Recent content by eggynack

Your AC seems off by one, to start with, as you didn't take the size modifier into account. Your flat-footed AC stays the same, and your touch AC goes down by two. The attack should have a +2 from strength, and a +5 from BAB, leaving you at +18. Grapple should be altered upwards by the same...

It says that you have to be 7th level, which means an adjustment of -6.

Just something I've heard. Don't really have a citation for it, though I suppose I should probably go looking for one at some point. The general argument in favor of greenbound being used in this way is that wall of thorns is actually an attack, and if it is one, and it's the best possible...

There's not necessarily a pattern. The creatures just say what adjustment they have, and that's the adjustment they have. If you're using a monster from the monster manual, then that adjustment is listed under the druid, and if you're using a separate monster that can be an animal companion...

Really can't. Anything even close enough to the specificity required to fully describe a creature would necessarily be practically a copy paste. You can find both creatures trivially through a simple Google search though.

You mean natural bond and improved animal companion? They're pretty good, yeah, though I'd personally stay away from the latter for the aforementioned homebrew issue. Those feats tend to be a bit better at early levels, when the static increase means relatively more, but having a better pet...

But then I would only end up swordsage'd a second time, this time by your brain-words.

Nope on all of that. Your effective druid level, assuming that your reference to improved animal companion means that weird dandwiki homebrew feat, for the purposes of the dire bear would be five. You have a base of eleven, essentially bumped by six through your feats, and then dropped by twelve...

Damn, used the same example on the ring too. At least the second paragraph is still useful, though it's interesting to note that, had I not written it, the first paragraph would have been useful.

Can't give out the exact copy pasted thing, but the gist is that the ring, for 8,000 GP, lets you use a slot one lower to spontaneously cast a summoning spell (in other words, a 7th level druid could use SNA III for a unicorn, but not SNA IV for anything from SNA V), the mantle, for 18,000 GP...

I don't think that's necessarily true. Yes, the main alternative, rolling, can produce a bunch of high stats, as it did here, but it can also produce mediocre and craptacular stats, cause randomness. Really, the best stat allocation system for a MAD class is point buy, but high point buy. At a...

It's pretty ridiculous to get pissed off at someone for rolling well. It's not like you came into the game and said, "Now, with my mighty control over the nature of fate and circumstance, I shall intentionally pull together above average scores. View, puny DM, as I imbalance your game." If the...

He asks because your... whatever this is... is highly difficult to understand/parse. Is this a build you're seeking criticism of? A particular feat (presumably combat expertise) that you're questioning the validity of compared to a bunch of other feats? If you're giving an opinion, what is the...

That seems pretty true of 3.5 also. On the non-caster side of things, you have fancy one and two level dips in everything from barbarian to fighter to monk to every ToB class to totemist and even to cleric or wizard (taken for largely non-caster purposes, like devotion feats and abrupt jaunt)...

That's not because VoP is good. It's actively detrimental to druid power. It's because druid is one of the most powerful classes in the entire game, and the fact that VoP removes power isn't enough to make that untrue. It's not just that you can build a more powerful druid, but that most well...