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Concentrating on things is certainly his weak point: :p OOTS 416

Well I liked it. In the first few panels, I was thinking that Xykon's no-planning attitude may actually have done him in. He was toast, or at least on the path to a fast retreat. But then, it all came together, and mass slaughter has seldom been more entertaining. :lol: You sure you guys...

d20 Fantasy has pretty much what you're looking for - d20 system, fantasy, but either no or much more limited magic.

I think you may be overstating how powerful irrestistable damage is. For instance, this spell would be weaker than Fireball, because there are more creatures who could fail the Reflex save than there are creatures with Evasion. Undodgeable Flames Level: Sor/Wiz 3 Save: None As fireball...

If he was always planning to be a Wizard, then there's no problem - he did do the years of training, and was 90% of the way to becoming a Wizard, he just couldn't quite make the final leap to actual spellcasting. Then after some time adventuring, he finally understood things and was able to...

Or just give them a negative level for the first level.

Actually, since you bring up Naruto, that's a good example of how well you can mimic abilities in different systems: In D&D, you can somewhat mimic the shadow clone move with the Astral Zealot PrC (3rd party), if you change the descriptions a bit. Incidentally, the psionics crew make a pretty...

One idea: The body appears mostly undamaged, but large areas seem brittle and cracked - if prodded much, they make break off and crumble to dust. Some parts of the clothes are extermely fragile, like they were centuries old. Basically a huge infusion of entropy, putting the hit area through...

See I like niche items, but I often do tend toward getting the utilitarian ones, for a couple reasons. First off - they're always on, not limited uses per day or charged. I don't really like single use or even limited use items, because they tend to either get hoarded against theoretical...

Or there's spellcards. Quite handy, although I don't use them because I use a fair number of 3rd party spells, and don't have time to make cards for them. .

I don't know about a general name (Optimizer has a Z! Isn't that cool enough for you?), but here's some names for subsets that may come in handy: :p OptoMiser: Really good at optimizing their own character, but won't help with anyone else's. Fatal Optomizt: Makes "uber" characters with...

IMO, it's only railroading when the players are prevented from a course of action that they wanted to embark on by arbitrary obstacles. So if the troll bandits were going to be on the eastern path, and the party, for unrelated reasons, takes the west path, and the DM moves the bandits to the...

I don't think there can be a perfect system for how fast abilities recharge, because different people, or even the same people, want different things. On the one hand, per-day abilities encourage a couple hours of combat followed by many hours of resting, which is, for most genres, pretty...

But actually, for a player, coming back from the dead is not only easy but guaranteed - and the only cost is sometimes, not even always, coming back a level lower. I speak, of course, of making a new character. The impact of death IRL is that you're gone, permanently. But the players aren't...

I kind of wonder, for those who advocate harsher costs, don't you think the likely result will be a parade of new characters joining the party? I mean, let's consider the choice: "Hmm, I could make the group go on a quest to appease the death god, spend about 75% of their money on rare...

Strange - that's almost exactly the opposite of how I feel - I'd only buy 4E if it was a major change. Why the heck would I want to buy an entire new set of books just to get minor changes I could implement myself? Sure, I wouldn't mind buying one book for updates, but that isn't what would...

How is playing a character that's paranoid enough to pack heat any more metagaming than playing a character that routinely packs heat as part of their job? And yet, nobody complains if you play a PI, ex-cop, or the like in CoC. Heck, the player that complained was playing a PI! Ultimately...

What I dislike about Alienist is that apparently the hideous powers of the realm beyond are ... extra hit points. Spooooky. I guess I should keep an eye on those Dwarves - they're practically pseudonatural, especially Dwarven Defenders. Ok, it isn't all hit points, but it is all rather...

Actually, the fact that he is only proficient with shotguns makes this somewhat more logical. Train of thought: 1) I'm paranoid - so I want to be armed whenever possible. 2) I guess I'll carry a small, concealable weapon like a pistol. 3) Oh wait - I never learned how to use a pistol. No good...

A Psion (Shaper or Kineticist) might be good. Psionic Grease for the "slippery floor" trick. The various energy powers (Energy Stun especially) for the ice blasts. Psionic Minor Creation for the ice weaponry, and so forth. While you could also do this with spells, I think the lack of...