Recent content by Feldspar

Alchemical Savant requires using your Alchemical Tools as your focus, which this infusion cannot be applied to. Even if you think it still has value, swapping to a different focus for those spells that wouldn't benefit from Alchemical Savant, it should probably be called out. As written, it...

I like the idea of a Sword & Board Barbarian synergizing the Dex save related parts of Shield Master with Resilient (Dex) and advantage on Dex saves from Danger Sense. Go Path of the Ancestral Guardian and you have a sticky and hard to kill tank. Start with 15's in Str, Con, and Dex and go...

I was looking at the Great Weapon Fighting style and thinking about how much extra damage it actually gave. I figured out that the amount of extra damage you get for a die with n sides is: (n-2) / 2. That's the TL;DR; Here's how I derived that formula which I thought might be interesting...

The average damage is not identical. The average would be the same only if you allow continuous rerolling of 1's and 2's. If you wanted to allow that, while also minimizing time spent rolling dice, the better way to do it would be to change the d10 to a d8+2, not to a d12. The formula for how...

A Half-Orc Champion would seem to have nice synergy between their improved critical rate and the extra crit damage die from the Savage Attacks racial. It might deserve a small mention in the Champion section. Also, Relentless Endurance + Survivor go well together. I understand that lack of...

My first post looked at the 1st edition version of alignment and if it brought anything to the discussion (and I hope it did) its to stress that alignment referred to a player having aligned themselves with a plane or planar power. To recap my position, the inhabitants of, for example, a CG...

One idea I had as part of a plan to remove crunchy alignment mechanics from 3.x was to replace the Paladin Detect Evil ability with a bonus to Sense Motive equal to their class level. Just throwing it out there apropo of nothing since I thought it was cool :)

Heh, under that approach then a paladin who commits an evil act for some greater good has in fact committed a neutral act and is safe from the wrath of their diety.

My problem is with alignment as a game mechanic; the crunchy bits. Spells and powers with variable effect based on the alignments of those involved are, for me, the real problem and should be removed from the game. Should we be suprised that interpretation of alignment varies from person to...

So, in all of this, the thing that interested me the most was sort of stumbling onto how to find the average length of the chains, basically that: sigma(from i =1 to infinity) 1/(n^i) converges to 1/(n-1). I thought that was way interesting. Does that have a name? I barely remember anything...

Walter: Mark it five, Dude. Next roll. Smokey: What? I rolled a six ... gimme the white erase pen, I'm marking six. Walter: This is not Nam, this is gaming. There are rules.

Some game systems make use of open ended dice rolling - that is, everytime you roll the max you get to roll again adding to the total. If the system called for you to roll 2d6 open ended you could conceivably roll: :6: :6: :6: :3: :2: for a grand total of 23. This got me wondering...

I've only had the PHB for a short while, but Njall's post references a couple of things I most wanted to get a better grip on. Njall's was referencing Ranger Encounter/Daily powers, but is that statement also true of at will powers? Unless I'm missing something, the only difference between the...

My search-fu may be weak, but I haven't found an answer, official or popular consensus, to this issue: how do the feats Bounding Assault and Rapid Blitz (PHB2 pages 75 and 82) interact with the Tempest class ability Two-Weapon Spring Attack (Complete Adventurer page 82). The class ability lets...

Yes, but on the other hand, being able to do a lot with just one attack has a value of its own. For example, our melee focused pure fighter was jealous of the damage that my cleric archer did - and it had nothing to do with self buffs. The way the rest of the party saw it, my big advantage was...