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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anabstercorian" data-source="post: 2720535" data-attributes="member: 2550">As long as we're listing problems, I'll try to give it a cover-to-cover scan for ambiguous language you should look over, and deliver it in a less confrontational tone.  I've probably done enough harshing on you to keep me sated until at least sunday.First off, the Cometary Dragon's seventh sense power is...  I don't even know how I'd use that in a game.  It sounds tedious and boring, and ultimately not really an advantage because everyone will act differently.  You just do things over and over and over.You need to find a better way to represent it's ability to see in to the future.  I'll see if I can provide one using the power of SLEEP DEPRIVATION as inspiration:Seventh Sense (Ex):  A cometary dragons senses extend one round into the future, granting it the following advantages:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A cometary dragon can never be caught flatfooted or surprised, and always enjoys its full dexterity bonus to armor class, even against foes it cannot perceive, because it senses the strike before it occurs and can twist to avoid it.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A cometary dragon becomes aware of any encounter a round before it occurs.  It can use this round to cast preparatory magic to enhance itself, or, if it's foes would outmatch it, immediately act to evade them.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A cometary dragon may have time to prepare against an attack before it actually hits - the paradoxial possibilities of whether or not the cometary dragon will actually choose to do so mean that a cometary dragon suffers no effects from any attack or power until immediately after their own action.  For example, Kratos unleashes the Blades of Chaos against the Cometary Dragon that has been leashed to  Mount Olympus and is currently dragging it to the end of the world to draft it and all of it's inhabitants to fight in Ragnarock.  He and the Cometary Dragon roll initiative.  The dragon unleashes its breath weapon, engulfing the mighty warrior in memories of forgotten glories and dreams of unfulfilled possibility, but Kratos parries the blast with the timeless essence of the Chaos Blades.  He then counter attacks with a truly terrifying attack, grievously wounding the dragon - and yet also not.  The blow does not take effect until AFTER the Cometary Dragon's action, which, since this does not kill the dragon, it spends on striking Kratos once before, once during, and once after, shaking the resolve of the godlike champion.  Kratos' answer volley, however, splits the dragon in twain! - or does it?  The blow does not take effect until AFTER the cometary dragon's action, but since the dragon would be killed (or otherwise prevented from acting) by this attack, the dragon must spend his action on preventing himself from being killed by this effect, or lose the action.  The dragon elects to utilize a time skip to jump ahead in time one round, allowing him to evade the entire attack and remain alive.</li> </ul>If you're as good as you say, you should now be sufficiently inspired to make something better.  MAN UP.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" /></blockquote>

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