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Right, archers who rely on strength won't be too keen on being made smaller, but throw in bonus dice (be they sneak attack or skirmish), and you have a different outlook. I didn't mention them because they allow a save and I was flaming against this ranged touch nonsense. Also, someone else...

I LOVED chromatic orb, I HATE its 3.5 descendants. The lesser orbs are these stupid touch attack abominations, deal way too much damage, but don't do anything cool. Then, the big orbs actually deal less damage than maximized lesser orbs (7d6 = ~24.5 vs. 4d8 maximized = 32) when you first get...

That's the biggie with essence. If you only lose 0,1 of it, you immediately lose a power point, your most valuable resource as an adept. So, if you're gonna get wired, I'd recommend you take something that costs less essence than the corresponding power costs PP, like the synaptic boosters. I'd...

Okay, but why only use it for defence? As I see it, grappling, if considered a weapon, can be "light" for this purpose. It really depends on how you picture it. You can see it as wrestling or judo: one relies more on force, the other on agility. For a monk who is all martial-artsy, I'd have no...

When reading along, something occurred to me: If you are unarmed, and have weapon finesse, can you use your Dex modifier for grappling checks? [I don't mean to hijack the thread, but I think it's not worth opening a new one either.]

I don't know...is that the one that lets you use multiple spell slots of one level to cast a higher level spell? Well, for metamagic I prefer the multiple slots approach, and this seems to be similar. If it means less spells per day, it can't be that bad!

The obvious one. I'm sorry, Ma'am, but it wasn't obvious to me. And I'd appreciate it if you did contribute in a constructive way. Now, back on topic: Stream provided the quotes I was looking for. I had only looked at the sorcerer's write up ("He can cast any spell he knows at any time...

Hello fellow EnWorlders, During tonight's session a question on how a sorcerer casts his spells came up. The player of our group's sorcerer (level 10) argued that he could cast fireball 17 times a day, which is his spell capacity from 3rd-5th level + a ridiculous amount of bonus spells from...

Isn't there an official or semi-official (i.e. 3PP) breakdown of the core races and classes somewhere?

...because anything else would be counter-intuitive. Having said that, I think Aust above has found a good compromise between the two.

In no particular order: Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting 3rd Edition Unearthed Arcana 3.0 AD&D Players' Option: Skills & Powers AD&D Players' Option: Combat & Tactics Shadowrun 2nd Edition

Begone, Eladrin! Teleport as a racial trait? No thanks.

Good for him! I've always liked them as a race, what with their sluggish, ham-fisted nature and their notorious inability to control summoned monsters. They're kind of the laughing stock of every bestiary, but I like them anyway. I don't know about their 4e incarnation, but the crunch seems to...

I knew this was too good to be true... I did have a good laugh at the "now with even more miniature combat" tag line, though.

I've wanted to run SRv4 in a fantasy setting for some time, but I never got around to converting the system. So I'm very excited that you had the same idea and I hope you'll tell us about the progress you make! Good luck.

That's what I thought. This is a major turn of events! :-P

I like it when the PCs don't always exactly have the exact scores the player want, so I like them to roll up characters using the organic method, but combined with the floating reroll. This means players roll scores in order, during which process they get to reroll the lowest die once, then they...

Then Dragon Age probably really isn't a game for you. In other news: Gamespot gave it a 9.5 rating (Dragon Age: Origins Review for PC - GameSpot). Savvy players will point out that this ought to be taken with a grain of salt, as GS is known to be less-than-objective at times. That's why I'll...

It's certainly in the eye of the beholder what constitutes a stronger character, as both have their advantages. In our case, I'd say the PsyWar's advantages are its bonus feats and status as a base class, which enables a monk to access powers at a lower level. The PsiFist on the other hand lets...

Yessir, it's CC, so you can download it and check it out! I got it from here: Eclipse Phase - RPG : Books > RPG - Mininova