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Hey wait a second! I just re-read the section on lightning rail. It only travels 25 miles per hour, not 30! That means it only goes 220 feet per round... so a fastieth (50 feet, Run feat) can keep pace with one, as long as it is only carrying a light load.

Yeah, I did the math on the dinosaurs, too. Fastieths have a land speed of 50 ft and the Run feat, letting them travel 250 feet in a round with a light load (i.e. halfling). A train at 30 mph travels 264 feet per round (30 miles/hour * 5280 feet/mile * 1 hour/60 minutes * 1 minute/60 seconds *...

So that thread on swashbuckling combat went to good use? Cool! I'm glad to have contributed in some small way. :)

Talenta Plains halflings can rob lightning rails on Fastieths and airships on Glidewings (if you slow the airships down). They should make quite a fearsome sight, pacing the rails on their mounts then leaping off, like horse-riding train robbers. And then, of course, there could always be a...

As far as anyone knows, there's no such thing as skypirates. The number of airships is not large, and only the wealthy can afford them. That being said, a dragonmarked member of House Lyrandar could abscond with one of them, though he'd need at least one (preferably two) accomplices who also...

That just reminded me of the court case where a judge ruled that video games weren't protected as free speech, because they could not "convey ideas" (one wonders why the judge was worried about kids getting their hands on violent video games if they didn't convey ideas, but I digress..) He...

Interesting feats all-in-all. I think Profane Lifeleech wins points for awesomeness of thematics, but it could be too good at low level and not all that great at high level. Ooh, it doesn't deal damage to constructs or undead; I'm seeing a great opportunity for a 'flashback to the Last War'...

[Gilda Radner]Oh, then nevermind.[/Gilda Radner]

Hypersmurf, Nail, Patryn, and others, I'm sorry, but you clearly just don't get it. Obviously, the correct usage of Empower Spell is the underpowered, more complicated one, which relies on a dubious interpretation of the feat's mechanical description and clearly conflicts its plain-English...

Foreword: this isn't intended to be an attack on you, Joshua. And I don't understand the specific linkage between metal and all types of fantasy, Led Zeppelin faux-occultism aside. It's just a viewpoint to consider. Interestingly enough, I think that modern music can often set a mood better...

How is it balanced against slay living? I don't get it. Slay living kills (instantly) on a failed save, and does damage on a successful save. Gestating putrescence does something less than death (over three rounds) on a failed save, and does nothing on a successful save. Or is it precisely...

My campaign is just starting, so I guess that affects my perspective. If you've already got the high-level characters, no sweat. I ran some numbers and concluded that the average dragonmark has 20 members with a greater dragonmark (25 million people times one greater dragonmark per hundred...

I'm certainly not the king of balance, but I do have a few things to say about the class. First, very cool idea. These seem like the perfect guys for House Phiarlain and House Thuranni to continually deny the existence of. They've got the spy stuff, they've got the occult powers, good deal...

Base price for a weapon bonus is bonus squared times 2000. Base price for a spell effect for a command-word item is spell level * caster level * 1800. For a +1 longbow with true strike, that will be 1^2 * 2000 = 2000, and 1*1*1800 = 1800, respectively. However, since you are only allowing 3...

Boy, and my torture device only goes to 11...

I guess Dark Jezter is just too droll for you. Trust me. His post was hilarious.

DarkJezter, thank you for making my day.

Incenjucar, I think we might as well agree to disagree on this point. I believe that the ends don't justify the means in the D&D cosmology. From your posts, it seems to me that you believe that they do. If we continue, we'll just be talking past each other.

A while back, a friend of mine (a wizard) was using this exact tactic, since the party went through several sessions where shadows - lots of shadows - were the primary enemies, and we had no cleric or paladin. At the same time, he decided that, since strength wouldn't be mattering anyway, he'd...

As long as we're on this ridiculous subject, let me mention that, if you insist on the most literal, least contextual interpretation of the rules, I agree that ray of enfeeblement would protect against helplessness brought on by strength drain, but only if it were cast before the strength drain...