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I would also like to see some skills combined. Balance, Climb, and Jump could easily be combined into an "Athletics" skill with different ability modifiers depending on actual use. Forgery, Disguise and Bluff (Bluff is pretty useful, but Disguise and Forgery are rarely used) could be combined...

I look at it completely opposite from this. All the other classes can benefit from magic items of many types, at all levels of power. Most of the current Monk's abilities don't synergize with magic items, especially magic weapons and magic armors. I would like to see the Monk reworked so he can...

Can't decide. I love playing monstrous PCs. Couatl Doppleganger Janni Medusa Mephit Umber Hulk If I were using the MM2, then maybe some of the powerful stuff like Jahi or Nimblewright.

This just happened in d20 Modern 2 days ago. Not to me, but another PC. Level 3 Strong/Fast Hero, who was a street racer. Game begins with him in a high-stakes race against two other hotshots. Off the line, he sputters a little and the other two fly ahead. First turn comes up, and all three...

I would also allow this, no questions asked. PCs never (in the scope of the game) die from old age, so it's pretty much just changing the characters IC background. Alternately, if the Wish is incapable of that degree of power, it may reveal the path to immortality in a flash of insight. Maybe...

I voted yes, but I've never seen the penalty actually applied. I look it like Arcane Spell Failure. Almost no arcane caster uses armor that will give a spell failure chance, so it's almost as good as banning it. Only a few very special cases will risk that penalty. The same goes with...

Sure... but I posted here because I was interested in EN World opinions *wink*. I guess my real purpose was to see if I was overlooking something. Spellcaster classes have value in longer progression, since their bonuses don't add together. Non-spellcasters don't have these drawbacks. All the...

I feel dirty discussing min-max in public, but call me masochistic, it's just damn interesting to me. In my time with 3E, I've seen the same level combinations for min-maxing before taking a first level in a prestige class between levels 6 and 10. It seems to me that there are definite breaking...

I treat the "barbarian" part of Barbarian as more of flavor than a literal barbarian. They have abilities that would help them in a primitive culture, but that doesn't mean they are exclusively found there. Where a Bighter relies heavily on training and technique to beat his foes, a Barbarian...

Here's a peeve of mine that fosters generic descriptions: DM's who give penalties for those descriptions. For instance, I might declare that I spring over a table as I swing my sword in a high arc at the orc chef. Seems reasonable enough, I end up next to the orc and make an attack. Even going...

I'm definitely pro-battlemat. For one, it cuts down on a lot of "Can I do this?" questions. With a representation of the battle scene, the players know exactly where everyone is, and can see where there might be cover, hazards, etc. In addition to added clarity, the battlemat also adds another...

I meant an entirely new system for figuring ECL, not the reverse-engineered calculator. Since magic items can give attribute bonuses, feats, skill bonuses, spell-like abilities, save bonuses, DR, SR, movement bonuses, and other such things that races also may have. Since magic items have a...

I just wanted to share an idea since I'm a latecomer. Along the lines of the snowglobe, instead make the artifact an entire room or fortress. Within the artifact is a scale model of the entire world, which is magically able to generate the necessary detail to control the weather in a specific...

Perhaps I wasn't clear. Let's take an example of a level 5 character with a Ring of Invisibility in addition to his normal assortment of minor magic items. That extra 40,000 gp item has a fairly significant effect on his power level, and is almost 5 times his suggested wealth by itself. Is it...

I was sitting by myself one day going, "Self, why do we have rules for ECL based on ability scores and such, but not for characters with extra magic items?" Yes, I sit by myself and say these things. The question is, how much extra wealth would you need to grant an ECL of varying ratings to a...

I think the feat is just fine as is, it is nowhere near good enough for every rogue to take it. In fact, I would say that most rogues (who make intelligent design decisions) wouldn't want it. Between PrC requirements, Spring Attack, Expert Tactician, and whatever other supplements you want to...

Yeah, the math is bad, but there are no Cure ___ spells for many levels. That's where metamagic might be nice.

I say yes, but I don't have any "official" source to back that up. You may substitute a spell for a cure spell of equal level, and as far as I'm concerned, metamagic applies to that. It'll be a full-round casting time, but that's the only stipulation I'd add.

Re: Rekindle the Flame. Yes, they will be very high level and probably have easy access to True Ressurection, but not 'snap your fingers' easy. Since you don't even need a body for True Ressurection, all the wonder twins (sorry, too tempting) need to do is snap their fingers and their dead...

I'm divided on the issue. On one hand, it makes knowledge of your enemy important. Whether this is good or bad is debatable. It also adds a little spice to normally mediocre things like werewolves. Due to the presence of GMW spells and such, most DR is trivial to high level parties. So making...