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Should I put together a full character sheet, drothgery? I've been waiting until we know who all is in so I can see what abilities might be most needed and adapt a bit. But since we have so many characters flying around now, I'm feeling a bit naked. ;>

You can also think about having the Profession skill give a synergy bonus to certain other skills. For example, I'm currently plotting over a character who has ranks in Profession (constable). Having five ranks in this skill might give a synergy bonus to social skills in specific...

Oh jeez. That's messed up. I hadn't looked at the description of that, and was wondering what you were thinking. But by the same logic, you would want to buy cheap leather armor of etherealness along-side your normal armor, so that you could pass it around to everyone in the party to turn on...

Heh. Good luck. Worst case scenario, I bet you have plenty of random number generators rolling around. ;> You're right that Able Learner is a very tricky feat. It seems to me that it has the main worrisome impact in the precise situation I've been looking at: it's not that swashbuckler and...

Eek! Well, that's not quite how I meant it. :D People are brats in high school, there's no doubt. Once past that stage, though, you kind of expect folks to be more mature about things. But regardless of all that, a D&D game is a place where that kind of thing *really* shouldn't matter...

Update: I think I'm currently edging towards Rogue 3/Swashbuckler 4, or possibly even more in rogue, depending on which characters we have. Damn me for a fool for thinking so hard about that Able Learner feat, now I have neat rogue social and investigatory skills rushing through my mind full...

Just don't forget to add the constraint that you can't take 10 when using this ability. :)

Dammit. Now I'm thinking I might have to pick up MoI. Not because "the force" wasn't immediately obvious when I heard of it, but because trying to think up ways to describe incarnum that aren't either super cheesy or "the force" is taking up at least 10% of my idle brainpower right now.

There are also some pretty easy fixes to the overpowered bits. The easy one for stacking massive amounts of weapon and armor infusions (or the above metamagic item infusion) is to limit how they stack. The going opinion on the WotC boards (including Keith Baker's opinion, although there's been...

One thing to note is that the DC is perhaps dangerously low, although it sort of depends on the class. If the character is of reasonably high intelligence, then I could imagine someone who's aiming for this having a skill mod of 13 ranks + 4 Int mod + 3 skill focus by level 10. Which is enough...

Ouch! Too bad about Aria, really. It was a great idea... it just didn't have the mechanics to back it up. :)

Actually, by my reading, Able Learner is hugely more powerful than Cosmopolitan. Cosmopolitan allows you to select one cross-class non-exclusive skill and make it a permanent class skill, and gain a +2 bonus. Able Learner allows you to spend one skill point per skill rank on any skill...

It sounds to me like your group has issues. (I take "nerdabee" to be "nerd wannabe".) I think you'll mainly have to grin and bear it, or if it becomes un-fun to play any more, look for a new group. (Though this one sounds pretty unique!) I have to say that this sort of cliquishness is just...

Okay. It's time for more detail... Hariel Talandro, Female human rogue 1/swashbuckler 6. Note: I came up with the rogue/swashbuckler combo for this character while posting, so I've been trimming a bit. Apologies if anything comes out as disjointed. I favor this build because it deals with...

Because I haven't seen a post from drothgery saying recruiting *is* closed yet, I'm going to try to edge in quickly. :) If it's closed up, that's fine. If not, well, I'll be working on fleshing the concept out more. For now, the short form: The character (haven't picked a name yet) is or...

The instant I looked at that, I said "whoa, whoa, whoa!" Two prestige classes (one of which is for just one level), and a non-core base class, all at once? This character may not be overpowered, it's kind of hard to tell... But... well, it's kind of hard to tell. They're playing to a real...

I don't think there’s a need to take throwing or returning on both ends. In fact, I see no reason someone would want to. Why? Because a returning weapon only returns to you just before the beginning of your next round. (Not your next attack.) That means that the owner won’t be getting more...

Wow. That's a good point. Dammit, I always forget about the quarterstaff...

I don’t know quite exactly what people mean here by pre-made campaigns, but from mention of RttToEE, I think I understand. I have to say that I’m not a big fan of this sort of campaign. The kind of pre-made campaign that I would like to see more of is along the lines of the old Shadowrun...

Mmm. Yeah. These tactics are cool, but can definitely be tricky to pull off. One thing to consider is using a sai instead of an unarmed strike. With a sai, you get a further +4 bonus on disarm checks, which means you're even with a two-handed weapon (before BAB and str/dex bonus come into...