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The Str boost from war hulk is an Ex ability granted by the class. If you lose the "no time to think" and other class features for not meeting the Large size requirement, you also lose the Str bonus. The loss of the iterative attack might be a bit of a setback, but 4 levels of fighter still...

If they haven't already, they need to get a quest hook from a shady hooded stranger brooding in a dark corner. Also, I dearly hope they all met in an inn.

The lack of BAB advancement from war hulk is offset by the Str boosts in most every situation where it matters. Granted, it only applies in bear mode, but considering the point of this is to get Str as high as possible without using the classic cancer mage cheese, it seems silly not to go for...

That'd be Spell Thematics, yeah. It does boost the DC to recognize a spell, but the most important effect is that it lets you designate one spell at each spell level as a "signature spell" or something like that, which gives you +1 caster level for that spell. I've found it to be somewhat useful...

Somehow I misread that at first as "Hand/Eye/tooth of Vecna"...

I do this a lot I play spellcasters. I'm actually planning to use refluffed spell descriptions for several major monsters and NPCs in a 3.5 campaign I'll be running in the near future -- for instance, one of the boss monsters will be a Halloween-themed scarecrow construct with (among other...

When I play 3.5, I plan my character build very thoroughly. Mostly because I tend to have kind of wonky character concepts that require careful selection of classes and feats to make feasible. I don't really powergame (in fact, if I know I'm working with something with a reputation for being...

The thing is, this itself is an irrelevant distinction, because even in cases where you're limited to a single action you can still take free actions. This is explicitly stated to be the case for surprise rounds, and the wording of the Slow spell seems to me as though it's concerned only with...

Why not go for all 10 levels of War Hulk? The werebear HD give you 3 feats and +4 BAB, so you'd only need 1 level in a full-BAB class after the racial HD to qualify. If you're strictly looking to max out Str, 4 more levels of War Hulk will probably serve better than 4 of fighter.

Thanks for the constructive criticism! A good point. I'll work on trying to make ki a bit more of a unifying factor for the abilities. I do think I'll keep the secret/sublime arts division, though -- the main point there is that secret arts replace the really pathetically lackluster class...

Just to clarify -- are you saying that all strong saves in general is too strong, or more specifically in this case with the rest of the class features it gets, it makes it too strong? Because the original monk class does have all strong saves, hence why I gave the upgrade all strong saves. And...

This is a homebrew variant of the 3.5 monk I've been working at in my spare time over the past year or so, but only just recently got refined to the point where I figure it's ready to put up for public evaluation. I know I'm hardly the first to try to fix the monk, but I came up with a way of...

I'd take the ability to manipulate vectors, as used by Accelerator from the light novel/anime series A Certain Magical Index. Any vector. Anything that can be expressed as a magnitude and a direction, I can manipulate it. Which is basically every single force you can imagine. It's essentially...

So, I've drafted up improved statblocks for Fleur and her swarms. Let me know what you think! I added a few hit dice to boost her saves a little bit, and also tweaked her stats, boosting her Cha to make the SLAs a little bit more effective and dropping her Wis. The main reason I had her Wis high...

For a level-based game like D&D, XP really isn't necessary. I've played in games both using and ignoring XP, and really I prefer the games that don't use it. When the PCs just level up whenever it seems appropriate for the progress they've made, it makes the game flow more smoothly and helps...

Those definitely sound like good ideas. I also think I'll remove the requirement that Fleur stay within the swarm to maintain its existence, because as I was fleshing out the wild magic tables I'm going to use I realized one of the wild magic results I wanted to use could completely spoil the...

I've made a set of wild magic tables for use in the campaign I'm planning, which I figured I'd post here (or rather, post a link to here; the tables themselves are rather lengthy) for the amusement and use of others on the forum. (It might also be handy for reference when I post asking for...

Remind me again what the thread title is? :p

The problem with using Mark of Justice is that it's explicitly based on Bestow Curse, which as Greenfield noted isn't quite powerful enough to produce a "Frog Prince" kind of effect.

Spell Compendium, originally in Complete Divine.