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This month, my weekends are genuinely free. If the only time during those weekends in which things can actually happen winds up being some obscene time, I can make arrangements. That said, I wouldn't expect this to be a permanent situation, and in any event, I'll be busy for the month-ending weekend...

In terms of the 'holy shit, you guys are all evil' thing, Malak's more Lawful then Evil. Sure, he does worship an evil god, and if he has the opportunity to make blood sacrifices or something without any obvious consequences, he's totally going to go for that... but the mission comes first. And sinc...

For reference, I totally agree; I've got no problem with you having a ghoul butler, and think it's a cool idea. I just kind of object to your butler knowing more about magic then I do; that kind of thing makes me feel like I may as well just not have skill points, since you can just spend a feat on ...

And that neatly solves my problem with the whole situation, too. For now, at least; since next level you'll have an expert of equal level, and at all future levels he'll be above us. Which can very quickly get stupid , since your cohort goes epic at level 13. For reference, I don't actually agree wi...

I see where you're coming from, and I don't like it. When your feat is better at all the noncombat skills then my character is, I feel like my toes have been stepped on, and rather hard. It was my overall impression that DrPraetor is playing the stealth-leadership-nerf of NPC classes only on minions...

Dominion is mostly the idea you're talking about, you spend resource cards to buy useful cards, modifying your deck as you play to bring yourself closer to the victory condition. That said, Dominion is about building a town or something, so the flavour you want is probably Puzzle Strike, since that'...

@Endovior - I did say you could have the Moil Wrought background, right? I said something as a joke which Kaelik took seriously and I'm not sure if I ever gave you an actual okay on being a Moil Wrought aspiring vampire/lich/whatever. b/c it appears I forgot to say it - other backgrounds may be oka...

Just about finished, and was just adding equipment... when I realized that I screwed up. Under a normal DMM build, yes, the Reliquary Holy Symbol could easily grant +2 turning attempts... in fact, it could easily grant +3. Unfortunately, it grants them for having each of: 5 ranks in Knowledge (Relig...

Eh, I'm good. What's nice about Celerity at this level is that you get the +10 foot move bonus, and then can combine that with (Persistent) Expeditious Retreat for a move speed of 70, which is a fairly cool option. That said, I get the exact same effect by using Persist with Swift Expeditious Retrea...

Mostly finished; I just found the need to reevaluate my domain choices once I realized that: 1: Undeath and Planning are, except for the fact that they happen to grant feats useful for the DMM-Persist trick, terrible domains. Most spells in the Undeath Domain are already cleric spells anyways; and P...

It occurs to me that, given the nature of M:tG's resource system, stretching 'rounds' into 'days' is kind of bad, because eventually people have all their mana out and break the M:tG power limits. It would probably work a lot better if you had a system where the players use their M:tG cards as norma...

Technically, Eldritch Claws just give you two extra claw attacks. Technically, you already have marginal claw attacks on all your manipulatory limbs (as well as a marginal bite), this just gives you significantly better ones; so if you're totally unarmed, you're talking about 7 natural attacks. You ...

One thing I'd note... and which is appropriate to mention, since your players seem to be getting a little crazy... just because you have a giant meteor does NOT mean you have an enormous amount of refined metal. Hell, it doesn't even mean you have an enormous amount of ore. Mostly, you have pretty m...

You can still have rounds without rolling initiative. If there is no conflict, it doesn't even matter who goes first. The Dragon can go 800 feet, the wizard gets a spell off, and the next round is where initiative is rolled because it's the one where the dragon is trying to interrupt (act before) t...

That IS the nice thing about Incarnum, yeah; there's not actually levels to them, so if you there's a meld that gives you flight or evasion or something on your list, you can just do that. The 'balancing' factor is that some of the nicer abilities are locked behind a 'you must be this tall' barrier ...

So... I was considering nabbing one of those undead creation feats, on account of general awesomeness. That said... holy shit; A Feast Unknown is massively better then any of the other undead feats. I didn't remember that bit, but Feast Unknown, available from first level, gets you undead of CR equa...

I understand. I'm starting classes myself in the fall, so even though I'm not really doing much of anything now, I've decided not to start running any games now, so I don't end up abandoning them later. Once I know how much free time I'll actually have then, I'll be in a better position to decide wh...

It's particularly awesome since, as a free action feat, it not only doesn't provoke an AoO, but it also doesn't use up an invocation slot. Of course, you'll need Multiattack to get the full benefit out of that, but the principle of awesomeness remains. Fortunately, we're using Flaws, so you can have...

That's may be the best WotC option for warlocks that I've seen; doubly so in Prak's case, since he's got four arms (and thus would theoretically get more claws).

Eldritch Glaive isn't a double weapon, though. You'd only get a single hit off it. What I'd assumed when DrPraetor made Eldritch Blast an attack action is that you could either ping away with it at range as if it was a normal ranged attack, but you could also use Hideous Blow with your normal attack...

Wait... really? I could've sworn it did, but that might have been just because I didn't properly consider the possibility of a melee attack that gives your enemy a free swing at you before it resolves.

Yeah, I'm assuming they aren't, but I wanted to be sure. The ghoul following us around is basically going to be a man servant who can try to find/disarm traps if necessary. Also, I don't have Hideous Blow, because it generally sucks (though I may pick it up when I have more invocations). His attack...

Essentially all the flaws that exist are here: http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/buildingCharacters/characterFlaws.htm It's a short page, so it's not much to read. Everything else, so far as I'm aware, is non-WotC homebrew shit that frequently involves 'roleplaying' disadvantages. Prak had asked for...

Well, if you're primarily motivated by adherence to some background you've made up in advance, be a Psion//Spellthief or Wilder//Bard or something. Or maybe a Cleric//Psychic Warrior. Pick an attribute and run with it. EDIT: Also, if you're set on Psionics, you might want to use the Erudite variant ...

Well, as has been pointed out repeatedly, if you just want to go straight Wizard, take Wizard and support with something that directly improves your Wizarding, like Soulborn (there are Incarnums that improve Spell Save DC, IIRC), Hexblade (Curse to lower enemy saves), or Warlock (Lots of utility inv...