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You completely missed my point. Psi didn't though. The legend say he got killed by a blessed bolt. But why only bolts? Why wouldn't a blessed arrow kill him? Or a blessed thrown dagger? Or a blessed javelin? I feel that by making their DR into "blessed and piercing", WotC has made a big...

Ok, so the legend say he got killed by a blessed bolt. Does that automatically mean crossbow bolts only should be capable of killing a rhakshasa? Why not any piercing blessed weapon? Should medusas and cockatrices automatically petrify anybody, without allowing people to save? The legends say...

The whole bolt-thing was moronic. You can either attack it the conventional way and face an overpowered monster (9th level characters routinely do not have access to a cache of +3 weapons and 9th level spells.) Or, you can use its bolt-weakness and get no xp whatsoever, because the EL was next...

I've had some brushes with GURPS, but I can't say it's really my cup of tea. As you said, the mechanics are a bit clunky. System does matter, and I'd rather play with a system that was designed for a specific genre than with a system that can handle every genre a bit inadequately. I am also...

Funny, I keep it open on Dopplegangers. :D I love my screen because those metagaming weenies don't need to know what Villain X needs to roll to hit them. It's also very useful when I'm running Alternity. Players shouldn''t know what roll their armor uses to stop the damage, and they...

There is no good reason to assume Grease would burn. Do the rules support it? No, and there is precedent to believe it is therefor not possible (Web). Does the name support it? Not if you define grease as "a thick lubricant". And yes, mine does. So one could do a bit of word-wanking to...

From as far away as their weapons/spells allow. The thing is, you can target somebody you see just fine even if you can not see the space in between you and him. The normal creature would see a big 30' radius circle, in which there were all sorts of viable targets. The LL creature would see a...

Casting defensively never provokes an AoO, whether you succeeded at your concentration check or not. However, if your check fails your spell fizzles.

Actually, it looks like the Blink spell from Diablo 1 to me.

While this sounds good in theory, it is in fact horribly broken. This would be an open invitation to take spellcaster cohorts and letting them make magical items 24/7. After all, they'll neatly level up regardless of their xp anyway. We can also reverse this. Poor little fighter cohort never...

No excuse boy! I've never played any of the DS games, and yet I know perfectly of what they speak. Then again, I might have a thing for Morrigan... :p Anyhoo, the Darskstalkers characters are supernaturals of some sort. Ghosts, mummies, succubi, demons, vampires, zombies, it's all there. I...

Indeed, a good change. Now perhaps we will finally see some respect for the people who choose to fight with a keen greataxe. "Oh, only 19-20? Heh, my fighter already has 12-20 with his falchion, and it'll be 10-20 when I take my next level in weaponmaster." :mad: Maybe some epic feat or a...

Wizards start with all cantrips (except for those from any banned schools, should they be a specialist). Furthermore, they have 3 first level spells, plus 1 per point of Intelligence bonus. They may choose these spells themselves.

13 TWK, listen to green slime. He knows his stuff. I have had my fair share of psions, both as PCs in my campaigns and NPCs I ran, but nobody even considered taking mind blast at low level. I'm curious, what exactly do they think is so overpowered about psions? Psychic warriors can get buff...

You're right. I'm at work here and was pressed for time at the end of my post so I did a rushed job and forgot to put in a smilie. It was rude of me, and I apologize.

I must strongly warn against giving people penalties for receiving "too much" curing magic. I don't know about you, but if I was the cleric, I'd cure every enemy I'd run across, even if he's not wounded at all. A save only halves the cured hp, there is no way to properly counteract this...

Soft Leather armor and Leather Plate are both completely useless and wastes of space. The stats of Soft Leather can be copied with taking studded Cloth. This is 5 lbs lighter, has no penalties to checks, and all that for the great price of 1 more gp. Sweet deal. The stats of Leather Plate can...