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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pax" data-source="post: 1047666" data-attributes="member: 6875">The shorthand?  No.  The phrase it's shorthand FOR?  Absolutely.Not true.  I use shorthand because I type a post about as fast as I woudl be speaking it ... which is why I tend to use boldface and italics for emphasis, instead of colors, fonts, and the like.Now, it's my turn to ask something: do you always jump in and nitpick where it's not needed?Personally, while Spellpower was a very attractive component of Archmage, I find several of it's other abilities very interesting too.  Mastery of Counterspelling (especially for a sorceror-archmage in an Epic game, with the feat [Epic Counterspell] ...) could prove a lot fo fun.  And for a typical blaster-mage, Mastery of Elements and Mastery of Shaping are great abilities (no more worrying about facing red dragins when you're a fire mage ... and no more worries about catching allies in yoru AoEs).  Arcane Reach actually has uses, for touch-spell intensive spellcasters.IOW, Archmage (the example at hand) has more speaking for it than the one, abusable ability.  My personal fix was, none of the three stacked, and each had the next-lowest one as a prerequisite.  *poof* problem solved.And, by the by, to refer back to one of yoru earlier responses: IMO, it's much less "lazy" to fix something broken, than just ban it from your game.Thank you.  Tomorrow morning, I think I shall do exactly that (I'd do it now, but I've just responded to him above ...).Well, I'm not James, but: I think a PrC shoudl be far and away better than a Core class, within the PrC's narrow specialty.  IOW, a Lasher should be THE whip-wielder, period, no exceptions.Outside that narrow specialty, a PrC should be inferior to any core class or combination of core classes.  The lasher shouldn't be as good a 2H sword-swinger as a straight fighter (and since the lasher probably lacks the feats to shine with a 2H sword, he presumably is).The concept is, IMO: you have to meet certain prerequisites to enter the PrC; once you've paid the price of admission by going down that specialised road to begin with, it's not unreasonable for you to be rewarded by being a (small) bit extra-good at that specialty.</blockquote>

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