Anything But Normal, Sailing the Endless Falls... Characters Selected!

[Rystil Arden]

Isida, I'm posting my character with knowledge skills as class skills, but I'm giving up the physical skill set of the ninja such as tumble, jump, balance etc. Also, there is this feat called intuitive strike that's in the BoED that lets me use my wis mod instead of str for atks on simple weapons only, but it's an exalted feat. I don't see any real reason why it's exalted so I treated it as a normal feat.

Is that ok>

I believe the idea of the BoED was to grant feats that were more powerful than usual and apply RP penalties (requirement to act Exalted) to balance this. Many people were upset by this, since it goes against 3e design goals, but there it is.

 

[Mad Hatter]

There is no reason for it to be an exalted feat. It has a built in limitation with the fact that it is applicable only with simple melee weapons. And unlike many things in BoED, that feat is actually well balanced.

 

[Rystil Arden]

There is no reason for it to be an exalted feat. It has a built in limitation with the fact that it is applicable only with simple melee weapons. And unlike many things in BoED, that feat is actually well balanced.

Hey, either way I'm just telling you what the design rationale was behind the Exalted feats

 

[Mad Hatter]

Heh. This is the first time that I've used anything from that book, but this feat is pretty balanced.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Heh. This is the first time that I've used anything from that book, but this feat is pretty balanced.

Compared to some of those other ones, it's definitely on the more-balanced-as-a-normal-feat side (look at Nymph's Kiss, for instance--that's one darned good feat). Myself, I'm always a bit wary about 'stat-consolidation' feats ever since I saw someone who managed to legally transform just about everything in their character into using one stat, I think it was Int (they got to hit, damage, init, and AC from it, plus it was their casting stat), but it doesn't seem bad for a Ninja to just use Wis for AC, to hit, and special attack DCs.

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

Mad Hatter, that's fine. But are you a good ninja or a bad ninja?

 

[Rystil Arden]

Mad Hatter, that's fine. But are you a good ninja or a bad ninja?

Neither, he's a pirate disguised as a ninja

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

Oo... the most devious kind...

 

[Rystil Arden]

Oo... the most devious kind...

Yup. That's why he needed Knowledge [Skullduggery], Knowledge [Seafaring], and Knowledge [Buccaneering] instead of Tumble and Jump

 

[Rystil Arden]

Looking at the new sheet, you can tell the ninja is devious due to being a male human child and female grey elf at the same time

Not that I'm going to go back and change things, but were we supposed to buy things that cost over 50% of the starting gold? Oh, and didn't they update the S&S Expert Tactician in one of the Complete books?