Hive: Musings about Crothian

[Terath Ninir]

Wasn't there some preview information on Skill Focus where it was +10? I think RangerWickett used that in his Savannah Knights story hour...?

I'm sure it was, but THE MAN reduced it to +2, because he couldn't stand the thought of a black man with a +10 bonus to a skill!
[/Chris Rock]

 

[Jdvn1]

That's not Skill Focus, that's like Skill Too Good For Your Own Good.

What's next, +50?

 

[Crothian]

not really, magical items give +10 for not to expensive....actually cheaper then most feat items.

 

[Angcuru]

Skill Focus +10 is like learning ten levels worth of skill with one feat. Overpowered? Yes.

 

[Crothian]

which is more costly to a characxter? a feat or a magical item? I say a feat since characters get so few. And when is +10 really that bad? +10 to climb going to break a game? +10 to knowledge history? Maybe +10 to use magica device or Tumble, but even those by them sleves are not as bad as welding 2 great swords at once......

 

[Knight Otu]

It wasn't quite as I remembered... it was worse.

(We ran this game back in early summer, back when Eric Noah’s Unofficial D&D 3E Site said Skill Focus gives a +10 bonus to a skill, not +2. As a human rogue, Tagin had taken Skill Focus (hacking) twice, for a +20 bonus to his hacking checks; . . . um, once we read the official rules, we decided he’s just got the magic touch, rules be damned.)

 

[Crothian]

wow, it really was a different game if poeople could "hack"

 

[Terath Ninir]

which is more costly to a characxter? a feat or a magical item? I say a feat since characters get so few. And when is +10 really that bad? +10 to climb going to break a game? +10 to knowledge history? Maybe +10 to use magica device or Tumble, but even those by them sleves are not as bad as welding 2 great swords at once......

Hmm. I play fighters so often I forget how precious feats are. Yeah, I'd take a feat over most magic items any day...

 

[Knight Otu]

wow, it really was a different game if poeople could "hack"

Modern day fantasy, with magic from the start.

 

[Jdvn1]

Isn't +10 the Epic version of the feat?