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This was my interpretation of the thread title as well. I think the people complaining at the start of the thread read it that way too or they wouldn't be complaining to think that someone else was going to have the same adventure as them after two years of waiting. I think that for accuracy...

I heard people recommending "The Lich Queen's Beloved" from Dungeon #100, and it sure sucked me in reading it, but I guess it's 3.0. Ever been converted?

When he actually gets to 50,000, prepared to be dominated as well. (I think that's his plan...) I guess I'll save my CR 15 Bloated Beholders I made until I'm a little more familiar. That's smart.

I really have no idea how long high level combat is going to take in 3.5. In a six-hour session with one to two hours of skill challenge and roleplaying, how many encounters do I need to prepare? The 4E rule of thumb is one combat per one hour, and that's very handy. But 3.5 sounds like it...

Raiders of Oakhurst: Reloaded I think came from some people at Enworld before 4E was totally released and it's very, very nonlinear. I only ran the dungeon part but instead of pursuing all the kobolds as they fled the opening room my bard used Fast Friends or something to interrogate and turn...

That's because the CMB rules essentially let you "take 15" on your grapple check, so if you can get one started you have a big advantage. It's the opposite of what I would have done, since I thought the problem with grappling was PCs could never get out of one.

They would know you weren't rolling 8d6 if they were there in person, so are you playing online?

Wow. This is pretty much a complete answer to "Why doesn't Shapechange make SENSE?" It lets the designers be people who think exactly the same way I do, but get blindsided by unintended consequences. XP! That's interesting! It is the statblocks, really, that make me love 3.5. I remember...

And realizing how all over the place I am is what helps me confront my irrationality. Like I talk about how Magic cards are predictable, but if I compared the worst spells and the best creatures it would be just as lopsided as the comparisons I'm making, but I wouldn't get mad. Trying to...

I am sorry about that, because if I'd slept on the post I could've made a better discussion -- I have lots of times, with threads like "I wanna get back on the railroad." I won't indulge myself again. I bet it appears way different to someone saying "Oh, here's the 3.5 take on shapechange"...

I don't think the variety of sourcebooks is what makes Shapechange unusually strong -- according to this post, Compare that to iron body or (it seems to me) basic common sense about what's a fair deal for one spell, and you don't have to look any farther. It's a lot more difficult to tease...

Hey, that is helpful. I remember using OpenOffice and having the same feeling of "why would they do that?" Maybe it's a crowdsource thing for the system to be kind of inconsistent. I think this would be a good exercise. For one thing, when I say "I think it's silly to have all kinds of rules...

What I hate isn't the game, it's feeling like the people who made it think so differently from me. The game is fun, like a lifetime of fun, and totally customizable if you don't like parts of it, and I have players who don't abuse any of this min-max stuff. I just feel offended -- kind of like...

Well, that's embarrassing. Maybe I deserve to be locked for not reading the spell I was supposedly ranting about! I just read the short description scanning for some kind of example. I was also thinking of that 9th level druid spell whose effect is "Round 1: 'A storm cloud.' Round 2: '1d6...

I'm not a troll, I'm in a deep love-hate relationship with the game. I delve down to the littlest minutiae of Beholder saving throws and hit dice, and then I find that the big over-arching concepts don't fit together with that at all. I've been playing for a year and a half and I intend to...

Learning D&D 3.5 just makes me mad sometimes. It doesn't make any sense. 9th-level Shapechange gives you +28 to AC, SR 32 and myriad other benefits. 8th-level Shield of Law gives you +4 to AC and SR 25 conditionally. Why would anyone build a system like that? Was it a committee design...

Scribe Scroll is not a good idea for someone who feels like they have too many spell choices and don't know what to do.

I carried around Dispel Magic forever with my first wizard and never got to cast it. Same for See Invisibility. I'd pick something like Summon Monster III that you're guaranteed a use for.

This gave me a great idea for a beholder encounter. The beholder is floating behind a prisoner and staring directly at him with his large central eye -- it seems afraid even to blink, because if it doesn't keep that magic suppressed all of the prisoner's abilities will come back. You could run...

I subscribed, but it looks like I only get the first 2-4 parts of Burning Sky, is that right? It's too bad because I am prepping for my first high level right now and the only module I have is Goodman Games' Crypt of the Devil Lich.