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    The Mysterious Mage vs. Pew Pew

    Yup if you are running just one PC it is lame to follow the rest of the party around in the dungeon all night waiting for that one moment when you can let loose and then go back to hiding in the corner I don't have a problem with that but a lot of people want their fighter to be a big deal for...
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    Ranger ACF Question

    It's only one feat that you pick, it can be a general combat feat OR a feat in your chosen weapon style. It's pretty clear from what it says right at the start for Benefit: If they wanted you to get two it would have said you can select two bonus feats at 4th, 8th, 11th, and 14th. But yeah it...
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    Why not monks?

    I think most of the forum traffic about class strength focuses on higher levels at least that's what i've seen. So at high levels pretty much anyone with spells leapfrogs the classes that don't because they're way more flexible depending on what you fight and they scale so much better to large...
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    Any down sides to having DM fail to detect illusions?

    Honestly it probably wont make a giant difference either way so if you and your players are cool with it then sure go for it I don't think your upsetting the apple cart too much. But for me personally I wouldn't do it and it would make things worse for my campaign because we don't have any high...
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    How do you run gaze attacks in your campaign?

    I guess I'm (#1) mostly but to be honest I haven't used gaze attack mobs as wandering monsters or anything either so generally the party has some idea that hey, there is probably a Medusa or Basilisk or something in here long before they ever encounter it. Like they're specifically here to kill...
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    As a DM, what is your default answer to player requests?

    That is pretty much my take too. Now I am more of a player than a DM but I have DM'd my share in the past and I am pretty open minded but I also really want to get to the why. But also there's a difference between characters wanting to take an in game action and wanting to change the rules...
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    Are three enough?

    That's a good point about the DC but you could still use ability checks and give different poisons, spell levels, etc. different modifiers on the check.
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    Are three enough?

    Both are cool with me, I can see some people saying 6 is more complex than 3 but not if you set it up one for one with abilities I mean in your system the saving throw basically becomes an ability check. Maybe it's a little harder to remember which condition maps to which ability but I don't...
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