and can make up to a swift gust of wind...

Actually... it works, or looks like it would. Comments: Translocator needs to be rolled right into Thaumaturgist. The fact of the matter is that Translocators get some good spells, but they seriously get like 2/level and it makes you sad. Anyone that wants to take Translocator can instead take whate...

My next campaign I'm totally going to try for the 900 GP/charge +5 GMW Weapons Chained for the party with a Rod of Chaining if we make it to that high of a level. The idea of having a +5 Holy (+2d6 against evil) Psychokinetic (+1d4 Force, hits ghosts, bypasses DR) Screaming (everyone loves +1d6 soni...

Ninja from Rokugan apparently gets full BAB and SA without sucking, but I don't know where to find it...