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In Eberron, the flame-touched steel special material strikes as a good weapon for a fairly reasonable price. Another option, if you have the funds, is to drop money on a holy weapon. (Although that can be pricy, it may be very much worth it if you're fighting evil creatures a lot.)

This is among the reasons my group finally switched to point buy. If you get unlucky with rolling, then sure, you're in trouble. But you're in trouble in that case no matter what class you're playing. If you get really lucky and get super high rolls, you're in great shape no matter what class...

From the rogue's gallery thread: How do you take 10 on Concentration checks for casting defensively? I don't think I've seen that feature anywhere (although I don't have Complete Divine, so I don't know what blessing of bahamut does.)

You might want to repost that over in the rogues gallery thread, which is where all of the character sheets are being collected.

When you say "Kaius III be a servant of Vol", I assume you mean the *real* Kaius III... and I think that has some fun potential--although I don't think it's necessary that he actually be a servant of Vol. Certainly, the idea of Vol manipulating things so that the adventurers are lead to...

I've never seen MAD to be a problem. Hell--in my current weekly game, we have a half-orc monk with a Wisdom of 8, and he's quite happy. I think one half of the "must have multiple high stats" thing is people feeling that they have to play super-optimized characters, with no waste... and that...

Wow... I'd hate to play in a game where skill points was a set amount, unlinked to Int... When I build a fighter, I usually rank Int ahead of Con. (I know, I know, I'm a bit odd.) It's not just that a high Intelligence provides a way to differentiate characters (a fighter can be...

True. This is pretty much equivalent to the wood version we were talking about (except the special wood is cheaper.) The real trouble with the mithral breastplate is that going from 1100gp to 4200gp for an additional +1 armor is cost prohibitive until quite late. Still, it's worth...

Yeah, pretty much. It really just irks me that the medium armors don't have a place, except on (stupid) NPCs, and in the low levels when you have a heavy armor character who can't afford heavy armor yet. I'd think that there'd at least be a "good" medium armor like there is a good light and a...

Woo! I’ve added a portrait to my character in the rogue’s gallery. Also made a couple of small corrections to errors I found in the sheet. (I forgot to add the masterwork enhancement bonus to the hand crossbow when showing my work, and failed to include the +1 competence bonus to Reflex saves...

Hariel Talandro Notable recent changes are marked in green. 2005-10-09: Added Heward’s handy haversack. Converted remaining cash into jewelry and gp. Added courtier’s outfit (worn, with some of the jewelry), and traveler’s outfit. Designated which items are in the haversack. Added the...

The real reason to treat gems as cash is that, well, gold begins to weigh a whole hell of a lot after a while. Not even a very long while. Having to lose value *every time* you need to buy something or make change is a bit painful. (Of course, if the adventure is in a society where effective...

Okay, noted. Thanks!

Hmm. Rules question for the DM: (I suppose it's a bit silly to ask here, but oh, well.) I've always treated synergy with multiple skills as stacking. But when I was reading the description for synergy on Diplomacy the other day, it struck me that you could interpret it as "if you have at...

Okay--that's likely how I'd reconcile things, too, but it's always good to check. :) Wow. I didn't look at everybody's post in detail, so I didn't spot that our backgrounds were so similar in many ways. Hmm. I need to run, but my first pass thought about this is that it might be more...

Hmm. It sounds like my backstory for Hariel may be workable, then? Let me know if you have any suggestions for the rougher edges. It also sounds like Hariel should know Reverend ir'Irandi from before he was shuffled off to be kept out of Flamekeep. That raises the question of military...

Our gaming group generally doesn't keep initiative secret. I will note, however, the following things we do that are sort of like secret initiative: 1) If there's a surprise round, only the characters that are acting during the surprise round roll initiative. (i.e. they don't know when the...

I definitely like Eberron. It's different without being too different (I could really care less about the IK style steampunk with magic), the rules modifications for it are reasonably well balanced, and don't change the core rules a huge amount, the density is just about perfect. One person...

My working model for how Hariel knows the Lord Reverend ir'Irandi (by the way--what is the proper mode of address? His Reverence? His Grace? Lord Reverend?) depends a lot on what kinds of projects he's been involved in in the past. Based on the short description we have, I've presumed that...

Brother Shatterstone: Oh... oh my. Wow. I think I'm just going to sit here for a bit with my mouth open in shock... Wow.