Game of Death

[seasong]

FRCS is out? ... now i need to think of a replacement for Cosmopolitan...

isn't there a feat like that in one of the other books? "make X a class skill"? "Experienced", or something?

Cross Class Learning (taken from Ultimate Feats by Mongoose Publishing, originally created by Bradley H Bennis Jr):
You can learn a cross-class skill as if it were a class skill.
Benefit: You may choose a cross-class skill in which you have a certain knack. You may treat this skill as if it were a class skill.
Special: This feat may be taken multiple times, choosing a new skill each time. You are still limited by level +3 for the maximum number of skill points you spend on this skill.

 

[seasong]

I'm talking about skill points here. If my 15th level character has an Int-boosting item, when do I add it to my skill points per level? I believe one of the DMs for a failed GoD had an interesting rule that was you got +2 to your Int for a booster at 6th, it was increased to +4 at 9th (if the item you bought was at least +4), and increased to +6 at 12th (if you got a +6 item)

Hm... I like that rule. A strict approach (at the point that the headband of intellect is half or less your total wealth) yields +2 at level 5, +4 at level 9, and +6 at level 12. Sound good?

 

[Jeremy]

Magic of Faerun, Tome & Blood, Song & Silence, Sword & Fist, Oriental Adventurers, Masters of the Wild, etc... All gone?

 

[seasong]

Basically, yeah.

On the other hand, if EVERYONE IN THE GAME has a particular book, I will consider pretending that it is OGL, and post the name of the crunch being used and a book reference. But I think that all of those books you just listed are not owned by everyone.

Again, I know it's hard, but it's an issue of fairness. I won't allow material or rules to be used that not everyone has access to. Put plainly, if you can't beat the others without a level playing field, you don't deserve the win.

And yeah, I know it nixes a lot of concepts. I'd have a dual-wielding Sharktooth Staff half-ogre in a heartbeat, for example, cuz it just SOUNDS cool. But not everyone even knows what all those words mean, and that's not a level playing field.

 

[Number47]

Well, if that's your rule for what non-OGL is allowed, than no non-OGL is allowed. I only own the core three. Thanks for the ruling on the Int-level. Sounds good.

EDIT: So, would that mean you gain the actual skill point benefit at levels 6, then 10, then 13? Or is it assumed you got the item just before leveling to 5th?

 

[seasong]

There we go then.

 

[Number47]

Please look at my last post. I added an edit.

 

[seasong]

Magic of Faerun, Tome & Blood, Song & Silence, Sword & Fist, Oriental Adventurers, Masters of the Wild, etc... All gone?

Oh, and Jeremy: I just read your title. As the ultimate munchkin, I expect you to rally back with a real monster using only core rules, OGL, and a rusty spoon .

 

[seasong]

EDIT: So, would that mean you gain the actual skill point benefit at levels 6, then 10, then 13? Or is it assumed you got the item just before leveling to 5th?

Finally, an easy question o): the rules for wealth are based on what you are assumed to have by the time you reach that level. That is, if you start at a particular level, you have that much wealth. That's a pretty strict interpretation of the DMG rules.

Therefore: You get the benefit at 5th, 9th, 12th.

 

[Jeremy]

Heh, my title is more of an honorary thing due to maintaining and archiving the Sultans of Smack thread. Alot of others do more submitting to it than I do.

Ah well, back to the drawing board.