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Max out Sense Motive.

I think K's on to something, kinda.[br][br]Starfire keeps the group mentally healthy. When you think about what everyone in the Titans is, and what they do...that's pretty important. [br][br]P.S. "The End" trilogy Cartoon Network recently aired? Awesome. A couple plot holes, but still good...

1121509924[/unixtime]][br][br]As for the "trying to be hip and edgy at the expense of someone" remark, I guess we have all been guilty of that at one point or another in our long posting career, so I wouldn't try and go down that way... [br][br]Oh, there's a difference.[br][br]You see, th...

At this point, it's not even "advise" in any real sense of the word; it's a guy trying to be hip and edgy at the expense of what I assume is a confused kid.[br][br]Apparently, this guy has enough of a fan base that he can afford to post columns wherein he makes fun of children...and that's...

You know, K, at first, I rolled my eyes when I read about your idea.[br][br]But I've thought about it, and you know what? It ain't bad. Not at all.[br][br]It's simple, and does what you want it to do. Nothing wrong with that.[br][br]If players try and teleport to a location with magical auras, you c...

Well not quite. Characters of given levels can exist in the same game. Much like a character like the Punisher can exist in the same universe as a character like the silver surfer. And those characters can fundamentally use the same rules set. It's just that you've got to keep them apart. For the s...

1116959157[/unixtime]][br]1: No player would ever use the rule. That is, if the player is being offered something that does the same thing worse than another option, it has no place in the game. The Soul Knife fails right here. Your big class feature is that you have a fvcking short sword. That's e...

1113818087[/unixtime]]Is this the proper place for me to point out that almost everyone I have ever seen on the internet who accuses someone else of using the straw man fallacy actually tends to be the one using the straw man fallacy?[br][br]It's almost as if people dumb enough to defend their argu...

1116834345[/unixtime]][br][br]It isn't about till level 5 or 6 when you can truly get in there and start mixing things up. If you want to be Aragorn or Legolas, you need levels 8-10. [br][br]So you don't make all the problems go away by just playing level 1-3. All that does is make all your PCs suc...

DUEL! DUEL![br][br] Psicrystals are inane, but aren't actually any worse than most familiars. Letting the player just take a bonus feat of "any hit feat" would be funcitonally identical to this. Noone ever gave rat's ass about the Psicrystal's ability to sprout poorly computer animated leg...

1114376279[/unixtime]]However, some people might argue that D&D origionally wasn't intended for that sort of audience, it was directed towards audiences that read more traditional forms of literature. (I'm not myself sure whether that arguement is true or not.) So while comic-book type fantasy ...

And, of course, it bears mentioning that a lot of modern fantasy--relayed through comic books and cartoons as such--is chock-full of "flying archers."[br][br]While one could certainly hold his or her nose high in the air, sniffle, and then declare that only fantasy novels count, that would...

Phonelobster, at that point, I'm really tempted to say that the person playing the Sorcerer just wasn't that hot.[br][br]I agree that the Sorcerer has shortcomings. I really do.[br][br]However, these shortcomings should not be so horribly bad that the sorcerer, with the same spells, actually does mu...

The thing is, though, that when you fill your higher slots with the same really cool combat spell (as a wizard), you will probably hit the situation where you wish you had either another combat spell or a utility spell prepared instead.[br][br]Sorcerers, of course, get that on-the-fly versatility th...

I'll throw in my own experiences with the Sorcerer--they were fun.

I loved having versatility, and being the heavy hitter of the group.

Could the sorcerer class be improved? Sure. Is it weak? No.

I find it a little odd that the Spell Storing weapon feature allows (or at least doesn't address) metamagic to be placed on it's spells without increasing the spell's level, when the Ring of Spell Storing specifically notes that the spells in it take up slots equal to the spell's level plus it's me...

Actually, I was thinking along the same lines with regards to Vamp Touch.[br][br]Cool thing about that one is that it deals untyped damage. If you end up Empowering and Maximizing it (quite possible), that's 60 + 10d6 / 2 damage per Vamp Touch, and that's also a lot of HP.[br][br]Another cool thing ...

Hmmmmm, I'm betting that making a legion of Spell-Storing arrows would greatly benefit me. Anyone have any favorite picks for spells to stuff into those?

Don't hold back, now. Tell us how you really feel.

I'm going to be playing an Artificer in an upcoming Eberron game, and I was wondering if you folks had any suggestions for magic items (especially Wands) I should be keeping an eye on.[br][br]I've already got quite a few ideas, but I enjoy hearing the ideas of others.[br][br]If you're curious, I'm p...

I browsed the book a bit today, and I see that Druids get a version of Barkskin that adds a deflection bonus, instead of an enhancement to natty armor.

Man! Good thing, too. I was worried that my Druid was underpowered.

Q6) If you would have been present at WoTC when the decision was made to create an open license, how would you have gone about it, assuming that not doing it was not an option.[br][br]Gary: I would have resigned my position with the company rather than seeing the OGL come into being. [br][br]Of all...

1111456767[/unixtime]][br]Well point buy is superior to non-diminishing returns point allocation, because point buy actually helps out monks a bit by having diminishing returns. Monks actualyl tend not to care too much about diminishing returns because they need so many stats. [br][br]Wow, that's t...

1111435989[/unixtime]]I hate predetermined array as well. [br][br]Though I think point buy is one of the fairest ways of generating characters, because traditionally the one ability score characters are the most powerful and characters wtih MAD are the weakest. Point buy tends to balance things out...