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<blockquote data-quote="ruleslawyer" data-source="post: 1577781" data-attributes="member: 1757">Note that I didn't say overpowered, I said weird, in that you practically have to take these classes if you're a multiclassed ftr/wiz or rog/wiz, which sits ill with some DMs (not me, but some) who think that prestige classes should be, well, prestigious rather than a necessity. BTW, if you did &quot;tweak&quot; the AT that way, you nerfed it as thoroughly as it is possible to do. I'd just steer clear of playing a rog/wiz in your campaign.Well, yeah, there is, but how does that really matter? One or two wishes a day for no XP cost is still 5-10k XP saved per day, which is just too much. A Clr1/Wiz9/Dkr10 can cast three or four wishes per day; welcome to free +4 inherent stat boosts for the whole party! Manyshot breaks Power Shot how? The attack penalties you take for using that feat make it as bad or worse to use in conjunction with Power Attack than do a standard full attack. In fact, I'd rather a full attack + Rapid Shot + Power Shot. AND, of course, when the things that really&nbsp; boost the &quot;power&quot; of Power Shot were still in effect: All-day GMW and stacking enhancement bonuses on bows and arrows. That -10 to attack doesn't seem so bad when you're stacking on a +5 from your bow AND a +5 on your arrows (GMW).&nbsp; Which is why the entropomancer is purely an NPC class. I actually DON't think this class is broken because only a DM will ever use it, and any DM who gives an NPC a sphere of annihilation is unlikely to use it purposely to screw the players. It's more likely, in fact, that adventures featuring an entropomancer will be centered around the PCs trying to stop one from actually obtaining a sphere.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ruleslawyer, post: 1577781, member: 1757"] Note that I didn't say overpowered, I said weird, in that you practically have to take these classes if you're a multiclassed ftr/wiz or rog/wiz, which sits ill with some DMs (not me, but some) who think that prestige classes should be, well, [i]prestigious[/i] rather than a necessity. BTW, if you did "tweak" the AT that way, you nerfed it as thoroughly as it is possible to do. I'd just steer clear of playing a rog/wiz in your campaign. Well, yeah, there is, but how does that really matter? One or two [i]wishes[/i] a day for no XP cost is still 5-10k XP saved per day, which is just too much. A Clr1/Wiz9/Dkr10 can cast three or four [i]wishes[/i] per day; welcome to free +4 inherent stat boosts for the whole party! Manyshot breaks Power Shot how? The attack penalties you take for using that feat make it as bad or worse to use in conjunction with Power Attack than do a standard full attack. In fact, I'd rather a full attack + Rapid Shot + Power Shot. AND, of course, when the things that really boost the "power" of Power Shot were still in effect: All-day GMW and stacking enhancement bonuses on bows and arrows. That -10 to attack doesn't seem so bad when you're stacking on a +5 from your bow AND a +5 on your arrows (GMW). Which is why the entropomancer is purely an NPC class. I actually DON't think this class is broken because only a DM will ever use it, and any DM who gives an NPC a [i]sphere of annihilation[/i] is unlikely to use it purposely to screw the players. It's more likely, in fact, that adventures featuring an entropomancer will be centered around the PCs trying to stop one from actually obtaining a [i]sphere[/i]. [/QUOTE]

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