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I think divine might is fine as is. Balance-wise, it's fine... certainly no competition with a fighter, who gets +2 or +4 to every attack, while the paladin gets it for 5-8 rounds per day. Many fights last 5+ rounds, so it's a non-trivial limitation. Plus, it takes a feat. For a paladin...

Well, supply and demand do have an effect, but in general, things tend to even out over time. Would you buy an $8 Big Mac meal? Probably not. You know that in general they're $4.69-$5.89. You might get annoyed if they're $6.29 somewhere expensive, but they're never $8 (at least in my...

We rarely use appraise. For most magic items, we assume the characters know the approximate value, like a +1 longsword is 1300-ish. Appraise is really only needed for things like art objects, that are probably more valuable than the sum of their parts. Since we rarely get a lot of art objects...

Well, ok. I see your point, however, getting the effects of two feats for the price of one is still pretty good. It's a feat probably best for the mid levels (10-14) than the really high levels (14+). Baragos - I'm not a fan of increasing the damage you get from power attack... it's one of...

Isn't hard to come by? What, are the undead you're fighting taking epic level feats to get energy resistance? Except for things that obviously have energy immunity (fire elementals, dragons), I actually very rarely run into energy resistance. It's an expensive option on armor and the spells...

Umm... no. It's an instantaneous spell which puts a "permanent" +1 inherent bonus on your stat. It's still a bonus, it's just one that can't be dispelled. The level up adjustments are unnamed, and thus stack with everything. There's a difference. -The Souljourner

Sfedi - you hit the nail on the head. New abilities are far more interesting and generally more powerful than simply adding bigger numbers to what you can already do. Fighters need more feats like that... but feats that get more amazing at higher levels. Firelance - although your idea does...

Named bonuses don't stack with each other, except dodge and circumstance bonuses (assuming each circumstance bonus comes from a different circumstance). Is "inherent bonus" a named bonus? Yes. Then it doesn't stack. I agree that it's annoying to have a book of anything other than +4, since...

Yes, d4s suck, however, I think that probably makes it a lot more balanced. let's see (DAMAGE + 2.5) * (TO-HIT%) = (DAMAGE + 1) * (TO-HIT% + .05) With to-hit = 50% .5d + 1.25 = .55d + .55 .7 = .05 d 14 = d 14 damage on average when you have 50% to hit is a much more reasonable number. It...

People say that energy resistance is a big downside to the energy enchantments.. but what about damage reduction? It goes right through that, and "any kind of damage reduction" is a lot more common in my experience than one specific type of energy resistance. As for the standard action to...

I hated the hobbit-like halflings of past editions. Fat, lazy little guys who are somehow remarkably dextrous? What? Dumb dumb dumb. Frodo et. al. were the exception to the rule (and even then, not much.... they whined for home through the whole thing). 3E halflings are WAY better. I like...

QFT You can't take your 48 person bridge club and just decide to become a mob. The DM decides that the 48 people watching the evil deputy whipping a young boy become a mob and lynch him and then go on to lynch the corrupt sheriff and destroy the town jail. As for stuff like whirlwind attack...

But accelerating feat acquisition gets broken as you get more decent high level feats. You would have to actually tone down the high level feats, because you're gaining too many of them. Actually, my feat needs some tweaking, because you could essentially do the same thing with it, given the...

Actually, it's unclear about armor. There's a line in the DMG that says something about not letting a character's choice of race restrict the armor he can wear, and that, in general, when a PC picks up some magic armor, he should be able to wear it, unless it's a special armor made for a...

You're right, I forgot to take into account the fact that the energy damage is also affected by the to-hit rate when talking about damage per swing, and that +5% is a lot bigger difference in damage when you otherwise hit only 50% of the time. Undo undo... not paying attention.... -The...

So, I was reading the "Should keen exist?" thread in House Rules, and someone mentioned that keen is pretty weak when compared to the energy enchantments, and that got me to thinking that the energy enchantments are probably way too good for what they cost. Let's do some math, comparing +1 to...

While I agree with you that they need more high level abilities (more than the 0-ish they get now), I have to take issue with it not being useful. I've made several mid-level fighters, and I'm always short on feats. There are just so many good feats out there, and you need to spend half your...

Aust - just in the PHB there are plenty of feat chains which are useful, and you certainly can't get all of them by level 10. Just taking Exotic Weapon Proficiency, Weapon Focus, Weapon Specialization, and Greater Weapon Focus is nearly half your feats by level 10. If you want two weapon...

What he said.

The weapon isn't intelligent, it can't take attacks of opportunity. It's a spell effect.. it does exactly what it says it does and no more. -The Souljourner