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Alright, now that I know what you're talking about... Power Penetration/Greater Power Penetration are good when you're trying to punch through a creature with power resistance/spell resistance. If you only need to make one shot, then it's golden. If you need to do it multiple times, you...

No, it doesn't. I think you're confusing power penetration and power specialization.

Intelligence changes, yes. However, personality, alignment, all of that stay the same. There is nothing in the rules as written which support this interpretation. However, I'll tell you right now I do the exact same thing as a houserule in my games. Great minds think alike ;) Huh? You're...

Until they cast dimension door and cast whatever they want. Or they use a stilled spell. You also have the option of spending power points to shoot crystal shards at tin cans on a fence rather than your opponents. First I'd like to point out that you're handwaving away a psion drawback by...

Ah. I stand corrected then. No access to errata from a lab computer, unfortunately. Thankya kindly for pointing that out to me.

Echoing Scion for a moment (I hope he doesn't mind)... If you look at the system as a whole, core spell casting classes are in serious trouble if they get grappled thanks to their low hit die and poor armor options. Divine casters (especially druids) do not suffer these problems. Also note that...

Expanded Psionics Handbook. I get more use out of it than I do the DMG or MM put together, and I loves me my psionics.

I love the flavor of the kalashtar, they fulfill my love of all things psionic, and they've got sound mechanics, but since I don't play in Eberron much, I have trouble utilizing them. Changelings are great as well. They're probably my favorite of the bunch. I love the mechanical possibilities...

For most folks, it is something detestable and discomforting to use. But a few are willing to utilize this sort of magic in order to do good in the world. Such people might only learn the rituals for kinder spirits, like spirits who specialize in healing, while avoiding spirits of death or pain...

I've run games up to around level 22. The current incarnation of the epic level rules don't thrill me, but everything else is damn good gaming.

There aren't any "meldshapers" who create "soulmelds" from "incarnum" and empower them with "essentia". Rather, there are "spiritualists" who use "rituals" to channel the might of "great spirits" (or possibly demons, depending on your point of view) in potent "rituals", empowering them by...

It begins and ends with Adobe Photoshop. I might use Dungeon Crafter for a quick-and-dirty dungeon crawl map, but for almost everything else, I load up Photoshop and get to work.

I've shamelessly ripped off the spice melange in one of my games. A pleasant high for some, a trippy prescient tool for others. And since my players never read Dune, I had no trouble getting away with it.

Quoted for goodness. Wouldn't mind seeing Keither Baker in there either, though.

The flavor is meh. The mechanics themselves have promise. I'll be toying with them for awhile to make them more pleasing for my game and my group, because they could represent very well a sort of magic in my setting that has been for a long time only weakly represented.

Gnomish bard/virtuoso Gnomish monk/drunken master Elven fighter/rogue/spymaster Pseudodragon monk/red avenger Awakened monkey rogue/wizard (NPC) (a druid's former animal companion which was left to the party after the druid died) Our primary caster was the bard. Our primary healer was the bard...

I missed an all-important part of that definition! ;)

Chupacabra noun (chu-pah-CAH-brah) 1. A horrible player who emphasizes the worst extremes of a particular gaming system which you dislike which you are absolutely certain runs rampant, destroying games left and right, and yet has never actually been observed in nature. (EX: players who only play...

I have three complaints when it comes to the sorcerer: 1. People underestimate spontaneous casting and spontanteous metamagic. It's potent. It's flexible. And if you pick your spells right, you're going to be going strong alongside the wizard. 2. Sorcerers get their spells a whole level later...

I don't like the fluff. Magic items make out of soulstuff just doesn't fly with me. Luckily I almost always rewrite the fluff anyway, so no tears there. However, the underlying mechanic for an all-day-long "spellcaster" is extremely nice. I'm quite pleased with how things fit together. I've...