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I agree with an earlier idea that effects like power attack can be used by the DM to adjust attack rolls to the point where AC is still relevant. For example, the tarrasque has +57 to-hit. Normally, this means it auto-hits vs a lv20 fighter with an AC of 43. However, the DM could "cheat" by...

I doubt it, you are now a dragon, not a humanoid. The augmented subtype doesn't really count for anything, it simply shows what you were.

Animated shields made it no reason to go sword+board ever. When you could have the best of both worlds. Heck, you could even go TWFing+2HFing+sword&board with a 2-handed reach weapon, armour spikes and animated shield! :lol:

Like many of the monsters in MM2, the linnorns are likely over-cr'ed. Don't be afraid to lower their cr by 2-8 to make them a more reasonable challenge for your PCs (eg: the cr28 one, I estimate to be no more than cr20?).

I dunno, it seems kinda ... arrogant?!? (no offense, I just cannot think of a more apt term) to claim that there is only 1 way to roleplay. Apparently, we must use mundane race/class combinations that suit LoTR stereotypes just to show that we are serious in roleplaying? I mean, I have seen...

There is however, a fair amount of errata for the core books, which can be overwhelming if you try to digest them all at one go. What do you all think, should he incorporate them?

Puking over a build like that? Ranger 2 / Monk 2 / Ranger 1 / Deepwarden 2 / Fist of the Forest 3 / Kensai 2 Seriously, this stuff is already considered fairly tame compared to the rest I have seen. And it is even backed up with a witty and well-written backstory. I would approve this in a...

From my understanding, monster damage was increased because the original monsters did too little damage, even against core-only builds. Most notable were minions. So later MMs are supposed to be stealth errata of sorts. Power creep is inevitable, but thanks to 4e design, it won't really break...

It's funny you say that, the poster of that build made the very same admission (that his build was way weaker compared to a druid20). He knew his build would be weak, but he wanted it to be as optimized as it could be within the roleplaying constraints he set, which the CO boards delivered...

I will have to respectfully disagree. To me, PRCs represent a very elegant way of allowing players near unbridled freedom to customize their characters as they deem fit. Because the core classes only go so far in letting you flesh out the various character archetypes. Likewise, I never really...

Divine power isn't so hot without DMM: persistent, since you have to spend precious rounds during combat buffing. Forcecage has that annoying expensive material component, which adds up fast. It can potentially trivalise melee encounters though (eg: DM uses 2 death giants, I forcecage one of...

Champions of ruin has some neat epic spells. Unfortunately, they are all but unusable with DCs in the high hundreds. Player's guide to faerun has a few as well, though they pretty much suck.

Ironically, I feel the solution to this is to actually have the monster power attack for even more (until you have ~50% chance of hitting/missing). While they do more damage, they miss more often, which would actually decrease their expected damage output. :lol: This way, the players feel like...

That doesn't seem like a very fair comparison. A fully-charged wand of CLW heals on average, 275hp. Burning it through 2-3 encounters means healing roughly 90-140hp per fight. Conversely, a healing belt heals 6d8 hp on average, or 27hp each day. You would need 4-5 belts per fight just to break...

Is there even a use for planar ally/binding that isn't game-breaking? Even if I simply use it as written, you are talking about an 11th lv cleric gating in a trumpet archon (with cleric14 spellcasting) to adventure with us for 11 days, at a cost of 12,000gp (or 3000gp per party member). This...

Think there was a thread at giantip about a 6th lv party who was able to defeat a balor. :confused: So yeah, why bother holding back? :D Still, this means those demon lord aspects would make for excellent boss-type characters.

Isn't there a thread about a grappler wizard build or something? Octopus familiar gives +3 grapple, double that with elven wizard sub. Improved grapple gives +4. Spc has a few low lv spells which further boost your grapple check. Enlarge person or polymorph to assume a form of larger size.

I thought of it, but how do you adjudicate the racial abilities? Say I build a sorc10 or barbarian12 with the frost giant racial modifiers sans racial HD (large size, +9NA, +18str, +10con), how much cr increase does that amount to? I just wish there were some guidelines to go by.

Taking half-dragon all at one shot is a bit too much at lower lvs, because you still have just 1 HD, and are way too fragile. 1 lucky crit, or 1 AoE spell, and you are pretty much toast. What you can however, is slowly take the template over the course of many lvs. I recommend using the...

Admitably, one thing I liked about 4e npcs is that they just give them whatever abilities the designers deem fit. However, 3e noticeably lacked guidelines for modifying existing monsters on the fly. In 3e, if I wanted to say, make a frost giant wizard, I would have to tack on wizard lvs like...