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  1. Benben

    Changes to Devils and Demons

    Oh yeah! This is excellent! It removes the order/chaos division from the heralds of evil! Now if they can make an interesting conflict between the heralds of chaos and order then I'll be even happier.
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    Compare oWoD w/ nWoD

    The "Kindred" of the East were risen ghosts more than vampires in the Cainite tradition. Comparing the two is hardly fair.
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    Compare oWoD w/ nWoD

    One of the supplements for Promethean covers alternate construction materials for all of the lineages, which does include Glateids made from statues. And speaking of supplements, WW did a fantastic job of covering all they needed to with the supplements for Promethean. The supplements hold...
  4. Benben

    Most overrated "broken" things?

    Oh my gosh! I remembered thread after thread of people complaining about monks in the 3.0 days.
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    Compare oWoD w/ nWoD

    I would recommend you trying again, just leave your expectations at the door. I was very similar to you with the nWod and I still have issues with the Mage backstory, but now the mechanics for all the games are a lot cleaner. This allows for massive tinkering with the background if I want to...
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    Making Fortunes of Ravenloft more compelling (w/spoilers)

    Image leaching aside, the Rider Waite deck was published before 1922, and is in the public domain. (According to this FAQ ).
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    I just learned the Psionic rules, and I have questions.

    As others have noted mind thrust has limited targets (mind-affecting) is close range and is will negates. So constructs and undead scoff at the power. It is however an absolute JOY to use as a player. Over-channeling, picking up a big wad of d10s, and blasting a target is hideous amounts of...
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    No spell resistance vs. Orb spells? Why?

    *Hands Seeten some popcorn.* I've almost posted twice now with rebuttals but thanks the heavens I keep making my Will save.
  9. Benben

    Help me accept psionics

    I went one step farther and removed sorcerers from my game and replaced them with psionics.
  10. Benben

    Deck of Many Things: Your experiences and advice?

    It's a great tool in the hands of a party's arch enemy. In my last campaign I had a half-fey assassin with a grudge against the party get his hands on the deck. He didn't draw but he offered it to the party so they could use it. The assassin got the better part of that deal.
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    What race would you like to see?

    Oathbound had that.
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    Any DMs here ever have an assistant DM?

    Yes, it's my preferred method of DMing actually. I've seen it called Logic DM too, especially if the 2nd DM is tasked with answering and researching the harder rules questions. I ran a 5 year long campaign this way with my Co-DM and I working on plots and NPCs together. He tended to...
  13. Benben

    Sell me on Psionics

    Okay now I want to make an awakened portable hole that has a few levels of bard and ranks in perform (comedy).
  14. Benben

    Worse Rules that game designers have made?

    I think I'm going to play with this some, but the increase in speed at higher levels, and removing the penalty for moving seems nice to me.
  15. Benben

    Worse Rules that game designers have made?

    I would expand this by having the damage die increase at BAB 6, 11, and 16. So a dagger is a 1d4 weapon wielded by a 1st level fighter, a 1d6 weapon by a 6th level fighter, a 1d8 weapon when wielded by an 11th level fighter, and a 2d6 weapon when wielded by 16th level fighter. Weapon...
  16. Benben

    Evasion - WORST FEAT EVER!!!

    Thank you Piratecat.
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    The Weird Penalty of Core Classes

    Talk to your DM about this. My house rule with favored classes is to get rid of the penalties and instead assign a bonus. For every 5 class levels in a race's favoured class the character gains a bonus feat. On my tables I've found that players continue to search out races that align with...
  18. Benben

    I want my character to be a chronomancer, so I need help :)

    Are you married to the idea of an arcan caster. The main Psionics Handbook, as PCat said, has a number of time related powers. Time Hop is my personal favorite. Hyperconsciousness, a Malhavoc Press psionic expansion written by the author of the PsiHB, has a prestige class called the Chrono...
  19. Benben

    Interesting Names for Magic Weapons (and other items)

    For the short swords I would be tempted to use something like: zenith and nadir or any other set of antonyms. You might want to check out something like http://www.astro.com/ which is an astrology website which will be full of terms your players will only scarcely recognize.
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    Monks Underpowered?

    I tend to use them as mythic heroes a la Cu Chulain and Hercules. In which case Monks are the only class that have the sort of superhuman athelticism you get out of myth.
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