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Maybe if I beg really hard for a supplemental PDF...? :D J Aubrey & Maturin forever!

I've got to go with the 'overpowered' side. As mentioned, it's got the same relation to Open Minded as Improved Toughness to Toughness - but Improved Toughness has a base Fort save requirement, and Toughness is pretty universally regarded as an extremely weak feat. Or, to look at it...

Isn't it a bit strange that they changed all the other 'wounding' stuff in 3.5 to Con damage, but forgot this one? J

...a sailor, a scout, a minstrel, a spy, an assassin, a craftsman, an explorer, a salesman, an actor... Let me guess - you want the katana to have better stats, too? J

The Exotic Weapon Master is not a replacement for Weapon Master or Master of Chains, any more than eithe rof those two clases could replace each other. They are very different classes that happen to have similar names. Mantis Leap was a monk-only feat, IIRC, while Leaping Attack is open to...

...aaand for those of you who want a new Mac to run Dundjinni on, Steve Jobs has just announced a $500 "Mac Mini" at the MacWorld keynote - 1.25 GHz G4. Details at your favorite computer site. J

Well, that depends on what you mean by 'control his appetites'. Sure, he drinks (so does everyone in a medievalesque society - the water's not safe). Does he drink to excess? To the point where it interferes with the performance of his duty? It doesn't seem like it. He's remarkably lucid...

How do you know? It's not on the table. It doesn't say whether you do or don't. You can guess that you don't. But you're not attacking, you're taking the Manyshot standard action. In fact, unlike such actions as 'Charge', which specifically says you may make a 'melee attack', Manyshot...

I thought he was referring to them saying 'goram' instead of, ah, "gosh darn" (to make it grandma safe). I don't think that's Mandarin. J

Hey, if you put up the character ideas (assuming they aren't super secret) I bet you'd have a dozen ways to do each in about a day. Then you could take them apart and get a good understanding of how the system works. EDIT: You might also consider ducking over to the Atomic Think Tank at...

It gets easier - you just need to figure out that a lot of the powers are other powers that come 'pre-loaded' with extras or flaws, for convenience. For example, Armor and Weapon are just Protection and Strike with the Device flaw already added on. It'd be an extra, since it's part of the...

Yes, but like others I dropped the 'spellcaster' requirement for Alchemy.

So...nothing about that sounds even just a little off to you? It doesn't seem, I don't know, backwards to attack when not using an attack action? For the same reason you would suffer any other one - because that's what the rules say. There's no measure for determining whether something...

Because levels and hit points are "plot protection". The best swordsmith in the world is a more important character than J. Random Unnamed Commoner in the field, so he's harder to kill. J

Yes, but it was a spell trigger item, meaning you had to either have the spell on your list or a decent Use Magic Device roll. J, who got one for his ftr/rogue

You could use double the cost for an appropriate magic item (basically, the cost for a 'slotless' item). I would strongly suggest also adding the appropriate value to the PC's gear when figuring out how much equipment they should have for their level. J

"You're attacking, but you're not using the attack action." That sounds pretty niggly to me. I understand how the rule works perfectly, but it doesn't lend itself easily to plausible in-game explanations. J

Me too. When I started playing my swashbuckler online (started as Rogue, then multi'ed into Fighter) I hated telling anyone what class I was, because then they would immediately think 'thief' and expect me to open locks and disarm traps - I said I was "a sailor". Of course, if they found out I...

Keep in mind, I've only seen the first disc of Firefly - the rest are on the Netflix queue. You're right, the characters are "cliches" at first, although a better term would be "archetypes". That's something Whedon does deliberately, I think, because it happened in the beginning of Buffy as...

Just like in D&D, you don't roll to hit for area effects - if you're in the area, you're affected. The Evasion errata specifies that you can't use the feat against area attacks. As for the OmniDroid, if the brain is more or less permanently implanted, then go with option D - the robot...