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Well, Pun-Pun, obviously. Secondly, a "broken" build is only broken if the player knows how to use it.

No, they don't. I didn't play 1e. And that's my point. Life doesn't have that stratified nature. Improvements in real life relative combat ability is very slow and gradual, and never reaches anything like the equivalent of beyond even 2nd level, 3rd at best.

Sure, time can be measured numerically, but, even barring magic, the real world doesn't have something that is the equivalent of what a 20th level monk is doing, despite a Monk being near useless against level appropriate encounters. There isn't a numerical measurement for combat potency, or...

I know that. I played varsity tennis for my school, and I did martial arts for seven years. But, as you yourself said, we don't have things like magic. Anyone in the real world would be hardly different than, at best, a 2nd level character. They don't all of a sudden gain enough health to...

There are no "levels" in the game world. Imaginary it may be, but it is assumed to be like a real world, and people aren't aware of some number floating over eachothers heads. Although the above poster is right that there are perceived relative levels of power, you would need magic to see...

Just use Hyper Beam.

On the other hand, it would also be interesting to see new mundane/magical items geared towards protecting specifically against losing body parts. I've only played 3.5, so maybe that already exists.

That's pretty cool. As I'm reading it, it sounds as if you could be dual wielding +10 weapons for free? Maybe I'm misreading it. I've also thought giving them a manifester progression/system fashioned similar to the Factotum's SLA progression would help.

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I hadn't thought of that. Having moving platforms over a flooded arena is on idea.

Okay, new question here about my campaign; The actually story, arenas aside, involves and organization trying to reactivate a machine of water, a machine of the earth, and a machine of the sky. Everytime the PCs enter one of these, and the machine is turned on by the group they aren't yet...

Well, the thing is, he's playing with a Paladin mentality, but was justifiably scared off by the "lose everything if you stray from your alignment," thing. I was thinking of recommending assasin instead. Off the top of my head, I thought Ranger 6/Swordsage2/ Assasin 8/ Bloodclaw Master (might...

Well, my friends are a bit weird. He has favored enemy human, except he doesn't realize he's most adept at killing people. I was thinking of making something with a the Swift Hunter Build, and taking him to Assasin instead. I'm thinking of telling him to take the archery feats instead, and focus...

So, im dming for a few friends of mine, and one of them is play a LG Ranger. He said he wants the twf combat style, but he wants to have some sort of traumatic experience that shatters his world view, and he becomes a blackguard. Im willing to provide the situation, but his build could easily...

I look at monsters with the assumption that they were written for groups using elite array, but 32 pt. buy gets used the most, from what I've seen. You should adjust CR by 1 for that, as a start. An optimizers might also be, let's say, 25% more capable against the CR system. So a 32 pt. buy 20th...

It's chaotic. He's still killing people and threatening the established order. He just has some sort of cause. CN, maybe even CG.

I think it works exactly as you think. And a player has many more ways of being overpowered than a dungeon has ways of confounding them.

Couldn't Dispel Magic get around it? Or something like Abrupt Jaunt and other short range teleportations.

Sounds like the basis for some sort of "two worlds" campaign to me.

Mountain Plate in RoS gives the biggest bonus, I think. If you're talking Medium weapons, Great Crossbow from the same book. It depends on how you define best, as well.