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That passage you quoted was in response to someone who wanted to be able to deliberately take underpowered options. I was pointing out that underpowered options are available during play, and don't need to be hidden in character creation as traps for the unwary. In general I agree with you, and...

Can't xp you, so instead I'll just say thanks! I'm loving the playtest after-action reports. I like your ideas for the rogue. A while ago I would have agreed that it's too close to the fighter, now I'm coming around. CS is just so much fun! If they could come up with a way of functionally...

Ok, I was trying to help. I've given you some of my own experiences, and when it sounded like you might be interested in something else I had heard of, I mentioned it. No need to be rude. I guess that's the end of my involvement in your little project. :(

Yeah, that spell seems like it would work out because it doesn't turn someone who prepares it into a dedicated counterspeller. You cast it, resolve it, then go back to being a mage. You aren't forced to expend all your actions to shut down an enemy mage. I mean, I probably wouldn't include it...

This is 'Merica we're talking about here. After the mass die-offs, there should be enough small arms left over to outfit every man, woman, and child like Rambo. ;) I was talking about a variant of the Fat Boy design, a gun-type Uranium fission device. From my understanding, it's quite easy to...

You could also have at-will counterspell options that interface with resource-based spells in the same way that the current playtest deals with any other interrupted spell. You lose the spell, but not the slot that would have been used to cast it. That way it is action denial, but not the...

Agreed (except that it's octopuses :p). Threehorn or trihorn isn't even that bad, as names go. We still call them unicorns, after all.

It's 13 for studded leather, -1 for dex so 12 total. If you were a War domain cleric you could also upgrade to ringmail and a shield for a total of 15 AC (heavy armor doesn't factor in dex). Not saying you should go War domain, though. Just pointing it out. Laser cleric sounds sweet, and I'm...

I'm not saying it's impossible to achieve that kind of gonzo epic insanity using 3.x (by the way, my cerebrum is bleeding), but it might be a lot less work to simply use another system that was designed for it instead. I've never played Exalted, but from what I hear it's pretty crazynuts...

Still, you think they could issue revolvers and repeaters, or at least needleguns, instead of front-loading muskets. It was the first thing that I thought when I saw them firing muskets. ;) I'm waiting for someone to pull a nuke out of the closet. You can build (or at least detonate) one of...

Giving myself a shameless bump! We have a cleric and a wizard, with a warlock fast on his way. But there's still room for 2 more! If you have been thinking about giving the DDN playtest rules a look, this is a great chance to try them out. Check out the campaign page - there isn't much yet, but...

And welcome Marik Trishel, our resident party-patcher-upper. I rearranged your sheet a little bit, but now that it's its own page you can fiddle to your heart's content. I'm also not 100% sure about your AC, by my reckoning it should be 12, but I may be missing something. Were you looking at...

Marik Trishel, LG male Human Cleric 1 Background: Priest Specialty: Acolyte Domain: Sun Stat Rolled Total Modifier (Bonuses: "R" for Racial, "C" for Class) STR 7 8R -1 DEX 7 8R -1 CON 11 12R +1 INT 12 14R +2 WIS 15 18RC...

I don't know whether or not they plan to support alternatives to hp straight out the gate. But I think we can rest assured that, if they do, hp thresholds will be given an alternate mechanic, just like pretty much every other spell and attack form in the game will have to be given. I'm not...

I think that's a safe assumption in D&D. If you aren't using hit points, then every weapon, every offensive spell or ability, every feat that interacts with damage or hp is likewise making an "assumption". If you are converting D&D to play without hp, then hp thresholds are the least of your...

Just curious, what are everyone's time zones/preferred hours of reading and posting? If we manage to find some overlap, we could potentially schedule some time occasionally for quickly resolving spurts of high post activity, like combats and skill rolls, that could otherwise take days to get...

Yeah, let's give the wizard the spellbook as a class feature. It was part of the tuition you paid to get into wizard school in the first place. :) Also glad to hear that you can edit the wiki.

Yeah man, come join the party!

I'm having trouble reconciling your first paragraph with your second. On the one hand, only rolling dice for stats is fair (according to you, and using a strange definition for fair - if everyone being subject to the whims of chance is fair, how is everyone having the power to assign points to...

And Ortley Oldbrook is the first character in our Character Roster! Yippee!