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Druid's Planar Ranger PrC class seems kind of powerful. In a recent game the GM told me Halfling Outrider was broken and suggested Planar Ranger instead (???). As far as I can tell, as a Planar Ranger you can easily get multiple wish or miracle spells a day with no exp or material component...

Hmm, the belt of magnificence +2 adds 2 to every attribute for 25,000GP, the +6 to every stat version is 200,000GP. That might set a decent baseline for you.

Don't think anybody's mentioned the RageMage yet. It gets spell progression on even levels, can cast while raging, ignores a small amount of ASF, and gains some bonuses to spells while raging over 10 levels. I've never played one so I'll let somebody else cover how balanced it is.

Scout has a nice synergy with Warlock, both are light armor fast-movers, eldritch blast can't be used in a full attack, only as a standard action. Scout skirmish damage only works on standard actions since you also have to use a move action to get the bonus. The downside is only a 3/4 BAB and...

There's a necklace in Savage Species that does much the same thing, only more cheaply and sanely (who'd have thunk it?) Necklace of Natural Weapons, I believe, and it costs 600GP plus the cost of any enhancements it confers on a given natural attack (Priced as if enchanting it as a weapon, +1...

Ya know, a lot of the stuff people are mentioning could be fixed by expanding and unifying the skill system, bringing in more of the disparate systems in play and making them skills. For instance, caster level. Let's kill it and make it a skill, roll it into concentration. Whenever you cast a...

Does anybody play a fighter in your game? How do your fighters cope with losses of several of the things that let them be even slightly competitive with spellcasters?

I'm not even entirely sure a dagger-thrower with that many attacks is particularly physics-defying (Much less, having built one myself, game-breaking.) A turn is six seconds long. Throwing, say, 8 daggers per turn (4 normal, 3 TWF, 1 Rapid Shot) means only one dagger per hand every 1.5 seconds...

Technology and magic are really quite opposed in nature, at least in most systems. Magic tends to get weaker as time passes, the old magic is the really awesome stuff while modern mages are just amateurs. Look at how many settings have a "golden age" (Including the default DnD, notice how...

King Arthur is a Knight in Shining Armor, not a Knight with a Shiny Sword so there's something going on with perception there. If Jedi wore armor maybe every last one of them wouldn't have a bulk discount card for Suiggle's Replacement Limb Emporium. James Bond usually has Kevlar woven into...

I was playing around with concepts the other day trying to make a character based around having a sort of family artifact armor. In short order I realized that while there's a ton of classes, feats, and PrCs based around a special weapon, there aren't any (that I noticed anyway, I'm sure...

I'm having trouble seeing why the defense situation is so grim myself. Azure City appears to have a large supply of Paladins and plenty of Clerics given how freely Shojo tossed around ressurections. The army is a dream-enemy for massed paladins and clerics, all undead and evil creatures...

Hmm, where do the rules for mixing these races come from? The half-dragon, half-elf, etc. races clearly support some mixing but I've never heard of a half-kobold template. It's not okay to stack races onto each other. There's a handful of specific templates, such as half-dragon or...

Hmm, I'll agree that the rules don't explicitly say dieties compete for worshippers. Still, there are several adventure seeds and similar items that point in the direction of proselytes and conversions, including forced conversions like the divine brainwashing spell that sparks so much debate...

Depends a lot on what the DM is willing to run for the players, and wether you want to turn the game into a political fest. But DnD isn't really made to handle social politicking well so it's best to find a game more oriented on that genre if you really want to rule your own country. But...

Hardly. This assumes that the PCs have enough items to feed everybody all the time, and that everybody will be satisfied with the bland tasteless pap an everfeeding spoon supplies, both of which strike me as unlikely. All these items will do is remove the spectre of starvation. Even if this...

Hmm, Lyre of Building + Bard for the construction work, Decanter of Endless Water for the drought problem so the people can keep on eating their own crops, and since the PCs are already high level they'll handle invading armies themselves. Swap a few acres of land and magnificent churches for...

I just wanna say this is hilarious, you've made my day, Slife.

WotC has a lawful good Succubus Paladin as one of their sample characters. Regardless of how good or bad this is, it shows the intent of the default setting. If a succubus can be converted to the exact opposite of it's "Always" alignment and go so far as to become a holy champion of the goods...

Actually I think I'm the only "Critical Guy." It's probably a bad habit of mine to overanalyze things and write too much. I used to be a friend of the Author (Pclips) way back when I was a webcomic writer myself. Along with a few others we formed one of the first critical thinking groups...