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In response to fusangite It seems that fusangite has been nominated the new leader of the 'anti-cross-gender' cohort, enfranchised by even Billy. As such, I feel I ought to tackle him. fusangite's line of argument is certainly interesting. It basically revolves around setting up certain...

SR? The one obvious criticism is that SR should be based off CR, not HD. The paragon (on which this is clearly modelled) uses CR +10. This is to prevent the frequently large disparities between HD and CR making a difference: the most obvious case is vermin, where a colossal scorpion has 64HD...

And the English surge into the lead over the Dutch :)

Quick Sheath: To be fair, I can't see anyone actually taking this feat. How often do you sheath a weapon in combat? Given that sheathing a weapon is a free action anyway, this is unlikely to be particularly useful. Hide Spell: There is a Disguise Spell in Song & Silence. Something modelled...

Mainly to provide some form of 'gradual' progression of combat ability rather than have big steps. Consider the difference between a 5th level fighter and a 6th level fighter. At the current, their BAB reads as follows: 5th: +5 6th: +6/+1. With the constant iterative attacks, that changes...

Count originally derived from the French comte, which in turn is a corruption of the Latin 'comes' (lit. companion [of the Emperor]). With regard to courtesy titles, the general rule of thumb is that the eldest son is addressed as one lower. Thus, the son of a Duke is a Marquis. Courtesy...

I see no reason why Undead Leadership should have to be restricted to undead characters. It would be perfectly logical, and not unbalancing, to simply permit living necromancers to take it.

Absolutely. Motivation is more important to alignment, IMO, than action. For example, if the PCs kill the wizard, thinking that he is a vile necromancer plotting to take over the world, then isn't evil. If they murder the wizard to nick his equipment, that is. At the end of the day, the...

Snoweel: Let me get this straight. You don't allow non-humans. You don't allow cross-genders. You don't allow spellcasters. Presumably, you don't allow barbarians or monks (because these have a totally different ethos and mindset to 21st century players). That leaves us with human male...

Let me get this straight: You don't allow cross-gender PCs. You don't allow cross-racial PCs. But...if I were to make a human male sorceror who grew up in a monastery before his sorcerous powers were manifested and was sent to a tutor to help him with his powers. The tutor became locked into...

Again, I'd like to disagree that the actions are *necessarily* evil. We simply don't have enough information to make that call. Now, in all likelihood, they were. Chances are, given that it is a first level party, that they were trying to rescue the rogue because she was a friend, and this...

The spell ends when the spell ends, irrespective of when the caster dies, IMO. One time, the evil sorceress charmed a PC before dying. The PC then proceeded to have her 'best friend' raised. :cool: Of course, the PCs caught up with her later and killed her for good.

Well, the question is potentially that of utilitarianism (i.e. the most good for the most people). I'm not always a utilitarian, but DnD lends itself very well to that kind of thinking. So...the question is: what is this quest? How important was the rogue to the quest? Did it occur to you...

Fair point. Yet on the other hand, this is a roleplaying game. Surely you should aim to allow a variety of roleplaying, and not simply mechanical, differences? Surely you aim for in-depth character backgrounds, deep character personalities and proper character interaction (be it with NPCs or...

Well, I impose roleplaying restrictions. Frankly, a lot of prestige classes are heavily frontloaded, and quite a lot are not all that hard to qualify for (compared to benefit received). When, in my last campaign, one of the characters wound up as a Fighter/Rogue/Holy Liberator/Order of the Bow...

Re: Re Is it me, or is this a thinly-veiled satire?

Aging seems fairly cut-and-dried, but here's a question: how does one go the other way? Now, none of the PCs are younger than the PHB standard, but the fact is that there are some significant NPCs who are underage (the Emperor of the campaign world is ten). Now, how would you treat these...

I'd go against the orthodox that high Int=good Rogue. This is only true for a particular brand of Rogue, and this brand is probably at least as rare, if not rarer, than the Charisma-type Rogue. For a typical combat Rogue, this is unnecessary. You are *inundated* with skill points. Even...

Teflon- Surely no one needs to play an elf, dwarf, gnome or halfling? Surely no one needs to play a fighter, wizard, barbarian or rogue? The fact is, people play cross-gender because they want to, not because they need to (in most cases). It's unfortunate your view has been distorted by a...

I would agree that 20gp/week is a derisory sum. Consider how much gold the average active adventurer is making every week, and then consider how little 20gp is compared to this. Factor in that they are only getting a 1/3 share of the treasure, and I could easily see the hirelings simply...