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<blockquote data-quote="DJCupboard" data-source="post: 3086886" data-attributes="member: 21995"><p>Ah, WotC and their paradoxy ways. According to the strictest reading of the SRD RAW, that isn't quite the case though. the rules say "To qualify to <strong><em>become</em></strong> a dragon disciple [Emphasis mine]..." Dependant on your definition of "becoming" you do not need to fold "remaining" into that concept. Some interpretations of "becoming" follow the concept of an instantaneous effect spell (once it's happened it's over and can't be undone) and so the Dragon Desciple wasn't a dragon when he entered the class and that's all there is to it. So unless WotC plans on releasing a treatise on the meta- physical and -linguistic ramafications of becoming as an act versus a becoming as a continuos proccess in D20 rules sets, the RAW as stated in the SRD still leaves a lot of room for DM interpretation without fudging anything in terms of avoiding paradoces.</p><p></p><p>Personally, I enjoy watching players experience paradoces, so this is one I'd keep in the game at least for a few minutes in the first session after 10th DD level is acheived. Or maybe turn it into an adventure somehow, with everyone racing to find the Nietszche Coil or some such cheesy thing to return said PC to a state of normalcy. Maybe every d10 minutes he explodes reforming as some random non-DD creature of similar power (randomly chosen ahead of time to speed up gameplay of course) and then 1d4 rounds later violently re-acquires the PrC and the propper form/classes.</p><p></p><p>DJC</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DJCupboard, post: 3086886, member: 21995"] Ah, WotC and their paradoxy ways. According to the strictest reading of the SRD RAW, that isn't quite the case though. the rules say "To qualify to [B][I]become[/I][/B] a dragon disciple [Emphasis mine]..." Dependant on your definition of "becoming" you do not need to fold "remaining" into that concept. Some interpretations of "becoming" follow the concept of an instantaneous effect spell (once it's happened it's over and can't be undone) and so the Dragon Desciple wasn't a dragon when he entered the class and that's all there is to it. So unless WotC plans on releasing a treatise on the meta- physical and -linguistic ramafications of becoming as an act versus a becoming as a continuos proccess in D20 rules sets, the RAW as stated in the SRD still leaves a lot of room for DM interpretation without fudging anything in terms of avoiding paradoces. Personally, I enjoy watching players experience paradoces, so this is one I'd keep in the game at least for a few minutes in the first session after 10th DD level is acheived. Or maybe turn it into an adventure somehow, with everyone racing to find the Nietszche Coil or some such cheesy thing to return said PC to a state of normalcy. Maybe every d10 minutes he explodes reforming as some random non-DD creature of similar power (randomly chosen ahead of time to speed up gameplay of course) and then 1d4 rounds later violently re-acquires the PrC and the propper form/classes. DJC [/QUOTE]
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