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<blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 6938932">The bolded part seems to be where I see the most contention, not very surprising though, I tend to get defensive when I get criticized for &quot;not playing in a manner some random person on the internet deems superior&quot;.&nbsp; I'm going to preface the following by saying my DM is insane.My DM said at the start of this campaign we can be any core 3.5 race (it's a 3.5 game).&nbsp; No biggie right?&nbsp; He then added that we could also be half-dragons or natural lycanthropes (of any standard variety).&nbsp; Being a power-gamer I naturally said &quot;lolwot&quot; and he said &quot;Serisly&quot;.&nbsp; So I did.&nbsp; I made a weretiger rogue.&nbsp; I rolled well to begin with so it's statistcally absurd.&nbsp; I pounce from about 110ft for multiattack (claw, claw bite; trigger two free grapple checks on claw hits for two extra claw hits, and sneak attack damage on every single hit at level 10 I do +/-30d6 per turn) to absolutely murder everything.&nbsp; Now, he throws some seriously custom stuff at us, so it balances but still.&nbsp; After a bit of a character crisis of faith (which I role-played out) my character has switched to druid, now there's not much out there that is stronger than I am (I have a higher STR than the Huge Elemental form!) so I found the lovely little gem that is the Shapeshifter Druid variant, by Druid standards, not very impressive...because normally Druids have suck physical scores so they want to steal stat blocks, I don't.&nbsp; So these Shapeshift things just give me straight up buffs on top of my existing stats and I keep everything I already have from my class.&nbsp; At level 11 it means I will have a 40 Str.&nbsp; By level 20 I'll have something in the realm of a 50 Str, it's intended to be an Epic campaign, so I can take this up to level 26 which will net me around a 70 Str, and Gargantuan size, no duration.Sure, I can rationalize why my selfish, money-grubbing basically-a-merc-for-hire rogue had an existential crisis of faith (i've got a 5 page story written on why!) but it's in character for her to basically power-game herself.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sunseeker, post: 6938932"] The bolded part seems to be where I see the most contention, not very surprising though, I tend to get defensive when I get criticized for "not playing in a manner some random person on the internet deems superior". I'm going to preface the following by saying my DM is insane. My DM said at the start of this campaign we can be [I]any[/I] core 3.5 race (it's a 3.5 game). No biggie right? He then added that we could also be half-dragons [I]or[/I] natural lycanthropes (of any standard variety). Being a power-gamer I naturally said "lolwot" and he said "Serisly". So I did. I made a weretiger rogue. I rolled well to begin with so it's statistcally absurd. I pounce from about 110ft for multiattack (claw, claw bite; trigger two free grapple checks on claw hits for two extra claw hits, and sneak attack damage on every single hit at level 10 I do +/-30d6 [I]per turn[/I]) to absolutely murder everything. Now, he throws some seriously custom stuff at us, so it balances but still. After a bit of a character crisis of faith (which I role-played out) my character has switched to druid, now there's not much out there that is stronger than I am (I have a higher STR than the Huge Elemental form!) so I found the lovely little gem that is the Shapeshifter Druid variant, by Druid standards, not very impressive...because normally Druids have suck physical scores so they want to steal stat blocks, I don't. So these Shapeshift things just give me straight up buffs on top of my existing stats and I keep everything I already have from my class. At level 11 it means I will have a 40 Str. By level 20 I'll have something in the realm of a 50 Str, it's intended to be an Epic campaign, so I can take this up to level 26 which will net me around a 70 Str, and Gargantuan size, no duration. Sure, I can rationalize why my selfish, money-grubbing basically-a-merc-for-hire rogue had an existential crisis of faith (i've got a 5 page story written on why!) but it's [I]in character[/I] for her to basically power-game herself. [/QUOTE]

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