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That's kinda the point. Oriental Adventures (Al Quadim likewise) is instead basing the focus point on non-western traditions and assumptions, even if highly westernized - it's still not "let's focus on Europe, but keep the mysterious Orient, which is clearly larger and has more people in it...

Maybe it's not spot on Oriental Adventures, but I want the anime swordsman, the whole swinging a sword so hard and fast it creates a wave of force; one strike, one kill; you know all the stuff that most people hate being in DnD. I want that. I'm happy with the archetypes we have, but I would...

If you really don't like multi-hit powers, there are two obvious solutions: 1) You only make that any effect which adds damage per attack is only applied once to the entire action. After all, even the multi-attack powers are technically only one action. So something like Twin Strike which is...

Couldn't you just get a Lightning Ki Focus?

So I was thinking... I don't remember how Essentia actually worked, or how Incarnum actually worked per se. I know it emulated items and abilities, but as of right now; I don't have a clue how it worked. But... I was thinking that you could model it with something like Martial E-classes, or...

Maybe it's a straight up DnD board game. You use the rules as stated in the Essentials, PHB X rules, but the setting is explicitly a board game. I haven't actually played any of the WotC boardgames, but I could imagine this something like Runebound or Descent where the goal of the game and...

But I thought that is how the rules work; it would be part of a move action in which the character runs, then jumps, and then attacks; then on resolution should have to make an acrobatics check to see if they fall prone. Well it would be to me anyway.

I would look at any of the HoF* books. - New Races: should follow the general ideas present in either of those books; though if you look the compendium, you can find more ideas and different implementations, along with extras and possible "no no's" presented under Fireclave's Guide - WotC...

I wasn't sure on that weapliments thing, I mean theoretically a Wizard staff is a Quarterstaff, that can be held one handed as an implement, but two handed as a weapon. So there's some strange loopholes in terms of weapons as implements and whether wielded as a weapon or an implement; since...

Everything, except your "dailies" doesn't care if you use a sword or not. The at-wills specify one-handed melee weapons with the off hand not wielding shield or weapon. So implements (that aren't... weapons), would work in the off-hand. Arguably, couldn't you use a weapliment in that off-hand...

Whoa. That just blew my mind. Bladespell is more or less equivalent to that feat; save for that part about treating the blade as a wand (and it doesn't actually do much, since it doesn't have any way to get superior implement on the blade nor do get wand accuracy), unless there's a way to poach...

I think the designers realized that somewhere in their quest for balance, in a list based RPG, they hit a wall. There wasn't anything that you build for a new class that didn't already have better analogs, and certainly can't make corner case classes or niche classes, and still follow the same...

I know it says "makes a melee basic" against anyone in the aura as a free action. How many times can it do that? Do monsters follow the same rules as a single free action attack like pc's do? If it's more.... that's frightening. If it's only once... then it's not that great... Couldn't you just...

I liked the bloodline feats... well the Dhampyr one anyway. It gave the equivalency of a multiclass feat, some skills bonus, encounter powers, and open line to more power selection. The other bloodline feats? Not so much. Especially the Shadar-kai ones. I like these new racial variants...

That's how I always thought it to be... Platemail turns into Godplate, so a +6 platemail... was always godplate. Unless you changed the properties to something like Tarrask Plate or whatever. So they got rid of the silly names, so a +6 plate, is just +6 plate, with the higher masterwork AC...

But what would you have for a codified set of RP rules? Wouldn't those still be skill checks? Would it be significantly different from combat? Wouldn't those be instead a set of special utilities? The majority of the game where rules are even needed are in combat. That's the gamist part, and...

What's interesting about the playtest part, is that if you look at the original books in 4e, the PHB, DMG, and MM; there's a massive list of playtesters. Paizo did their open alpha and beta because they simply can't pay testing to be done in house, and under seal of NDA. It's also hard to say...

All homebrew. Though, if my players were up to sharing the Amethyst book, I'd run that. Sadly, I only have one book.

As a DM, I would have been hooting and saying "awesome". I mean, I'd ask a quick look up, and be on our merry way. I like when players try to do thing not implicitly stated by the rules or quite frankly, implicitly stated in the rules. Good man, using rocks to mark people. You should from now...

Well, here's the long and the short of it. My campaign, in where this question pertains is something of Sci-fi meets Myth, something of an Urban Arcana meets Star Ocean; it's where science reigns, but occasionally trips up in areas where it can't explain. But that's not the point exactly of why...