Recent content by Ifni

Yeah, I've run into this with a L8 party (in an RPGA game, no less). There was much complaining. I've also encountered CL20+ Blasphemy at L15, on half-fiends, advanced fiends, fiends with feats to bump their CL, evil clerics with beads of karma, and once a sublime chord ur-priest. By L15 you...

For what it's worth, I think that's a good call. If I was using Arcane Thesis I'd tend to rule it to only allow a total -1 reduction to the spell level, not -1 per metamagic feat, but your way is fine too. I briefly played with Arcane Thesis in a PbP game, because the GM had specifically asked...

So... Celerity is not in the SpC, so kind of irrelevant to the thread, but I wanted to answer some questions people asked about my last post. See spoiler text. akbearfoot: heh, my dervish didn't learn about empowered rays of enfeeblement until around L12, but after that he always carried...

My picks: -Bite of the Werebeast line - +16 Str and free feats in addition to the natural strength of wildshaped druids / animal companions? Uhuh. -Ray of Stupidity - it's not just the Int-3 foes who have to worry about this. Ability damage stacks. Think about Split Ray Empowered Rays of...

My worst dice rolls ever were in one session of Red Hand of Doom. I was playing a meleer with a fairly decent attack bonus (+16 to hit before PA, I think the PC was L7 or so) and in six hours of mostly running combats, I didn't hit once. I think my highest attack roll was a 4, and that happened...

Heh. It would have been interesting to see what you thought of my regular Living Greyhawk group in the last days. In the final CORS we blew through six EL21-22 encounters (with a mostly L16 table, one L14 cohort) without resting - and I think in those six encounters, only three PCs out of six...

I voted "slight changeover" - I'm currently playing in one 4e PbP game. I'm playing in several earlier-edition PbPs, and if I play a tabletop/online campaign in the future I'd want it to be 3.5, not 4e, unless it was just a quick low-level one-shot. I may not keep playing at all: my enthusiasm...

Something to keep in mind is just because some fans of (insert edition here) say A and some say B, it doesn't mean that any particular fan of (insert edition here) believes both A and B. Two different people can criticize the same thing for completely different (even opposite) reasons. It's a...

The only pure noncaster I played in 3.5 was a dervish. He had far less tactical options than my spellcasters, but he was extremely mobile and could go nearly anywhere on the battlefield. He had to make decisions about where and how to move every round - which can be nontrivial when you have both...

I've played a number of Living Greyhawk games (i.e. the GM can't tailor encounters to you, and you may have a new party for each game) where we didn't have a rogue on the table. Sometimes it matters a lot, sometimes not at all, depending mostly on what sort of traps are in the module and whether...

Sure, I've played in a lot of games where the only arcane was a sorcerer. They normally work just fine - they don't always work well if the sorc player is incompetent or very specialized, but that's true of wizards as well. I've played a much smaller number of games where the arcane was a...

This looks like fun :) Okay, let's go through my currently-in-play 3.5 characters. I suspect that at least one of these is trivial to convert, and at least two are very difficult, but we'll see what others think. 1. A battle-priestess of the goddess of fire, wrath, arguments and war. She honors...