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Yeah, that's why I posted - I don't think the designers had spells with durations longer than instantaneous in mind when they wrote this. As to showing up when cast, I imagine the caster's lightning appearing with the three thunders energy, not disappearing with it, but it looks like we're into...

I think it's explicitly unnamed for a reason - it can stack w/ anything else.

Someone in my group pointed that wording out. And it's this I hate as it feels like we're just mincing words - couldn't one just as easily argue that it's the conclusion of the casting of said spell that brings this thunderclap about? Personally, if turning the WAHOO factor of this down it's...

I'm a fan of the sudden metamagic feats - not the most powerful, but for a prepared caster they're nice to have up your sleeve as a just-in-case and they scale better than a rod that is capped at a certain spell level.

If I remember correctly, they were printed as evocations in Tome and Blood.

Born of the Three Thunders, as printed in Complete Arcane, gives a damaging [electricity] or [sonic] spell the ability to stun and trip those who fail additional saves, at the cost of dazing the caster for a round. With the iconic Lightning Bolt or Shout, it's fairly cut and dry - damage, ref...

Hm, I'll bite. I personally like fighters. I don't think they're all that weak, either. My gamut of house rules runs along gestalt and feat-every-level lines; and players still find fighters irresistable. I think it's how many feats a fighter packs in early on; to build a gestalt with any other...

Indeed! I love Bo9S - it's made being a sword guy as fun as being a magic guy. I didn't even think of blistering flourish. Being one round, that's a counterpoint, but consider that 1 extra fire damage is nigh negible later on and blindness is far worse a condition than being dazzled (rogues can...

Having just made a White Raven Warblade, charisma is never mentionied in any of the official White Raven maneuvers.

Well, here goes. I'll do desert wind first. A Thousand Birds Seems fine. Crescent Flame Seems a bit situational, given that it only punks those who flank you, but the single attack roll and fire damage on successful touch offset this fact. Fine the way it is. Dancing Flame I don't know if...

Doable. I'm not sure how I feel about ASF; it seems in the third/third-and-a-half edition of D&D they kept ASF around as an artifact of previous games and never let it off easy - they never wanted to give it away for a feat.

Perhaps it's a sign of how stagnant my social life has become; but I haven't met any female gamers in some time. The last time I did have a female gamer in my group (it was seven years ago, in high school), she created a crepuscular silence in the game, as the whole group (myself included)...

I was thinking PC's versus strictly minons; It'd be a matrix-reloaded style style burly brawl.

Im not big on the alignment requirements (perhaps non-lawful would be better), but otherwise, I'd greenlight it - it's indeed an interesting triangulation of barbarian, fighter and druid. Nice class!

No change for me. I adore 3rd edition, even what other players call its shortcomings. Perhaps it's just because it's been almost ten years since I first beheld with wonderment things like "Monsters have ability scores now?" or "I can multiclass however I feel like?". Perhaps I'm being...