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Spelljammer, 2E. An enemy ship launched an all-out assualt against our vessel; we slaughtered the boarding party and launched a counter-attack. The first thing out of our captain's mouth when we breach the enemy vessel's command room and face the enemy captain? "Give me your boots!"

Zhangar Scorncall, a dwarven fighter/mana armor pilot (a homebrew class; mana armor is basically the Magi-Tek armor from FF6 with claws). Personality-wise, he was a cross between Zhang Fei from Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Sagara Sousuke from Full Metal Panic!, though he heavily favored...

I don't think this has been officially stated, but it usually becomes apparent once you look at a dragon's CR and then look at what it can actually do. This was definately the case in 3E, and is apparently still the case in 3.5E, though they bumped up the CRs a little in 3.5. Granted, the nerf...

A cleric that takes this class is giving up his spell progression, which is a pretty big hit for a cleric. A lot of the abilities are Charisma-dependant, and these are dwarves that we're talking about. ABout half of the abilities are dedicated towards making the warhammer a decent ranged...

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This thread is excellent. We've had an alcoholic warpony philosopher before. The party decided to have the dwarf's warpony awakened. They rolled an 18 for its intelligence, making it far smarter than anyone else in the party. Once he understood economics, Boozer went and bought himself a harem.

I don't see why you couldn't do kung fu as an ape, but there apparently aren't good answers for how a monk with natural weapons works. Kung fu as a dire bear would be even better. My own frontliner druid is sticking to druid; it'll take a while, but I want Wildshape: Huge ASAP. What's this...

Worst game I can immediately think of? The system was 2e, and at the point that the game really went downhill, 3e was only a few months away. Basically, the DM didn't have the best grasp of the rules but trusted the players not to abuse the rules. The two players with the best grasp of the...

If 1/3rd of humanity is Good, 1/3rd is Neutral, and the final 3rd is Evil, could the first 2/3rds really try to exteriminate the last 1/3rd without joining the last 1/3rd? Trying to imprison and exterminate random citizens because of how they "ping" on a spell is evil in of itself, one would...

Well, it's a double-weapon, and a fighter/mage (Eldritch Knight?) could actually enchant the thing himself. Your ultimate weapon would probably a Staff of Power, which is actually designed with some some of melee combat in mind. This character would work better in a campaign where you aren't...

A vorpal whip sounds excellent. Being prone gives enemies +4 to hit you with melee attacks, and you suffer a -4 to your own melee attacks. Ranged attacks are either unusable or suffer no penalty, IIRC. You don't lose Dex bonus. Do bane & wounding properties have to actually hurt the creature...

A L18 wizard that can't provide himself with a +4 or +6 Int item should be killed on the grounds of being hopelessly incompetent. Actually, he probably never would've made it to 18th level in the first place; the L2 stat buffing spells aren't going to grant a caster bonus spells, after all. In...

Um, a +2 bonus to skills checks isn't going to turn A into B. The non-spellcasting related benefits from enhancing the mental stats really aren't that good. I can see why the duration nerf was done for balance purposes, but it also seems just a bit too much. They've gone from "far too handy...

The only things I miss are Planescape and the massive amounts of flavor text for monsters. It was just neat that the 2E writers bothered to come up with what the monsters do when they aren't getting killed by PCs.

Bracers don't have to be made of metal, ya know.

Sunblades can crit the undead now, as I understand it. Some classes scale better at epic levels than others. An epic fighter is really just a fighter with incredible equipment. An epic paladin is a whole 'nother beast altogether. Taking an evil force dragon that had over 300 Hp down to -40...

If the only class choices were Vagabond and Glitterboy, Rifts would be the worse system ever. Rifts maintains what passes for balance in it by having multiple classes that are all just as obscene as the Glitterboy. The only Rifts character I've ever played was a Battle Magus from the Atlantis...

Vagabond vs. Glitterboy is a terrible example; who in their right mind would play a Vagabond? That's practically worse than playing a Commoner in D&D. Balance isn't necessary, but it's generally desirable. If a couple classes are utterly sub-par to the rest, then that can be tolerated -- just...

As a DM, I usually am not gunning for a particular PC, though I run fairly lethal battles. This is also much less of an issue at high levels, when Resurrection and True Resurrection enter the picture. The one time I did gun for a PC, it was for in-character reasons; the party was having a...

Here's a simple one -- a dragon with hatchlings. The dragon will reluctant to go out and take care of business personally because it doesn't want to leave the kids undefended. The PCs should painfully aware that the babies that the momma or papa dragon is doting over happen to just as big as...