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Key variables with an alchemical item are cost (to craft, that is) and what sort of "spell" it effectively duplicates. I don't have specifics in front of my right this second, but IIRC the alchemical items which duplicate things like Grease are lower-cost than those duplicating stuff like Blur...

How could we, without knowing you personally? A favored sacrifice is a very personal thing- it represents something you, the deity, really love or really hate.

Given that I had a near-alter-ego NPC deity in the big campaign of mine that finished last year, I've thought about this many times- so it's rather easy to list mine. Portfolios: Knowledge, Magic Alignment: Chaotic Good (heavy emphasis on Chaotic given the character of today's world society)...

Further Commentary I'm still not 100% on Essentia Storm as a near-capstone power, though I really like the idea and don't think it's appropriate for a Soulmeld to have the ability to drain its user's essentia to produce an effect that way. The idea of giving the Necrocarnate an ability to blow...

Revisiting the Necrocarnate base class I liked the ideas discussed last month, and decided this weekend to add the class to the homebrew world I'm building- which meant that I had to add it to the class document for said world, and in the process write a complete mechanical description of it...

Wonderful thread idea, since so many threads have been posted on exactly this topic. Not to mention posts within other threads, such as the estimates of the power of various sci-fi races in the Sci-Fi thread. My own answer to that specific question would be: Greater God, tops (for Cthulhu &...

Conversions from 3.5 to Pathfinder are, of course, possible, though one has to be careful to rebalance things. Converting IH stuff to Pathfinder would be a massive project, but it could be done. The editions aren't all that far apart; most 3.5 stuff is compatible with PF although balance issues...

No, nothing like one. You may be confused because nobody but Order members could see the place, and it was Unplottable as well so it would never show up on a map; however, it was very much a part of the real world. 12 Grimmauld Place was just a fairly ordinary London home, with a couple of...

Agreed on both healing and Undead. There are, after all, Good Undead in existence with the Book of Exalted Deeds (don't smite me! I'm only bringing up the existence of Good Undead! ;):lol:), so Good Clerics could arguably have power to rebuke/command them now. And certainly, Inflict is less...

My point exactly. What 3E did was to link Positive energy clearly with Good-aligned Clerics, and Negative energy clearly with Evil-aligned. The link is exactly that Good Clerics can only spontaneously cast Cures, and Evil can only spontaneously cast Inflicts. Many GMs (myself included) would...

Fair point on the website. I kick myself for not having thought of it and checked. :) Clerics don't have to worship a deity either. The class is written largely assuming they do, but then there's this little detail in the section on Domains: That's how it's been since before 3rd Edition, if...

Not what OP asked, if I read him correctly- I think the question was whether the Oracle and Inquisitor don't have to abide by the restriction against (for example) casting spells with the [Evil] descriptor, if they aren't themselves Evil-aligned. Myself, I suspect it's erratta, and will be...

Wow! an Aquatic Nightshade?!? (probably...) The name makes perfect sense now! I definitely didn't see that coming. Thanks! Anyway, Igor quote leaping irresistably to mind: "It must be MINE!!!"

I immediately noticed the Mu Spore and Winterwight in the list, and that comment makes me wonder whether the Neh-Thalggu in this book will be the "little" one that's supposed to be a juvenile collecting brains off-plane so it can return home, or the "adult" version first seen in the ELH. Worm...

This is the critical point I was making before: the Incarnate does want to help all his allies and can work with whoever he likes. But the powers behind the Incarnate don't want to help extremists. The powers behind the Incarnate are what you're calling Stupid Neutral. This is illustrated...

In the game where I'm playtesting a Pathfinder-ized Incarnate, we have an Oracle of Battle with the Haunted Curse. He plays up the Curse as being the spirits of people who were killed in battle, who are trying to get vicarious revenge through him. He never acts as a party healer that I've...

I don't like the idea of changing the basic mechanic given with the other Talents- that is, suddenly changing the bonus granted and altering how it interacts with the rest of the game. Keep in mind, too, that the Incarnate can be Sharing this, so other characters could be stacking the bonus onto...

A very interesting idea; I assume you mean that the Incarnate would grant a bonus of, say, +13 to the character he's helping with Aid Another, rather than the standard +2? I like it at first pass, however, it opens up some potentially huge system holes. One trouble I can foresee with that is...

The trouble with trying to make new types of soulmelds to match Necrocarnum is that not all soulmelds with the [Evil] descriptor are Necrocarnum; several (such as Bloodwar Gauntlets) are perfectly standard soulmelds that just happen to be Evil. Necrocarnum is Evil because of how the soulmelds...

Actually, just for my own world I had a valid reason to introduce a True Neutral Incarnate; one of the more powerful gods is TN and is specifically the god of Balance above all else. So True Neutral really is strongly represented in my setting, and it makes sense that there would be enough soul...