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My advice. The minute the player seeks to gain any form of advantage from being a homocidal shapechanging wolfbeast is the minute they turn into an NPC. Lycanthropy should never be something a player/character embraces. It is a horrible curse that will lead to killing friends, family, innocents...

Great, does it actually spell that out somewhere in the books? Because I thought it might be the case, but could not find it. I do not agree that it will be only part of their arsenal. All their skill points and most of their exploits will be eaten up just to be competent at magic. Which will...

Hi Having read the OLD rules and attempted a couple of character creations some questions have popped up. 1. Why is the gladiator the only martial career that grants acces to armor skills? It seems especially strange that the Knight and Man-at-arms careers doesn't get them. 2. Magic seems...

Having read the entire thread I'm hoping that Majoru has pulled a fast one on all of us and is secretely laughing about all the outrage. If not......Majoru you need to get away from these so called friends as fast and permanently as possible. What you are describing does not sound fun, healthy...

I fail to see how this figher is not a credible swashbuckler ”Duelist” Human Fighter 1 Str 12, dex 16, con 12, int 12, wis 8, cha 14 HP: 11, AC: 17 (std leather and shield), Move: 40 ft. Class abilities: Second wind (1d10+1 hp/rest) Skills: Acrobatics, Athletics, Deception, Intimidate...

I think we will just have to agree that we disagree. But if you want opinions about specific rules another time it would be helpful and productive is you presented the actual rules you use. Asking about our opinion on the UA rules is kind of meaningless when you actually use a heavily...

Doesnt change the fact that your rules makes shields a bad option, even though shields have been the norm in real life in most fighting cultures. IMO you undervalue the defensive worth of a shield a lot. As for AoO and spring attack. The opponent you attack dont get any, so your house rule...

You see Shields as effective? IME they are far surpassed by two-handed weapon and power attack ortwo weapon fighting and crit fishing. As for the spring attacking rogue, it is not just a fair turnabout. A fighter gains a +2 bonus to attacks when attacking from the rear. The rogue gains the...

I'll back the prior posters up. With VOP you can NEVER be to much of an ass. By itself it is already broken. And the player tries to stack it with another completely broken part of the rules (polymorph).........:uhoh: He should be happy you dont just tell him to make another character, and...

OK then. So when you asked whether or not we liked the UA facing rules it was largely irrelevant as you yourself have had to remedy them in order to make it work. Your houserules will make facing work better. But you still shaft shield users big time. Shields usually gives a +2 AC bonus vs...

But thats not realistic at all. We tried using the facing rules for a short stint and had the same experience. People continually alternate moving behind their direct opponent. Which in real life combat situations is almost impossible, as it takes far less time and effort to turn yourself than...

Druids are borderline broken good to begin with. Adding 4 LA's on top of that. Well all you need to do is to put the highest score in wisdom and the second highest in constitution. Take the feat that alllows spellcasting when wildshaped. That ought to be plenty strong for most campaigns and far...

With stats like that I would say you are way past the point where balance is any concern at all. Let him have his cake and eat it too.

You are not turning into a natural wolf. You are turning into a werewolf. To me that's not even near the same thing. So far it seems its you trying to eeke out an advantage of something that should be a curse. My advice would be to go with at all the way. Changing into a raving bloodthirsty...

Quote from pathfinder SRD Because you want to play a PC rather than a NPC? Because your character might not not like being infected by a magical curse that turns him into a bloodthirsty beast. Which could easily lead the character to hurting or killing friends and family members. Because...

Tome of Battle: Book of Nine Swords 3ed doesn't get much more wuxia than Warblades and Swordsaints.

Another option it allow only half their level in the same spellcasting class. Thats gives more breadth (and plenty of spells per day) but still less power (as the character never gains high level spells and needs more than 1 good attribute).

Ahh well, I'm not that familiar with Pathfinder. But AC 23 would still be far more acceptable, though the poor orc might need combat advantage to make an impression. But in numbers and spending actions to aid another a group of lower level enemies will at least have a chance at hitting. Well...

Maybe part of the problem is the fact that the character seems to be positively loaded with magic items for a low-magic campaign. I have lots of DM experience with low-magic 3ed. Low-magic in the sense that players had 1-2 magic items at level 10. To keep it low-magic item crafting feats were...

Well you have hit one of the 3ed snags that pathfinder didn't attempt to correct. IMO there is no real solution within the system. You either handpick enemies to target weak areas/bypass him entirely, tailor tactics to an unreasoable degree or frustate him with terrain. To make matters worse...