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Fairly outlandish? The only non-combat ways of becoming fatigued are insomnia and prolonged physical exertion-- and the rules on forced march state that if the nonlethal damage caused by physical exertion is removed, the fatigue is removed. Swimming doesn't cause fatigue, but it also causes...

Street Fighter: the Storytelling Game Second Edition True to form, it came out after ten years of "revisions" and "nostalgia editions", and after all but the most diehard fans had given up the series for dead. Hardcover, full color, all illustrations by UDON Studios. They've done spectacular...

Always figured that the ring would compensate, the same way it provides optimal nutritional value for the wearer regardless of whether he's a librarian or a barbarian. Even better would be if the ring were enchanted with both sustenance and regeneration. You may not think that regeneration is...

Oh, yes. Yes yes yes. I am at the point right now of having removed all alignment restrictions from base classes, and am bordering on the point of removing alignment entirely from the game. Clerics and Paladins have a code of conduct related to their faith. Healers heal whomever needs it and...

I would buy PDFs of 2e/3e products and I would buy hardcopies of new 3e sourcebooks-- as I mentioned, there's still some room for further expansions. On the other hand, I am pleased to have a "complete" system to work with, without needing to consider potential future products.

Honestly, the marketing didn't turn me off at all. Despite that I wasn't primarily a D&D player anymore, I was looking forward to the release of 4e and seeing what all the design team had done with it. It was only by my enduring poverty that I did not end up purchasing the core rulebooks on...

Pretty much the same systems I'm always playing: 3.5 D&D, Street Fighter, and HARP. I house rule Initiative into a skill in D&D. So, instead of d20 + Dex mod, it's d20 + ranks + Dex mod. Yawn. Street Fighter determines initiative round-by-round. Every maneuver has a Speed rating, positive or...

I think I have that one. Have to break the longboxes out of my closet. I was looking through Maztica a bit earlier... how close would you say that a Gestalt Paladin/Ranger is to these classes, or would at least serve as a good build up toward them? (Assume "Paladin" includes alignment variants.)...

I'm trying to put together a Spelljammer game and part of what I'm trying to accomplish is to make it as cosmopolitan as possible, to reflect the diversity of space travelers. Now, I've got more than enough of Rokugan and Kara-Tur to work from. I've got Nyambe. But I'm having incredible...

Heh. That's a feature, not a bug. You learn more from when everything goes wrong than when everything goes according to plan.

I've been experimenting with Druid//Warlock combinations. Mostly trying to replicate the Void Shifter base class from Beyond the Moons. Kept trying to make Aberrant Wild Shape work... when really, if you have the fell flight invocation and either the air breathing spell or no need to breathe...

Yeah, I certainly agree. I substitute Combat Expertise and Improved Feint (even though Improved Feint duplicates a class feature) in my own games. But I wanted to stick with RAW for a build that's already a little questionable. It's the ability to feint as a free action at 5th that makes the...

You've got a lot of stat points to work with here. I recommend getting as much out of them as possible. I've recommended this build recently, but it's good for your situation. (Actually better, since you haven't said anything about being unarmed.) Changeling Rogue 3/Swashbuckler X/Ninja...

The difference between average and maximum is negligible for all but high HD Dragons, Undead, and Constructs. Less than the damage dealt by an extra sneak attack or spell, or a couple of clean hits by the Fighter or Monk. I just use full HD for everything. PCs, NPCs, monsters. Some things...

I usually wheedle my way out of having to deal with the alignment restriction. Any class which allows Lawful Evil and Chaotic Good, but neither Lawful Good nor True Neutral, does not have a coherent philosophical basis and should thus not be constrained by philosophical boundaries. On the other...

I liked 3e/3.5e. I like many of the changes made to 4e, but I do not like it as a whole-- I feel it was a step backward from the innovations and flexibility they provided in 3e. If they released a Fifth Edition that was more like 3e, with more flexibility in character creation and development...

My off-and-on Street Fighter game just went off again, and I don't think it's coming back this time. I'm sure I'll be starting a new one with a different batch of players some time soon. Last game was post Street Fighter III, so I'm thinking I'll either do something outside the Street Fighter...

There are good things in the book. The Ardent class. The Soulbow. The Illithid feats. Sure, they don't make any sense given existing fluff... but if you take the existing fluff into account they raise all sorts of nasty implications for Illithid plots. The Flayerspawn Psychic leads right into...

Swordsage is in Tome of Battle. They get what are essentially magical martial arts maneuvers that they can perform armed or unarmed. You can also take the Superior Unarmed Strike feat, which grants you a reduced Monk's unarmed strike damage progression based on your character level. (Or boosts...

Warlock's a very good dip for most classes that don't wear medium or heavy armor. One level of Warlock is a good fallback attack for any archer or arcanist, with an invocation that can either extend your range or give you another useful at-will ability. Two levels of Warlock is detect magic at...