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I am not surprised at all. I don't expect anything rational coming from any army of any country. Frankly, if anything, roleplayers are more fit for the army than average joe for a variety of reasons. For one, roleplayers spend their time running exercises in problem solving in theoretical...

You can interpret it as such, but it doesn't say it in the RAW: So, with that in mind, and your stated desire to allow "a feat in you game that would increase damage dice for a monk", why the strong stance ?

That's exactly what I had in mind when I was asking for more precise informations. I guess a tower shield IS a good thing to have then. Especially at low levels, I can imagine a situation where the meat shield, after being down to few hit points, turtles himself in, and takes the brunt of the...

In 3.5, I thought there was no facing rules (barring UA). Is it safe to say that you can get total cover with a tower shield from any attack around you (presumably shifting the shield toward the creature currently attacking) ?

It might appear too good, or overpowered, but since 3.5, all my/my players arcanists had it on their spell lists, but it doesn't come up that often. Sure, it's helpful, but a broken spell sees use all the time, and that isn't the case with this spell in our campaigns. So... YMMVAAT.

And you just wrote exactly what I wanted to say. Really people, are your monks so overpowered in your games and campaign-crushing that you must make such a sustained effort to try to convince the DMing masses that the feat cannot be taken ? It is quite clear that the rules can be interpreted...

I do not believe that this analogy works. In fact, most analogies between real life and D&D rarely work. Real people wouldn't do that, because they don't go around risking their lives versus horrific monsters. A better analogy would be to compare an adventuring party to an army platoon who...

Yup.

If a DM would give me an ability that gives +1 PER DIE to all my cold spells, then the next feat I would take is Energy Substitution: Cold. DAHUMN ! Forget Ice Storm, think about Empowered: Scorching Ray (Cold), Fireball (Cold), Orb of Whatever (Cold)... Suhweeet !

IMC, the players never really keep track of treasure sharing. All loot is transported by one PC (usually the strongest), and magic item purchases/crafting is made solely on a party optimization perspective. For example, if in general the meat shield gets a lot of the brunt of the damage...

CustServ said that, yes, the monk does qualify for it. Some on this board would cynically say that nothing coming from CustServ is worth anything at all, but consider that even coupled with a monk's belt, it doesn't unbalance a monk character, it only brings it a bit closer to a valuable melee...

I did say "Unless it's a mountain giant of course". I was simply extrapolating what you quoted to make a point.

No extrapolation, you're simply not allowed to gain XPs from a monster that is over 8 above your EL. One might say that this is not fair, but in fact it's the DM that is not fair to the monsters by allowing his players to defeat such a powerful monster. Unless it's a Mountain Giant of course.

Heh. Which makes me think... The first thing my players did when they found their first epic magic item is to sell it and buy non-epic items. A lot. Just goes to show...

Oh absolutely. If you're a melee fighter, grab the feat that lets you bypass epic DR, and you really don't need an epic sword anymore. And then, have some items that duplicate spells such as greater heroism, and you're set. VERY set. Hell, the holy enchantment on a regular sword has a price...

*sigh*... I've got to go, but I'm sure this thread is about to become A) Not so gentle B) Heated C) Locked

Ignorance ? In this very same thread: What didn't you understand ??? You're in luck; unless you give me your address, that's not up to me. :]

I want an Improved Quicken Turning feat (with Quicken Turning as a prereq) that you can use for Divine feats. It's really a drag to waste a Standard action to put those Divine feats up. I'm especially thinking about Divine Shield.

That's the thing. Use the DMG formula to calculate it, but then, look at it critically, and figure out if it's too much or too little. Ajust accordingly. For example, a ring of Greater Heroism gives you +4 on all attacks, all saves, and all skill checks. Should be worth more then what the...

Are you sure about this ? AoNA is bonus squared x 2000