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How much do the following races fit into your campaign world conceptually? Living Constructs built as Soldiers? Lycanthrope decendants able to tap into animalistic power? Half-dopelgangers? Humans merged with dream spirits into one Psychic entity?

I have never seen a player who pays more attention to the game under a system with a declaration phase. In fact I have often found that players whose declared action has been preempted cease to pay attention for the remainder of the round requiring a recap at the beginning of the next round. I...

The declaration phase takes almost as long as resolving the round declaring as you act, and resolving actions isn't noticeably sped up by having declared actions beforehand. I've experienced this personally and had this corroborated by many others online (mostly in discusions of how to speed up...

From my experience with combat systems containing a declaration phase: Combat will probably take about 50% longer, with a corresponding increase in player inattention. Risky or tactically innovative actions will be highly disincentivized resulting in more conservative and less interesting...

The level 4 monk ability.

Yes, archfiends 45/60 I'd like to see a Celestial Bison uncommon. It's a very common choice for Summon Monster III.

There is no limit of initiating one maneuver per round.

Mohamed Ali, in his prime was clocked at 5 punches a second. It is disappointing that a 20th level character meant to be an Epic hero the rival of Achilles or the Pandavas, if very focused on making as many attack as possible in the shortest time, can only manage about a third Ali's speed.

That's lovely, a Cleric has had Slay Living for what, eight levels now? And Slay Living only needs a touch attack.

The D100 isn't even a real polygon, it's just cheap plastic sphere with tiny dents. More often than not it stops in between the numbers and needs to be rerolled.

No there is a Special clause in brand of the Nine Hells That allows it at DM's option to be taken by non-Devils if they are very very Lawful Evil, completely devoted to the service of that Archdevil, and absolutely not a PC. I think you mean One maneuver. It doesn't seem as if your anecdote...

Gray Elves are kinda broken.

Read the glossary people, domain spells aren't spells on your domain list. They are spells cast with domain slots. The free metamagic for healing domain spells thus isn't that good. Because: >Even at 20th level you only get 7 spells per day at which benefit (and free maximized empowered...

Umbarim look by far the weakest. If you gave all the other races ECL +1 the umbarim still wouldn't be a gimme.

But they do consider wimpy Half Orc Sorcerors to be a significant Half-Orcish weakness. How fair is that?

Both the dwarf and the Half Orc (and in fact most core races) have penalties that function more as limitations on the role that they can fill than that have any effect when they are playing their optimal role.

That last is more of a mitigator on the Dwarf's movement penalty than a bonus. which is not to say that Warforged are not a signifigantly less powerfull race than Dwarves, or Half Orcs for that matter.

Many people feel Half Orcs are underpowered; they are wrong. The real penalty dwarves get isn't charisma, it's move rate.

The only significant difference between your TN build and mine at 20th level is that my build has 3 more points of Necromantic Prowess, can control undead that might conceivably be worth the effort and would be allowed by the large number of DMs that disallow mixing dual progression classes. My...

Going True Necromancer after Mystic Theurge doesn't give you 9th level spellcasting by 20th. True Necromancer is an awful class because first two levels only give +1 arcane casting and +1 divine casting between them, after that it's strictly better than Mystic Theurge. There is no way to get...