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Swordsages will probably not want to spend a full-round action every other turn just so they can deal paltry Str or Con damage. Not if killing the foe outright is an option by simply dealing a lot of HP damage. Warblades can at best use the maneuver in question every other round and full attack...

The strange as hell Ex teleports are great, granted. The ability damage isn't on par with anything you could be doing instead, though. Trust me on this, I wrote the book on ability damage :cool:. The problem is basically that maneuvers are hard to spam (especially Shadow Hand), and that the...

I second Guisarme plus Armor Spikes: the best melee weapon in the game IMO. Reach is just that powerful, and the potential to trip with reach is extremely good. The slightly lower base damage compared to the Greatsword doesn't matter much, since you'll be doing enough damage via Str and Power...

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Comparing Celebrim's 6th level party to my own 6th level party is interesting, especially since he notes there's not much in the way of magic items around. My three 6th level PCs currently own: a) a large jewel that can function as the focus for every spell up to 3rd level and replaces all...

Why do you even want to mix those two specific classes? After all, classes are just an out-of-game concept to provide us with options when building our characters' mechanical aspects. So who do you envision your character to be, capability-wise and where his/her role in and out of combat is...

I actually like the Giant's approach on magic items, and strive to do similarly in my game. Stuff like some protective gear, the odd Ring of Jumping etc. is more or less assumed, but doesn't stand out at mid levels up. But there's often one signature item the PCs in my game carry, usually a...

Does your character know she's afflicted? Does she know the scroll can cure her? What would she do? Would she allow herself to explore a more... bestial side to her character, including loss of control on the nights of the full moon, or would she abhor becoming a half-beast, half-human...

Sorry if this is harsh, but this rebalancing effort is silly. Just to pick a single out of several problems (the most glaring oversight IMO): "Any creature with a Spell Resistance equal to 10 + the DC of the time stop spell becomes part of the time stop and may act under the same rules as the...

How 'MagIc' works? Actually, that's really simple, if you shear off unnecessary detail any educated person would know about. Obviously, before nanotechnology was sufficiently advanced, there was no such thing as the kids nowadays like to call 'MagIc' in their shorthand speech mannerisms...

In my opinion, Arcane Disciple is hardly more than a mediocre option. I usually recommend against it, unless it lets you fill a glaring hole in your build, makes a specific trick possible etc. Reasons: 1. you can only use the domain spell 1/day, regardless of spell slots; 2. you need mid to...

Whoa, didn't notice the epic thread necro by Sojourn! Holy cow! And to answer your question from a historical standpoint: parchment and paper used to be in circulation side by side for a long time, until parchment fell out of use due to being more expensive. The Goods & Services price list...

Why the fire vulnerability? Take it from a medieval historian: parchment is not only astoundingly resilient, it is also quite resistant to fire. You can't burn it any easier than you can burn (thin) leather. Even though its large surface area might make it more vulnerable to general elemental...

I did this test a long time ago, and just redid it. I think it's interesting that my preferences haven't changed much over the years, although tactician has more % than it used to, while method actor has scored slightly less than I remember it doing. Still, overall I'm a Storyteller You're...

First thing that springs to mind is get rid of Somatic Weaponry. Using a two-handed weapon, you can use one hand for casting, then put it back on the weapon hilt whenever you want to whack something as a free action. SW is just one more way of screwing with TWF.

I just so happen to have posted a rather complete Swift Hunter build the other day. I'll just quote it here. For Favored Enemies, pick common crit-immunes (like Undead), since Swift Hunter lets you do skirmish damage to them, too.

The problem is that high AC, even good defenses in general, actually encourage the opposition not to waste attacks on you, but take down the squishier parts of your party makeup. Going naked and packing non-ignorable offense is a much better way of preventing the casters from being hit... it's...

Crossblooded is greatly overrated. Just going standard Draconic bloodline is much better IMO. Losing spells known on a Sorcerer, especially if you already lose spellcasting progression from multiclassing, is just too painful. Maybe in a higher-level game where you can actually make good use of...

I'll go out on a limb here and say there is no such thing as a tank in D&D. There are next to no options for drawing and holding 'aggro'. The best you can do is aim for battlefield control via combat maneuvers (trip especially), which, coupled with large size and a reach weapon, can turn you...

Tell me about it. In my case, it was my two babies that disrupted my group. Truth be told, the one couple I was gaming with started it, but since we used to play at their house anyway, gaming nights just got shorter then. But now, we're relegated to once-every-two-weeks Skype/Maptool sessions...