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Etherealness or Blinking is about as close as you can get. And no, they're not perfect. Game balance can't allow for characters that can never be successfully attacked by anything, that's the difference between a manga and a game.

The standard array of ability scores included a 15. What is the purpose of having a calculation that caps out at 15, if practically every PC in the world will have 15 right at first level? A +15 wouldn't be the maximum, it would be the standard value that everybody has. You'd get unnecessary...

Of course. The idea was not to stay glued to the angel and make saves every round, but just to get within his aura once "by accident" so that the angel thinks there's no way he's under mind control. And then the mind-slave can keep staying away from the angel because he claims he doesn't share...

Hmm, I don't suppose the charmed henchman can endlessly make Will saves to resist gaining the aura's effect? You can just tell him it's in his best interests or something.

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Mike Mearls? I just went through all of his tweets from the past week or so and I can't find anything that resembles this statement.

There's been a lot of Iron/Force mixups here. It's only natural. ;)

No, that's Wall of Iron you're thinking of. Wall of Force lasts 1 round per level. edit: Also, it's perhaps pertinent to note that in AD&D the situation was the opposite. In fact, walking through a Wall of Force is literally an example from the 2e PHB. Perhaps your DM is old school and...

Alright. First, I still feel it's not very relevant to bring up the "fall-ratio" for other classes, because their restrictions are far, far more forgiving than a Paladin's. That's what I was getting at. But more to the point, I do overall agree that forcing a Paladin to fall in the first place...

First of all, please don't tell me which of my reasons is legit. You have no authority whatsoever over this. Second, your examples are flawed. A Scroll of Fireball can still be used simply to cast an extra Fireball on top of your daily slots. A helm that lets you understand languages doesn't...

Just knowing I made people laugh is reward enough for me. :)

So you're this Fighter guy (or gall) and you adventure some, level up, the usual. Your Strength score started at 16 but now after some feat-choices you managed to get it to 19. Yeah! Progression! And then in the next treasure hoard you find a girdle of hill giant strength. Where is your god now?

Sorry but this is comparing apples to oranges. Barbarians "fall" when their alignment becomes lawful. Changing alignment usually happens only after a long period of consistent behavior. And even then, a chaotic Barbarian would first shift to neutral, which still lets him be a Barbarian and...

This is true and hints at the real issues that make D&D casters so powerful: they can get a lot of magic going on, which persist for a long time, they can do so reliably, they can do so quickly, and they can do so risk-free. And on top of all that, your opponents often don't have any abilities...

While this was certainly true in older editions, I'd be hesitant to apply this experience to 5e as well. When they introduced the tiers, they said that one session would be chargen + leveling up to 2. Then another session would take you to level 3. From that point on, you'd level up every...

If one's gaming style is such that casters are overpowered in 3.5, then they will also be overpowered in PF. So in an objective sense you're correct, but in a subjective sense relative to the OP, casters will almost certainly become overpowered once more as the levels tick by.

There are a few unique effects which do approach "200% resistance" in D&D, such as Shambling Mounds with lightning, but overall this point is correct.

That method relies on you knowing which creatures belong to which categories though. Let's say you want to look up the Displacer Beast. So you flip to the Beasts and... nothing. Alright, so it's a Monstrosity. Wait, no, it's not there either. Oh of course! It's got tentacles sprouting from its...

I don't really see the problem with this. Demons in 4e are elementals, yes. The Abyss is a corrupted maelstrom within the elemental chaos that spawns hordes of demons. While normally the elemental chaos is the raw proto-matter of creation, demons are the engines of destruction that want to tear...

Well I'm not 1of3, but I do know how 4e handled creature types. It actually works rather a lot like Mon's proposed system. Creatures have an origin and a type. Optionally they can also have certain keywords to further refine their description. Origins are: * Natural (meaning, it originated on...