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One would think that the more useful items would be much more commonly created. Or are people going to deliberately create items that aren't useful? And the other arms items not being as good is really more of a problem with the other arms slot items. Brad

Heh. You'd guess wrong. I haven't had GS in ages. I do have to say that, when I did, I enjoyed reviewing the DPS/GS ratios on Recount and seeing how bad some of the high-GS people could be. But given that gear has a demonstrably correlative effect on throughput*, as stats have direct effects...

Good for you. Most people don't. Memories tend to be very, very short. Oh, I skipped most of the heroics. Between the BOE purples I picked up, and regular dungeons, I was able to Sinister Strike my way through Karazhan repeatedly. Which, once you had any gear at all, was actually easier...

I think their point with what you quoted is that there's been a significant rise in third-party game resources as the expansions have progressed. You have a lot more easy-to-find resources for gearing, rotations, and boss encounters now than you did back in Vanilla or TBC. You have much more...

Good lord, how'd the bard shaft his Fort down that low? You may want to use Level 3-4 monsters in Dark Sun; not only do they hit stinking hard to begin with, but without magic items showing up to help buff defenses they'll be more accurate at more levels, since the Inherent bonuses generally...

Nope. Bursts/blasts are from the square you're in. Brad

The only super-type character I've ever had in a P&P RPG* was an Aberrant character who was a telekinetic in a form of power armor. His background was that he was a Russian fighter pilot who Erupted when the pilots he was training were committed too early, and, even with his help, got...

I'm of a mind to pull in stunts from Exalted. Brad

True dat. I know our DMs get bored with the same types of monsters...though the one running Dark Sun LOVES him some undead. The other of our DMs has a habit of saying "Okay, I'm done with this one. Please kill it." when his monster's done all its cool tricks. He also used the Monster Builder...

Hrm. I can see vampires and lycanthr...therianthro...er, beast-changers of every race...except for the shardminds. Wilden? Sure, vampiric plants. Warforged? Hell yeah. Have their fangs slide out mechanically or have them flip over and transform. But a swarm of rocks? Seems a bit more...

I agree. I'd get really, really tired of fighting demons and undead at epic. If I ever get to play more than 4 sessions at that level. Brad

Everything you say above is true, but I would dispute that last paragraph. Not having haunted the CharOp boards, I wouldn't know, but I've NEVER heard anyone give DPR minima for classes in either 3.5 or 4. The DM can and should build encounters for the party composition, though with the MM3...

My favorite "continuity error" was how Loki and Thor were kids after the Big War, and so couldn't have visited Midgard to inspire legends about their fights against the jotuns. Brad

I don't. But, then again, I haven't played in years, and my poor high-60s low-70s barbarian from D2 is trapped on a floppy disc, rather like Optimus Prime. I would note that WoW weapons generally don't natively glow without enchants, unless they're really high-end for the expansion. And...

I imagine we might start out with chemical drives, at very least for the pathfinders, and then depending on how well the plasma drive works, maybe switch to some Orion drives. Those at least have been demonstrated in small-scale tests, and hey, if the world's going to be destroyed...

Nope. It looks remarkably like the other Diablos. Brad

I like the idea of +7 items. I've seen that bandied around somewhere else as being logical to show up on higher-end monsters. I can't fathom the kinds of properties you'd get, though. Hrm. I may have to think about that. Edit: Thought about it. The cost multiplier is really hideous. As...

Nope. Only Str checks. Not Str powers. Sorry. :(

You can usually guess based on their behavior or DM description, too, presuming that the DM doesn't completely lie to you about that. A sorcerer I played for a while, I made sure to take (Lightning-Admixed) Chaos Bolt, since that was vs. Will, and that gave me a bit more flexibility. Sure, I...

... You can CHOOSE which power to use on a target. So you can CHOOSE to target the Brute's Reflex or Will, rather than their Fortitutde, by using the appropriate-targeting power. Brad