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From the novels, 2ed Complete Elves, and 2nd & 3rd FRCS, Gold elves never struck me as being CG, at least in terms of their leaders and heroes. I've always pegged the bulk of Gold elves as extremely proud NG people, who get wrapped up in their charismatic leaders and follow along in plots which...

For mechanical reasons there's not much call for a fighter 8 to multiclass to wizard. But you know what, in all the fiction, its extremely rare for such a skilled warrior to decide to go into magic suddenly. Those that do are usually putting down the sword semi-permanently for some reason. So...

The idea of 'Flaring Aura' is that it surrounds the character in a zone which applies the Plane Descriptions subtype which matches the creature subtype... Reduced Weakness is kindof weak... but its based on the notion I seemed to have that the energy subtypes tended to be vulnerable to opposing...

Flaring Aura(Subtype) [General]   Choose one of your subtypes, you may now extend this quality beyond yourself.   Prereqs: Outsider, Fey, Dragon, or Elemental, Wisdom 13+   Benefit: For a total of 1 round per point of Wisdom per day you may surround yourself in a 5-foot radius sphere in which...

I think subtypes aren't important enough. Sure, Dragons and humanoids and animals are all important creature types, and help define how magic and skills affect them and are affected by them, but how about those more precise quantifiers, which speak to the very nature of a creature. Is it a...

Spell Pools are one of the neat things that makes Mercedes Lackey fun. In her world's magic system, a spell pool would basically be created when one or more Archmage ranked (titularly Adepts) wizards got together, and basically created an artificial nexus for the surrounding leylines...

I also dabbled with this some time back. As I recall, it went something like... DC for casting = 18 + LEVEL-POINT COST Each casting (failed or not) of a spell = DC +1 Roll of 1 = DC +2 Taking 20 = no stress and DC + 1 + (Spell level being cast - Every Hour up to Spell Level casting [9th level...

Hm... yes, well, your cleric is giving up some 9th level spell slots in exchange for a couple of dinkum wizard spells, which are basically limited times per day additions to his cleric spell list. Sure, that's unfair to the 20th level wizard with the Intelligence of 11... Of course, on top of...

With all this discussion of Mystic Theurges and bad class combos, I was wondering, for the sake of wondering, what people think of just summing up all caster levels? That is to say, a Wiz 10/Cleric 10 is caster level 20 for purposes of spell effects, spell penetration, dispelling, and so on...

Admittedly, I don't have any grand notions on HC planes. Offhand, I would say the major features of such an article would be instruction in the creation of appropriate special properties, adapting celestials/fiends/etc to the nuances of different planes, and how new concept planes might affect...

I think mentions of 'Bliss' and 'Freedom' should not be much more than teasers for information elsewhere. Like I said, High Concept Plane design could be an article in and of itself. Your existing plane design article, while very good, is oriented for more concrete plane design, with an angle...

Mr. Crichton, you posted that on April 2nd... :eek: I read over half of it laughing at the April Fool's Joke.

Oh, still alive. Working on a whole new paradigm for demons, etc. On the stat-blocks, we pretty much have the same thing. Its not really debatable, just a matter of putting the short mechanical parts before the long flavor parts. I just added the line on population dynamics because I...

The Planar Madness thread in the first page of House Rules. Check it out. It is basically breaking up the Aasimar, Tiefling, Law-ing, and Chaos-ling (forget the names) into multiple specialized templates. Good stuff.

I agree with the stat-block idea, but we're more than half way there already. With a couple slight tweaks, we're even closer... Plane-Name Size Type (subtype) Denizens( %humanoids, %aberrations, %outsiders, etc) Properties Plane Description

...the halfling would turn into a half-dwarf, half-elf, half-gnome, 1/3 human, kobold-tainted cannibal. :)

My Craft Wand idea was just to use the Craft Wand feat on the staff- invest some XP and time, and place 50 charges of something on the staff. Initial idea was that this was a Staff-related feat. Perhaps broadening this idea- you may have 1/25 your total XP with which to enchant your staff. It...

I like this a lot. Something to consider- taking creatures as a familiary that are more powerful than a small animal generally seems to cost feats and/or XP. So taking an already magical staff for this should require a feat, or simply be impossible. A Staff of the Archmagi in the hands of a...

Coolness dwells on this thread. Given the nature of the Paladin, I've always thought an good Outsider should be able to take levels in it. Yes, a paladin has a LG ethos, but that ethos is so a Paladin can maintain the purity to get a charge from the heavens. If you already have one in the...

I interpreted it as a strange type of indestructability on Rev's part. Essentially, the Endurance feat and a +4 to Fort saves, racially speaking.