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I'd estimate that a +2 to all five stats would in general be worlth a +1 LA, and +4 to all five states roughly equal to a +2 LA. It'd still be a hefty penalty, particularly for spellcasters, but might possibly be worth it for classes with MAD, like monks. I'm definitely not convinced your...

You can get the document (free) here: http://www.enworld.org/showpost.php?p=2289968&postcount=42 Note that I've been in communication with U_K, and he's currently in the process of making version 6-- I've incorporated some of the version 6 stuff into my calculations here. The first, and...

You want Elements of Magic, which you can buy in PDF form as well as getting the book. It's 3rd party, but very good. Preparing specific spells ahead of time is still useful in this system (note that you design these spells yourself), because spontaneously altering a spell takes two rounds to...

That said, Upper_Krust has rules for making ANYTHING have an ECL/LA. I'll apply them here for you. Gravetouched Ghoul is LA+2 by WotC's standards, +3 by U_K's Swarmshifter is LA+9 (rounding up, +8 rounding down, but LAs always round up to discourage people from taking them) So, your character...

I went ahead and used Upper_Krust's ECL and CR guide to calculate out the exact numbers by a codified system. Ability Name ECL (not CR yet) Gargantuan size = +1.0 Abberation Traits = +0.2 12 Abberation HD = +6.6 Poor Flight = +0.4 30 ft flight as Gargant = -0.4 21 Natural Armor = +2.1...

Almost never. Exceptions are when they need to make the roll repeatedly, say, for a long difficult climb up a glass mountain under an antimagic field, or for tightrope walking across the grand canyon (things that have been known to come up in my games). Then I'll just tell them, "DC is XX...

Might want to consider some loss in the process of having intrinsic abilities. If you can get the exact same thing inherently, why use artifacts? Artifacts should grant a bit of extra boost to your power. Only a little bit, but still, something to make up for the fact that artifacts can be...

The trouble with epic level dungeons is that you need reasons why the players can't simply ignore doors/walls. An ordinary dungeon isn't going to cut it. On the other hand, if a Prismatic Dragon were to be twisted by the Far Realm, taking on psuedonatural aspects, and started tunneling under...

The dragon cohort alone makes this darn overpowered, while the class itself is too good anyway. I think it might be possible to balance the class if you only allow it in gestalt games, and make it take up both sides of the gestalt. It'll still take a bit of work there, but as far as I can...

Honestly, I've always found Fast Healing to be nicer than regen, because it always works. It won't keep you alive if they do enough to you, but then again, if you're fighting a troll, easiest thing to do is knock it out normally, then set it on fire. So getting it down can still be done with...

Part of it is because the MM has many more lower level creatures than higher level ones... after all, you can always add class levels or templates to low CR things, but it's harder to go the reverse route. The epic SRD is only going to have high level stuff, most of which is going to have...

Speaking of Japan, how about Amanonuhoko? Wikipedia describes it as a jeweled halbred, but I'd originally heard of it as a coral sword. Or is that part of the regalia you mentioned already?

The LA describing abilities more useful to a player than to a monster isn't really true, according to some research, and by some I mean Upper_Krust's. That's not to say that LA isn't important, it just says that CR does not really equal ECL in any context, given the respective definitions of CR...

Feel free to amend my fact with "Assuming you are fighting foes with CR appropriate defenses up, such as reasonable energy resistance, SR, and so forth".

Here's an opinion: Evocations should do more immediate and direct damage per spell level than any other school of magic. Here's a fact: Orb spells do more immediate and direct damage per spell level than any other spell in the game. They are not evocations. Feel free to disagree with the...

If you did it by hand, does that mean you have it on paper? Can you scan it? If not, can you name the outlying numbers? That is to say, which monsters skewed the results so high? I mean, if you were adding in some epic level monsters, and/or gods, I could understand 57. Which books provided...

In order: * Spot * Knowledge (All of 'em), as my gameworld contains lots of custom, templated, leveled, or esoteric creatures, not to mention needing to know where to go, historical stuff, help on puzzles, etc etc. * The various acrobatic skills: climb/balance/tumble/jump, as I like throwing...

Given that it's going to be sinking at the same time, I'd up the balance DC to 20 to account for it moving under your feet while you're trying to cross.

I feel that Shamus Young's blog entry "The Plot Driven Door" is extremely relevant to both the OP, and the CRPG tangent. One of my problems with WoW is that nothing anyone does in WoW has any impact on the world at large. You can never, ever, ever, be THE hero. Impossible. While I don't play...

The only time I have ever been able to get players to spend less than a minute per turn, consistently, is when playing Paranoia, where spending more than five or so seconds will get your turn skipped, and probably get you dead. It's refreshing, really.