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Oh, offhand: If we don't have axiomatic or anarchic bonuses, why do we have separate sacred and profane ones? How often do the forces of good and evil bless the same person in the same way? Fold these into something like a grace bonus, or perhaps even make them luck bonuses, since even luck...

You never cease to surprise me. I would have thought that the brother of St. Patrick and St. George would be either St. Andrew or St. David. Should've bet instead on whether LG sweeps the board from here on out.

Planetars have alignment Always Good (any), so LG planetars are as common as NG ones. Do the rules permit her to call a particular planetar from her home plane of Arcadia? If not, a throne archon may not be as good as a planetar in other respects, but it brings a lot of healing to the table...

True. Under the rules in effect, whether the extraplanar creature is a magical beast or not doesn't matter. I don't own a copy of Draconomicon, but Meineke's older brother would surely be a great asset to any squad. Other than that, high-level Lawful Good creatures seem to lie thin on the...

An example of when this wouldn't be true: the rules say that a new entrant "must teleport into an empty space at zero elevation where they are not initially squeezing to fit into the space." The victory zone is 40' square. A typical Colossal creature takes up a 30' space. If it sat right in...

I will bring up again a fact I mentioned before. If you saw it and chose to handle the situation as you did deliberately, never mind: This will have no effect on many barrier spells. If you don't want a creature to be able to close off the victory area with wall of stone and force foe after...

I'm sorry to say that this class would need a lot of rebalancing to work. A few areas that I think could lead to trouble: At low levels, you have a better version of the sorcerer: more spells known, and can cast them more often. At high levels, you end up with an inferior bard, with no staying...

Well, a partial list includes: Hound archon hero (MM 17) Trumpet archon (MM 18) Throne archon (BoED 162) The individual champions from chapter 7 of the BoED, if you're allowed to call them. Evansheer (p. 133) would make a good choice. The einherjar from Deities and Demigods An aspect of—never...

I can't speak for anyone else, but I do have a copy of Planescape Monstrous Compendium II, the cited source. I'd presume that the reason for the odd spell selection is the line, "They're especially fond of the schools of illusion and enchantment but won't hesitate to use extremely powerful...

Such a gem deserves an extra point to your score. Here you go.

When did this happen? :cool:

If you tried to represent BAB as a skill, and changed nothing else, you'd run into a great many consequences. You might tear out and replace the entire combat system, but if I had any interest in doing that, I certainly would not begin with "skill-based" as the sole design goal. All full-BAB...

Fine! Curse my miserable saving throw vs. flattery!

I'm amazed by how personal and how rude that other thread has become. I hope you don't think that this kind of response is typical. That said, an idea really can have too many repercussions to be worth the effort. This is especially likely when a system changed completely between 2E and 3E...

Your instincts were right, I'm afraid. This is very overpowered. I'd take a look at Champions of Valor, which has many ideas for paladin substitution levels.

Aren't spell-like and supernatural abilities abilities? Rather extraordinary ones, at that? In D&D, "special quality" is a term of art. It has a specific definition. The fact that the words "special" and "quality" have other meanings in a different context is an unfortunate accident, and in...

I can't be sure without seeing this character in play, but my initial impression is that this class is probably underpowered. Half as many spells as the sorcerer, with the same delayed spell progression, plus multiple ability dependency severely limit this character's power. The magic-user has...

Thank you, thank you. Here, want an autograph? Lorehead Perhaps, if time permits. Or Lawful Evil: it's also within one step of the True Lawful spirit of the game, and if I'm going to make mistakes and learn on the job, it might as well be while I'm serving up cannon fodder for Chaos to mow...

Congratulations on a very entertaining tournament so far! I hope that I'm not out of line for weighing in here, but this discussion caught my interest. A few thoughts: The wording of the victory condition suggests an interesting way to transform the battlefield in one side's favor: turn the...

In practice, Dex-based builds aren't as good as Str-based ones in play. There are several reasons for this: Many attacks bypass AC entirely. Unless you dedicate your limited resources almost entirely to raising your AC, opponents can always hit at high levels. Because AC is a random...