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Morrus is the new Iconic Eric! :lol: Thanks for all the hard work--I'm amazed at how well this place has avoid bursting into flames (enworld has Improved Evasion? who knew!) And much thanks to the mods, too! :cool: Edit: and the Wotc_Dudes, for being willing to brave the ravening horde to...

Is that a lizardman or a kobold? (My first reaction was 'what a cute little kobold! It almost looks like it could actually hurt someone! ;) It's really stumpy-looking for a Lizardman, but it's rather thick-bodied for a kobold. And that's a wicked underbite, there!

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I'd like to make an observation. The following 3 things are different: 1. Advancing a Monster to make it tougher ( 'by HD') 2. Advancing a Monster by class levels (which might alter it's role, too) 3. Making a Monster into a Playable Character If we assume that 4e MM has raw stat blocks like...

The real reason: Caster Level. Permanency spells can be dispelled, and any attacking adventurers will either be laugably weak or automatically make the dispel check. Good-bye permanent spells!

True, but you'd still get to do half damage to the mooks unless you failed to hit AC 10 (in which case you didn't actually hit them with the blast). It's also worth noting that a lot of the mooks in Saga have pretty poor hitpoints, too: anything built on Nonheroic class is pretty fragile (the...

I doubt this, but I could believe that we'll see the same BABs as in Saga: the Full and the 3/4. Even the Noble gets 3/4! No 1/2 BAB to be had. On the other hand, Iron Heroes had a 5/4, 1/1, and 3/4 BAB system--but that was to offset the lack of magic so the bonus scale would be close to the...

You could also use race names, like goblin or kobold. Any small, shifty monster would work as an insult, I bet.

I'm actually more interested in the Cleric in this battle: 1. She's using a halbred (apparently to good effect)--sounds like they've greatly widened the 'useful' weapon list! 2. She's using a halbred--apparently, Clerics aren't as limited in weapon choices as before. 3. She's using a...

I like that, although I really can't see using it. It's worth mentioning that all Saga base classes get a bonus feat on every even level, and that Skill Training is one of the available bonus feats on every class list.

After contorting my hand a bit, I see what you mean. My perspective was wrong--I was looking down at my hand, not level with it. In that (awkward!) position, it looks just exactly like the drawing. Your Mad Art Skillz > My Critique ;) Anyway, thanks for sharing this piece!

This is a good point. If we look to Saga for guidance, we'd note that the 3 social skills (Deception, Gather Information, Persuasion) are Class only for Nobles & Scoundrels (2 of 5 classes; Jedi also have a way to get Persuasion via a Talent). However, all classes get the 1/2 class level bonus...

That is very sweet! One critique though: the Joten's Grasping Hand seems wrong; the bones seems too high compared to the flesh (as if the flesh was loose and sagging between the hand bones). I like his pose and the feeling that his IMMENSE, though.

Well, if your players are having fun it's good! Having said that, the party I play in would turn insanely paranoid: we've gone completely off the rails before over a mere handful of 'surprise!' type encounters. I'd be concerned in the long run that the party would become overly cautious and...

Huh! I didn't realize that (and would have thought that they would, except for Force Perception). I mean, you're spending a talent (most valuable of the character resources) to get a skill (least valuable). And yah, this is more of a thought experiment than useful, although for some kinds of...

Yes! The last thing I bought was Spell Compendium (and Saga, but that's not D&D). I haven't actually been interested enough in any of the new products for some time (that's partly due to my current game being in the final phases, so no new stuff is being allowed in). Now, I'm actually planning...

Just out of curiousity, I set out to see how fast a Saga character could be trained in all skills! First: there are 24 'normal' skills, and Use the Force. So I divided these builds between non-force using characters (that can't make UtF checks at all) and Force Sensitive characters. Every...

Skuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurge! That takes me back! Oh, and thanks Eric: those were good times!

Hexes and Offset Square grids have better distance handling, since just counting the hexes will be very close to the measured distance; i.e. moving 6 hexes in any direction will move you about 6" on the map. A square grid requires a 1-2-1-2 diagonal move rule to get close to that. Square and...

Riff off of Order of the Stick: Zeus's Junk! Pazuzu would also be a good name to drop, but I can't think of a good vehicle name (Pazuzu's Pimpmobile? probably not...)