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Yeah, you're right. It was just the first thing that occurred to me, and I thought it was cool enough to share. You never know, it might be close enough. And it's a cool word. :D

How about synchronicity? Anarchy is a bunch of things happening randomly for no reason, synchronicity is a bunch of things happening that are intimately connected, even if it doesn't look like it. Now, are we talking anarchy like Limbo, or anarchy like a bunch of CN characters barhopping...

No, because it is good to be able to tell the two disputants apart. :D

First Round 1. Ms. Frost 2. Francis Begbie 3. Dr. Doom 4. The Joker 5. Thanos 6. Napoleon the Pig 7. Lady Deathstrike 8. Cain 9. Raistlin Majere 10. ??? 11. Keyser Soze 12. Dr. Fu Manchu 13. Bhaal 14. The Clown 15. Lloth 16. The Clock King 17. Hal 9000 18. Godzilla 19. Khan Noonian Singh 20...

I mentioned it a bit upthread. It gives you a penalty on using weapons and wearing armor that you did not craft yourself. My character has the Craft (weaponsmithing) and Craft (armorsmithing) skills, and very good RP reasons to not use any armor or weapons other than those he makes for...

Scion - That sounds similar to my dilemma with the Individualist flaw. What about another permutation of the flaw mechanic that I've seen, flaws with prerequistes? For instance, in Dragon 324, there's a flaw for Bards called Fool. It removes the inspire courage, inspire competence, inspire...

Hmm, interesting points. I'm not sure I'm convinced, but I am sure I don't want to type up why right at the moment. I'm tired. :) Instead, might I ask what you think of UA's traits? Basically, a bonus balanced by a closely-linked penalty. Anyone else who dislikes flaws feel free to...

This is basically my problem with the idea. I don't want to be 500th level before I can take on a few hundred lowly orc warrior 1s; that's just not D&D to me. If you're going to spool levels out that high, I'd just as soon drop the idea of levelling altogether and go with a total point-buy...

Please elaborate. I'm rather fond of flaws, with appropriate DM oversight, and think they're excellent ways to fine-tune a character's mechanics to his concept.

Actually, I don't think that two Fighter 10s are anywhere near the league of a Fighter 20, and said so in my post. I also used one dedicated spellcasting example - a Cleric/Fighter - and pointed out that everything about the way the Wizard and Sorcerer classes are built aggressively discourages...

I'll leave others to decide whether or not a linear power prgression would actually make game prep easier (suffice to say, I seriously doubt it), but I'm going to call you on this. The "problem" of non-linear power progression and the problem of multi-classing are two different problems. The...

Conan the Cimmerian vs Aragorn Conan. He wants it more. Drizzt Do'urden vs Matrim Cauthon I agree with an earlier poster, Drizzt is absurd in one-on-one melee. Gaborn Val Orden (pre earth king) vs Richard Rahl (Pre SoT) Dunno, never heard of these guys. Silk (the assasin from the...

I agree with Lord Pendragon completely, with the caveat that from the Haligonians' comments I think he's got a good group, or at least a good situation. Perhaps we've actually reached an internet consensus? :p Or am I being too hopeful?

Are you trying to make a balanced feat, or trying to reduce the effect of AoOs on the game? If it's the former, I'd say have the feat grant a +2 dodge bonus for an easy-to-take feat, or +3 for a somewhat-hard-to-take feat. If it's the latter, I would have it grant a +4 or +5 dodge bonus and...

Boy, is he ever getting them... :)

I believe whether or not this is truly a triple-power wish is still a bone of contention, actually. I personally don't think it is; I think it's a very reasonable use of the spell that strays slightly outside the bounds of totally safe. As I (and several others) have stated, it may or may not...

You need an "Other" option. Darn non-editable polls. I'm going to be playing my homebrew technologist, set up as a fighter-mage type, tomorrow. In terms of abilities, I guess sorcerer is the closest, though the technologist's devices have different strengths and weaknesses than the...

Not quite. Notice the RAW: The DM is perfectly within his or her rights to simply grant the wish, and be done with it if that seems the best option. This is not cheating on the part of the players or use of some finicky rules loophole to "break" the spell. Powerful and harmless wishes are...

I meant "screwing around" in the sense that there will be some dangerous and semi-arbitrary consequences; a poor choice of words on my part. Something like "Well, just before you repeat the incantation, you suddenly remember Kezzeldrix the Unpleasant, who used a similarly mighty dweomer to save...

Meh, the examples in this thread are why I never take the wish spell. That looks like a perfectly reasonable wish to me, and if it's going to get mucked with like people on this thread are suggesting I can find many better things to do with a 9th-level spell known and 5000 of my hard-earned...