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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 5729746" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Magazine Issue 254: December 1998part 2/8Nodwick is getting rather compressed. Thankfully he has his hench snax to keep him going. Remember folks, chemical augmentation is Wrong. Forum: Ben Stiles wants rules for knockback and other effects from spectacular hits.  Fighting giants and dragons definitely shouldn't be a matter of just trading blows till someone dies. Garett Kutcher is another person who wants to see achieving story goals be the primary method of gaining xp next edition. it makes it so much easier to control the PC's when you explicitly can define all the carrots and ignore everything else they do. No levels until you follow the plot! Derek Groen defends the need to trim down the alteration school. You can justify nearly anything as an alteration, and far too many people have. I suspect overambitious transmuters in game. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Justin Bacon gives another lengthy contribution, as expected by someone who's been a regular forumite for ages. He wants to see D&D move towards the majority of systems, with point buy, skill progressions, and all that. The current system is still based off a 1974 kernel with lots of clunky add-on script, to use a computer analogy. Matt Loey wants to get rid of alignment restrictions on classes, as they mostly cause trouble and arguments. It should be a purely internal matter, and based more on intentions than actions. See you when 4e comes around. Sage advice: If you destroy your old body and the receptacle after magic jaring, does the new body count as your natural one (no. You're still a squatter, no matter what you do. You'll get your just deserts sooner or later. )Can you get around spell caused aging and ability drain by casting it in someone else's body. (No. Fate does not smile on that kind of jackassery) Is passive contact still a power (yes)How much do you pay to make it permanent (nothing above the base cost)How many people does it take to make the new kinds of armour (Follow the formulas. Skip wonders if people read the books sometimes)What level is a wand of wonder's power when a wild mage controls it (6th, just like most wands )Which of your items have to save when a fireball hits you. (use table 47)I need more info on the staff of the python (Well, you say NI! to activate it, and feed it shrubbery to recharge it. And now for something completely different. )You still haven't properly converted all the proficiencies from old supplements to Skills & Powers. (If skip did that, skip would be at it all year. It'd be even worse than giving tome of magic spheres to all the old gods)Can detect magic locate an invisible enemy (Man, you people never learn, do you. This is like the 4th time you've asked that. )Can a feebleminded character maintain psionic powers (no. )Are all PC pixies middle aged (oh, errata, errata. What does it matter. It makes books fatter. Especially if it's fried and served in batter.)</blockquote>

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