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Try looking here: http://24.25.217.183/ddcalc.php It's a complete calculator of how much you should power attack under all circumstances. I don't know the person who maintains it, but I like the results. --Seule

I'd strongly consider Monk. You have a range of special abilities including stealth and combat, and at mid to high levels you can heal yourself. You also function well without any equipment, opening up a lot of interesting plot possibilities. Most parties stripped of their gear are screwed so...

I love having the descriptions. It's an additional tool to use, if you don't like it, don't use it. I use them some of the time, adapt them some of the time, and ignore them the rest of the time, but in any case, I think they are something that has been needed for 25 years now. --Seule

I finished running it recently, and I must say having a character specialized in Search helped a lot. With a +20 average Search before items, she didn't miss much, if anything. --Seule

Mad John Flint be I, me hearties! Yarr! http://www.fidius.org/quiz/pirate.php --Seule o' the Seven Seas

No Time to Think really focusses the PrC on combat monsters, which I think really helps the concept of it. I love PrCs that introduce restrictions, as they tend to have the strongest concept behind them. It means that not just anyone will take it, you'll really have to be playing a character...

The one in Savage Species is a little silly, but this one gets other things to balance the BAB loss. I think it's a neat compromise, and, yes, looking outside the box. The multiple attack stuff only helps you against multiple opponents, put a war hulk against a single tough foe and they won't...

Actually, the primary thing they lose out on is iterative attacks. This is a big deal. An Ogre fighter and an Ogre Fighter/War Hulk are going to have 4 and 2 iterative attacks respectively. The War Hulk will have better damage and they'll have the same overall attack bonus. --Seule

Actually, one of my friends has been running a similar character in Living Greyhawk. I believe he's a Rogue/Sorcerer/Cleric/Fighter/Ranger/Barbarian/Bard at 7th level. With the upcoming concversion to 3.5, he's changing to a Bard 7, as that suits his concept as played almost as well, and will...

That would make sense, I think I'd have to apply that anyway to an Epic War Hulk. +1 str and 1/2 BAB seems like a poor compromise, but no EAB would fix the problem. --Seule

There was someone a long while ago trying something like this, with all classes that added +1d6 sneak attack at 1st level. I think he managed to work up to like +16d6 sneak attack... and BAB +5. --Seule

True, it does look great for regular play, and I suspect I'll be applying it to some NPCs, as well as suggesting it to the ogre PC I run in a Savage Species game. It's the Epic ramifications that worry me.

WotC has just released a couple of previews including most of the War Hulk PrC, here: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/iw/20030914a. The problem I see with it is that instead of having a BAB (+0 all the way) it gets +2 Strength every level. This may work fine, until you get into Epic...

1: All the PC classes 2: All the NPC classes other than commoner 3: Commoner Okay, so that's not a useful list. Basically, I think they are all pretty balanced right now, and it'll take another 3 years of playing to find the imbalances. They are pretty slight, if present at all. --Seule

Books of Eldrich Might - a few things, not much Book of the Righteous - Everything but a few feats and suchlike If Thoughts Could Kill - Everything but power pushing and variant psion Mindscapes - No mindscape combat (or psi combat at all), few feats The Mind's Eye WotC web feature - Pretty much...

In my gaming circles, nearly half of us are female. My Friday game has 3 male 3 female players plus me, and my Thursday game has 3 female, 4 male players, or so. I don't know any who wear makeup to game, although some do to work, but we range from mid 20s to early 30s. I don't remember when I...

Any character can be useful. Monks make great 5th party members, I've played in a game that had one, and it was very useful. You don't realize what you are missing until you play with one. The monk excels at several roles, including maneuverability, effectiveness without items (captured...

Well, the odds of rolling the same numbe are 1 in 20. You did that three times, for a 1 in 8000 before noticing. I'm sure everyone here has rolled 8000 times over their career, so that's nothing unusual, bound to happen eventually. Then you started rolling to see how long it would keep up...

The D&D Character Sheets from WotC put out right after 3.0 has a really good animal sheet, which I'll keep using until I find something better. I hope the revised sheets from WotC in the spring if I remember correctly will have one too. A good animal companion sheet is hard to find, and very...

Thanks for all the work you have put into the site over the years. It means a lot to have a place where we can find likeminded fans to talk about stuff that seems important at the time. D&D is a game, you and Eric Noah) have made it into a community. Now I really have to get some money...