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Why the perhaps? buzzard

Being a true engineering geek, I always thought it would be interesting to build a system using something akin to MEGS, but actually making sure the units were internally consistent. This means that the energy of one form of attack would be equivalent across the board in terms of APs. Either...

That's kind of funny in a way. Considering that the AP system is just basic logarithms. Champions and M&M use similar systems for keeping the numbers from being too large (exponential numbers for higher power levels). It's just that MEGS used it for everything, and took advantage of logarithmic...

Well of course, I seriously doubt anyone would go to the trouble of resurrecting a 'dead' system. A shame I suppose, but certainly understandable. I think M&M will make for a pretty good implementation.

Personally I consider this 'realistic'. Comic books have to contrive things such that Darkside or Black Adam don't turn Batman into paste. Why shouldn't the game master? I mean honestly, cosmic power level baddies should be at a power level which is commensurate with what they are. Actually I...

The real question here is what is the party composed of. If the party is only non spellcasting people, than cutting the magic items is no biggie. However if you have half casters, and half fighters/rogues then the mundane folk are getting boned, unless you are restricting the casters harshly. At...

If the Orcs are not actively hiding while invisible, the spot check to detect their presence is only DC 20. For a level 17 party this is trivial. Though as elaborate as the plan is, this takes some pretty savvy orcs. I'd say they'd be savvy enough to not feed themselves into the meat grinder...

Coyote is right Since the idea is versimilitude, the only reasonable approach would be to run it as you would have run it before. Any modifications would be cheese. These Orcs don't know any better. I guess you could introduce a dash of caution since the PCs will be in obviously better armor...

The 16th level cleric could have killed the barb in a round without any difficulty. Could the barbarian have done likewise? buzzard

don't shrug off good domain so fast A number of posters have been mentioning the good domain as a weak one. I beg to differ. Once you get to high level (13+) it comes in real handy. Holy Word, by itself is sufficient justification for good domain. If you add in a bead of karma from strand of...

The numbers you posted showed median for males as ~$40k and median for females as ~$31K. For a 4 person family you sum them and get $71K. The 2003 data shows that 4 person family median was $65K. This seems perfectly reasonable. I still wonder why you would ask about my numbers. So in the...

Well given that you live in an area where the cost of living is extremely high, you should expect a hefty income. While California, in general, is only slightly above the national median for incomes, certain areas in that state are as expensive to live as anywhere in the country. If you had...

You would do well to read what I actually wrote before you replied. Look at: http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/4person.html I got my numbers there, and as I stated, the data was for family income not individual. I said initially that Drothgar is claiming that a salary of $70K was normal was...

To a good extent it looks like a horde of rust monsters will solve the problem pretty easily really. Unless the character itself is broken beyond these items, turning the equipment into dust should clean things up. I'd need to know what level we're talking about, though I suppose I should...

$70K/year is well above an average salary. Heck, the median family income in the U.S. is below that. You appear to have a rather skewed perspective. OK, let me look it up. Median family income for a 4 person family in the U.S. is (according to the census bureau) $65K (the latest numbers...

I don't know if this is particularly valid, but has anyone considered RPGA and Living Greyhawk as a reason for WotC treating Greyhawk a bit differently? Living Greyhawk is not a trivial deal in terms of number of gamers, and I've found it to be the only diriving force which gets me to buy 3.5...

Actually you are missing that the intelligence has gone up by 7. A monstrous humanoid normally has 2 skill points per level. A war troll and int of 8 will only get 1 per HD. Thus the MM III is actually wrong on the skills for the War Troll. He should only have 12 skill points to allocate, and in...

In my defense, you are wrong here. If you add PC class levels to a monster you use the elite stat array instead of the 10 and 11 one. You use a spread of 15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8. I used the elite block as follows: 12 str 14 dex 10 con 13 wis 15 Int 8 chr Add in the bonuses for war trol and we...

Please do, I'm evidently more of a lousy self proofreader than I imagined. Geez, don't I look silly. Didn't realize that War Trolls are Monstrous Humanoids. I have other builds of this guy using other trolls for different levels, and for those he doesn't work since he's a giant when he's other...

We have a winner. The "Of Legend" Template is restricted to animals, beasts, magical beasts, and monstrous humanoids. Therefore my cuddle troll must go the way of the Do Do. So now comes the second part of the challenge. He do we improve upon this legally. My initial inclination is to keep...