3.5 Dwarves

[Caliban]

I'm looking forward to the Stability bonus. My dwarf has such a high AC that when I move through a group of opponents, many time the DM will have them all try to trip me, so they can go against my lower Touch AC.

 

[Shard O'Glase]

It's all you, you, you isn't it.

 

[BOZ]

there's more commentary.

 

[Estlor]

Based on my calculations, dwarves were already a 7 point race, when WotC was going the route of 6 points being the cutoff for ECL 0 races. Adding more abilities to them pushes them to the point where they're better than hobgoblins and lizardfolk, both ECL 1 races. Guess I'll need to be nerfing dwarves in my campaign. First step - balance the ability score modifiers by giving them a -4 Charisma instead of the wussy -2 Charisma.

(as for the "point" part, it's just a system I've been fleshing out that rates the relative power of races, wherein 7-12 point races are ECL 1, 13-18 are ECL 2, and so on. Seems to be working out pretty well and has shown some surprising things. For example, orcs are only a 3 point race!)

 

[bwgwl]

First step - balance the ability score modifiers by giving them a -4 Charisma instead of the wussy -2 Charisma.

nah, go with -2 Dex instead of a Charisma penalty. we want to encourage dwarf paladins!

 

[Shard O'Glase]

nah dwarf sorcerers. I've been itchen to play one for ages but my inner power gamer cries out and the -2 chr penalty stops me.

 

[bwgwl]

nah dwarf sorcerers. I've been itchen to play one for ages but my inner power gamer cries out and the -2 chr penalty stops me.

i'm probably alone here, but when i think elves i think sorcerer and when i think dwarves i think wizard. i had one campaign world back when i started 3.0 where those were the favored classes of the two races.

 

[Shard O'Glase]

actualy I think the dwarf mentality other than the line we don't like magic, cause we're the D&D ludite coalition, fits wizards really well. And the elf descriptin fits sorcerer really well. I just like the image of a dwarf sor.(and I'm really hating managing spellbooks) All NPCs arcane types are sorcerer because I'm too lazy.

 

[Otterscrubber]

nah, go with -2 Dex instead of a Charisma penalty. we want to encourage dwarf paladins!

Werd to short Paladins!

 

[BOZ]

nah, go with -2 Dex instead of a Charisma penalty. we want to encourage dwarf paladins!

playing a dwarf cleric/paladin in campaign right now, as a matter of fact.

i've always thought, that as standard LG and a tendency to be warriors, dwarves were perfectly naturals as paladins.