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For a new race, try starting with either a new racial origin or a new niche for a race to fill. The niches are difficult to find, with so many races available in even the official sources, so I like to start with interesting origins when I'm in the mood for a new race. How about a grisly...

Allow it. Then immediately create a super-villain who crafts items with 5 use restrictions and actually EARNS %50 the item's base price from crafting. He uses the profits from the first item to finance the creation of more items and the hiring of an army to use them. Next adventure: 200k...

Excluding the questionable sanity of the Lion Totem Barbarian substitution, I've found that Pounce can be had by only a few means. The +1 LA Catfolk race (from Races of the Wild) has exclusive access to Pounce at first level, but only against flatfooted opponents (a serious limitation at any...

Definitely Complete Scoundrel. Definitely.

That BBEG needs to limit the effect that 14 actions to his 1 will have upon him. I'm thinking an extremely tweaked out illusionist would possibly be able to neutralize enough of the PCs at any one time to improve the odds.

Well, I built this to gain some more personal perspective into E6 (see the awesome thread/s in House Rules), so it follows the idea that a +1 LA is bought off by dropping from 32 to 25 points in the ability score point buy. It's also meant for a consistent style rather than pure optimization, so...

I can think of no stronger endorsement for BEING the raging, charging barbarian.

I feel I should whole-heartedly endorse the suggestions involving 1st level in Barbarian. Those 12 hitpoints (plus 6 more from rage!) can really make the difference at low levels, and +4 Strength is good at any level. Oh, but for Nifft's suggestion, just remember that you can't cast spells...

"Darkvision is black and white only, but it is otherwise like normal sight." Turn on the lights: can you see a reflection in the mirror? Yes? Now turn off the lights. You have Darkvision: can you see a reflection in the mirror? By definition, also yes. It's black and white only, but it's...

The "broken" Precocious Theurge builds I'm referring to are ones like Human Wiz 1/ Druid 3/ MT 6/ Arcane Heirophant 10, which provides 9th-level wizard and druid spells, a powerful companion familiar, wild shape to 13th level (that's large and tiny I think?), and medium armored casting with no...

It's a feat to gain a 2nd-level arcane spell slot. At levels 1st and 2nd (and 3rd if a sorcerer) it has the additional benefit of providing access to a spell one level higher than what the spellcaster could normally cast. It seems like a good feat to me, at least for any multiclasser who...

What the heck is "IDHMBIFOM"? I don't speak sadjflk-ese, try though I do. We have to reference the descriptions for each individual case of DR, apparently. Nobody ever said the rules weren't a little cumbersome.

How do players usually handle choosing level-adjusted races with the level adjustment modification? Specifically, how well does the loss of starting stats usually balance out with the gain of starting stats?

Oh, so the Improved Stunning Attack is just Ability Focus twice, for your stuns? Well, I'm not impressed. Applied to a death effect, sure, but stuns? Meh. Good call making it sub-epic. Sounds like you've got everything under control. Thanks for posting your prestige class, Twowolves!

That pinnacle ability sounds like a real nerf, actually. I don't like campaigns where resurrections and raises are anything less than a DM plot tool, but based on standard D&D, you probably DON'T want to lose that. I missed the significance of that detail the first time through, and also the...

Um, you're welcome? I didn't invent this, I just learned how to use it after a few hundred posts. Well, with a thank you like that, I probably should at least lend my opinions... This prestige class looks like a Monk++ (a bad thing balance-wise). You miss out on the assorted class abilities...

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Just use [ c o d e ] and [ / c o d e ] tags (minus the spaces) to make a text box where every character is the exact same width (it's the Courier New font). Here's how it looks:Level BAB* Fort Ref Will Special 1 +1 +2 +2 +2 Meditate (2x heal rate), Ironbone, Ki Strike...

Roger that. With some brief examples of the egregious abuses you've seen, perhaps I can offer more useful advice about your solution? Otherwise, it looks like frankthedm has a nice "fix". I modified the portions that didn't sound quite right, to make them less situational:

I find I really must agree with Monboesen. I haven't said much about the Dragon Bound class, and haven't yet begun to discuss the Battle Mage, but I've been carefully looking at both. I'll address only the Battle Mage, though, because it's the only relevant topic for this thread, but I'd like...