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Yea, that would be my suggestion, honestly. --fje

Well, with the Weapon Mastery in there he currently hits at: +24/19/14 That would let him move and take a Standard Attack at 19/14 Or take a full attack at 19/19/14/9 ... granted that's a little blah. But this is pre-buff. We're usually quite heavily buffed before combat, to the tune of...

Well, it has a BAB requirement of +8, so it's only really available at Fighter8 or Fighter4/Barbarian5, etc. I do think it should have a Fighter Level 8th requirement, though, like Specialization. But at 8th level, I do think an additional +2 damage is balanced. It's a feat chain ... +1...

I don't really find it overpowered. Heh. For a fighter, that's not broken at all. It's only lately, with feats like this and stuff like Occult Slayer that he's matching the damage output of my Barbarian/Cleric. He gets to do more damage in the first three rounds of the fight, then I get to...

Then they released the Bo9S. :) D'OH! But now I feel bad, the guy's been saying they stack for weeks now. I've always said: "Really? Nah. Well maybe. I'd have to see." Just didn't think of opening the book up outside of the game to look it up until he asked me to. He's had that one...

So a buddy of mine had a question: Does Melee Weapon Master stack with Weapon Focus and Weapon Specialization? Here's the text: "When you select this feat, choose bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing. You must have Weapon Focus and Weapon Specialization with a melee weapon that deals this type...

Yea, that part of the system is REALLY confusing. They tried to tie "gets special abilities other characters don't have" to the system for it ... Feats ... that was in place. So, being able to get the juice from their WoL, a character will have a feat. But then they make it confusing by not...

Pretty much how I do it anyway. Though I don't let Evil acts slide in my games anyway. So ... how about both. :) My current character is a non-paladin "Paladin". I wanted to explore the traditional "Lawful Stupid" Paladin concept without actually playing a paladin. So he's a...

Hrm. I would say it should be rather expensive. The Rog/Clr in our current AoW game uses the spell quite often (and it comes up quite often) and it certainly does allow him to spike his damage output through the roof. That said, I would say that if Undead are to be a regular or focus...

I prefer to say that Customer Service is just asking the GM next door. You get the same off-hand punditry. Here's what I'm getting from the conversation as it has run is that some people like Book of 9 Swords and some people don't. I'm of the don't. It goes around and around and nothing...

I've been waiting for somebody to try that one. I love that one. It's the Shatter chain, in reverse. --fje

I sort of liked the name, actually. I probably didn't "get" it, if it is a reference to something ... I probably don't watch enough anime. I just didn't figure I'd be playing it any time soon. Labrynthine social drama with school-age girls is something I tried very hard to avoid as a lad in...

Take two games. We will, for the moment, assume they are each as interesting, varied, and fun as the other. In one we have outrageous imbalance problems. In the other we don't. Why not play the one that doesn't? There's nothing inherent in keeping an eye to balance that says we have to make...

To be honest, though, I've never really found where TWF has been especially noteworthy for any other than a rogue. You've GOT to have feats like Oversized TWF and TWPounce to even get into the running. I think, also, the fact that the Warblade can do this one-handed should be noted. At low...

Actually there's no text that I can see that suggests the Javelin is in any way a two-handed weapon. It doesn't take a full-round-action to throw. That rule is for melee weapons without a range increment listed, such as a greatsword or greataxe. Without any rules stating otherwise, you can...

Does everybody feel that the difference between a Javelin and a Mighty Composite Longbow is that great, in the hands of a non-build character? I.E. if you took a stock 5th or 6th level Barbarian and gave him a MCL and ran him through regular D&D encounters, especially published adventure...

It's really hard to engage in a debate about whether or not a particular class is overpowered, in a D&D game, if the real basis of the counterargument is: "Well all of the core classes really suck, anyway." The Fighter needs more skill points and less focus on feats and should be a Warblade or...

They've already covered how the guy got there. As far as I can see, it's legit. They've got feats in there that help the Warblade get up more Concentration. And Concentration is a one-off. There's also stuff like Tumble in there, which not only works the Maneuver schtick but is ... TUMBLE...

But we're not really talking about paradigms. That's just begging the point. There's no real "paradigm shift" to speak of. We have, closer, Hegelian synthesis in the rules presented, but we're not entering or shifting or experiencing any "paradigm". If you're speaking in terms of "the way we...

Um, because, historically in D&D, they've not been broken. Quite the opposite, really. Gishes usually turn out very very blah. Recently there have been some spells and feats that have made it a more attractive option and bring it more in line with other concepts, but the fact that nobody is...