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Ironically, I thought PrCs were one of the best ideas in 3e; it was just the execution was often, shall we say, lacking.

Ioun Stones might be better for most characters. Turning an 18 into a 20 would at least save you an ASI. Though it's amusing that they...

This does make building around the item (eg dumping strength and expecting the belt to cover the difference) impossible, which I think...

Actually, having seen a Fighter with a Cloak of Displacement in actual play- not so much. We were playing Storm King's Thunder. He had...

I did similar but made a high set value if you have 18 STR or more. BeltStrengthStrength if attuned with 18+ StrRarity Hill2125Rare...

this perhaps is a good moment to mention an "experiment" I'm doing in a campaign. I made a barbarian (world tree), level 5, and the GM...

Though nothing stops someone from being a Dex based Fighter with a relatively low Strength using bows or rapiers and suddenly switching...

AC pretty much caps out at 20 for monsters, right? My highest level character was an archer with a +1 bow, 20 dex, and fighting style...

I don't know that I buy the limit is there for bounded accuracy. I mean magic weapons go from +1 to +3 (with the DMG mentioning higher...

I think I understand why 5e went back to the AD&D version of the stat boosting items, the Belts of Giant Strength in particular...

Oops. Reading comprehension fail. 😀 When I think about my 1980’s B/X and AD&D groups, I remember that we noticed the areas where the...

There were a lot of PrCs in the 3e era that were absolutely traps once you got into them (and some that were virtually intelligence...

Oh absolutely. Not every build is going to work, and sadly, a great many of them are traps or at the least, not fantastic. I'm...

I had a discussion the other day with some friends about which version of D&D we liked best. My breakdown was this: 2e for lore and...